Joe has never been much of a cook. His specialties include eggs, grilled cheese and frozen pizza.
So you can imagine my surprise when his mom told me that before I knew Joe, he had called her asking for a recipe.
He was having some friends over and wanted to make them one of his childhood favorites….Bacon Pie.
It’s the perfect blend of bacon, swiss cheese & onion in a quiche-like dish that makes it’s own crust.
I’m excited to share the recipe with you with a few tweaks!
I’ve been tweaking my sausage ball recipe for a while now and have made these for parties, appetizer night, girls get-togethers and most recently to freeze for and easy breakfast side once baby girl is here.
The key for me is getting your sausage to room temperature first and using melted butter. It makes the balls come together a lot easier!
I’m sure like me, you’ve had your fair share of frustration with ribs. They’re either not tender enough that you have to work to eat them or the recipe is super complicated. I have been attempting pork ribs recipes since we started raising our own pork back in 2020 and had yet to find a way to prepare them that I truly enjoyed. That is, until I finally stumbled across this method and made it my own. This recipe is SUPER simple. You just need a crockpot and an oven. Plus, the prep is minimal!
I had never been a huge biscuit person until recently. These are melt-in-your-mouth, flaky, buttery, savory and pure deliciousness. They are amazing with apple butter, jam, sausage patties, or for an epic breakfast sandwich. They come together quickly and are simple to make. Enjoy!
Now that we are a couple weeks into fall, I’m getting excited for all the soups and broths. Soups are cozy, easy to make, and usually utilize the more inexpensive cuts like chicken broth bones, pork neck bones, or like in this recipe, ham hocks. The hock is basically the very bottom of the leg bone where the foot attaches to the leg. It’s a lot of skin and fat with a bit of meat so many butchers have these smoked & cured to add flavor and a bit of meat to beans, broths and soups.
Now that summer is here, so many veggies are in season! One of my favorites is green beans and whenever I picture green beans in a meal, I always think of bacon. Bacon just always takes things to the next level, am I right?!
You know what I’m talking about….the pork chop you have to slather gravy over or need to chew for minutes before swallowing. I grew up thinking pork chops were tasteless, tough and dry. I honestly wasn’t that excited to try ours when we harvested our first pork, because I was expecting the same thing.
I gotta admit, there were a lot of pork cuts I was unfamiliar with or unsure how to prepare. However, we are really finding value in making sure nothing goes to waste and learning how to use the whole animal, organ meat and all. Not only is purchasing pork in bulk cost effective, it’s also reassuring to know that you’ve got a stocked freezer that you can shop out of weekly. Plus, you know how the animal is raised and you have that connection to your farmer & your food.
One of our favorite pork products is our sausage. It’s so versatile and I love how you can use the various flavors of our sausages to spice up lots of meals in a unique way. I wanted to take some time to walk through each sausage type that we currently offer along with some fun meal ideas for each and hopefully inspire some excitement in you to go whip up some yummy food!