How To Make Coconut Milk (and Coconut Flour)

Today’s article was brought to you by the fine folks over at Reef-Hunter.com. Go check out their great line of custom apparel, and tell them FloridaHillbilly sent you! (click to open a new page) We use a lot of coconut milk in our cooking. However, the prices keep creeping higher and higher, so I’ve started […]

How to Make Olive Brine for Dirty Martinis

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Summer Wild Foods in South Florida

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Eating old Canned Collard greens

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Guest Post: Spicy Thai Jerky

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Home Canning – Your First Batch, Strawberry Jam

This is the final entry in my Home Canning series. I cannot stress how simple the whole process is, how little extra equipment you need, how much money you save on the end product, or how much better quality and taste is of the final product. I am able to only come up with one […]

Getting Started With Home Canning – Safe Recipe Sources

I mentioned yesterday about “sources for safe recipes”, because unfortunately, the Internet is full of fools writing anything they they misheard as a kid is fact. And in canning, that can lead to very devastating results. Another source is old family recipe’s handed down from generation to generation. Yes, they have sentimental value…but are they […]

Canning Corned Beef (Plus, a Corned Beef Hash Recipe)

(This is slightly modified from a post I made last week at InTheRabbitHole.com’ s forums. While I do post on lots of other forums, I call their forum “Home”, and end up posting a lot there. They have a tight-knit community established, and while they don’t have a massive number of registered users like some […]