Week 13 of dark days and the end of week 4 of being sick. I’m beginning to think I may try to find a doctor but I’m still stubbornly resisting.
As a result of that and my preoccupation with starting and sorting seeds we’ve eaten a lot of breakfasts for dinner, more take out but I did manage to make a few all local meals.
This is what happens when you ignore a huge pot of chili on the stove in order to start your seeds. Can you say “intervention”? Step away from the seeds and cook mom. Luckily I was able to pour off all but the bottom inch and salvage it.
This was made with kidney beans grown in Dufur, OR, Casade Range grass fed beef and Italian sausage which I made from our Akyla Farms pig. I also used home canned, home grown tomatoes and local merlot.
Vietnamese Pickled Carrots & Parsnips from our overwintered garden as part of the Can Jam challenge.
More chocolate pudding. Because who doesn’t love that? Made with Dungeness milk and backyard eggs. Using my Jedi mind powers ** you don’t need to know about the non-local chocolate chips**
Cheesy farro rissoto and oven fried chicken. The farro is from Bluebird, Golden Glen cream, Beechers aged cheddar, purple sprouting broccoli, kale and carrots from the garden, chicken from Pastured Sensations soaked in home clabbered buttermilk and AP flour from Azure Standard in Dufur, OR. That’s my beet/carrot/cabbage/apple juice that even Pickle Man likes. I just don’t tell him that there was anything green in it.
One of my favorite breakfasts or lunches – a home made spelt English muffin with Mt. Pleasant gouda and homemade marmalade. We just won’t discuss where the citrus came from since my trees are too young to bear fruit yet. Although I think I may be getting some baby lemons on my indoor Meyer lemon tree. Not counting chickens yet though.
A breakfast of homemade bread (Bluebird hard red wheat and Lentz spelt) with scrambled backyard eggs and homemade breakfast sausage from our Akyla Farms pig and home dried apples. The apples are from Tonnamaker last fall but in a few years we should be getting plenty off our 6 apple trees to keep us in apple sausage.
There you have it. Not very inspirational but there has been a whole lot of snot and coughing and not much sleep in this household. I’m really looking forward to getting better. Sleep might help that out…
Your marmalade looks delicious! And on homemade English muffins? Wow.
Found my way here from the Dark Days challenge. I enjoy the blog.
I am glad I am not the only one that burns the bottom of a pot of food occassionally!
Hope you kick this bug soon and get on the road to recovery.
Thanks ESP – I am close to posting the muffin recipe. I want to make it 1 more time successfully using whole wheat pastry flour since not everyone has spelt and they do come out differently.
KFG – gardening takes precedence sometimes right? Plus I rarely use a recipe. I cook “au bloomers”. By the seat of my pants.
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