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Recipe: Vietnamese Lemongrass Slow Roasted Pork Shoulder

Written by Alison Clinch on May 1, 2017. Posted in Free Range Pasture Fed Pork, Recipes. Leave a Comment

Ingredients: 1.5kg pasture fed bone-in half pork shoulder 140g salt, plus extra 140g brown sugar 2 brown onions, sliced into thick rounds 250ml coconut water 50ml rice wine vinegar Lemongrass Paste: Make a double batch of this paste and freeze for next time. 5 lemongrass stalks, white part only, finely sliced 4 eschalots,...

Recipe: Lemongrass and Ginger Pork Stir Fry

Written by Alison Clinch on March 18, 2017. Posted in Free Range Pasture Fed Pork, Recipes. Leave a Comment

Ingredients: 1 pasture fed pork fillet, diced 1 lemongrass stalk, white part, finely chopped 4 cm piece ginger, grated 1 shallot, finely chopped oil for cooking 1/2 packet rice noodles 1 tin baby corn 100g snow peas 100g broccoli (use stalks and florets) 1/2 packet bean sprouts zest and juice of 1 lime 1 tsp sesame...

Recipe: Asian Sticky Pork Salad

Written by Alison Clinch on December 6, 2016. Posted in Free Range Pasture Fed Pork, Recipes. Leave a Comment

Ingredients 500 g Free Range Pork Medallions 1 cup green salad 1/2 cup cherry tomato 1 carrot thinly sliced 1 cucumber diced 1/2 cup snow peas 1/2 cup asparagus 1 cup crunchy noodles *to serve 1 capsicum sliced Sauce 1/3 cup plum sauce 2 tsp sweet chilli sauce 1 tbs soy sauce 2 tbs honey 1/2 tsp crushed garlic 1/2...

My Best Ever Pitch

Written by Ben Clinch on November 19, 2015. Posted in Free Range Pasture Fed Pork, Miscellaneous, Newsletter. Leave a Comment

Long-time readers would be aware that a butcher’s November newsletter is prime time for Christmas Ham talk. You know the lines… ‘Nearly Sold Out’, ‘Last Chance’, ‘Early Bird Catches the Worm’, blah, blah, blah. Well this newsletter won’t be like that…until towards the end. Which is soon, because this is a short newsletter,...

Cooking Tips: Slow Cooked Roast Pork Shoulder

Written by Alison Clinch on August 27, 2015. Posted in Cooking Tips, Free Range Pasture Fed Pork, Recipes. Leave a Comment

Choose a piece of Pork with a generous covering of fat and rind. Remove Pork from Cryovac packaging (taking note of the weight of the roast) the day/night before you intend to cook it. Pat dry with paper towel to absorb any moisture on the rind. Wrap in a tea towel (or more clean paper towel) and leave in the fridge. Remove...

How to Choose Ethical, Sustainable and Traceable Food this Christmas

Written by Ben Clinch on December 11, 2013. Posted in Animal Welfare, Farming and Agriculture, Free Range Pasture Fed Pork. 1 Comment

One of the loveliest things about Christmas is getting together with family and friends and enjoying beautiful food. Given our climate in December there’s an increasing trend towards cold dishes like ham and seafood, rather than the traditional roast*. What’s also changing is consumer awareness around food production....

What Does Free Range Mean to You?

Written by Ben Clinch on September 13, 2011. Posted in Animal Welfare, Farming and Agriculture, Free Range Pasture Fed Pork, Free Range Poultry, Grass Fed Meat. Leave a Comment

There has been some talk in the media and at the markets recently about Free Range and exactly how ‘free’ is the ‘range’. When we first started the business and we were thinking of a name, we sent out a sample of our top five names to family and friends. The Free Range Butcher was not among them....