The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[N F C]

I’m happy for you. Maybe there’s hope for me yet...

And me too!

 

[sharron]

If you like steak you would also like lamb chops.

depends, we raised sheep for years, i just couldn't like it and we always butchered a lamb for ourselves, would cook it for husband, he loved lamb chops and leg of lamb but i would make something else for myself, anyway, these were wool sheep, finally he came home from work one day and told me he had bought a little ram from one of our customers (he had been repairing her furnace) i ask him, don't we have enough young rams lambs and he informed me , this is a hair sheep, ok, just what the heck is a hair sheep? well, its one we don't have to shear, he will shed his wool in the spring, ok, this i gotta see but since i hate to shear, lets give it a try, needless to say, we found a couple of ewes in ohio to buy and started on our hair sheep flock, after years of not eating them someone ask me if they were good eating and i had to admit i didn't eat them so next time i cooked lamb chops i tried it, WOW, they were good eating, but would never eat a wool sheep again, only hair sheep. ours were katahdin's, also self polled, and also better on pasture, you didn't feed them except in the winter (unless you wanted to keep them tame and to come to you when you called)

 

[sharron]

morning everyone

 

[N F C]

depends, we raised sheep for years, i just couldn't like it and we always butchered a lamb for ourselves, would cook it for husband, he loved lamb chops and leg of lamb but i would make something else for myself, anyway, these were wool sheep, finally he came home from work one day and told me he had bought a little ram from one of our customers (he had been repairing her furnace) i ask him, don't we have enough young rams lambs and he informed me , this is a hair sheep, ok, just what the heck is a hair sheep? well, its one we don't have to shear, he will shed his wool in the spring, ok, this i gotta see but since i hate to shear, lets give it a try, needless to say, we found a couple of ewes in ohio to buy and started on our hair sheep flock, after years of not eating them someone ask me if they were good eating and i had to admit i didn't eat them so next time i cooked lamb chops i tried it, WOW, they were good eating, but would never eat a wool sheep again, only hair sheep. ours were katahdin's, also self polled, and also better on pasture, you didn't feed them except in the winter (unless you wanted to keep them tame and to come to you when you called)

Morning Sharron!

That's interesting about the sheep. Guess it's about the same way differences are in the taste of beef.

I must be the only person around here that's never eaten lamb or sheep!

 

[sharron]

I don't get the 'lamb and mint jelly' bit. Can anyone explain it to me ? I love lamb - even mutton. Mint jelly - not so much. Sadly the Princess does not like lamb so I never cook it for us.

agree sour, mint jelly? must have been hard times to come up with mint jelly
sorry sour, hit the wrong key

 

[sharron]

And me too!

me three

 

[sharron]

Morning Sharron!

That's interesting about the sheep. Guess it's about the same way differences are in the taste of beef.

I must be the only person around here that's never eaten lamb or sheep!

we started when we were young, we didn't think we had enough pasture to raise a beef and we wanted meat so we bought some registered cheviots.
we ended up selling them all to the same person for 20.00 each, since some of them were two and three years old, we sold them as aged sheep, even the one lamb that was a day old there was 21 of them, when husband decided he no longer was up to cleaning out the barn, we sold the hair sheep (they too were registered) we never butchered a ewe lamb, always the ram lambs, ewes we either keep or sold for breeders
they were nice sheep, and pretty since we had colored, the one husband brought home from caroline was a white but threw all colors but black, then we another ram (caroline bought him for us if we would go out and pick up a ram for her)so we got a solid black ram and since we were there we bought a black ewe too . so we had spotteds, reds and blacks and once we had a solid white one, unusual for us

 

[sharron]

Nope, that's the sad part of that....you will have to divide everything up, if one of them files for divorce, yeah, not married legally but if your say you are married by introducing yourselves as such, the law interpreted it as being married.

funny, before husband i made it legal, he would refer to me as his wifey, must have taken, been with him since 1967, legally 1969 altho i'm sure there are times he would like to murder me

 

[Bamabexchicks]

depends, we raised sheep for years, i just couldn't like it and we always butchered a lamb for ourselves, would cook it for husband, he loved lamb chops and leg of lamb but i would make something else for myself, anyway, these were wool sheep, finally he came home from work one day and told me he had bought a little ram from one of our customers (he had been repairing her furnace) i ask him, don't we have enough young rams lambs and he informed me , this is a hair sheep, ok, just what the heck is a hair sheep? well, its one we don't have to shear, he will shed his wool in the spring, ok, this i gotta see but since i hate to shear, lets give it a try, needless to say, we found a couple of ewes in ohio to buy and started on our hair sheep flock, after years of not eating them someone ask me if they were good eating and i had to admit i didn't eat them so next time i cooked lamb chops i tried it, WOW, they were good eating, but would never eat a wool sheep again, only hair sheep. ours were katahdin's, also self polled, and also better on pasture, you didn't feed them except in the winter (unless you wanted to keep them tame and to come to you when you called)

Thanks for explaining the difference! I never knew that wool sheep were less appealing in terms of flavor, I just never met a lamb chop I didnt like!

 

[N F C]

This is the only Lamb Chop I'm familiar with...