{"id":3807,"date":"2014-09-19T07:35:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T11:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2014-09-20T23:22:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T03:22:11","slug":"good-thistle-hill-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/good-thistle-hill-pork\/","title":{"rendered":"How good is Thistle Hill pork???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, modesty has not been one of my more noticeable traits.\u00a0 But even I had to blush\u00a0reading this rave review we received about our most recent pork from Brooke Henley of Middletown, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The pork is heavenly! What an animal! And the processing is amazing too! So far we&#8217;ve sampled two cuts of bacon (definitely will be the first thing we run out of!), pork chops, and a ham steak. Photographic evidence attached!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3808\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This is one of the 2&#8243; thick chops and yes, we&#8217;ve just sliced it open. You\u2019re looking at it from the end. \u00a0One chop was enough for both of us and we had a little bit leftover. SOOOO good! The pork chop probably would have been even better if it had been fully thawed. Tom tried to hold it to help thaw it on the ride home from your place! Cooked at a low temp in the oven and then browned on the stove.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3809\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Second photo is the ham steak which was divine too! Tom grilled the latter on our Big Green Egg with a glaze made from his sister&#8217;s apple cider jelly mixed with grainy mustard. I&#8217;ll try to take some photos BEFORE the food hits our plates next time.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Finally, <\/strong><\/em><strong><em>Your bacon making a second appearance of the day as lunch &#8211; c&#8217;mon over<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/TH-bacon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3811\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/TH-bacon-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"TH bacon\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brooke credits husband, Tom Garnett, for handling the cooking in the family!\u00a0 It&#8217;s interesting how many couples in the grass fed world\u00a0feature the men in the kitchen.\u00a0 I would guess it some long-repressed desire coupled with women just being sick of it.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, we met Tom and Brooke several years ago when they had just retired to a beautiful farm in Maryland&#8230;were starting out to raise grass fed beef.\u00a0 Eventually they purchased one of the finest bulls we&#8217;ve every raised at Thistle Hill.\u00a0 (We&#8217;ll feature him in another post soon.)\u00a0So we&#8217;ll be losing them as beef customers but it looks as though they&#8217;ll be back for more pork&#8230;.soon.<\/p>\n<p>There are no sides of pork remaining this year\u00a0 but our 10-pound variety Pork Pak is still available for $75.\u00a0 Just contact us at <a href=\"mailto:info@thistlehill.net\">info@thistlehill.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, modesty has not been one of my more noticeable traits.\u00a0 But even I had to blush\u00a0reading this rave review we received about our most recent pork from Brooke Henley of Middletown, Maryland. The pork is heavenly! What an animal! And the processing is amazing too! So far we&#8217;ve sampled two cuts of bacon (definitely will be the first thing we run out of!), pork chops, and a ham steak. Photographic evidence attached! This is one of the 2&#8243; thick chops and yes, we&#8217;ve just sliced it open. You\u2019re looking at it from the end. \u00a0One chop was enough for both of us and we had a little bit leftover. SOOOO good! The pork chop probably would have been even better if it had been fully thawed. Tom tried to hold it to help thaw it on the ride home from your place! Cooked at a low temp in the oven and then browned on the stove. Second photo is the ham steak which was divine too! Tom grilled the latter on our Big Green Egg with a glaze made from his sister&#8217;s apple cider jelly mixed with grainy mustard. I&#8217;ll try to take some photos BEFORE the food hits our plates next time.\u00a0 Finally, Your bacon making a second appearance of the day as lunch &#8211; c&#8217;mon over Brooke credits husband, Tom Garnett, for handling the cooking in the family!\u00a0 It&#8217;s interesting how many couples in the grass fed world\u00a0feature the men in the kitchen.\u00a0 I would guess it some long-repressed desire coupled with women just being sick of it. In any event, we met Tom and Brooke several years ago when they had just retired to a beautiful farm in Maryland&#8230;were starting out to raise grass fed beef.\u00a0 Eventually they purchased one of the finest bulls we&#8217;ve every raised at Thistle Hill.\u00a0 (We&#8217;ll feature him in another post soon.)\u00a0So we&#8217;ll be losing them as beef customers but it looks as though they&#8217;ll be back for more pork&#8230;.soon. There are no sides of pork remaining this year\u00a0 but our 10-pound variety Pork Pak is still available for $75.\u00a0 Just contact us at info@thistlehill.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,22,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bacon","category-food","category-pork"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3821,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions\/3821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}