I raise rabbits mostly for my own consumption, though from time to time, I will sell a few to offset the costs of feeding them. For the most part, I waste very little, and probably do close to breaking even on most months, give or take $20. I am always looking for a way to […]
Category: meat
Homemade Ham
My buddy BlueTang came through for me again. I dropped off a couple pork buts at his place for him to turn into some magical piece of edible tastiness. The first one he simply smoked over cherry wood, and was fantastic. Every time I would pull it out of the fridge, not only would I […]
If TSHTF: Eating Dog
When our girls were very young, and before we had any animals, I made a house rule to cut short a request for a cat: “We can have any animal we want, as long as we realize that one day we will eat it” I said this partly in jest, but partly to prevent
Dehydrators – A Self Reliance Tool
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 […]
Drying Fish – Kingfish
I was given a fresh-caught a couple days ago, and promptly sliced up some steaks and fried it. Lovely! Kingfish is a mackerel, one of the larger ones. The offer a nice fight, and if properly handled and prepared, a tasty meal.
DIY Bird Plucker
My Muscovy ducks have grown out to the appropriate size, so it’s time to start harvesting. If you’ve seen my post, Muscovy Ducks – Yard to Table, you saw just how long it took me to pluck one…over 45 minutes! Mind you, it was the first bird I’d plucked in over 20 years, but even […]
FloridaHillbilly Goes to the Pet Store
My thirteen year old had a birthday recently, and was given a “Fancy Russian Dwarf” hamster. And it was NASTY! It would actually lunge at anyone trying to pick it up. It eventually had my daughters so freaked out, that we
Product Review: Hi Mountain Buckboard Bacon Cure
Note: This product was purchased by me personally. No payment (or even contact) was made by the company, other than to state my order was received and the tracking info on the shipment. This is an unbiased, unpaid opinion. MY opinion. A while back, I purchased some cure kits from Hi Mountain, based on advice […]
Bacon Coffee
Back in 2006, the wife, two girls, and I went on a camping trip covering four states in ten days. We started toobin’ in Ichetucknee Springs in northern Florida, then decided since we were almost half way out of this long state, we may as well go visit some other places. In Georgia, we stopped
A New Adventure – The Wing Crawl
I was out to take paddle board pictures of my wife and my buddy, Andy. Arriving in typical FloridaHillbilly style (late), I only got there in time to see the boards loaded back up. Ah well. Hanging out turned into an offer to go get some lunch to catch up with my friend. Knowing I […]