Recipes & Cooking Tips

Here's a great way to use up that extra bacon fat leftover in the pan and make sure that you know where the eggs in your mayo are coming from. We highly recommend using a food processor or a hand blender as it can be tricky to get the right consistency hand whisking.  Ingredients: 2 pasture-raised egg yolks 1 tsp mustard (optional) 3 tsp lemon juice 1 cup melted bacon fat Directions Mix yolks, mustard and 1 tsp lemon juice. Start whisking vigorously if you are super hard core or use your blender or food processor on low while dripping the...

Juicy. Meaty. Succulent. Saucy. Delicious. Just a few of everyone's favourite descriptors for ribs. I was lucky enough to enjoy some of my dad's ribs the other night, for the first time in over 20 years, and let me tell you, they were worth the wait. Finding properly raised pork so you can enjoy ribs without the guilt is easy working for Urban Digs, but knowing how to cook ribs properly needed a little more research. So I went straight to the source, my dad, to find out how to make his famous ribs, and now I'm passing the secret on to you. 

The ultimate in comfort food! We've started cutting stewing pork so come on down to the shop, buy a Pork Beasty Box or come see us at the farmers market to pick some up & make this mouth-watering & oh so satisfying dish: Ingredients 2 sticks of celery 2 medium onions 2 carrots olive oil 3 fresh or dried bay leaves 500 g quality diced stewing pork 500 ml dark lager, ale or stout (We recommend Persephone Brewing's Black Lager) 1 heaped tablespoon plain flour 1x 400 g plum tomatoes Directions: If using the oven to cook the stew, preheat...

Beer is excellent for braising meats, acting as both a liquid for the braising and as a flavour ingredient in the finished dish. In this recipe, I’ve combined the maple flavours of Cannery Brewing’s Maple Stout beer with Urban Digs Farms Maple Breakfast Heritage Pork Sausages for a perfect sweet and savoury duo. This is a simple, yet effective way to cook sausages and almost any type of beer will work well to add new or complementary flavours to your sausages. Recipe (Total time 30 min. 5 min prep, 25 minutes cooking time): 1 Package of Urban Digs Maple Breakfast...

Read the ingredients on a package of store bought tortillas and you'll never want to eat them again. Thankfully, homemade tortillas are easy and taste SO much better! They are also a great way to make a small amount of really good meat go a long way. Try them with pulled pork, or thinly sliced beef or chicken ... Fill with beans, some nice local grains like farrow and seasonal veggies for an affordable, delicious, healthy meal. the possibilities are endless! Dust off your cast iron pan and try this easy recipe: Ingredients 2c white flour 2c whole wheat flour 1tsp salt...