Grass-fed beef

WARNING THIS POST COULD CAUSE THE FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS: EXCESSIVE DROOLING AND OR EXTREME HUNGER. Well as most of you know Kevin and I had ordered a slab of grass-fed beef( 1/2 of cow). We finally picked our meat up on Saturday, organized it, and put it in the freezer. The hanging weight totaled 235 lbs and you lose 8-10% of that, so all in all we have a ton of meat. It was a great investment since it came down to $3.50 per lb except the sausage was a little more since we had to pay for the extra processing.

This is what it looked like before we unpacked it and organized it.


The first group pictured below are our array of roasts and briskets!!! These will come in handy when it comes to the crockpot.


Next we have the liver. Sarah, if you have a good pate recipe bring it with you when you come at Thanksgiving. I am not a big fan of liver but I am willing to try a pate.
We have plenty of ground beef to go around. There would have been more but we chose sausage instead. I don't think we needed 70lbs of ground beef. In the plastic bag is dog bones so if anyone who has a dog is interested let us know.


This is my favorite part and excited me the most. Below is our 4 ribeye steaks, 1 beef cross rib roast, and 1 beef standing rib roast. Yes prime rib. You can't beat prime rib for $3.50lb. Yum!!!
We indulged in 2 of the ribeye steaks and they were delicious!!


Now we move on to the stew meat and beef soup bones. The bones are on the right and we are excited them to make some delicious soups. We wish we would have gotten a little more stew meat but we are very happy with it. We have learned that the beef stew meat is such a better quality than lamb stew meat. We made an Indian dish with it.


If you didn't think we had enough already we still haven't gotten to the sausage and the steaks. We chose 4 different types of sausage: Chorizo (spanish sausage), Italian sausage, German sausage, and Brats. They only came in 10lbs so yes, we have 40lbs of sausage. We grill a lot of these when we entertain so they will come in handy.

Last but not least the fabulous steaks!!!! We have tenderloins, NY strip steaks, round steaks, misc steaks, and many more. Each package include 2 steaks, so as you can see we have plenty. They are in different rows of the different types of steaks, but since Kevin organized those I can't name all the cuts we have. Anyone want to come over for steak?


Surprisingly we fit all the meat in the freezer. Its packed but keep in mind there is still 1 duck, 2 whole chickens, and 2 large lamb legs. If anyone is interested my mom bought this freezer from Sears 3 yrs ago for $150.00

We are pretty happy with our purchase, now we just need to have more people over for dinner to share the wealth!

knitting update

Sorry I have not posted any knitting items lately. I know I have been slacking a little bit. I did manage to finish the two little sweaters I was working on. They are so cute!!!
I wish I could see what they looked like on. I did manage to finish the bolero I was working on, however I seriously screwed up some where. So I am currently trying to find away to fix it so its wearable. I will update you on that soon. I have been working on another project. Well, as most of you know I love the Redskins!!! I do not own any Redskins apparel so I decided to start knitting my own. The first thing I started was some Redskins thigh highs to wear under skirts in the winter. I started with a pattern on knitty.com, but that was too big. Below is the picture of what I had done so far.
I have skinny little legs so I needed to find a pattern that worked for me. After much research I found a site that told you how to design a thigh high to fit your legs by taking certain measurements. This was very helpful in making a design for me. I also decided toe-up was the best way to go about doing this as you can try the sock on as you go. I have never done toe-up before but I find it very useful. Below is a picture of the thigh high so far.
I expect to finish this in the next night or two. I am actually further along then the picture. When I finish I will take a picture of what it looks like and take pictures as I start my next one. I will post a step by step how to design thigh highs for yourself.

Fall in Rocky Moutain National Park

Andy and Marsha Costello stopped by for a visit on their travel around the country. They came through Colorado on September 18th-22nd. We had a wonderful time. On Sunday the 23rd of September we took them to Rocky National Park and the Aspens had already started changing to their beautiful fall colors. Not like most trees aspens can be yellow, orange, red, and brown. They go through such an array of beautiful colors and are so magnificent to see. If you ever get the time, you should visit Colorado in the fall just to see its beauty. Below are just a few of the many gorgeous pictures we got from that day. I am ashamed to admit that this was my first time in the park in the fall. I now know what I have been missing.

Kevin, Andy , and Marsha not realizing I was getting their picture next to this aspen.

This is a picture from bear lake. You can see the different colors of the aspen. Its just so amazing that one tree can go through so many different colors.

We are considering enlarging and framing this picture and the next one. They are just so breath taking!!!



This is one of many elk we saw. We were fortunate to see a male buck with 8 points and he was bugling. The males bugle during the month of September as it is mating season and their beautiful sounds attract the females. Then they prove their manhood by head butting each other. Its pretty neat to see.
Kevin and I at bear lake with fall colors in the background.
Marsha and Andy at bear lake with the fall colors in the background.

I will be posting some knitting pics tomorrow and then some meat pics. We finally got our cow on Saturday. We received a lot of yummy steaks, roasts, and other goodies.