SRS, we had quite the surprise today at pickup time-- the kindly butcher had rounded our order up to the nearest whole-piece-before-cutting sizes, knowing we appreciate good meat. I was $80 short (temp-covered by Bank of Mom), since he'd also combined my Thursday order with the order sched for pickup today.... I had split the order into two pickups so I THOUGHT I wouldn't kill myself breaking it all down for the freezer, but no.... Some of it went in not-broken-down, oh well. I do like to precook that BBQ. Not this time.
Good thing Hardi was drooling in the driveway to unload, waiting for us, because I was about dead just from loading it all INTO the van. Filet mignon at %4.99/lb., thankyouverymuch..... I'll have an average price-per-pound shortly, which will include the venison hamburger a friend's going to get for us. Screw the beef industry's contaminated ground beef-- friend is gonna grind up a whole deer for us.
Venison chipotle chili oh my!
Also Hard has a new grill/smoker, we were just talking tonight (over charred sirloin steaks) about how we'll set things to smoke or rotisse as we head out to snow-blow, bring it in and eat it when we're done.