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

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(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 […]

animals, chickens, gardening, Muscovy ducks, Planning, plants, projects, Quail, rabbits, self sufficiency, Sites I frequent

Urbanstead Update March 2013

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It’s been a while so I thought I’d update whats going on in my urban backyard “farm”. I like to write these out from time to time to show you what I’ve accomplished, as well as to track where I’ve been. My memory isn’t what it used to be, so this works well as a […]

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Questions and Answers Feb 2013

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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 – […]

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Curry Powder from Preps and Making your own Hot Pepper Flakes

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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 […]

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Dehydrators – A Self Reliance Tool

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I was looking for a subject tonight, and realized I’d never written about my dehydrators, though I’ve written many articles that included them as an important background player. The list of my articles that use a dehydrator includes: Drying and Storing Sweet Peppers Fire Roasted Coconut Dried Chili Lime Papaya Chips Making your own All […]

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Instant Lacto-Paleo Chocolate Mousse

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This one is for my buddy, BlueTang, a skinny diabetic, who has had his share of shit-sandwiches force-fed to him. I hope this offsets some of the taste 🙂 I have been on a salad binge the last couple weeks, particularly enjoying Caesar salad for its anchovies. Gotta LOVE a salty little fish that makes […]

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Paleo Hot Chocolate

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This one is short, and almost sweet. I ran across a post on Mark’s Daily Apple regarding the health benefits of eating high-cacao dark chocolate. Healthy fats, flavanols, lower blood pressure, improved LDL/HDL numbers, increased insulin sensitivity, and other benefits from consuming this “horrid” stuff. My wife likes dark chocolate, and I’ve grown to like […]