We did make a Costco run today. My goal was to re-stock my now-clean freezer with meat. It's not like the old days when we'd have freezers with a half of a beef as well as a hog and accompanying hams and sides of bacon. Those were the days when we butchered our own hogs and made scrumptious sausage. I had lots of people to feed in those days: our own family and friends, harvest crews and anyone who might stop by the ranch at dinner time. One year we had lots of hamburger barbecues after two of our bulls got in a tussle and one pushed the other over the creek bank and broke his leg...
Life is very different now. My re-stocked freezer contains four boneless rib steaks, ten center-cut pork chops, three pound and a half packages of hamburger and six thick lamb chops. For one meal Forry and I will share a steak -- and maybe even have leftovers. The pork most likely will end up in stir fries and each package of hamburger will make two to three meals.
We made the Costco trip shortly after noon, way too early for Forry to have his Polish dog. He had to settle for lamb chops, a baked potato and corn on the cob for supper.
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