Johanne's Journal, 01 October 2014

omg that sounds delish! with a side of roasted autumn veggies and wild rice!  

you lucky girl... just from your description, I can smell it! 

We had lamb the last few nights, and I had the last of it for lunch today. It was from our CSA....locally raised, pasture fed. Good stuff! Smelled like heaven when it was cooking. :-) 

You can't beat pasture fed lamb! This was the last of last year's. It had no fat and the most luscious crust. I had an awful time only eating my 4 oz portions! 

I went out and bought a lamb shoulder chop at whole foods and put it in the freezer. Will save it for the next time I am tired of everything I usually eat!  

wow. wild. well done, Johanne. so natural. 

H-Mom, you'll love it. 

Heather, Icelandics are one of a handful of sheep that have never been hybridized to produce more wool/meat. They are pretty much exactly as they were 1100 years ago when they were introduced into Iceland. They are all colors, some spotted and grow very long fleeces. They're small, so the fleeces don't weigh as much as a Merino would and they carry almost no fat so they make outstanding meat, though a lot less than the "meat" breeds do. The meat is very mild with no muttony flavor (can't stand mutton!) We're shearing on Monday and the little rams go for meat the week after. 

Talk about farm to table! 

LOL! Yes. I never get to know the little boys in the spring. Few of them get to be breeding rams. Most of them go into the freezer. I don't like to know the names of the animals I eat! :-) 

I knit up a lovely lacy scarf with some icelandic wool this spring that I spun a year or so ago. It is really nice soft yarn. Lovely! 

It's also lovely to weave with and to felt . . . very versatile. I love the breed. 

Yduj, it sounds like you and I have a lot in common! 

Gosh, and do you also sell the wool? 

My DIL does. She also has alpacas. 

Yum!!!! Yum!!!!! 

TAIC, I don't know if you are saying yum, yum to the lamb or the alpaca. LOL! Unfortunately, in the state of Missouri, we're not allowed to eat "exotic" animals. My youngest son, who spent 6 months in Peru, says alpaca is quite good.