Rotisserie Chicken

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July 25, 2021

Our journey to produce healthy pasture based proteins has been exciting thus far. We started with chickens and successfully raised very large birds. We enjoy cooking them in various ways: instapot, smoker, or Traeger being the most common. We bought an air fryer that also does rotisserie and since we have a freezer full of Carver Family Farms Chicken it was easy to attempt. However, we learned immediately upon prepping the chicken and putting it in the rotisserie that our chickens are too large for the rotisserie. We needed the small "grocery store" sized birds. Since I am unwilling to go backwards with our eating, I decided to raise some slightly smaller birds. These are now available through our online store HERE. For the rotisserie to work you need a smaller bird (from our standards) which would be something near 4lbs. You also need kitchen twine to tie the bird tightly. https://amzn.to/3kTWb0r

Our results have been amazing! You wont go back to the mediocre store rotisserie birds. You will have all the delicious advantages of a rotisserie bird but also know the quality and freshness of the product you are eating. You will also get to choose your seasonings and not be at the mercy of your grocery store choosing lemon pepper or BBQ on this particular day.

I have included an amazon link below to the air fryer rotisserie that we use (ours was purchased at QVC). We use air fryers often. We have and recommend the basket style as well as this style that has racks instead of a basket and can be used as a rotisserie.

https://amzn.to/3eOKQuz

We are also going to try a larger air fryer. That link is also included below. We will update on the progress.

https://amzn.to/3i1YQn5

Contact us to get a freezer full of chicken and start cooking. We have experimented with seasonings and cooking methods and love to talk about delicious chicken.

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Snow!

I love living and farming in Virginia! We like to call our home county "God's Country." After growing up in Florida, I truly appreciate living somewhere that experiences all four seasons. Snow is beautiful and I enjoy exactly one snow per winter. We have now exceeded that and personally I am ready to move on to Spring. This winter has already thrown significantly more challenges at us than all of last winter combined.The Snow is beautiful! It makes for fun pictures and we did enjoy some sledding this year. Snow is a good example of why we do not raise our pastured chickens in the winter. We choose not to fight nature. If we had birds on pasture during the two recent snow storms, we would've either had to raise them indoors (no longer pastured) or we would've experienced catastrophic losses and difficult/dangerous farm chores on the iced over snow. We will start back with our meat chickens in early Spring.Even though our poultry is seasonal, our pigs are a year round enterprise. We have pigs during the winter and they thrive! The snow does not phase them in the slightest. They love the hay that we supply for them to bed down in. They stay warm as they bed in "pig piles" covered in hay. They have a shelter but it is more for our peace of mind than the pigs. As long as they have sufficient access to hay they can handle any winter weather that Virginia can throw at them. The frozen ground is problematic for some of our infrastructure projects but we do them as the weather allows and are constantly learning and improving.This time of year is a great time to focus on healthy eating and cooking new things. We eat pork or chicken from the farm nearly every day. We make bone broth year round but we seem to go through it more rapidly in the winter as we make soups and chilis. I also drink a mug of hot bone broth every day. In the near future, we will write more about our weekly menu and showcase how we eat almost all protein from Carver Family Farms.In the future we will have cattle and sheep as additional year round enterprises. We are excited to learn and grow! I hope you will join us on this journey of healthy land, healthy animals, and healthy people.

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