Freemotion's food journal: Expanding the gardens, pics p 53
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freemotion
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Hope you are cooking up a storm again, abi!
We had company for lunch and I served chicken soup made from the recent chicken processing day we had. I have twelve pints of leftover soup, and will give half to the folks so Dad does not have to cook for three meals. Nor do we.
I made it with traditional bone broth and the meat from all the backs from ten chickens, and the meat from the legs and breast of one chicken. I added puree'd hubbard squash from the garden, also from the garden were rosemary, scallions, and parsley. Sea salt that I made. Then added purchased carrots, rutabaga, parsnips, and green beans. And black pepper and garlic. It was/is super yummy and rich. The fat on top was pure yellow! I pulled that off when the broth was chilled, before making the soup, to make biscuits with later.
I made biscuits to go with the soup but used more neutral- tasting lard so we could have biscuits with dessert, too, but changed my dessert plans at the last minute. I was going to make apple-raspberry sauce to serve shortcake-style with biscuits, but a client gave me some lovely Harry & David pears and raw milk blue cheeses that were a holiday gift to her but they wouldn't use. So I made a cheese plate with sliced pears, the blue cheese and some of the goat cheddar that I opened recently. It was a hit, and some people put the cheddar on the biscuits and snarfed them down.
The biscuits were made with soft white wheat flour, lard, baking powder, sea salt, and kefir. I just pat out the dough right on the cookie sheet and cut it after baking with a pizza cutter, easy-peasy and very rustic-looking. So quick, and no wasted or overworked dough scraps.
It was very satisfying, seeing the food disappear at an incredible rate. A couple of friends dropped by when we were on dessert, and I invited them in to try the biscuits and cheese, as we'd talked about it before but they hadn't tried them. Neither really believed that whole wheat baked goods could be yummy. They are new converts! One of the friends is thin and has serious health issues that she does not discuss, even with me (not a close friend, but I like her) and it was interesting to see her drop "politeness" and stay for 20 minutes and eat-eat-eat! I ended up warming up soup for her and gave her a glass of raw goat's milk. She was eating like she'd never seen food before. The body sure knows what it needs when it finally gets it. I sent her home with a bottle of milk and swore her to secrecy. Poor thing, she is starving while surrounded by food lacking nutrients.
We had company for lunch and I served chicken soup made from the recent chicken processing day we had. I have twelve pints of leftover soup, and will give half to the folks so Dad does not have to cook for three meals. Nor do we.
I made it with traditional bone broth and the meat from all the backs from ten chickens, and the meat from the legs and breast of one chicken. I added puree'd hubbard squash from the garden, also from the garden were rosemary, scallions, and parsley. Sea salt that I made. Then added purchased carrots, rutabaga, parsnips, and green beans. And black pepper and garlic. It was/is super yummy and rich. The fat on top was pure yellow! I pulled that off when the broth was chilled, before making the soup, to make biscuits with later.
I made biscuits to go with the soup but used more neutral- tasting lard so we could have biscuits with dessert, too, but changed my dessert plans at the last minute. I was going to make apple-raspberry sauce to serve shortcake-style with biscuits, but a client gave me some lovely Harry & David pears and raw milk blue cheeses that were a holiday gift to her but they wouldn't use. So I made a cheese plate with sliced pears, the blue cheese and some of the goat cheddar that I opened recently. It was a hit, and some people put the cheddar on the biscuits and snarfed them down.
The biscuits were made with soft white wheat flour, lard, baking powder, sea salt, and kefir. I just pat out the dough right on the cookie sheet and cut it after baking with a pizza cutter, easy-peasy and very rustic-looking. So quick, and no wasted or overworked dough scraps.
It was very satisfying, seeing the food disappear at an incredible rate. A couple of friends dropped by when we were on dessert, and I invited them in to try the biscuits and cheese, as we'd talked about it before but they hadn't tried them. Neither really believed that whole wheat baked goods could be yummy. They are new converts! One of the friends is thin and has serious health issues that she does not discuss, even with me (not a close friend, but I like her) and it was interesting to see her drop "politeness" and stay for 20 minutes and eat-eat-eat! I ended up warming up soup for her and gave her a glass of raw goat's milk. She was eating like she'd never seen food before. The body sure knows what it needs when it finally gets it. I sent her home with a bottle of milk and swore her to secrecy. Poor thing, she is starving while surrounded by food lacking nutrients.
FarmerDenise
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The biscuits were made with soft white wheat flour, lard, baking powder, sea salt, and kefir. I just pat out the dough right on the cookie sheet and cut it after baking with a pizza cutter, easy-peasy and very rustic-looking. So quick, and no wasted or overworked dough scraps.
I love this idea. I think I'll do that for DD's babyshower. I plan on it being like an afternoon tea party and want to serve mostly good homemade, homegrown food. I'll have to buy the cheeses and other stuff, but I still will try to stick to my dietary ideals as close as possible. Maybe I'll get some new customers out of this
I love this idea. I think I'll do that for DD's babyshower. I plan on it being like an afternoon tea party and want to serve mostly good homemade, homegrown food. I'll have to buy the cheeses and other stuff, but I still will try to stick to my dietary ideals as close as possible. Maybe I'll get some new customers out of this
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I have found this to be the best way to change a persons heart when it comes to real "scary" food.FarmerDenise said:The biscuits were made with soft white wheat flour, lard, baking powder, sea salt, and kefir. I just pat out the dough right on the cookie sheet and cut it after baking with a pizza cutter, easy-peasy and very rustic-looking. So quick, and no wasted or overworked dough scraps.
I love this idea. I think I'll do that for DD's babyshower. I plan on it being like an afternoon tea party and want to serve mostly good homemade, homegrown food. I'll have to buy the cheeses and other stuff, but I still will try to stick to my dietary ideals as close as possible. Maybe I'll get some new customers out of this
Don't say much, invite them to dinner and then the floodgates open up.
abifae
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planning menu for NEXT week nowfreemotion said:
No more food bought til Jan 7 when I get paid but I'm plotting I love watching people eat my good food too
"How does it TASTE so good?!?"
Fat. Yummy wonderful fats.
And then watch the diet fiends quietly slip away LOL!!!
I cook a combination of MY foods and foods I know others will eat. My nieces just love my foods, no issue. Their dad is a very picky eater. If it's not crap he turns up his nose. So I cook his stuff separately. If they come to eat, I make sure they will eat. But I try to corrupt them all to my ways. bwahahahaha!!!
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Well, you are nicer than I am! I have recently decided that when I invite someone, I cook what I want for leftovers, and they can practice their manners and take small portions!!! Hee-hee! I don't cook anything too strange, though, and I don't waste my pasture-raised stuff on people who don't truly deserve it.
abifae
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*laughing*
Depends on who it is.
If I'm inviting a PERSON over, I cook for them. If I'm having people over FOR A MEAL, I cook what I want.
For the BIL.... I'm more interested in getting him over and enticing his kids with real food. I'll feed him junk so he stops by and lets me corrupt the kids.
Depends on who it is.
If I'm inviting a PERSON over, I cook for them. If I'm having people over FOR A MEAL, I cook what I want.
For the BIL.... I'm more interested in getting him over and enticing his kids with real food. I'll feed him junk so he stops by and lets me corrupt the kids.
dragonlaurel
Improvising a more SS life
" I cook a combination of MY foods and foods I know others will eat. My nieces just love my foods, no issue. Their dad is a very picky eater. If it's not crap he turns up his nose. So I cook his stuff separately. If they come to eat, I make sure they will eat. But I try to corrupt them all to my ways. bwahahahaha!!! "
You might get him to be more open minded if you don't mention that it's healthy, since he doesn't care about that. Play dirty and use a trick that fast food restaurants use. The smell of sauteed onions makes most people hungry
and they make sure that scent blows out to potential customers. If you could have that scent in the air when they arrive- he will be reminded of stuff he is used to and be too hungry to ask questions.
You could try telling him
" it's nice having somebody over that isn't worried about low fat and diet everything. People worry too much about that stuff. " He'll just leave thinking you're a great cook.
You might get him to be more open minded if you don't mention that it's healthy, since he doesn't care about that. Play dirty and use a trick that fast food restaurants use. The smell of sauteed onions makes most people hungry
and they make sure that scent blows out to potential customers. If you could have that scent in the air when they arrive- he will be reminded of stuff he is used to and be too hungry to ask questions. You could try telling him
" it's nice having somebody over that isn't worried about low fat and diet everything. People worry too much about that stuff. " He'll just leave thinking you're a great cook.
abifae
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Oh. No. You don't know my BIL. LOL!!!
I don't even know words to explain.
Let's see.... when given the option between a homemade potroast and microwave taquitos... even with amazing cooking he tends to prefer taquitos. LOL!!!
I don't even know words to explain.
Let's see.... when given the option between a homemade potroast and microwave taquitos... even with amazing cooking he tends to prefer taquitos. LOL!!!
