Monday, December 28, 2009

A Stroll on Two Pigs Farm

If you have ever been to Vermont you know it's a bit more relaxed. It was exactly what we were looking for on our four day trip with family...eating, drinking, and laughing. Our stroll started on the 23rd of December...we would be the first of the four couples to arrive at Two Pigs Farm for Christmas weekend. So we unpacked and set out for our live Christmas tree. A few miles later we arrived in a small town in New York...just over the Vermont border...to a place that sold Christmas trees... we were prepared with a set of cotton cloves and clippers and a tarp to haul it home..."What size truck do you have?" asked the gentleman - Ha we have a Saab sedan. "Ha ha good luck" he said with a smile. So with John's friendly holiday spirits, he helped us saw the tree down from a 10 footer to a 6 footer...we clipped some branches for swags and clipped some more. She packed beautifully into the trunk...and into the back seats as well.

Being as we were the first to arrive at the farm, it was our duty to create the menu and cook for our Christmas Eve fish fry. After the Christmas Vigil, we set up and prepared to create our version of a traditional fish fry...organic style. The menu consisted of organic mushrooms stuffed with organic crabmeat, stuffed organic jumbo shrimp, organic linguini with clams, and organic chocolate chip cookies. Preparing all of this food was quite a task, but being in a professional kitchen made it much easier. Two Pigs Farm happens to be the set for a country cooking show, so all of the essential tools are at your fingertips. Several hours later after everyone had arrived from their long trips, we sat down to eat our organic fish fry just before Midnight.