Yesterday, I posted a picture of a fish I caught locally. Known as a White Grunt, this unassuming fish is much like the pineapple, it is one of the small cornerstones to Florida’s early development. Its been said many times (does repetition make a statement into fact if repeated often enough?) that when Henry Flagler […]
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Smoking Rabbit – A Comparison of Two methods
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) BlueTang recently posted an article at www.bbq-brethren.com on his method of smoking rabbit. He had to listen to me raving about […]
A (Not So) Dry Run (Tropical Storm Chantal)
I received a phone call from a life-long friend today. He called to check up on me, and to see if I was ready for the hurricane (his words, not mine). As simply replied with, “Oh, there’s a storm coming? What do You think?” This should tell you two things about me:
Repost: One Bad Day
Note: This is a repost of an article I wrote when I first started FloridaHillbilly.com. I’ve referred back to it multiple times, and feed it is worth revisiting. If you have not read it before, please do so. If you have, read it again, then pass it along to a friend. We should all be […]
Who Needs Trees When You Have Friends Like These?
Today’s sponsor is slightly ironic, since I received a phone call from them today, and this article is based around them and the results of that phone call. SB knows what my interests are, and he does a lot of the same things that BlueTang does to me – gets me interested in something off-the-wall, […]
How To Make Coconut Milk (and Coconut Flour)
We use a lot of coconut milk in our cooking. However, the prices keep creeping higher and higher, so I’ve started looking for alternatives for buying canned coconut milk. And since there are loads of coconuts that grow around here, why can’t I just make my own? It turns out I can, and rather easily, […]
Summer Wild Foods in South Florida
Wow, it is hot already. Afternoons are in the 90’s, the sun blisters everything it touches, and walking barefoot is not longer an option – even the sand burns your feet. But there is good news. Being the tropics, there are quite a few exotic (to a hillbilly) forms of food that you can gather […]
Jerky
For every road trip, I like to have certain items packed up in a small cooler, located close at hand. Water to drink, some fruit, nuts, pork rinds, and of course, jerky. To me, nothing says “ROADTRIP!” like a big old bag of jerky. Beef, pork, rabbit, alligator, venison…. just about any type of meat […]
Guest Post: Four from RidgeRunner of Green Earth Survival School
Today, I have four selections from RidgeRunner’s Green Earth Survival School Facebook page today. RR puts out some of my favorite down to earth articles. Must be the common backgrounds we share, having both grown up in the rural Appalachians. Bone Tools I really enjoy working with
Eating old Canned Collard greens
About a week ago, we ran across a dusty old jar or collards greens that we pressure canned ourselves…about 5-6 years ago. It had somehow got pushed to the back of the cabinet, and was overlooked all this time. We opened it and