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Latest meat share

Picked up our Chestnut Farms cooler last week. It’s like being in a meat-of-the-month club. This months share included:

1 rack of lamb
4 pork chops
4 beef short ribs
1 lb lamb sausage
1 lb lamb stew meat
2 lbs ground beef
4 lbs chicken breasts

Update: one more item I forgot — 1 1b. bacon

Roast Lemon Chicken

This is a really simple recipe that’s help me recently get over the intimidation factor of working with whole chickens. I’ve done this twice now; once with a kosher bird from Empire and more recently with a whole chicken from my January Meat CSA share. I’ll let you guess which one was tastier.
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1st Meat Share

We picked up our 1st Chestnut Farm CSA meat share yesterday. 10 lbs of neatly wrapped yummy in a little red Playmate cooler. The share contained:

1 whole chicken
2 lamb shoulder chops
4 country-style pork ribs
1 lb lamb stew meat
2 lbs ground beef
2 beef rib steaks

Winter Shares Update

We’re on the 2nd winter share from our new CSA. As you might imagine, it’s been lots of potatoes, turnips, squash, carrots and parsnips. Excellent dishes made from this include:

Braised turnips & greens
Veggie Shepherd’s Pie
Roasted Potato & Squash Enchiladas
Carrot Slaw
Beef Stew & Chicken Stew (in the crockpot)
Veggie Stir-fry

The greens in the first distribution were awesome–chard, [...]