Meat! (and Thanksgiving)

Today I picked up my December meat share. Kim was pretty relieved that turkey season is over. Her monthly pickup email talked about past turkeys that grew the size of emus and other turkeys that were eaten before they were harvested! But this year, lots of normal-sized turkeys, and not many casualties.

This month's meat share:

• 2 packages of 2 lamb rack rib chops.
• 1 smoked bacon.
• 1 bacon ends.
• 1 pork garlic and cheese sausage.
• 1 maple sugar cured bone-in ham steak.
• 1 package of ground beef.
• 1 package of beef stew beef.
  1 chicken breast.
  2 packages of pork loin chops.

Last week we had, of course, Thanksgiving dinner. I went to my parents' with two of my siblings, and Eun Jung came too. It was her first turkey, and mom let her baste it, "I saw them do this on TV." We had a ham from the farm too, and it cooked much faster than we thought. But it tasted great.

I brought mom a squash from the farm, that was delicious! And I brought the apple pie from The Food Project (yum!), and a pumpkin pie that I made from a farm pumpkin. The farm pumpkin was try #2. First try, well...remember that evaporated milk should NOT be chunky. Second try was quite yummy.

The ham:

The pie (thanks to a coworker's recipe!)