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[SuburbanFarmChic]

I LOVE lamb. I have been waiting anxiously by the phone since Wed when we dropped 3 off at the butcher. I try to do my own but I was selling some of these and didn't really have time to deal with them since we also took 1 hog to butcher and then did the boar ourselves yesterday and today. Anyway... I freaking love lamb. SO SO SO SO good.


Goat is good too. I don't think it tastes like either venison or lamb. I guess it still falls into that game meat flavor type category but they don't taste the same to me. I want to try goat burger. We just got a grinder so the next time we butcher a goat I want to grind a bunch of it and make the mixture you can get at Halal butchers. It has onions and cilantro and garlic and all kinds of stuff in it. Sort of like a seasoned meat ball mixture but they patty it up like a burger.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Sounds yummy! Ours is going first thing in the morning (sayonara DinDin!). Do you think letting the meat sit for a week might help the taste, like Southern said, kind of let it age? I sure don't want goat barn mouth

 

[bonbean01]

I'm sure processors all have their own way of doing things...around here all meat is hung and aged in large walk in coolers...just how it's done here...livestock and deer.

Yup...need to do a southern herdstock and have a large cook off for sure

Pearce...you were smart to name him DinDin

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Ha, that was the kids really. I just told them that if they were going to name him, they better make it a food name.

You all should plan a get-together.

 

[Kitsara]

I've yet to try goat, I'm looking forward to it, but I certainly loved lamb sausage when I had some. Course I was a teen at the time and my friend and I drove her mom nuts since we had named the bottle-baby lambs that went to slaughter and we were saying how well Nanook tasted and how Spot had such a wonderful flavor. So delicious and we were so bad.

 

[EllieMay]

Goat burgers? Wow. Never tried them.
That's something to add to my list of things-to-try.

I love lamb chops and I had my first lamb burger last year at a sheep sale.
OH! It was soooo good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will never go back to beef burgers!
Now I can't wait to butcher my own lambs for meat!!!

 

[SuburbanFarmChic]

It's horrible. I go out and look at the babies and my husband asks what I'm thinking and I answer... "The cute ones taste better."

 

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[CocoNUT]

I upset the militant vegitarian in our group when we went to new zealand back in college. She was always ranting and raving about how the hunter of the group was a HORRIBLE person...blah blah blah. Well...we went on a sheep farm tour and were out in one of the pastures...where they separate the ewes and the lambs. I seriously could NOT stop DROOLING as I looked at them all...running around the open field....One of the girls in the group saw this and said "wassup CocoNUT?" and ALL I COULD SAY was "LAMBCHOPS!!!!!" The militan vegan bolted out of the bus and immediately fertilized the field with her lunch! (I honestly didn't mean to upset her...but I'd JUST had THE tastiest lamb kebab in Christchurch the day before and it was still on my mind.....)

I LOVE LAMB! My egyptian friend LOVES my lamb! Apparently I know how to cook with it! I LOVE it...I need some LAMB!

 

[bonbean01]

Well...next vacation pack up the family and come here...I have quite a bit of lamb in the freezer