My story…the beginning of this adventure… Oh, what a night! That’s right; the night before I spent the day at Reiff’s Poultry Dressing in Mifflinburg, PA, was spent tossing and turning – I was too excited to sleep! And when Monday, March 21, 2011, finally got here, I was not disappointed with my experience. I […]
UPDATE: We do not operate the MPU any longer. If you want to purchase your own equipment, give us a call. The mobile poultry processing unit (MPU) is rolling and butchering chickens in central, north central, and eastern Pennsylvania. Click on the thumbnails for a larger picture.
My strategy for cooking chicken was born out of an indoctrinated fear of salmonella. It’s taken me an adult lifetime to overcome the tendency to overcook my meat, especially chicken. Free tip – If your chicken lacks juice, it’s overcooked. I’ve started using a meat thermometer to tell when my chicken reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit […]
Now, if this doesn’t make you hungry for chicken, I don’t know will. This recipe also uses honey. Place your chicken order.
When you buy a whole chicken, it’s more economical, but it can be hard to fry a whole chicken. Here’s Gordon Ramsay to show you how to cut up your chicken.
At the Badger compound, our meat chickens are raised outside in the grass under watchful eye of the sun, and while that seems perfectly natural to me (and to the chickens), I encounter plenty of people who are surprised by the idea. The key to pastured-raised chickens is to ensure the flock always has access […]
During World War I, the U.S. government encouraged families to keep back yard flocks for family egg production, as seen in this 1918 poster. Isn’t it time we get back to our 1918 roots?
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As a consumer, what do you expect from your organic eggs or organic chicken? Would you feel betrayed to learn that the commercial organic eggs and chicken are raised in large houses with thousands of other birds, much like the conventional chickens? Would it surprise you to learn that the organic chickens in your grocer’s […]
How far does a four-pound chicken go? For a family of 2-1/2 people, it stretches to four meals. We recently made a chicken for Sunday dinner. Over the next day or two, we made two or three chicken sandwiches for lunch and breakfast – I’ll eat anything at breakfast. From the Sunday dinner, I created […]
Is your chicken healthy? If you’re shopping at the grocery store, the answer is likely, no. Here are some interesting points from the video: Up to 1/3 of the raw chicken sold in the store is injected with salt water and other solutions to “help” the chicken retain it’s moisture. The salt content is equivalent […]