Every Friday, I’ll host a Frugal Friday Farm Linky. This week’s theme is farm animals — and any post about your working critters is welcome (pets such as goldfish or house-cats not so much — this is really about farm animals, or any animal that proves its worth in a homesteading/ farming sense. Please enter [...]
I recently made whole wheat blueberry scones for an afternoon tea time enjoyed by the whole family. While the kids were home on Christmas break from school, they worked outside with my husband for a couple hours each afternoon on our land-clearing project. They’d build up an appetite long before dinner — and it was [...]
After the initial steps to hog butchering, making primal cuts and processing the pork chops, my husband packaged up the remaining roasts and ham steaks while I turned to mixing spices. The final step in our pig butchering adventure was the sausage making. We didn’t do it all on the first day of pig butchering, [...]
After the first steps in butchering a pig and making the primal cuts, we turned to the rest of the meat processing. We did one side as loin roasts and the other as pork chops. Next time, we’ll probably do both sides in pork chops — they have been amazing, incredibly flavorful and tender. The [...]
