Uncle!
February 21, 2014
When you can’t stomach one more root vegetable, carrot salad, or potato “something” you resort to folks more resilient and less spoiled.
weekly winter root dig – January 5, 2014
In this case, I fall back on dessert comfort food from my Mom. I’ll leave you to this old post from back when this blog was a newbie. The farmstead is still providing the same ingredients these days as it did in the Depression, although I usually have much more butter than lard or suet. The suet was saved for the mincemeat and I have squirreled away the tallow and lard for soap. Dried prunes and butter will act as stand-ins today.
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Throwback at Trapper Creek 
Yes, that’s the one disadvantage of seasonal eating — by the time you get to the end of the season, you’re sick of whatever it is. Except maybe asparagus; that season is short enough around here that I rarely get tired of it before I have to stop harvesting so there’s some for next year. I’m really hoping we can get those old crowns into a brand new bed this fall. The old bed is probably 50+, and it’s really time…
Mmmmm…lard.
We have bags and bags of leaf lard in the freezer ready to be rendered. Quart bags of cubed back fat. Cook in the pan, add a few veggies and a little salt….good times.
Do your customers not want it? There’s hardly enough leaf lard to go around usually 😦
I can’t sell what I butcher myself. So it’s mine! All mine!