Category: Recipes

Summertime Stock Up | How To Make the Best of Your Garden Scraps

With summer quickly approaching, our lives are filled with family activities, laughter, and making memories. In my family we always use our scraps from the garden to make soup stock. Our Summertime Stock Up!

Dinner time is a great time to reconnect as a family after a day of activities. I used to think of soup as a winter or cold weather meal.

Soup is one of the most comforting foods to the soul. This past year, I made a goal to master soups. My soups were always too thick, no flavor, or just a plain flop.

After doing a lot of research and studying and plain pondering over recipes, I found that a good soup starts with a good foundation.

This foundation is stock or broth. I use the best ingredients available and love the mixture of slow cooked vegetables, herbs, and seasonings that blend flavors into rich chicken stock or vegetable broth.

Traditionally a stock uses bones and broth does not, but I will use the terms interchangeably.

Delicious vegetable soups will spotlight your garden harvest. What a great application of sustainable living as well as sharing with our children and grandchildren where our food comes from.

Last summer, I was invited to dinner with some dear friends and we had stew and home cooked bread on the patio as sun was starting to set.

Again, that stew was a comfort food and I hope that as you try soups even in the summer, you will have that comfort and hygge feeling that brings contentment and happiness to your soul.

With the stock that I am going to share with you, just yesterday I made a chicken noodle soup along with home baked bread and a fresh salad that created a wonderful luncheon memory with my mother. Make a memory that will last a lifetime.

Soups warm not only your tummy but your heart and soul.

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Summer Brownies and Barley Lemonade

When I see Memorial Day on the calendar, it screams to me that school is almost out for the school year, and the beginning of summer. I love to be outside enjoying the sunshine. At the same time, I enjoy hiking and picnics. And brownies and lemonade.

I want to share some delicious, fast, and limited-ingredient cookies and brownies over the next few blogs to have the best of both worlds. Along with great cookies, I also want to share some healthy and delicious cold drinks for hot summer days.

Home-cooked treats and plenty of time outside. My little grandson loves to cook with mommy and these recipes are a win-win for little ones and attention span for activities in the kitchen.

What I especially love about these recipes that I found is that they were all measured and mixed in the same bowl.

The key kitchen tool is an accurate scale. I have found that once I started using a kitchen scale, I wonder how I survived so long without my it.

Today we are making Summer Brownies and Barley Lemonade! The brownies have Nutella and buckwheat flour and the barley lemonade is a tangy twist on a healthy summer drink.

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Dandelion Greens – A Foraging Treasure!!

As spring continues, so do the dandelions. While some work tirelessly to rid their yards of these gems, I have an endless supply of fresh greens. One of my favorite pictures of my daughter is when she was 3 years old and blowing the white fluff from a dandelion and making a wish. I am sure that dandelions can bring memories to you, either wonderful or trying to get all of them out of your yard.

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Dandelions: The Hidden Gem

Living in Utah, the melting snow shows signs of spring on the ground. As I walk in my neighborhood, I see neighbors cleaning up their yards and lawnmowers firing up for the first smell of cut grass.

As my walk continues and I round the corner to my house, I smile. My lawn is filled with spring and no lawnmower. My yard, and I am very proud of it, is filled with dandelions. Some may feel sorry for me and even leave me notes to help mow. I kindly tell them thank you and wish them a good day. I love my dandelions.

Last year, my friend, Dawn Mikesell posted a blog on the Kitchen Kneads blog about dandelion jelly, and that started my journey with dandelions. Dandelions are, yes, edible — the flower, the leaves, and the root are loaded with vitamins, minerals and fiber.

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Baked Oatmeal

What memories does the word oatmeal bring to your mind? As a child, I grew up on oatmeal and I knew it as the cereal in the round can. At my grandmother’s house it came in tiny packages, all different flavors – just add water and those tiny pieces of fruit would plump up. As I got older, that same oatmeal was in every hotel in the continental breakfast room in those same tiny packages. Fancy hotels still had oatmeal – but now – it was it a big pot steaming with lots of toppings with silver lids and spoons. Yes, oatmeal has been a part of my life forever. My parents used to tell me, “It will stick to your ribs and you won’t get cold when you walk to school.” Of course, I believed them. I even told my daughter the same story. I even have gotten my granddaughter to eat oatmeal by putting frozen blueberries in the hot oatmeal and turning the oatmeal purple. I told her that it was Frozen Oatmeal from the movie and that the princesses eat this delicious dish. We have renamed this wonderful purple dish, “Castle Cereal!!” 

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Homemade Artisan Wheat Crackers

Homemade artisan wheat crackers are a great way to once again use food storage. Store what you eat and eat what you store is a way that food storage can be advantageous for you today and in years to come. We call this a living food storage — a food storage that progressively gets used and then replaced. One advantage of this type of storage is that food doesn’t go bad or expire and you are learning to use it and make recipes that can become family favorites.

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Homemade Pasta: Part 2

Homemade pasta is simple. Two weeks ago, my post was about semolina flour and water pasta. This post is again homemade pasta that can be part of your food storage tool box. The pasta today is made with pasta flour and egg. Again, I want to take the approach of pasta as a food storage item. This post is assuming that you want to have spaghetti, fettucine, or angel hair pasta.

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Japanese Milk Bread

Japanese milk bread, also known as Shokupan, is the softest, fluffiest, springiest, tastiest bread I’ve ever eaten. And though it’s so soft and fluffy, it still has some chewiness. It’s really something you have to experience to fully understand.

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Homemade Semolina and Water Pasta

Homemade pasta is a fun way to utilize food storage. Please make your food storage as a living food storage… a food storage that is used on an everyday basis.  Food storage has given me a new appreciation for preparedness that I feel strongly about posting this week to help others.

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