Norman family micro homestead


“Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. As I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.”
For a man to eat something must die, I prefer it to be by my own hand, guaranteeing it had the best life I could give it to only have one bad day

Very impressed with the amount of fat on these rabbits, enough so I’m saving it to render for tallow later


Fresh liver kidneys and heart flash fried in butter garlic and onion with a flower coating for a nice crisp edges. Every meal I make grown from my own property I’m just tickled happy it wasn’t bought from a store, taxed, and no idea the life the animal lived

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Not a fan of kidneys myself but the liver is a delicasy. Looking good!

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I think the kidneys were alright, but anything I find unpalatable just goes in to the grind pile for sausage making

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My Grandmother made the best kidney stew. A lady friend ask her what the secret to good kidneys, my grandmother very quietly said, well you just have to boil the piss out of them. :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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Boned out the front shoulders and the rib cage and took the flanks too and ground them to burger, added 20% beef fat and ended up with just over 9lbs of rabbit burger. Seasoned with thyme, garlic, onion, salt and pepper looks real good

Fried up a test patty


Taste was good, needed a little more garlic and onion, fried up a second tester and it was delicious
Freezer packed a dozen burgers 1/3rd pound each roughly and fried up the extra for lunch

Got my hogs back from the butcher so had plenty of pork fat to use, so that worked out to make the bunny burgers

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Well the Kia in front of me had a rough day, looked like someone spilled a Lego set on the ground but they didn’t want it so I snagged it up


The crane on the dodge comes in handy once again, and special thanks to @SteveUnruh the tire bar for the tire machine he gave me came in handy for hanging it off the crane!

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Back strap cutlets, tenderloins and 8 lbs of grind

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Deer was perfect just lost a small piece of flank meat, aged in the cooler on ice 4 days to tenderizing, about a 2 year old doe. My first try at cases sausages, venison and pork fat from my hogs and bratwurst seasoning

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