and so...the Sunday roast!

With a new 510 litre freezer in the garage now full of the beef of one Highland cow, and two romney lambs  (thank god we bought a big one as we still have the pig to put in there!) we sat down today to our first home-killed lamb roast.

Last night we had porterhouse steak (thank you Ruby) - delicious!!!!

The lamb roast sizzled away slowly all afternoon and was tender and tasty! (Thanks Cuddles or Shadow).

Looking good!!

Here we go...



Delicious!!!

 Still about 20kg of mince, and tonnes and tonnes of beef roasts and steak and sausages, and lamb roasts and chops - should be right for about a year!

The First Kill!

So...Sunday 13th March was the day of our first home-kill: Ruby the highland cow, and the two lambs are now waiting at the Edendale butcher to be processed for the freezer.

We won't go into too many details but local Matthew Ferguson came around and shot Ruby (it was quick and peaceful and she suspected nothing), and slit the throats of the lambs.

Next step, buy a cow/lamb/pig sized freezer!