Sure, I’m bias if you ask me if ground pork makes delicious meatballs. We’ve raised our own pasture-raised pigs, and provided pork shares for many families here in New Hampshire, for many years, so meatballs made with pork are our favorite.
I have always used a meat rub, on all cuts of meat, for grilling or baking, but I decided it was time to learn how to make a meat rub. Because I have learned over the years that homemade is always better. Mainly because I can tweak it until it’s exactly the way everyone loves
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I’m on a mission–everyone should know how to bake with lard. Why? Because it’s a truly healthy fat, if it’s sourced from a pasture-raised pig. And as long as you know How to Render Lard, or purchase your lard from a good source (more on that below), it’s amazing in baking.
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Rendering lard from pigs? It’s way easier than I imagined and produces much more amazingness than I ever knew.
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Pork lard is an amazing thing. I use it in my kitchen daily, in one of many ways. The first year we brought pigs home to our little New England farm, I had no idea of the joy their amazing variety of fat would bring me. I was, afterall, just in in for the bacon.
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I don’t buy meat at the grocery store these days. When we brought home our first piglets I had no idea that I would soon be able to say this… or even want to say this. But it turns out pasture-raised pork is some of the most delicious, versatile meat I have ever prepared. I’m
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I have my suitcase open in the bedroom and laundry on the line, packing for Homesteaders of America conference this weekend. (If you catch my presentation on Homeschooling Kids Who Change the World, please say “hi”!) And I have our pork customers’ cut sheets laying out on my desk, finalizing the details for next weekend’s
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Pork chops used to always seem so dry to me. And BBQ pork chops were a once-in-a-while, so-so meal for our family for decades. Until last year. I changed the way I did 2 things and the results? Well let’s just say we have these juicy, tender, delicious pork chops 2-3 times a month. BBQ
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How do you cook a pork steak? What does it taste like? Is it similar to a ham steak? These were all my questions the first year we raised our own pasture-raised pigs. I assumed every cut of meat would taste like ham, which I wasn’t a huge fan of, so honestly I was just
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This is the first of many pastured pork recipes I share to help you cook your way through the pig. Raising pigs has been one of the biggest highlights for our family of this new, homestead way of life. Knowing they had a great life, knowing exactly what they ate and where they lived, and
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