Using the same basic recipe as I do for my Chicken Pot Pie, I used up most of the leftover turkey today.
I improved the recipe a little, primarily with the gravy. I used 1 quart of turkey stock. Instead of using arrowroot to thicken, I used organic unbleached white flour (gasp!). I didn’t measure, but [...]
Archive for November, 2006
Turkey Pot Pie
Posted in cooking, recipes on November 30, 2006 | No Comments »
Brined Turkey
Posted in cooking on November 28, 2006 | No Comments »
In the past my wife has always cooked the turkey. Usually we just buy a butterball or something that is self-basting and then cook it in a bag. This year we tried something different.
I bought a completely natural (i.e. not self-basting or injected in any way) Amish turkey. I brined it for about 24 hours [...]
Quick Turkey Soup
Posted in cooking, recipes on November 27, 2006 | No Comments »
Why waste a perfectly good turkey carcass. After I had carved all the meat off the bird, I put it in a stockpot and covered it with water. I added a couple carrots, celery, and an onion (see Chicken Stock). I let this simmer from Thanksgiving dinner until after shopping on black Friday. I iced [...]
Cranberry Relish
Posted in recipes on November 27, 2006 | No Comments »
Everyone seems to be posting recipes for cranberry relish so I decided I couldn’t be left out. I would have posted this sooner, but didn’t invent it until the night before Thanksgiving. It is a mishmash of other recipes that interested me. It is my second attempt.
16oz cranberries (1 bag)
2 apples
1 orange
1/2 cup sucanat
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Flavor Theory
Posted in foodosophy on November 20, 2006 | 1 Comment »
For many years I’ve had an interest in Chinese medicine and philosophy. The Chinese have an elemental cycle similar to the Greek elements of water, air, earth, and fire. The Chinese have a cycle of 5 elements, water, earth, fire, metal, and wood. The Chinese cycle focuses on the transitions between these elements rather than [...]
Pickling
Posted in fermentation on November 18, 2006 | No Comments »
I just put up some pickled vegetables. This is my first time making ginger carrots from Nourishing Traditions, but I’ve made pickled cucumbers before.
The first time I tried cucumbers was a couple years ago. I put in the 2 tablespoons of salt as the recipe called for and I don’t think the fermentation ever took [...]
Weaning Your Family
Posted in foodosophy, kitchen logistics on November 16, 2006 | No Comments »
At first I wondered how to move my family toward eating nourishing traditional foods. Case in point…
One of my son’s favorite foods is boxed cold cereal. He would live on it if he could. I’m of the opinion that boxed cold cereal is one of the worst things you could possibly eat (see Dirty Secrets [...]
Corn Bread
Posted in baking, breakfasts, foodosophy on November 13, 2006 | No Comments »
I’ve made the Nourishing Traditions (NT) cornbread several times and really like the recipe. The key is that I use masa harina rather than using the technique of grinding whole dry corn kernels and then soaking them in yogurt and lime water. I’ve heard horror stories on the discussingnt Yahoo group about following those [...]
More on Fermentation
Posted in fermentation on November 11, 2006 | No Comments »
The links I posted previously are good and useful, but only a starting point.
I happen to have a copy of Wild Fermentation, which is a good introduction to the broad spectrum of fermentation, but I wanted something a little more comprehensive. So I came across the Handbook of Indigenous Fermented Foods.
It turns out that on [...]
Fermentation Information
Posted in fermentation, foodosophy on November 9, 2006 | No Comments »
I was doing a little research on fermentation (primarily of grains) and came across a really useful on-line booklet entitled, Fermented Cereals. A Global Perspective. Oddly enough, they also have Fermented Frutis and Vegetables. A Global Perspective (and yes, it was misspelled on the site).
The Cereals book has a good overview of the health reasons [...]
Chocolate Muffins
Posted in baking, breakfasts, recipes, sweets on November 8, 2006 | 10 Comments »
I’ve been using Sue Gregg’s Breakfasts cookbook for a couple months now and I love it. Every recipe I’ve tried has been great.
I recently decided to try modifying one of her muffin recipes. My kids (and wife) will often eat things if they have even the remotest inkling that there might be chocolate in them. [...]
Yogurt Cheese (and Whey)
Posted in cooking on November 5, 2006 | No Comments »
I found this technique in Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook a while back. It was used in a recipe for something called tzatziki. My extended family raved about it when they were here for a week this summer. Nourishing Traditions also describes something similar. Someday I want to try this with my home cultured [...]
Bread Update
Posted in baking, bread on November 5, 2006 | No Comments »
It’s real close now. You can see the results of my windowpane test here. The main difference is that I extended the autolyse to 30 minutes. It was completely unintentional. I ran to the store to get something and ended up taking 10 minutes longer than I had intended. I ended up with a [...]
Pot Pie
Posted in cooking, recipes on November 1, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Here’s my developing pot pie recipe. This is the second time I’ve made it and I’ve added a few tweaks.
I used a 9×13 inch glass pan. I quartered a couple handfuls of small red potatoes - enough to mostly cover the bottom. I browned about 1lb of chicken meat in olive oil and cut into [...]
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