Hunting

In the old days, men were men when they hunted and farmed large animals. These days, men are men when they cook large pieces of meat. The other day I was watching Emeril "kick it up a notch" Lagasse and he was doing a special for men only. So you had this whole group of guys, and Emeril would say, "now let's add some garlic" and the men would all grunt in agreement, and "now let's add some sausage" and they all whooped. Oh yes.

I'd like to point out that I've not yet dated a guy who knows much more about cars or fixing toilets than I do. But they certainly all cook a better burger.

Anyway, the moment you've all been waiting for, my second meat share from Chestnut Farms! Here we go:

• 1 rather massive package of chicken thighs and legs.
• 2 packages of 4 hamburgers each. (I have one package defrosting as I type.)
• 1 package of 3 pork breakfast patties.
• 2 beef rib Delmonico steaks.
• 1 package of that awesome Greek-flavored lamb sausage.
• 2 packages of pork loin sirloin cutlets.

One question people keep asking is, are all the shares the same? And today I found out that no, they aren't. First off, Kim is good about packing "special" shares. One woman wanted beef liver, so she got a big piece of beef liver. More power to her.

I was actually also picking up a share for a friend of mine (a lot of people were interested once I started talking about the meat shares). There was a bit of a snafu with the share, but Kim was kind enough to construct a pork-free share for him at the last minute. So he ended up with all beef hot dogs, porterhouse and top round steak, and so on instead of what I got. I figure they cut the animals into lots of pieces, and they allot a fair amount to each.

I also caught the last 15 minutes of the Arlington Farmer's Market. I picked up a chunk of lemon lavender goat cheese (who knew you could get that?), some organic eggs since, sadly, Chestnut Farms ran out an hour before I got there, and some raisin cinnamon bread ($2 because she thought it may have gotten a little wet...it looked good to me). I think I missed the fish, so I will try again next time. It's a cute little market, probably 15 stalls when I went, but I went late.

I have a couple burgers frying, better go keep an eye on them.