It doesn’t get much better than this. I raised two pigs this year, both of them finished on heirloom apples and Asian pears. Mark practiced his class on the first pig, which was the main course of my wife’s birthday party. Two weeks later, I hosted a Pig Butchery class with Mark “The Butcher” Disharoon. [...]

Pig Butchery Class and Pork Taco Lunch Cost $75 9 AM to 1 PM Williams, Oregon Featuring the Butchery of Mark Disharoon Pork Taco Lunch by Scott Wilson Mark will discuss the structure of a side of freshly butchered pork and demonstrate how to efficiently break it down into primal and subprimal cuts. He will [...]

This summer has been great for tacos. Some of our favorites were cooked in the Caja China

Summer is a time for tacos. I got off to a great start this summer, enjoying, on June 20th, a surprise treat of oyster mushrooms that popped up due to a late rain. The log is about 50 feet from my house so I whisked them to my kitchen immediately after picking for a breakfast [...]