Xmas 2015 Newsletter! More Christmas Gift Ideas!

Wild Pak – 8 Piece Game Processing Kit

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Posted by Amanda on 10th Nov 2015

I bought the processing kit for my husband for our anniversary and it was packaged and mailed so quickly I was Amazed! the kit itself is great quality, my husband loves it!

XMAS GIFT IDEAS
Need some ideas on what to get for your loved ones this Christmas? Don’t worry we have you covered…

 Jerky Variety Packs 
An all time Smoked and Cured favourite! It’s hard to go past the Hi Mountain Jerky Variety packs #1 & #2 to give as a gift to any Jerky lover. Each box is only $29.99, contains 5 distinctly different flavours and allows you to make up to 10kg of Jerky in your oven, dehydrator or smoker. You might even get to eat some of the Jerky that’s made by whoever you gave this as a present to – it really is the gift that keeps on giving 😉 Click on each box to see what flavours they come with!

 Stainless Steel Smoking Wedgie 
The wedgie is back, and this time in Stainless Steel! With it’s triangular shape it can be easily wedged into any standard 4 burner BBQ to create a lot of smoke while you’re cooking a roast or even grilling chops and snags. Using wood pellets as its fuel, it produces heavy smoke for a few hours and can be used to provide additional smoke in a pellet grill, Weber, or standard barbie. It can also be used to provide cold smoke if you are into smoking cheese or fish. Only $55.00 – click on the photos to go to the product page!

 Porkert 3lb Sausage Stuffer 
What about a gift for someone who might be interested in making their own sausages at home? This Porkert sausage filler is perfect for the job. Its hot tin coated cast iron body means it’s strong and easy to clean. The Porkert stuffer comes with 3 different sized stainless steel stuffing funnels so you can make anything from twiggy sticks to a butcher’s sausage. New in store and only $129.99 – Click the photo for more information!

 Camerons Deluxe Beer Can Chicken Roaster 
This product doesn’t need much explanation, and it’s been getting rave reviews in the States! You simply pour in beer, cider, juice or whatever concoction you come up with into the stainless steel cylinder and sit your chicken on top! Also comes with veggie spikes on the side and a tray to roast potatoes and collect gravy. Can be used in the barbie, Weber or oven, and you can guarantee your chicken will be nice and crispy on the outside, and tender and juicy on the inside. At $49.99 it makes the perfect Christmas gift – Click on the photos for more info!

RECIPE CORNER

Christmas Hams
Many of you will be curing your own hams for Christmas this year, and as you know we sell curing salt #1 6.25% for those who prefer to make their own cure. We also sell a Maple Ham Cure for those of you who want a premixed cure where all you have to do is add water and meat. Click on the link to read the instructions of how to cure your own ham, it’s much easier than you think! You may also find this stainless steel meat injector very helpful for injecting brine into your ham to help cure it (no need for an expensive brine pump).

Whether you smoke and cure your own ham or purchase an already cooked ham to re-smoke, you’ll most likely be dressing it up festive style with a warm Christmas glaze. Here’s an awesome glaze recipe we’d like to share with you, thanks to some good friends of ours. It’s so tasty you’ll want to host a Christmas in July party next year just so you don’t have to wait a whole year before having it again!!

Preparation time: 45 min
Cooking time: 90 min
Servings: 20

Ingredients:  
4.5kg cured ham
1 + 1/3 cup of brown sugar
1 juice of an orange – enough to make a paste
1 whole orange zest
2 tsp of Keen’s mustard powder
1 tablespoon of cloves
20 maraschino cherries (optional)

Method:
1) In a medium saucepan heat brown sugar, orange juice, zest, a tbsp of cloves and the mustard powder. Allow to simmer until thick and syrupy.

2) Peel the skin off the ham being careful to leave as much fat on the ham as possible. Score the fat in a diamond criss-cross pattern (about an inch distance between each score). Cut maraschino cherries in half and pierce through with a long stemmed clove into each node in the criss-cross pattern.

3) Preheat oven or smoker to 175°C, glaze the ham and begin cooking. Baste every 20-30 min. Cook for 90 min in total. Enjoy!