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Zucchini Lunch

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Continuing my collection of zucchini recipes, i post this one.  I’t s really so easy it can hardly be considered a recipe.

Mandoline, spiralizer, garlic press
My home raised garlic from last year is small, so it took some time to get enough to make good flavor. Healthy garlic.

INGREDIENTS:

  • Zucchini – spiralized or sliced thinly with mandolin
  • Onion – sliced
  • Garlic – minced or chopped
  • Sea Salt
  • Pepper
  • Option toppings can include any kind of meat chopped up, shredded cheese,

DIRECTIONS:

  • Spiralize or thinly slice zucchinis into a skillet and saute until moisture is lessened
  • While saute, slice onion and add to skillet, mince garlic and add to skillet
  • Add cooked meat and warm through.
  • Top with sliced hard cooked eggs, cheese if desired.

Zucchini and Onions

Zucchini, Cheese, Eggs, Meat
This tasty dish will replace my daily lettuce salad until fall greens crop come along.  My dish today has leftover corned beef.

 

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Find Local Food Producers!

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Web search sites to help consumers find producers of all sorts of food products near you or available for shipping.  CSA’s, farmer’s markets, and all sorts of shopping opportunities.  Be sure to check to see if your own state has a state buyer’s guide!  and be sure to let me know of any i missed.

Local Harvest

EatWild.com

USABeef

Rodale Institute

Missouri Agriculture Directory

AgriMissouri Buyer’s Guide

Farm to Consumer Legal Defense

Local Producers’ websites or contact information.  These are just some in my circle of knowledge, you’ll have to search out those in your area.

Kiowa Hills Ranch

Missouri Milk Maid

Chad and Emily Fisher 816.804.8571 Pasture finished beef – Northwest central Missouri

Sue Stropes, sue.stropes@gmail.com, mobile 816.405.9545, grassfinished hamburger, eggs. Chilhowee, MO

Several others in our area, but these are the only ones who asked to be listed here.

 

FAMILY, Recipes

Beef, Tuna, Chicken Salad

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A recipe i learnt from my Grandma Falconer is Beef Salad.  This mixture makes great take-to-the-field sandwiches, yet easily fits onto a bed of lettuce, use as a dip with crackers or chips, or eat by itself.

The starting point for the meat is about 1/2 lb of ground cooked roast, ground cooked chicken, or 1 6 oz can of tuna.  I’ve tried this with lamb roast and turkey, and for whatever reason, it just doesn’t taste quite right.  Personal taste – i love lamb.

  • 6 hard cooked eggs
  • 1 tablespoon mustard
  • 1 tablespoon chopped pickles or pickle relish, optional
  • 5-6 tablespoons mayonnaise
  • pinch of salt and pepper, if desired

Peel and chop the eggs, either by hand or in a food processor.  Place them in a medium sized bowl, then add the meat and other ingredients.  Stir and mix thoroughly.

Voila!  already ready to serve.  This recipe if fully adjustable to your own tastes.  Perhaps you prefer more meat to eggs or vice versa.  Or a spicier mustard or more mayo.

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Cheese and Rice Casserole

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An excellent non meat recipe.  But meat can easily be layered on and consider other vegetables.  Pictured here, I used sliced zucchini from my garden and added ground chicken breast from pastured poultry raised by my friends at Pigeon Creek Farm.

Cheese and Rice Casserole  (Riso e Formaggio) 

8 servings 

  • 2 cups water
  • 1 cup uncooked regular rice (or barley or couscous or any combination thereof)
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon dry mustard
  • ½ teaspoon red pepper sauce (optional
  • ¼ teaspoon pepper
  • 1 medium onion (I used green onions)
  • 1 medium green pepper, chopped (optional)
  • 2 cups shredded mozzarella or Cheddar cheese (8 ounces)
  • 4 eggs, slightly beaten
  • 2 ½ cups milk
  • ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese

 Heat water, rice, salt, mustard, red pepper sauce, and pepper to boiling, stirring once or twice; reduce heat.  Cover and simmer 30 minutes.  (Do not lift cover or stir.)  Remove from heat.  Fluff rice lightly with fork; cover and let steam 5 to 10 minutes.

Layer half the rice mixture in bottom of greased 11 x 7 x 1 ½ inch baking dish.  Top with 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese (and 1 cup vegetable if desired); repeat.  Whisk together 4 eggs and 2 ½ cups of milk then pour over rice mixture.  Sprinkle with ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese.  (Casserole can be covered and refrigerated up to 24 hours at this point.)  Cook uncovered in 350°F oven until set; 45 to 50 minutes.  Let stand 10 minutes. Cut into squares.

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Chickens - Chooks, FAMILY, Recipes

Spatchcock a Chicken?!

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Start with a fresh or frozen pastured (preferably) broiler.  Using scissors, cut out out the backbone.

 

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Cut backbone out completely – this is easier than it looks.  The WSJ recipe says to use the backbone to make broth or discard – DISCARD!  what?!  no way.  Make broth. Using it to make egg drop soup.
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Turn the bird over and smash down breaking breast bone so that the carcass lays fairly flat.

 

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Smashed and ready for rub.
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Rubbed in seasoning of 2 tablespoons olive oil, 1 tablespoon salt (i used Hebridean Sea Salt Flakes harvested from the shores of the remote Scottish Hebridean Isle of Lewis), and 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper.
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Heat 3 tablespoons olive oil in a heavy skillet then place chicken breast side down.  The recipe i used said on medium high heat for 20 minutes, but thankfully i checked this at 12 minutes and it was a bit too brown.  Perhaps using a cast iron skillet made the difference since they hold heat so well.  Next time, i plan to use medium heat for 12 minutes.
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Place aluminum covered bricks on top of chicken to press it down.  I didn’t have any bricks covered, so my improvisation was to lay the cast iron lid upside down, then stack a couple smaller skillets on top for added weight.  Do this for both sides of the chicken.
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Using tongs, flip the chicken over and weight down again, reduce heat to medium low and cook another 15 minutes or so.  This shows needing a bit more time.
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Crispy and done all the way through, including the thick breast meats.  My family really liked it.  So easy, too!

 

Spatchcock a Chicken Recipe
Here are the original instructions as found in Wall Street Journal some years ago.

Cheers!

tauna

Liquid and Soft Diet Recipes

Egg Drop Soup for Liquid Diet

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  • Home made egg drop soup:  (Tan Hua T’ang)
  • 3 cups of chicken stock broth.
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3 tablespoons cold water
  • 1 tablespoon tapioca flour (cassava)* or cornstarch
  • 2 eggs slightly beaten (farm fresh from pastured hens is best)

Heat broth and salt to boiling.  Mix cold water and tapioca flour; stir gradually into broth.  Boil and stir 1 minutes.  Slowly pour eggs into broth stirring constantly with fork, to form shreds of egg.  Remove from heat; stir slowly once or twice.

You can also make this without thickening it with the tapioca flour or cornstarch if it needs to be absolutely thin liquid.

For best medicine, you need to find a local farmer from whom you can purchase healthy pasture raised spent hens or broilers.  You may have to butcher them yourself.  Cook them down bones and all, pull off the meat bits, then throw the bones and cartilage back into the water and simmer another hour or so.  The goal is to get as much of the chondroitan out of the cartilage and minerals out of the bones and into your broth.  Once done, strain out the bones and let the broth cool.  Chicken fat is quite soft, so if you want to skim it off, you’ll eventually have to put it in the frig or other cool spot so that it will harden on the top of the broth so that you can remove it with a slotted spoon.

Buying chicken broth in the store is NOT the same product as what you are making here.

As always, find certified organic or organically raised ingredients.

This was a big hit with my father-in-law who is recovering from hernia surgery, is very weak, and really doesn’t have an appetite.

However, it’s quite good even if you aren’t sick or in recovery.

Cheers

tauna

*my friend Francoirse raises cassava in DRC!

Find a local producer near you using a handy website search, here are a few:

Localdirt.com

Eatwild.com

Localharvest.org