We bought another half-pig from our friend Mike recently and dove right in. We’ve got two slabs of belly curing in the fridge for bacon, and the other night I made one of our all-time favorite pork roasts–a big butt slow-cooked with cabbage, sauerkraut, carrots, caraway, sage, rosemary, bacon, dark beer and above all paprika. […]
Tags:celery root·pork
A plethora of green tomatoes and apples is what we are dealing with at Spy Dog Farm. On account of a couple of overnight freezes, my wife has pulled all the vegetable plants from the raised beds yielding bushels of tomatoes in various stages of ripeness, but especially green ones. You can only eat so […]
Tags:apples·fall·green tomatoes
We buy half a pig from our friend Mike and along with the chops and hocks and roasts the butcher gives us the option of having the hams and bellies processed. We’ve tried it, and didn’t care much for the results, which means dealing with our own hams and bacon. Thankfully, bacon is not terribly […]
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