Posted on January 28, 2024January 27, 2024Recent food and beverage Some tepary beans mixed in those refried beans! The hot sauce is Chimayó pepper mostly. 01/25/2024. Homemade pasta with homemade pesto. 01/24/2024. I finally roasted the yaupon holly leaves instead of just having it dehydrated. It’s actually a nice tea now! I did 300 F for somewhere over 1.5 hrs on a cookie sheet. 01/22/2024.
Posted on January 15, 2024January 14, 202401/10/2024 Chili times A multi-bean venison chili by Paula. This includes Alabama black-eyed butterbean lima beans from two summers ago, vaquero beans, Inca pea beans, Christmas Lima beans, and whatever else dried beans from the garden we had in a small mixed jar. Leftover chili becomes a chili dog a few days later!
Posted on January 14, 2024January 14, 202401/13/2024 warm dinner for cold day Lettuce from the garden with Paula sourdough croutons. Farm share broccoli in the soup and in the venison patties covered with cheese sauce. Garden pesto in the lemon pesto salad dressing, which is apparently now the house dressing.
Posted on January 1, 2024January 1, 202401/01/2024 new year foods The Chef cooked black-eyed peas with jalapeños. They were from our plants (two summers ago) and Rancho Gordo. The cheesy pile is farm share broccoli in rice covered with Welsh rarebit sauce. The meatloaf is ground venison from a friend and includes bread Paula made crumbled up in it.
Posted on December 25, 2023December 22, 202312/21/2023 flan Paula brought back eggs from her family’s chickens (very free range!) and the Chef decided to make flan. I’ve never had it before. I’m scheduling this to post after we visit home so Judy doesn’t guess we’re bringing her some of these eggs, haha! It was delicious! He topped it with a sauce made from the crabapple syrup (the less-jellied jars of jelly).
Posted on December 23, 2023December 23, 202312/23/2023 chicken tortilla soup Garden cilantro garnish and some frozen corbaci peppers in the soup too. Paula made the corn tortillas from scratch. Delicious work, Chef and Paula.
Posted on December 15, 2023December 15, 202312/15/2023 pesto tortellini salad Garden pesto. The Chef and Paula spent three hours last night hand rolling, filling, and folding the tortellini. Pesto with garden basil is on the outside. The whole pot was gone by the end of the potluck.
Posted on December 3, 2023December 3, 202312/03/2023 salad All salad lettuce was black-seeded Simpson lettuce. The dressing is made from pesto with garden basil.
Posted on November 23, 2023November 23, 202311/23/2023 peaceful thanksgiving! The Chef and Chef Paula made a lovely Thanksgiving dinner they considered simple but they were actually having a good time in the kitchen all afternoon. I kept out of the way and napped with cats on the couch. The turkey was raised by Paula’s uncle. The dumplings are cream cheese and onion pierogis. The Brussels sprouts are from the farm share and caramelized in crabapple syrup (jelly that didn’t jell). Our sparkly beverage was 2021 vintage neighbor crabapples with added cranberry, bottled in 2022. Cheers everyone!
Posted on November 23, 2023November 23, 202311/22/2023 shakshuka dinner Shakshuka is a Mediterranean/North African dish that uses a lot of bell peppers in the tomato sauce. We had frozen slices of bell peppers from the last harvest this year before first frost. Yum!