{"id":16552,"date":"2014-02-24T10:31:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=16552"},"modified":"2014-02-24T10:31:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:31:12","slug":"second-year-of-pork-pickup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2014\/02\/second-year-of-pork-pickup\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Year of Pork Pickup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lard.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16156\" alt=\"lard\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lard-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lard-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lard.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Last Friday evening, Scott and I headed over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jodarfarms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jodar Farms <\/a>to pick up our pork order. \u00a0This is the second year that we have purchased <a title=\"Embracing Meat Shares\" href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2012\/10\/embracing-meat-shares\/\" target=\"_blank\">1\/2 a hog from Jodar Farms.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year we were able to pick up the pork directly from the farm instead of having to drive all the way out to the processor. \u00a0This made pick-up a breeze since the farm is much closer and we were able to deal with Aaron Jodar directly.<\/p>\n<p>Now my freezer is stocked with pork and I can&#8217;t wait to dig in! \u00a0<a title=\"Embracing Lard\" href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2013\/01\/embracing-lard\/\" target=\"_blank\">There&#8217;s more fat for making lard<\/a> and we got some other goodies to play around with this year as well.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to all the roasts, chops, and ribs we also received:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skin (which we are giving to friends because I currently do not have a way to fry it up to make rinds)<\/li>\n<li>Jowl<\/li>\n<li>Trotters (pig&#8217;s feet)<\/li>\n<li>Heart<\/li>\n<li>Liver<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The organs are going to the dogs and Scott gets to deal with that task because I hate organ meat. \u00a0But the jowl and trotters? Bring it! I&#8217;m especially excited to play around with those as I have never had either of them before.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily I have a pork-centric cookbook that I should be able to put to good use this year.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the half hog purchase yielded us 97 pounds of pork products, not including the goodies already mentioned. There are roasts, country ribs, spare ribs, bone-in chops, ground pork and bacon.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s amount does seem a little less than last year and since we love pork so much, next year I think we might just go whole hog. \u00a0We would probably need a second stand-up freezer if we did that though but something to consider.<\/p>\n<p>Now we just need to get some beef and we&#8217;ll be set for the year!<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you participate in any meat shares?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday evening, Scott and I headed over to Jodar Farms to pick up our pork order. \u00a0This is the second year that we have purchased 1\/2 a hog from Jodar Farms. This year we were able to pick up the pork directly from the farm instead of having to drive all the way out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[100,15],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-4iY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}