Show Us Your Meat, and We'll Show You Ours

[Apoc]

One of the reasons I like living in this part of the country is because it's so easy to buy your food from someone you can meet. About every 18 months, the wife and order a hog from a farmer on the Olympic Peninsula. They wait until they get enough orders to have a slaughter day, which can be 2-4 months after order. Once the hog is slaughtered, the smoke shop they partner with calls you for your order. Out of ~90 lbs. of meat, you can choose how much sausage, bacon, chops, etc. you want. They'll also smoke your bacon and ham to specification. A few weeks later we pick it up at the farmer's market a few minutes away.



One of the best things to come from the pigs is the bacon (duh). As you can see in the pics below, it looks, cooks, and tastes so different than anything you buy in the store... and we buy the fancy shit. I have to think this is how people used to eat bacon. I included some blurry pics below for reference. Yes, the eggs are cooked in bacon fat. :twisted: