Not a long post today, just some recent pics.
Young bacons, and the mother of future bacons
Afriend at church is getting into pork and found a good deal on some Texas heritage red wattle pigs. His property isn't quite ready to live and keep animals on yet, so I volunteered the pig pen for him to use for a little while. I love having pigs, and I love that my close friend is now gonna be our pork guy. Our kids go to the same homeschool co-op, we go to church together, and he and I work together at both of our jobs, so this is the definition of cooperative community agriculture. Theyre our pork people, we're their rabbit people. I'm excited to be able to help them along as they get set up!
Bread, brie, and bacon
Recent favorite snack/meal. Melissa made fresh bread, I made fresh bacon, so I've been loving enjoying them together with some awesome rich cheese from my ancestral homeland. Cool thing about this bacon is that I only need one slice to feel full. I'm a five slice type guy, and if I eat much more than a slice and a half of this stuff I feel like I need a nap! Such a rich, dense food, and completely handmade. Mangalitsa pork belly from my pig farmer friend in Oklahoma, coarse kosher salt, and organic raw sugar. Best thing I've ever eaten. The sugar carmelizes so perfectly in a cast iron skillet, and the fat just soaked up all the salt it can hold. The fam thinks it's too salty and fatty, but I'm okay with them being dead wrong here cause it means I get the bacon for myself.
First ever turnip and radish harvest
We planted radishes and turnips a few months back, and have started harvesting them for the rabbits. Goodness gracious, I didn't know those tubers could get this big. There's a daikon radish over there right now that's a foot and a half long, the size of my forearm! I need to find a way to eat this kind of stuff, that's some serious food! Til then, I'll eat it by first processing it through a rabbit.
Hmmmm, rabbit and radish stew? I'm gonna have to try that... The poetry of rabbits cooked with rabbit food is irresistible. Anyone got a radish recipe?