Rabbit Jerky

I love my rabbits. They offer me therapy, handling them and working with them each day is soothing to me. They offer me some of the best manure I can find for my gardens, allowing me to make my great soil in my raised beds even better. And of course, they provide wholesome meat for […]

Grind Your Own Red Pepper Flakes For Better Quality and Flavor

When I was writing about making curry powder from long term preps, I also included a bit about grinding my own red pepper flakes. I mentioned that once a year I gather as many different dried peppers as I can find. This year, I was able to locate

Questions and Answers Feb 2013

Today, I ‘m doing a Q&A session with some of the many questions I get. Today, I’m covering whittling, food, and rabbit questions. Feel free to drop me a line at: db at floridahillbilly.com and I’ll answer your questions, and possibly include it in a future article. Here we go! Spoon Carving Questions: Tim – […]

Curry Powder from Preps and Making your own Hot Pepper Flakes

The weather here has been beautiful, though the nights have been less so, and have been driving down the water temps. Since I spend a lot of my time during the week in the water, I feel the cold. Last week, when the wife got home, she offered to make a nice hot meal to […]

Alternative uses for Papayas

Remember when I wrote about my volunteer papaya tree? How about them tasting like vomit? Blech! Well, as my papayas grow out and ripen, I’ve been cutting, smashing, or busting them open for the chickens to eat. The seem to like it, and that’s fine with me! At least I’m getting something useful out of […]