Under Attack
Greens
Still counting my harvest on the side bar. While I wish I could boast more, it is only June after all. Today I harvested 6 ounces of greens for dinner.
He’s Country
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.
