Tag: homemade
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How to Convert a Refrigerator for Curing Meat or Aging Cheese
WARNING: Working with electricity is dangerous. This article will teach you several ways to convert a refrigerator into a chamber for curing meat or for aging cheese. (The same principles can be used to convert a refrigerator into a lagering chamber for making homebrew lager beer, or converting a chest freezer into a kegerator.) If…
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Curing Wild Boar
My wonderful neighbor Ron surprised me a few days ago with some cuts from a few wild boar he shot on a recent hunting trip. I took that as my excuse to get set up for home-curing…something I’ve been researching for a VERY long time. Curing meat through the application of salt, occasionally smoke, and…
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Scotch Eggs
I had never heard of a Scotch Egg until I watched MasterChef season 1 and Ramsay was bemoaning the lack of a Scotch Egg appearing in an egg challenge. When I heard what it was…a boiled egg wrapped in sausage, breaded, and deep fried…I was bound and determined to offer up a Scotch Egg to…
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Candied Ginger
Every tried to buy candied or crystallized ginger in the spice rack at the grocery store? It is ridiculously overpriced…a single small bottle can cost upwards of $10, which is silly because you can make your own for about $10 a POUND. To get started, you’ll need: 1 pound of fresh ginger root To make…
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Fresh Pumpkin Pie (NO cans!)
So everyone’s got a recipe for pumpkin pie, and here’s the best one. (An instructional video for this recipe is located at the bottom.) Of course, the best one involves nothing from a can, which means WORK. I’ll throw you some shortcuts the deeper we get into the recipe, but if you want to make…