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At O'Hara's corner farm we are currently settling into the winter season, and all the holiday partying that goes with it. This evening I am making fabulous smelling stock from the carcass of our first homegrown, free-range, Bourbon Red Thanksgiving turkey
. A fairly small turkey by supermarket standards, tipping the scale at 8 pounds, it was nevertheless very flavorful, and provided an overflowing platter of meat for our intimate Thanksgiving dinner enjoyed by my parents, my sister and her husband, my paternal grandparents, and my husband and I. Other homegrown foods at this meal were: sweet potatoes and mashed white potatoes from our garden, and green beans from mom and dad's garden. Everything else was home-made, including cornbread and sausage stuffing, and cloverleaf and cinnamon yeast rolls, and pumpkin pie. We were proud to say that our meal was about 80% locally grown.
. A fairly small turkey by supermarket standards, tipping the scale at 8 pounds, it was nevertheless very flavorful, and provided an overflowing platter of meat for our intimate Thanksgiving dinner enjoyed by my parents, my sister and her husband, my paternal grandparents, and my husband and I. Other homegrown foods at this meal were: sweet potatoes and mashed white potatoes from our garden, and green beans from mom and dad's garden. Everything else was home-made, including cornbread and sausage stuffing, and cloverleaf and cinnamon yeast rolls, and pumpkin pie. We were proud to say that our meal was about 80% locally grown. After a busy summer and fall, we are enjoying moving into winter with freezers and pantry shelves stocked with our garden's bounty. Since weather no longer favors outside work, we have moved our attention inside, and have decided to refinish our living room. Luckily this does not involve a major remodel, but just removal of wallpaper, repair of plaster, applications of new paint and trim, application of brick veneer to our plastered chimney and installation of a laminate wood floor. We have taken most of the wallpaper down now, and it is exciting to be to start visualizing what the new set-up will look like. 
Our "fabulous smelling stock" cooking.
