Chef Update

Once a year or so, on our farm, a bull lands himself in the freezer. We usually raise a pig or two, as well, although this year I want no part in that god awful mess. They bust out of their pens, dig up our neighbors perrineal beds, and smell like death.

But we have an upright freezer in our mudroom loaded to the gills with beef and pork (and blackberries, currants, cherries, and plums). Our visiting chef friend is, for the most part, a vegetarian chef but he's getting ready to head to Alaska before he heads back down to "the ice". In Alaska, he'll have to prepare meals for carnivores and so he's been dipping into our freezer to gain some practice.

Yesterday he pulled out the top shelf filet, basically filet mignon, and tonight he's making beef stroganoff with mushrooms. I can't get home quickly enough.