Monthly Archives: June 2010
Quick and Easy Dumplings
One of the challenges to eating a healthier diet and getting rid of processed, chemically laden food, is what to do when I need a meal quick. Items such as Macaroni and Cheese, Frozen Pizza and Ramen Noodles are out, what is a gal to do?
I thought I would share a quick meal that my family enjoys and only takes about 30 minutes from start to finish.
We are going to make Dumplings, without the chicken soup.
First off you start with 4 ingredients.
2 cups flour
2 eggs
water
salt
(a basic pasta dough recipe)
Put your flour in a bowl, add the eggs and a pinch of salt. then start mixing with your hands adding water as needed for a stiff dough.
(remember to take your rings off before mixing…..)
Then pinch off little sections of dough, I like to do them really small so they will cook faster.
The pop them into a pot of boiling water and cook until soft, about 15 minutes.
When they are done add whatever sauce you would like. Today I did tomato soup, I have used spagetti sauce and leftover gravy.
I topped that with some grated cheese.
A quick and easy meal that my kids LOVE.
Living on the Edge
….of civilization
Creates unusual opportunities for adventure
Above our home the land is free range. Usually the animals stay well away from the houses, but we have had encounters with sheep and cattle. Now the cattle aren’t too bad, there usually isn’t too many to deal with, and they are easily walked back up the hill. However this week there were about 300 sheep that grazed their way to our property line. Three hundred sheep would make very short work of my garden and yard. So I sent the kids up the hill to move the sheep along.
Of course, as the girls walk towards them, they just turned and walked away, no big deal, all in a days work at the homestead.
While I Have Been Gone
I am sorry for my absence during the month of May. Life was crazy busy and it was nice not to have to worry about blogging. However, now that the kids are out of school and soccer season is over I have time on my hands again (haha, yeah, whatever) and I am excited to be back to blogging.
It looks like the warm weather has finally arrived, and it is about time! While the cabbage and Kale have loved the cool wet weather, my other heat loving veggies have been struggling.
This is the cabbage patch(well and Kale and Broccoli too)
I love to watch those first little cabbage leaves curl in starting to make the head of the cabbage.
This is a beautiful Red Kale. I am determined to learn to cook and love kale this year.Wish me luck.
Nice healthy Broccoli.
See this lovely bare patch between my Turnips and Spinach? Well that is what happens when you bend over holding a bottle of round up and accidentally spray into your vegetable beds. This whole area was suppose to be filled with spinach and turnips.Sigh…I reseeded….
Little bitty Celery. This is one of my new vegetable for this year.
And my itty bitty Basil, they ended up surviving the late snow, all be it a little worse for the wear.
This bed has some Bok Choi growing nicely. Everything else is still little, or not come up yet.Except….
The Chard, something has been munching on my chard……Grrrrr
The grapes we put in this year, bare root are doing beautifully
as are the strawberries.
I love this time of year.