I'm bringing a venison ham for catmandoo, I could possibly bring another or some venison.
I'm currently aging several pounds of pastrami -- maybe the best batch ever. Like wort from a crock before bottling, I sampled some yesterday after it came out of the smoker.
Ooooooh!
Last fall, we took out some really big trees for the new pond site. Yesterday afternoon, I chopped off some large chunks from some maple and hickory stumps that were overflowing with sap. The pastrami smoked for several hours in this vapor. My tongue has not quite yet recovered from the samples.
A legal acquaintance -- not my primary Pond Boss counsel, scared the heck out of me today when I told him I might donate some for an auction to raise money for scholarships. He gave me about 99 reasons not to do it.
I'm conflicted. I don't want to go to jail. Except for the neck piece, all the rest of the pastrami pieces are made from the backstrap of a corn-fed 10-pointer that I figure was only about three years old before it met my cold room and butchering knife.
Would anybody be interested in donating something to the scholarship? For a donation, maybe we could provide some pepper and spices, which could possibly be attached to ...
