Our first completely home grown meal.Although we've already had meals with all our own veggies, this is the first meal we've had with our own meat. When we ate rabbit before, the veggie garden wasn't set up.
The pork chops were interesting in that the meat wasn't as white as it has been when we've bought it from the shops in the past. I don't know if this is because of diet or the butchering process, but it was a noticable difference.
The potatoes and beans were home grown, the tomato puree was home grown and even the apple sauce were grown on existing trees already here on the property.
We'll have to wait until:
1) December before we have our freisen steer butchered
2) we get a bigger chest freezer
before we have our own beef.
We didn't get any bacon made as our pigs had too much fat on them and with pigs there isn't the same amount of trimmed meat as with cattle, so there was nothing to make sausages with unless we get a mincer and grind up some chops.
