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Onion Soup
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New favorite breakfast: Eggs Cocotte
I love eggs and sourdough bread with plenty of butter for breakfast. I have usually done my eggs soft scrambled in bacon grease or a simple omelet. A week or so ago though, I had just a little leftover salmon and a few stalks of sauteed asparagus leftover from dinner and I just didn't feel like dirtying up a lot of stuff,…
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The joys of cooking with dried beans
After many years of using canned beans and finding that cooking dried beans was not worth the time and effort, I bought an Instant Pot Max pressure cooker. It has totally changed my usage of dried beans. Now I can cook garbanzo beans quickly to make homemade hummus, or cook pinto beans quickly to make homemade refried…
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Desserts to live for....a quote by Dr. Fuhrman
Free download of a few recipes...
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Chicken baked in hay
Seriously, this is a real thing! It is actually a classic French country recipe that I have been wanting to make for well over 20 years, when I first experienced it. I still haven't gotten around to it, but I was reminded how good it is when I saw this video. It is super simple. And, the chef is funny taking about his…
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Time to share those leftover turkey recipes!
After picking the carcass clean, I broke it in half at the back and put it int he stock pot with the neck and gizzards. The boiled down into 3 gallons of good stock. For a small pot of soup, I used a half gallon turkey stock and boiled scraps of meat with drippings from roasting pan that were to plentiful to use all in…
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Getting good stewing hens
I am feeling that it gets harder and harder to find a good stewing hen/chicken. I use to make chicken broth or soup when someone in my family is sick and it gets harder every time to find a decent one without pre-ordering it. Today I was only able to get half chickens. I do not have the space to grow my own chickens and…
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Who else loves fried cheese?
Fried cheese is so simple, I bet if more people knew how to make it, fewer snacks would be sold. Just grate anything from parm to cheddar (anything firm... not motz or soft cheese) Put a handful in a pan and cook at medium temp until it all melts, bubbles and browns a bit. Then set the pan off to cool and lift with a…
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Pumpkins after the holiday
Never quite thought about this. I think I'll try cooking and freezing some for fillers in various meals. Quote from article: "Think of pumpkin as a vegetable. You can cube or slice it, and add it to curries and stir-fries as well. Serve with a side of rice, and you’ll wish you’d rescued every forlorn pumpkin at the store."
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Time to scavenge for pumpkins....
Seems the trend this year was for everyone to buy several small baking pumpkins and heirloom squashes for decorations rather than to carve big pumpkins for jack-o-lanterns. They will all be thrown away between now and Thanksgiving. SO, today I began asking the neighbors (around my mom's house in the NC sandhills... I don't…
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Feasible Alternatives to Canning
I think I officially hate canning now. What if I dehydrate produce and keep a four season garden? I’m reading the Elliott Coleman book now. Is that a realistic goal? Has anyone on here done that successfully?
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Haybox cooking
Another alternative way of cooking to preserve fuel resources.
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Organ Meat recipes
Ms. Marjory mentioned in today's webinar (https://vimeo.com/612701082) how many people have trouble eating organ meats, but that they are very nutritious. I, frankly LOVE organ meats! Let's compile some good recipes.
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Applesauce
We have public orchards in our city where everyone can harvest fruits. We went yesterday and collected some apples, mostly fallen fruits. Cut them up when home and cooked applesauce from it using the receipt my grandmother used Just add some water and let it cook for some time and don't forget to stir at the end I added…
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What is the main difference (beside appearance) in garlic cloves and garlic shoots?
Are the benefits the same? I am going to try to get the shoots from garlic cloves and trim as needed. Any thoughts, ideas?
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House Tea
An interesting article from Mother Earth News about a "house" blend tea. She talks about sourcing the ingredients from what is available on their property. She didn't mention mulberry leaves, which I have in abundance. I had that in another discussion a while back.
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Restaurant quality home fries
One of the main tricks of the trade I learned working in restaurants is that good fries are always twice fried. First you "par fry" them, then just before serving, you quickly put them back in the deep fryer to crisp them up and serve them hot. Being a single guy, I rarely crank up the deep fryer. I have found that par…
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Antiviral snack
I am watching baseball, so I wanted a snack... feel a bit under the weather, so I made my snack antiviral. Breadsticks made with sourdough starter... 1 and 1/2 cups AP flour, 1/2 tsp salt, plus a dash, 1/2 cups sourdough starter/water, a teaspoon of oilive oil... knead 10 minutes. Let rise 2 hours, punch down, rise another…
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Vegetable broth
I'm a big believer in food as medicine while still making it tasty so people will eat it :) I make broth and use it as a base for stews, soups, cook rice etc. This recipe from Kami McBride showed up in my inbox. I found it an inspiration as I have but never thought to add astragalus. Here's the link.…
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My basic "Sloppy Stuff" Recipe
Sloppy Joes and Manwiches are too sweet for my taste and not spicy enough, so this i my variation. Brown up some beef, onions, peppers and garlic, add some crushed tomatoes, and whatever you have on hand - peas, carrots, corn. I had corn today, cutoff the cob. Several dashes hot sauce and a little Worcestershire, some…
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Minimizing food waste
I am making an effort to use as much as possible of all types of foods, like the tough bottoms of asparagus a etc. I recently learned that the outer leaves of cauliflower were actually edible and healthy. And that leftover coffee is great to add to brownies. I’m wondering what foods everyone really uses up that is often…
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Kabocha Squash
AKA Japanese Pumpkin Got these in my CSA basket. These are now part of a Squash soup along with a butternut, Hubbard and acorn squash. As she says this is a "hard headed squash". I didn't find this video before it killed my electric knife. Will add a pic of the seeds later. They're huge and easily the size of a US dime. I…
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Real Escoffier style stock
Nearly over 100 years ago, Auguste Escoffier wrote the classic cookbook for French chefs, explaining in detail the dishes prepared by the chefs he taught and oversaw at the Savoy, Ritz and Carlton hotels in the 1880s. You will be amazed at the volume of ingredients, the time and energy that went into making a real brown…
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What makes a good day? Sausage!
Got the grinder chilling - making sausage today... any day making sausage is a good day!
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Anyone make herbal salt?
Our local woman that makes it is not well so I'm thinking to try making some myself but have no idea how to balance the quantities of various herbs. If you have a recipe, please share!
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Who else enjoys marrow?
Most commonly, this is done with beef bones, usually shanks, but any ret meat critter with big enough bones will work. You cut the bones into portions that allow the marrow to be scooped out once cooked. Soak the bones 2 days or so in a few changes of salt water, then roast them. Serve on bread, like butter, with salt,…
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Alt Meat
Washington Post article on Alt Meat pricing. Was reading this in the Santa Fe New Mexican and thought to post it here for comment.
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looking for garlic recipes
My brother just surprised me with a pound of fresh from the organic farm garlic. I couldn't be happier and am wondering if anyone has some favorite recipes featuring garlic.
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Labor day
My husband and I had a very nice day today. We worked on the garden, fixing some fence posts that were crooked from a wind storm we had last winter. Then he fired up the grill and cooked some chicken for dinner. I prepared a peach crisp from some peaches a friend gave us. It was sunny and not too hot. All in all, a very…
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Favorite sausage recipes
What are yours? I will post mine as I think of them. Country style sausage of pork, garlic, sage, salt, black pepper and red pepper with a bit of ground clove and ginger. Italian style sausage of pork, garlic, red wine salt and pepper, fennel seed and lots of red pepper British style sausage of pork, salt and pepper, sage,…