I suppose I've done more cooking and eating and less writing lately! This weekend we had friends over, so Saturday night I made the lamb stew with fresh meat from the farm, turnips, sweet potato, onion, a couple tablespoons of flour, red wine, water, rosemary and thyme. It was very thick and comforting, as it slowly cooked for hours in my cast iron dutch oven, which happens to be one of my favorite pieces of cookware.
Sunday morning I prepared a quick brunch for guests including pancakes from scratch that the kids devoured, along with bacon and eggs from the farm. That thick cut bacon from the farm was like nothing I'd ever had before. It was more similar to pancetta than what we typically call bacon. Later, I made bagels (a recipe from that "Simple Baking" book my husband bought me after the rice krispy house incident), bread, and a dinner of beans, collars greens, and barley. Then, I completely crashed, as I'd done all that on literally 2 hours of sleep.
Tonight, I got a request for a low carb meal, specifically chili, so I stopped for some ground buffalo on my way home. Because my kids wanted breakfast for dinner, I used the remaining bacon fat from their dinner to cook the onions for the chili, which was spiced with cumin, curry, cayenne pepper, and allspice and topped with avocado and fresh cilantro.
No idea what's on deck for tomorrow, but I'm thinking about root vegetables...which reminds me...my friend Sarah shared this link with me on facebook and assuming I'm not completely snowed in still, I plan to attend this: http://getoutma.org/farmsharefair/ What's better than fresh local food? Not much.
Sunday morning I prepared a quick brunch for guests including pancakes from scratch that the kids devoured, along with bacon and eggs from the farm. That thick cut bacon from the farm was like nothing I'd ever had before. It was more similar to pancetta than what we typically call bacon. Later, I made bagels (a recipe from that "Simple Baking" book my husband bought me after the rice krispy house incident), bread, and a dinner of beans, collars greens, and barley. Then, I completely crashed, as I'd done all that on literally 2 hours of sleep.
Tonight, I got a request for a low carb meal, specifically chili, so I stopped for some ground buffalo on my way home. Because my kids wanted breakfast for dinner, I used the remaining bacon fat from their dinner to cook the onions for the chili, which was spiced with cumin, curry, cayenne pepper, and allspice and topped with avocado and fresh cilantro.
No idea what's on deck for tomorrow, but I'm thinking about root vegetables...which reminds me...my friend Sarah shared this link with me on facebook and assuming I'm not completely snowed in still, I plan to attend this: http://getoutma.org/farmsharefair/ What's better than fresh local food? Not much.
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