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Beer and Brown Sugar Ham Glaze

Written by Michele Lyons on December 20, 2018. Posted in Cooking Tips, Free Range Pasture Fed Pork, Recipes. Leave a Comment

We were lucky enough to have Arum Nixon, Top 5 Contestant from Masterchef 2017 provide us with this great ham glaze recipe. Have a look at his thoughts and the recipe below. You can also watch our You Tube videos on how to make the glaze, how to carve your ham and where our amazing pasture fed pork comes from. I don’t...

Tropical Ham Salad

Written by Michele Lyons on December 20, 2018. Posted in Free Range Pasture Fed Pork, Recipes. Leave a Comment

If you need a different idea for using your ham on Christmas day then you might like to try this beautiful salad. It would also be a great option for using up the leftover ham in the week after Christmas. With all the food we tend to eat around Christmas time, this is a nice light, salad that uses up your leftover...

An Old Habit Re-ignited

Written by Ben Clinch on November 19, 2013. Posted in Farming and Agriculture, Free Range Pasture Fed Pork, Miscellaneous, Newsletter. 1 Comment

I’ve recently taken up an old habit; having steak and eggs for breakfast. Besides the fact that I’m up early and keen to get out the door after a few Weetbix, I’m not sure the smell of steak and eggs is something that my household would enjoy waking up to. I expect that when the young troops arise there...

Thinking time… waiting to land the big one

Written by Ben Clinch on November 11, 2012. Posted in Animal Welfare, Free Range Pasture Fed Pork, Miscellaneous. Leave a Comment

I bought a fishing rod some time ago. It has pride of place in the garage: behind the golf clubs and the market BBQs; it sits next to the ice freezer, on top of the 30 odd bright yellow eskies that we use at the farmers markets; which, in turn sit behind the umbrellas and the six gazebos. You might think we have a big...

Where There’s Smoke There’s Flavour

Written by Ben Clinch on July 14, 2011. Posted in Cooking Tips, Free Range Pasture Fed Pork. Leave a Comment

Smoking is the process of flavouring, cooking, or preserving food by exposing it to the smoke from burning or smouldering wood. Meats and fish are the most common smoked foods, though cheeses, vegetables and ingredients used to make beverages such as whisky, are also smoked. Historically, farms included a small building...