The Backyard Pioneer

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Cooking guide for free range meat

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Cooking guide for free range meat Shoppers are quickly moving towards free range meat for their meat choice. After reading so many articles about the tactics used by the big chain supermarkets to keep their meat looking fresh and ripe and about the additives applied to them, they are heading to their local free range […]

Super Storm Sandy-12 Days Without Power: What Worked and What Didn’t

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Please Consider “Liking” The Backyard Pioneer on Facebook to keep up with all our happenings. . .   With Hurricane Season once more upon us I think it is a good idea to revisit some common sense preparedness, and with the example of Hurricane Sandy fresh in our memories motivation shouldn’t be to hard to […]

Grilled Marinated Venison Backstrap

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Marinated Venison Backstrap Venison Backstraps are the Filet Mignon of a Deer and one of the best ways to have them is marinated and grilled. For all those people who might turn their nose up at a piece of venison, the backstrap is the perfect gateway sampling. Venison Backstrap is high in protein, low in […]

Dutch Oven Biscuits

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 Dutch Oven Biscuits Nothing is better a camp than Dutch Oven Biscuits! Whether you slather them in butter and jam, cover them in gravy, or have your eggs and bacon on them fresh hot biscuits just make a day at camp that much better. When I’m camping or visiting the lake I’ll admit to cheating […]