Category Archives: food

Smoked Homemade Corned Beef

Ok, so my new amazing book called Meat Smoking and smokehouse Design, has all these ideas of things to try to see why things work they way they do, and I can’t wait to try out them out, from the … Continue reading

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Mushrooms and more Mushrooms planned.

I love mushrooms and I like to hunt for the local ones that are good eating in our area, but I was so excited to get these. Both the Poplar Mushoom and the Oyster will be need a fresh cut … Continue reading

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1,825,000 Calories per year

So yeseterday, I sat down and figured out how many calories approx we need for a active healthy lifestyle (not dieting), and for our family of two, it worked out to 5000 calories per day, please be aware that I … Continue reading

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Food Traceability

Mandatory Canadian Traceability for livestock and poultry already shows itself in my local area and on the farm, but they say that its moving forward and coming soon for veggies and berry producers as well. Already, if you want to … Continue reading

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Lets Talk Mayo…

Mayonnaise has gotten a bad rap over the past twenty years, because of the fats and the eggs and yet despite the slapdown by the low fat movment, somehow almost every single home I know has Mayo or a Whipped … Continue reading

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Spring and Forcing Plants

It’s not really spring yet, but for a few hours last night and this morning, it almost feels like it, we had rain last night, not freezing rain but light gentle spring rain,  it hitting on the metal roof was a … Continue reading

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Meat and Potato’s Meal

Stuffed Steak with Cheesy Baked Mashed Potato with Gravy. It was so good! or how I took leftover’s and made them into the above.. Well, Mainly leftover’s, I was digging in the meat freezer, in prep for my March Challange and … Continue reading

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Monday means Bread Making..

so on the big day of love, I’m making.. War Bread War Bread has been around for at least 150 years now.. its a good hearty, dense and chewy bread, It is said that in war times that White flour … Continue reading

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Homemade Pork Rinds

This is not your store bought Pork Rinds, these are the homemade kind that you chew and chew and if you like pork rinds your mouth just waters at the flavor and texture of these babies.  Anyway you cut it, … Continue reading

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That is the third time this morning on the radio..

That they are talking about the rising costs of food across the globe and the effects its having in regards to some of the riots we are seeing, they are qouting the fact that for the past seven months that … Continue reading

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