Home made hamburger patties with breadcrumbs, onions and lots of garlic, salt & pepper; cheese; tomatoes and cukes, home made relish & ketchup, and home made buns
fried sweet potatoes, (melt butter in cast iron skillet, slice sweet potato into 1/4" rounds, cover the skillet on med-low heat until sweets are soft, then take cover off and turn up heat to lightly brown-sprinkle with a little sugar. Super yummy and SOOOO easy!
stir fried fresh green beans in bacon grease, crumbled up bacon added back in to beans
potato soup, small bowl
salad made of cut up tomato, sliced bananna pepper, chopped sweet onion, and avacado. Then splashed with baslamic vinegar.
We had one of our all time favorite comfort foods. Cornish Pasties. I like the traditional style but really anything goes, I have had them with rabbit as well and that is super tasty too! I added the dough recipe, but really any pie crust recipe will work and if you want to make things easy you can substitute it with a store bought western family pie crust. Not as good but will work in a pinch.
Filling:
1 pound round or flank steak (or pork)
3 medium potatoes, peeled
1 small onion, peeled
1 turnip, peeled
salt and pepper to taste
1 beef bouillon cube
garlic powder
Trim steak of all fat and cut into bite sized cubes. Dice all vegetables into uniform cubes.
Use about 2 cups meat and 2 cups potato to 1 cup each of onion and turnip
Mix steak, vegetables and seasonings well
Dough:
3 cups flour
1 cup Crisco
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup ice water
additional butter
Combine flour, Crisco, butter, salt and ice water, working together.
Roll out dough for 6 5-6 inch pasties.
Dot mixture with butter and sprinkle with a small amount of ice water.
Sprinkle mixture with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.
Place 1/4 cup filling onto one side of rolled out dough. Fold dough over filling and press edges together, crimping well. You can paint edges with a few drops of water prior to sealing to help make a better seal.
Bake at 375 for 45 minutes or until golden brown
If browning too rapidly, reduce temperature to 350 and cover lightly with foil.
We eat them hot or cold. They make for a hearty sack lunch if you are going to be working hard all day.
Samosas are sorta like a fried dumplings or tiny pie, they can have meat or vegetable fillings and usually are flavoured with what I think of as East Indian spices. A couple of friends of mine, one who is originally from Kenya, and another who is originally from India, both make wonderful samosas with slightly different tastes--mine are just a sad white girl's attempt but my family seems to like them.
I saut chopped onion celery, then add and brown 1 lb ground meat (beef, bison, chicken, turkey) in the pan along with grated carrot, cooked lentils, cubed cooked potato--whatever you like. Season with a teaspoon of each: ginger, cumin, coriander, and garam masala (an East Indian spice mix). Put a heaping tablespoon full of the meat mixture onto a samosa wrapper or spring roll wrapper (freezer section at the grocery store) and fold into a triangle (google how to fold samosas, that's how I learned). Fry in small amount of oil, flipping over when first side is lightly golden.