Freemotion's food journal: Expanding the gardens, pics p 53

[CrownofThorns]

You use soft white wheat berries too! I was SO happy when I found out the differences between soft and hard wheat, and red and white wheat. Now I can really enjoy baking again! Have you found that you have to add one more cup of flour for every 2 cups when using the soft white wheat? I usually have to. Soft white wheat makes the BEST biscuits ever!

 

[freemotion]

You do? I barely measure, so.....hmmm. Hadn't noticed that. I'm sure my measurements aren't 50% off so I seem to be doing fine without increasing the flour that much.

But I have found that certain recipes work better with whole wheat than others. I'll probably not try to make an angel food cake!

 

[CrownofThorns]

I know! I miss nasty-store-bought-flour's ability to make excellent croissants and pizza crusts...

 

[big brown horse]

Mmm! That pork recipe sounds fantastic!

I found brisket up here and bought some to make corned beef. Instead it is in the crock pot with alder wood smoked sea salt, oregano, garlic, cumin etc. and some homemade bbq sauce. (I love corned beef, but found out that nobody else does.)

 

[freemotion]

They may like homemade, who knows? I gotta try making some...

Tonight, dh cooked some carrots and rutabaga mashed together with butter, and some spinach. I made a quick gravy with chicken fat and flour to make a roux, then added garlic and onion powders, concentrated chicken broth (made catfood and put the bones from 60 lbs of leg quarters in my 5 gallon stock pot yesterday....boiled for about 24 hours) and then some salt and pepper. Then I shredded some pork roast and added it, and had it over the biscuits that fell apart. There are enough biscuits and pork and gravy left for lunch tomorrow. I could eat it all week!

 

[big brown horse]

Those biscuits sound divine! So does everything else! YUM!!

 

[freemotion]

I was naughty tonight and had a very carb-laden meal. It was cold, windy, and there was ice on the buckets again. So I had no carbs all day and saved it up for supper.

I got the filter lid and bucket for my All-Grain mill and made a bunch of soft white wheat flour and some hard white wheat flour. It was fantastic! I could grind right in my kitchen and not a speck of flour was in the air. Easy as pie. Speaking of pie....gotta make some pie crust mixes to put in the freezer to save time later. And some bread dough for pizza nights.

For supper I made homemade noodles and, inspired by a recent meal described by OFG, I tossed the hot noodles with three beaten eggs, allowing the hot noodles to cook the eggs. Then I sprinkled it with about half a pound of our bacon cooked crisp and crumbled, and some grated feta from last season that was in the freezer. We had lots of spinach as our veggies (too tired to do carrots or rutabagas, too, but I thought about it! ) and I seasoned the greens with some of the fresh bacon grease and sea salt.

Holy Hog, it was good!

 

[abifae]

That sounds nom.

I did my Vietnamese cabbage rolls.

Marinated steak in chili garlic sauce and shoyu and vinegar and then slow cooked it til it fell apart.

Then I took fermented ginger-carrots and dumped them into a bowl with thin sliced cukes and fresh mint leaves.

Then I made my garlic peanut sauce .

Layered on cabbage leaves.

Nom.

 

[freemotion]

Yummy!!!! Love the looks of that sauce, and what an interesting way to eat the ginger carrots!

 

[abifae]

Yeh. It is pretty amazingly good LOL.

My bit of allergies has been cooked away and I'm feeling less foozy headed.