Articles in the Preparing Food Category
Growing Food, Household, Preparing Food »
A guest post from Monique Dare-Ward, giving a roundup of some of her favourite herbs that we can all grow in the backyard.
Frugality, Household, Keeping Animals, Preparing Food »
I kept the belly of one side of our pork, and had a go at making a home-cured bacon. It turned out delicious!
Keeping Animals, Preparing Food »
Yesterday I showed a friend how to kill, pluck and clean a chicken.
Frugality, Growing Food, Household, Keeping Animals, Preparing Food »
A cheap and simple home-made chicken processing station. It also doubles as a very handy outdoor sink for washing vegetables, plant pots and tools.
Keeping Animals, Preparing Food »
The pigs finally came home from the butcher. We received back 74 kilograms of porky goodness per pig – that’s a lot of meat to have sitting in front of you!
Keeping Animals, Preparing Food, Waste »
There was a little bit of discussion about feeding scraps to pigs on my original entry about our pig project. There are quite strict laws around the feeding of scraps and waste to pigs in Australia (and many other countries), and you really need to make sure you’re doing the right thing.
The NSW Department of [...]
Keeping Animals, Preparing Food »
New Scientist magazine has just published an article about the sustainability of kangaroo meat for human consumption. If you’re interested read it now, as I think free access to the full article is removed at some period after publication.
The article looks at issues like methane production, water use, feed conversion efficiency, orphaned joeys, humane harvesting, [...]
Keeping Animals, Preparing Food »
I processed the last two roosters from our first batch of chicks today. We’re keeping the one female from the group to join our layer flock. This photo is from the start of June – I just realised I hadn’t taken any [...]
Growing Food, Illawarra Councils, Preparing Food »
Kiama Council has been putting on a series of focus group workshops this week, on topics such as health, community, waste, and environment. Last night I participated in the Food workshop.
What an awesome experience!
The room at the Harbourside Brighton was packed with people passionate about all aspects of food – there was a chef, someone [...]
Preparing Food, Video »
I made this video some time ago, as you can probably tell if you know our kids.
Have a read of the labels on the products you’re feeding your children – if it sounds anything like what the girls are cooking up here then please stop!
