Here we are well into the third week of the Dark Days Challenge hosted by (Not so)Urban Hennery so I’m posting what we’ve eaten this week.
Eggs Benedict on homemade English muffins from Lentz spelt with Thundering Hooves Ham, backyard eggs and homemade Hollandaise sauce using more backyard eggs and Golden Glen Creamery butter.
Breakfast smoothie which I told the kids was orange. It was orange all right – from the carrots. I used home cultured yogurt, raw Dungeness milk, freshly juiced carrots from the garden, frozen peaches from Rama farms, a pinch of sea salt (I’m actually concerned we aren’t getting enough salt since I make everything for us!) and a good pinch of cinnamon.
Beef Daube Provencal with the last pot roast from Thundering Hooves, onions from Nature’s Last Stand, our carrots, tomatoes I canned last summer, local wine and home made beef stock (which came first, the pot roast or the stock?). I served it family style with some Azure Standard organic egg noodles. It’s so nice not having to make the pasta!
The fluffiest Swedish pancakes from Lentz Spelt, Golden Glen Creamery butter, Dungeness milk and our backyard eggs.
Turkey white bean chili made with leftovers, smoky turkey broth, white beans from Full Circle Farm and several jars of my never ending stash of home canned and grown green tomato chili sauce. The cornbread is Lentz spelt and freshly ground dent corn from Azure Standard with our backyard eggs. I love spelt for many things but it really changed the flavor of the cornbread into something that just wasn’t how we all remembered it tasting. I should know better than to mess around with my cornbread. It’s southern and it doesn’t like to be teased.
My favorite sandwich of the year. The leftover turkey cranberry, with our homemade bread from Azure red winter wheat and Lentz spelt, local cranberry relish, local turkey and greens from the garden. If only I had sprouts ready in time! And if only my mustard seed experiment had worked last summer…
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1 kitsapFG // Dec 3, 2009 at 10:30 am
It all looks delicious with the exception of the corn bread – it just does not look like corn bread!
I love gobbler sandwiches with turkey and cranberries in sauce – I like a schmear of cream cheese and a sprinkle of chopped walnuts or sliced and roasted almonds on it too though. Yummy!
2 admin // Dec 3, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Cream cheese and walnuts would be divine! I wish I could get my kids to eat hazelnuts but with the potential tree nut allergy I don’t push it. I really miss walnuts & pecans! Last winter I paid some ridiculous price for pecan russian teacakes because those are my favorite Christmas cookies and they weren’t as good as the cooks illustrated ones. But sadly, no pecans in the house so I just bide my time.
3 Auburn // Dec 6, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Hi Annette!
That French braised beef looks divine. Yumm-O.
Been thinking about you today because I made the tortillas and they turned out wicked amazing. I just couldn’t believe how easy and quickly I could make great tasting tortillas and, you know what, I made half the recipe using 1/2 hard red ww and 1/2 spelt.
I covered them with a damp towel as I cooked them and when I finished the last one, I wrapped them tightly in plastic wrap and set them aside while I made the quesadilla mix. When I unwrapped the tortillas, the lovely things were so soft and pliable.
Next time I’ll use only spelt, they’ll probably be even softer, yes?
Hubby said “these are much nicer than the ones we get from Trader Joe’s” (which are white flour tortillas, supposedly homemade).
Annette, dear, I think I love you.
Oh, another thing I wanted to tell you about: I have found a CSF! Twelve-week shares of up to 4 pounds of a variety of filleted fish for about $7.90/lb – I know they sell whole fish for quite a bit less so I’ll ask if I can get that (that way I’ll also get the bones for broth). Fish is caught off the coast of NH, just 35 minutes from our home and we pick it up six hours after it’s been caught.
Life is good.
Hugs
4 admin // Dec 8, 2009 at 12:54 am
Auburn – that is great about the fish! I need to do some more fish research this year. After eating only salmon for a year I’m ready for some white fish occasionally. I know salmon has one of the highest vit D levels and I love it but variety would be nice.
They should be softer with spelt – you clever girl for wrapping them all in plastic wrap. I just sort of keep flipping the pile like shuffling cards so they all get some middle of the stack time and that seems to work pretty well too. Trying not to buy so much plastic wrap this year if I can help it.
Wardeh has a ton of great finds on her site – you should study that one. She’s building a library of foundations to branch off from. She’s really worked hard on her blog this year and is on my “must read” list.
Hopefully I’ll perfect the english muffin recipe to post and the soft pretzel recipe I’m still working on, plus tweaking the bread. I’ve just been going the wrong way with that so I came back to the origins and I’m starting over.
xo,
Annette
5 Rebecca // Dec 8, 2009 at 2:35 pm
I hope to see your spelt English muffin recipe soon!
6 admin // Dec 9, 2009 at 1:40 am
Me too – busy with catching up the books (like since Jan!) and Grandma in town. I’m hoping to get there next week. Even though they weren’t perfect they were yummy! But way too heavy.
7 admin // Dec 9, 2009 at 1:43 am
I’m sure it does. It’s also probably a function of how much farmland there is. The rate of decreasing small farms is frightening but hopefully if enough of us begin demanding locally, organbically raised meat that will shift things. I glanced at a grocery store ad today looking for local wine deals before wasting my time driving there and noticed their rotisserie chicken said “local, all natural.” Not sure local means to them but at least they are catching on that is what consumers want!
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[...] When I decide not to cook anymore, I’m going to live at Annette’s house… This week the family enjoyed eggs benedict with homemade Hollandaise, carrot and yogurt smoothies, beef Daube provencal, spelt Swedish pancakes, turkey white bean chili with cornbread and leftover turkey cranberry sandwiches. Seriously. [...]
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