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RE: A NEW LEVEL OF RESPONSIBILITY IN STEWARDSHIP - MY FOOD SUPPLY
I'm glad for you and your family, @papa-pepper! Once you start this direction, there is no going back. It makes your life easier, more secure, more grounded, healthier, tastier, and just plain more interesting!
I would say, though, even though commercially canned food has problems, some kinds of home canned foods are hard to beat, like homegrown tomatoes. When my grandmother was in her 90s, people would ask what she wanted and she would answer "home canned tomatoes" every time. On the other hand, who wants canned string beans or peas, lol. Freezing them is so much better. Where are you storing all your deer meat? Did you buy a big freezer?
Big freezer for now on the deer meat, but we are looking in to making prosciutto and hard salami and things like that, using natural nitrites in celery and arugula and stuff to help preserve it.
Very cool! If there are some first generation older Italians in your area some of them are top notch at that. I used to work for a guy back in Canada who was second generation from Italian parents. His father taught all of his grandkids to make prosciutto and each of the four had a large prosciutto hanging from hooks in his cellar! That's passing on knowledge!
Might have to try it with my next deer, or when we butcher a hog!
Exciting stuff!
That would be pretty neat! Good luck with that!
We will see... didn't get one this morning.