Baymule
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A friend just texted us with an offer for us to buy half a beef. 
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Mike CHS
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Pastor Dave - the cream cheese makes a good dish even better. We put on some shank of lamb yesterday in the slow cooker while we were canning. Added a little spice to some flour to coat the lamb, brown it in butter then to the slow cooker with some white wine and garlic. The Amish farms get a decent price lower than retail but not near wholesale. The auction barn targets bulk food buyers so it is a wholesale market.
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Mike CHS
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A friend just texted us with an offer for us to buy half a beef.
We are literally loving every bite of the one we split with our neighbor.
Pastor Dave
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I'm still jealous of the auction y'all have down there.
I saw reports of TN flooding in parts. Is that close to you?
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Mike CHS
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The flooding was all north and north west of us mostly on a line from Nashville on up into Kentucky and east to the Cumberland Plateau. There were several places that got better than 20" but not here. Not saying it couldn't happen here but if we got flooded the entire state would be under water since we are so high in elevation and everything around us is several hundred feet lower.
Pastor Dave
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In the early 80's, my family lived along the line you mentioned on the Cumerland Plateau in Henry Co. It's been a long time since I heard mention of the Cumberland Plateau or Cumberland Gap. 
goatgurl
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mike I do the same thing now with my wether that I keep to butcher. born in the spring and not butchered until the following fall. more meat and it cost almost nothing to keep him for that year. at butcher time I have a lot more meat. @Baymule I really think you'll enjoy your ram. and mike I didn't cook the ribs so don't know about the taste. this fall I have a wether and i'm going to butcher one of my old ewes. she and I hurt her front leg and it hurts her to walk. we were wrestling while I was trimming her hoof and she twisted and I didn't let go so we hurt her knee. and no it isn't getting any better. that happened last fall. don't want to sell her to continue her suffering so freezer camp it is. the gentleman who processes for us makes some awesome summer sausage from lamb so she is going to be this years sausage.
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Mike CHS
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I haven't tried any sausage from our sheep so I might have him do some of our next one that way.
Pastor Dave
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@goatgurl they ought to have a double click effect on the like button or a button for regular likes and another for really likes 
I enjoy reading just abt anything on Summer sausage. I began making mine with deer I would harvest and out of others' deer they harvested. There was sooooo much we never did as a kid with our rabbits we processed. Now, I make sausage and summer sausage out of my rabbits. It is so hard getting the temps to allow me to infuse cheese without it oozing out as it cooks. But, I still experiment.
I enjoy reading just abt anything on Summer sausage. I began making mine with deer I would harvest and out of others' deer they harvested. There was sooooo much we never did as a kid with our rabbits we processed. Now, I make sausage and summer sausage out of my rabbits. It is so hard getting the temps to allow me to infuse cheese without it oozing out as it cooks. But, I still experiment.
