WARNING: If you are sensitive to animal hunting, you may find some of these pics a bit disturbing. Just saying.
Last time I visited Mike, in the spring, I got to see the process of how chicken meat goes from live bird to our plates. This time it was venison. I woke up one morning to find that Mike had gotten up early and gone out to shoot a deer in order to replenish his empty meat freezer. On his return I heard about how one kills a deer quickly, cleanly, and humanely, and then I watched...the skinning process. Holy smokes. Then I got to help by slicing cuts of meat off the bones (I was really slow and not very adept, but hey, not a skill they teach you in teachers' college!). Mike finished it off by turning my ragged hunks of meat into finely chopped cuts that looked like something you would see in the grocery store. Then he made stock from the bones and BBQed a hunk of meat...which, honestly, was the best meat I'd tasted in a really really long time!!! Dinner was venison and coho with salad from the garden. Wow. Surrounded by abundance if you know how to find it. In Mike's oft-repeated words: "We don't lack for anything here!"
Last time I visited Mike, in the spring, I got to see the process of how chicken meat goes from live bird to our plates. This time it was venison. I woke up one morning to find that Mike had gotten up early and gone out to shoot a deer in order to replenish his empty meat freezer. On his return I heard about how one kills a deer quickly, cleanly, and humanely, and then I watched...the skinning process. Holy smokes. Then I got to help by slicing cuts of meat off the bones (I was really slow and not very adept, but hey, not a skill they teach you in teachers' college!). Mike finished it off by turning my ragged hunks of meat into finely chopped cuts that looked like something you would see in the grocery store. Then he made stock from the bones and BBQed a hunk of meat...which, honestly, was the best meat I'd tasted in a really really long time!!! Dinner was venison and coho with salad from the garden. Wow. Surrounded by abundance if you know how to find it. In Mike's oft-repeated words: "We don't lack for anything here!"