Menu 11/29-12/5

Lunches, as usual, will consist of leftovers &/or easy stuff. I'm also doing a 3-day detox, so my menu for Wed, Thu & Fri is listed below.

Breakfasts:

Sunday- Bananas & organic granola bars

Monday- Fruit & smoothies

Tuesday- Steel cut oats topped with choice(s) of dried cranberries, raw sunflower seeds, shredded coconut, etc.

Wednesday- Soaked oats made with coconut milk topped with choice(s) of dried cranberries, raw sunflower seeds, shredded coconut, etc.

Thursday- 4-grain hot cereal topped with choice(s) of dried cranberries, raw sunflower seeds, shredded coconut, etc.

Friday- Amish friendship bread, fruit

Saturday- Eggs, deer sausage, coconut fruit salad, waffles

Dinners:

Sunday- Dinner with friends

Monday- BBQ baked ribs, mashed potatoes,baked beans, spinach salad

Tuesday- Spaghetti, garlic biscuits, spinach salad

Wednesday- Potato soup, spinach salad, rolls

Thursday- Fried chicken chunks, rice pilaf, corn

Friday- Pizza & a veggie tray

Saturday- Fried catfish for the boys & I, bison steak for Hubba, mashed potatoes & gravy, green beans, biscuits

Day 1:

B- 1 cup oats made with milk, sweetened with banana, 1 cup tea

L- Lentils & rice (2 cups= 1 c each lentils, rice), steamed carrots, water

S- banana "ice cream"

D- Hummus with veggies, rice, 4 egg whites, iced herbal tea

S- Smoothie: 6oz yoghurt, 1 banana, 1 carrot, 1 T ground flax seed

Day 2:

B- Juicer juice, yoghurt sweetened with fruit & flax seed, 4 egg whites

L- Congee with roasted veggies, 1 cup milk

S- Oatmeal, yoghurt, fruit parfait

D- Sweet potato fries, Black bean burgers, salad with sprouts & oil & vinegar, roasted garlic, 1 cup tea

S- 1 cup milk blended with vanilla, cinnamon & banana

Day 3:

B- Rice cereal (with 1 cup rice), sweetened with banana, 1 cup tea

L- Omelet with 4 egg whites,

S- Oatmeal muffins

D- Fried rice (1 cup rice) with veg, 1 egg white, steamed broccoli

S- Oatmeal muffins

Kitchens Gone Wild Carnival 11-30-2009

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Kitchens Gone Wild 11-30-2009

My Kombucha will be "harvested" today. I have the usual sourdoughs going. It was a busy week(end) last week(end), and all I really have new for you this week is deer. Yup, deer. I got a call from my friend on Saturday & asked if I was ready to learn how to cut up deer. He knew I'd been wanting to learn, so he was able to salvage 2 hindquarters, since the hunters managed to some how hang them wrong & mess up the front ends..... Yesterday I donned clothes that I don't care about & went & cut..... and peeled..... and cut..... and LEARNED how to process whitetail hindquarters. It was tedious to me, as I've never done it before, and I'm happy that he broke me in "easy." Next year I'll learn how to process a deer, beginning with breaking the whole animal down. I'm chuffed with all this!!!

This morning I fried up the leftovers for the chickens. It was scrap that landed on the counters from the meat griner, that I swiped into a baggie. I mixed it with some other leftovers & cut up 3 mini0pumpkins (from my own garden) for them. Boy do they LOVE pumpkins!!! And pumpkins (seeds) are a natural wormer for chickens, so they win. I win.


Out of my hindquarter I got 11+ pounds of steaks & stew meat (only one baggie was stew meat), and I got a smidge over 9 pounds of ground. A little over 20 pounds of meat went into my freezer today! YUM!!!!!







What's gone wild in YOUR kitchen this past week?

Mini Tote Bags

I can't hold this in any longer! I'm making mini-tote bags. I've got 3 in the works today as we speak. A couple are like the butterfly one pictured below. I'm also working on a scooby-doo one. I'm hoping they'll be launched on Barefoot Denim by tonight. I want to get 5 finished today. These are my "stock" photos...

From the comments

Danielle asked:

What's up with the fermenting ketchup? recipe? and the why behind it, please?

Fermenting ketchup is just another sneaky way to get probiotics into the kids. Almost any fermented food is a health benefit, and since my kids love ketchup, I figured why not? The recipe is linked in the original post I mentioned it in. Just click on "fermented ketchup" where you'll be taken to Kelly's blog (great blog, by the way!).

I hope this answers your questions. Thanks for stopping by!!

Menu 11/22-11/28

Dinners only this week. Lunches, as usual, will consist of leftovers &/or easy stuff. Breakfast will be oats a bunch this week.

Breakfast oats ideas: Wardeh's Rich Soaked Oatmeal (HT to Millie for this link), muesli, Super Creamy Crockpot Oats, basic soaked oats, granola with soaked oats & raw milk, etc.

Dinners:

Sunday- Thanksgiving dinner at the church

Monday- Fish for the kids & I, bison steak for Hubba, mashed potatoes, corn, fried onions

Tuesday- Meatloaf, mac n cheese, peas

Wednesday- Pork sirloin, brown rice & gravy, green beans

Thursday- (Thanksgiving): Dinner at friends' house.

Friday- Pizza & a veggie tray

Saturday- Chicken, glazed carrots, wild rice

Kitchens Gone Wild Carnival 11-23-2009

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Kitchens Gone Wild 11-23-2009

What a wild past few weeks!I was blessed with dairy kefir grains & they seemed to have taken off in just a couple of days! I'm about to start them in raw milk instead of organic, so we'll see how that goes. Here is my beautiful new brew and some kefir cheese I made! I tried the cheese on some banana bread & it is DELISH!!!




This past week I was able to get 8 quarts of kombucha. A little less than I usually do, but I've got 3 gallons going now & will hopefully do at least 4 gallons next go round. My sourdoughs are still thriving, but I haven't been able to bake as of late. I also haven't gotten my WKG back out yet, but I have been sending WKG & dried sourdough out all over the country! That's been almost as much fun as fermenting things myself!!! *grin*

I also tried my hand at sprouts. The broc sprouts did well, but, to be honest, we just don't like them. I'm not giving up hope, though, and I will try again. In other sprouts, however, we love the lentil sprouts. They taste like a cross between raw peanuts & snap peas to me. Definitely doing these babies again!!!




I also decided to try something new this week & am going for fermented ketchup. Next week, I'll be able to update how is it & how it goes with the kids.




And last but not least, definitely wild, but unexpected in this post, I'm sure.....



We hatched a moth. The boys caught it, put it in a jar in the kitchen, where I moved it to the rack so it wouldn't get knocked over. The very next day it had already cocooned itself. 2 weeks later and a beautiful moth appeared!!!

And another

ASR is having another fantastic giveaway. I still recommend reading the whole blog (well, maybe not in one sitting).

Giveaway @ Adventures In Self Reliance

Adventures in Self Reliance is offering a foodsaver giveaway. Jump over to not only read about & enter the giveaway, but to read the blog. It has some fantastic information.

I've launched my shoppe

I've been working on a little project for quite some time now. It was actually supposed to be open for business about 14 months ago, but we moved cross country & that was nixed. Anyhoo, I make aprons & tote bags, mainly. The name of my new adventure is Barefoot Denim, and it consists of mostly reused/recycled/rescued items.

I do hope you'll grab a cuppa tea & stop by!

How to puree butternut squash

Now that you've roasted your butternut squash, it's time to make puree. Puree can be used for a number of things- "mashed" with butter like potatoes, sneaking into foods for picky eaters or making butternut squash soup.



Using a spoon, scoop the flesh out of your butternut squash shell.


Dump the flesh into your blender or food processor. Add a couple of teaspoons of water to begin (you may need to add more as you blend/process).


Once you've got the bulk of the squash flesh out, gently scrap the rest from the peel.


Blend your butternut squash puree, adding water as needed for about a minute & a half to 2 minutes.

Look at the beauty.......


It knows it's beautiful.......


In all of its glory......

From here you may freeze in portions, or move directly onto your recipe. Happy autumn!

How to roast butternut squash

Get thee an organic butternut squash!

Preheat your oven to 400º.


Back to the squash. Cut off the stem end.


Cut your squash in half. Be careful as these babies are not easy to cut.


Using a spoon, scoop & scrape the seeds & guts out (this reminds me of carving a pumpkin!!).


All nice & clean & ready for the oven......


Lay your butternut squash flesh side down onto a baking tray. Butternut squash likes to sweat as they bake, so be sure your pan has a raised edge.



Into your preheated oven they go for 40-50 minutes.


They get beautiful-er & beautiful-er..... When they are ready, the flesh will be easily pierced with a fork, and the skins will take on a browned & wrinkled look.


WOW! Look at that bright orange roasted flesh. Yum!


Set them aside to cool.

I needed this today.....

I hope it blesses you as well.

John 14 (King James Version)

¹Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

²In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

⁴And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

⁵Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?

⁶Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

⁷If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

⁸Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

⁹Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?

¹⁰Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

¹¹Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.

¹²Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

¹³And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

¹⁴If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

¹⁵If ye love me, keep my commandments.

¹⁶And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

¹⁷Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

¹⁸I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

¹⁹Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

²⁰At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

²¹He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

²²Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?

²³Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

²⁴He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

²⁵These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.

²⁶But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

²⁷Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

²⁸Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

²⁹And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.

³⁰Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

³¹But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

Kitchens Gone Wild Carnival 11-9-2009

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Typing 101

It helps if you have letters on your keyboard when you start teaching your kids how to type.....



I didn't even realise that the letters were rubbed off until my oldest was like "Uh, Mom? Where's xyz (or whatever letters he was going for)." Oops. Let's try that again!