Self Reliance Food | Moroccan Goat | Cast Iron Cooking

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My food philosophy includes eating foods that can be foraged, hunted, caught or grown locally in accordance with the seasons, climate, geography and sustainability. I cook a spicy, Moroccan goat simmered in a cast iron pot on the woodstove in the log cabin and pair it with sweet potato and a mixture of wild rice and long grain brown rice.

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all right so it's shortly after noon and I believe and I just put that started dinner what it is is gold I'm just checking the time here that's 12:30 yeah I know it's frustrating maybe watching me cook a lot of the times because it's hard to tell exactly what I'm doing or what I'm putting into a dish what I'm making it all this is goat and making basically like a Moroccan goat although what you probably have figured out by now is that I don't follow recipes and not you know honoring or sticking to authentic culture of any kind I'm inspired by other cultures and their foods and like to incorporate that into my diet as much variety as possible but I don't fully research and do exactly what what traditional recipes call for but also I don't have the ingredients typically so what I'm doing here is something that I do really like I love that the flavor of garam masala cumin and coriander and all those real intense spices and I also like goat now gold is one of those meats that's actually makes sense for a lot of people it's fairly sustainable in other words because goats can forage in places that other animals can't live and in fact in places that you can't even grow vegetables so it's quite sustainable it's a great way of converting the sun's energy into plants and then into meat that we can get calories from because like I said nothing else can typically they can survive where other animals can't and where other palatable plants can't let's put it that way or they can convert plants that we would have a hard time converting into useful calories they have a better they can convert those now that Center and energy from those plants into meat that in organs and things that we can then benefit from so there's a lot of cultures that live very hetero rely very heavily on goats for milk and and then cheese I think any kind of dairy products but also meat or meat products because like I said it's sustainable now I have a few friends that grow

goats on the sort of the fringes of their firms the areas that are not very productive not good at growing hay for their cattle or sheep or or for growing vegetables they'll have goats just kind of wander around and eat the weeds that everything else is leaving so I like it it's not for everybody you don't know a lot of people here in Canada in particular it's not a meal it's actually not a meat that's on our typical meal plan it's not something that we typically eat I mean lots of people do of course but it's not what I would say is in the normal course of of Canadians diet like I said it's kind of moroccan-inspired what I'm doing sometimes I'll put dates in there if I have dates

I do like something sweet to go into that dish although my palate is not doesn't I don't crave sweets I don't crave sugar so I tend to like more savory dishes and I like onion and garlic so you'll see me put that and just about everything so that's the reason typically also that I don't share my recipes with you is because I don't even have a recipe I'm literally finding what I have in the kitchen I know at this point my life what flavors I like and how to combine those I'll throw those into a pod or pan or whatever I'm cooking in and the longer the better to incorporate those flavors and usually turns out pretty good and usually people that I cook for like my family like it as well so it I think it's flavorful enough that it's not just suited to my palate that most people would like it just answer couple other questions about my diet as far as the meat that I eat up here I know it's uncomfortable for a lot of people hunting is uncomfortable and harvesting of have animals for food I know there's a lot of vegans and vegetarians have watched this channel most of them don't most of you don't have a an issue with me eating what I eat here because it's local it's sustainable it's

from the land I think that's a good thing to keep in mind I think telling somebody like me up here in the Canadian wilderness that I shouldn't he Bears like me telling somebody who lives in the Caribbean on an island not to eat fish or somebody who lives in the Panhandle not to eat shrimp and and rice and anything else that can grow in like an estuary you know the into it not don't eat seal or walrus or whale like it's all regional it what's most sustainable for you in your region his local food that wouldn't be wise for somebody else I wouldn't encourage somebody in Southern California to eat bear when most of our vegetables and fruits that are actually shipped up here are actually grown there so it wouldn't encourage you to go and harvest bear to eat because that's not local that's not sustainable so that's my food philosophy that's what I believe I you know I have no problem with vegetarianism or veganism I support that I think it's great if you can do that and you're in a region that is sustainable but if you live in a northern climate and you're you know eating any kind of soybean product for example that's being clear-cut in Brazil that they're clear-cutting forests in Brazil to plant and grow and then ship up here that's not sustainable at all that that's actually far worse than eating a local diet of harvested game or fish and we do have an abundance of fishing game here our populations are very heavily managed very well managed in my opinion although that's open for argument but I think we're our game managers do the best that they can to understand the populations and then structure hunting seasons and limits accordingly so like I said that's my food philosophy and I think in my opinion it's a good one and it's not for everyone I absolutely know that and I would not encourage everybody seven billion people to go out and start hunting and living off the land it's just not sustainable we need this industrial commercial agricultural system to feed the population at the level that we're at and for a lot of people that does mean more vegetables are almost all vegetables or completely vegetable now based diet

and I support that Kelly what are you doing it's not for you [Music]

it's only 6:00 6:30 but Kelly's head would like the light she has a gift here from somebody and see what we got in the mail that I want to give to her oh wait till she wakes up on her own which I'm sure she'll do once I stir diva dinner she's already eaten twice today I don't know she's made it need something else again

and I am like I said earlier not laziness stopping me from making man bread but I keep forgetting to keep back some sourdough starter or starting some starter for something like sourdough bread or biscuits for pizza dough and and nan bread in that case but I need to eat this up anyway three or four days old so oh just have that with this stew or the lamb and the rice I think what I'll do is toast these ended up adding one sweet potato just to give it a little bit of sweetness a little bit more just to help thicken it up - it was a sweet potato I've had down in the cold storage in the floor for I don't know like two months I don't think I left it too much longer I was going to be eating it at all so make some use of it this is rice prices are you all ready - so I think Oh cut some bread off and then eat what do you think anyway you want open your gift toy here for you [Music]

Kelly this is our favorite toy to play with we hope you enjoy yours this is much Callie from your fur friends watercolors fuller paws official or underscore pause underscore fishing just for you character you like about these things

no I'm not calling oh you want to take that

staying or coming so much flavor in there if you haven't tried goat and you're going to ask me what it tastes like I didn't have a hard time telling you because I guess if you're if you've eaten lamb I don't think it I wouldn't say a taste like lamb but I'd say it has the same intensity of flavor which can be I think puts a lot of people off if you're not used to eating sort of stronger tasting or stronger smelling uh meats lamb goat and wild some wild game it has that flavor that fear you see just eating mainly beef and chicken then you might find this herd to adjust to it first it's hard to explain but I'm sure if you like if you live in a culture where this is a common thing you probably find other meats like beef may be bland and when you add all these spices I mean there's just so much flavor this place smells amazing right now the old cabin smells like I don't know Moroccan restaurant I said I really like it but I do like stronger meats so I can't say for sure if most people would like this or not just to tell you the ingredients quickly in case I forget like you normally do to rate the recipe or write the ingredients in on the screen as I'm adding them to the dish start off with a cubed goat meat put that into the pot with some butter Kelly's trying to trade me her toy for some of this um simmered that on the stove for ended up being for like two hours because I was working on like sauna and then what else did I put in there at that time I put the onions the garlic cumin coriander salt pepper cloves

I think that's it simmered that for a couple of hours and then I when I came back here and I added diced tomatoes and a ton of garam masala it might be it now to go in red pepper the dried red peppers put two whole peppers in and then near the end I added the sweet dough when I put a little bit of maple syrup in just because I have quite a bit of maple syrup from last spring making it and they don't make a lot of sweet dishes so I tend to add it a little bit to a bunch of different random things like meats and chili and stuff like that so that was this gives this a little bit of sweetness and I just poured it over wild rice and and long grain brown rice [Music]

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