Well it’s been a quiet week around here, thank goodness. A couple of local Christmas Tree growers brought us three deer they killed because they were eating their trees. I made jerky from some of it, had some of the other made into sausage, and the rest were cut into roasts and ground into hamburger. A local butcher does all of this for me and he does a great job.
When he makes the sausage and hamburger, he always adds a little beef fat to it because deer is so lean that it’s so dry if you don’t add the beef fat. Once that’s added then the sausage cooks much better and you don’t have to add any oil to the pan when it’s cooking. I use the deer burger for soups and chili. I’m not crazy about just deer burger to make meatloaf but if you put half deer burger and half hamburger, then it makes pretty good meatloaf. Surprising how many people come here because I serve wild game. It’s the only place they can try it and know it’ll be good.
I’ve also had a blast Christmas shopping for Little Joe and Celeste. I guess I have spoiled them because I got Little Joe a remote controlled car, a Nintendo Wii (I hope he’s not too little for it), a Leapster and a bunch of games for it, and a bunch of other small toys like dinosaurs and even got him a frog aquarium.
Celeste, well she’s like a daughter to me. I bought her a used car but it’s a good one. I had my mechanic check it out to make sure it’s a sound car. I got her a Honda because they get pretty good gas mileage and are pretty darn dependable. It’s a Honda Civic and I can’t remember what year it is. I have CRS (Can’t remember shit) so you’ll have to excuse me. I also got her a Dell Laptop computer. She graduates from High School this year and is planning on going to college. She’ll need a laptop in college and it sure won’t hurt for her to have one now.
