Just delivered...

1/2 a hog, freshly butchered and divided up into 21 pounds of ham, 12 pounds of bacon, 10 pounds of breakfast sausage, and however many pounds of pork roast, spare ribs, and chops and steak. BLTs, bean soup, and biscuits & gravy for everybody!

shawkins said:

Good god. You want some recipes?

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I've been blessed with the gravy gene, so I'm good there. I got the gene from my mother; apparently, her sister could only make meat-flavored library paste. I want to make some really good rolled biscuits for the gravy, though; the cafeteria at work makes these dreadful drop biscuits so I get the hash browns and gravy instead.

I also like to do ribs on a low and slow roast. I put them in a pan with some water, cover it, and bake them at 275 for about five hours. I then slather on some sauce and bake for another hour. Also, a good way to bake ham steak is in orange juice. We're already planning on making our own bacon bits for salads (fry the bacon, drain on paper towels, cool, pulse in food chopper for a couple seconds, and viola) and jazzing up some store-bought baked beans with bacon. This is also a good time to bring up drop biscuits again, which are great with bacon (there's that word again), chives, and shredded cheddar, so we'll probably do a round or three of those.

It's late, I'm tired and blathering. COULDJA TELL?

One of the hams (actually, it's a half) has been cooked, sliced up, and divvied for bean soup and other eatin'. Two packages of the sausage are waiting for the hash browns to cook before I make gravy, and one package of the bacon has been declared "we're never buying bacon from a store again".

I wish we had an upright or chest freezer since we had to give a box of the delivery to a friend of ours for safekeeping because he has the space. I put a few things in the refrigerator to thaw for immediate use and the freezer on top is at max capacity.

Just in the oven: drop biscuits made with chive, Monterey Jack cheese, and ham. Probably would have had an easier time if I'd added the chive, cheese, and ham before stirring in the milk. Oy.