Food & Recipe Videos

This video about how to make tomato and cheese open melts is mainly targeted at university students who have left home for the first time and had mummy cook and clean for them right up until they left. The degree of difficulty in making this recipe is rated slightly above making a standard cheese and

We grow, process, and cook our own quail here at Self Sufficient Me and this video demonstrates how to make our special favourite way of cooking quail piri piri style. The BBQ unit used is a Weber Q 220 but honestly any barby with an enclosed lid can do the job and cook quail this

Edited on 2nd Aug 2022: I still use my trusty old Excalibur Dehydrator to make biltong, but I have changed the technique – see here in this post: https://selfsufficientme.com/how-to-make-biltong-using-an-excalibur-dehydrator/ Making biltong in a dehydrator, as this video demonstrates, is not at all a conventional way to make this South African dried meat treat. However, as

This beef jerky recipe is a cross between the South African Biltong and North American beef jerky both of which are great tasting snack foods. The idea to cross jerky with biltong came about through wanting a taste of biltong with the practical way of making jerky and the end product works perfectly! Biltong beef

This video simply shows how to grill home-grown capsicums and remove the skin using a sweating bag technique to make them taste great in a warm grilled capsicum salad. Several different types of home-grown capsicums are used.

Instead of a typical BBQ why not have a Wok-A-Q?! I must admit this video production could have been better – oh well… it's on YouTube now 🙂 But if you forgive the shaky presentation skills and think about the message, which is wok burners are awesome, then you'll begin to consider your own possible

How to make ginger beer… the easy way? That's right, here's a cheap, simple, and cheats way to make ginger beer without all the bottles, cleaning, storage, and worries about things exploding in the cupboard! Basically, the video shows how to turn fresh ginger grown in the backyard into ginger beer to be consumed as

Want a great twist on the standard beef jerky recipes then see this video on how to make beef jerky Thai style! The flavours are typically Thai and most of the ingredients (as shown) are easily grown in the backyard. To buy beef jerky retail is extremely expensive but you can make beef jerky at

The best macadamia nut cracker in the world is not an exaggeration and this video show exactly why I rate this invention highly! There are many different types of macadamia nut crackers on the market but apart from a commercial operation or machine most crackers are difficult to use, slow to operate, and far from