Portuguese Heritage Day

Years ago, when my parents first found out that my husband was Portuguese, they asked him if he ate goats.

It was kind of a joke to them & having never considered eating goat meat he was appalled.

The funny thing is, for the last 10 years or so, we have raised & butchered meat goats and we eat them.

And better than that, goat meat is yummy.

And no goat (which technically is called chevon) does not taste anything like lamb. Nothing. 

It's way less greasy than lamb & in fact is most similar to beef.

We use it interchangeably with beef in our cooking.

And because of my parents we always joke that it is part of our Portuguese Heritage so the other day when we hacked up, I mean "professionally cut & wrapped" 2 young goats on our kitchen table we decided it was "Portuguese Heritage Day" ... so of course we took pictures...

Leg o' goat anyone?

The family that butchers together stays together...

 For a hard days hacking & grinding we ended up with 50 lbs of ground meat.

Yummy.

Blessings.