Well I'm recovering, finally, from the swine man swamp flu! I still have a cough hanging on. The canning came to a near screaching halt, John took 4 days off from work but the reality is 1. I'm more organized than he is, which isn't saying much btw, and 2. there was way more that needed canning than one person could do alone! He did get a dozen or so pints of pear butter put up and a dozen or so quarts of tomatoes canned. I'm feeling better but not by much, a simple drive across town and back still wears me out and I need a nap just to recover from the experience. To make matters worse I have a show coming up this weekend and I"m no where near being ready for the event. More later from the kitchen!!!
WIP
Potato Leek Soup
Tonights Dinner Menu
Potato Leek Soup
(the extra will be canned up in quart jars)
Ciabatta Bread
Pork Loin
Inspiration for Prairie Potholes -Harvest
A couple of folks have asked me what my inspiration was it's very simple actually it is what I saw day in and day out as a kid growing up in the country. Every farm had grain bins, barns, some had silo's, etc. I started the Prairie Pothole Series sometime around 2003, made several nice pieces in 2005, and made several more in 2007, but they were always lacking something.
Last Sunday I had hubby take me for a country drive and with my handy trusty digital camera in hand I snapped some shots of farms etc., and came home and started stitching. What can I say while I long for a pure prairie teaming with buffalo, prairie chickens, elk, etc., that is NOT the world I grew up in. I grew up in a prairie filled with tiled fields, ravines, silos, grain bins, barns and elevated fuel tanks.
Todays kiddos are growing up with a reality of confinement houses in their view - that was NOT my reality~!
Anyway... watch for more from my machine as I have many pieces in progress from this idea now.
Last Sunday I had hubby take me for a country drive and with my handy trusty digital camera in hand I snapped some shots of farms etc., and came home and started stitching. What can I say while I long for a pure prairie teaming with buffalo, prairie chickens, elk, etc., that is NOT the world I grew up in. I grew up in a prairie filled with tiled fields, ravines, silos, grain bins, barns and elevated fuel tanks.
Todays kiddos are growing up with a reality of confinement houses in their view - that was NOT my reality~!
Anyway... watch for more from my machine as I have many pieces in progress from this idea now.
Carla Emery"s Old Fashioned Recipe Book
Carla Emery"s Old Fashioned Recipe Book an Encyclopedia of Country Living copyright 1977. Carla rewrote her book right before her death several years ago.
I get a lot of emails asking me where I learned what I know, most of it is from helping my parents when I was growing up. We always had a very large garden, canned, dehydrated foods, etc., and we raised rabbits and chickens for food. I've supplemented what I knew with books such as these (this book was in with a lot of books I purchased at a sale).
Turkey Enchilada's
two cans each green enchillda sauce, green chile's, chopped tomatoes, and tomato sauce.
Canning Coleslaw
Poorman's Meal ~ Depression Era Cooking
Potato Bins
Presto Pressure Cooker
Gamma Seals
What is a Gamma Seal? It is a screw on lid that one puts onto a plastic food grade bucket for long term food storage. NOTE: Make sure you really want the lid on your bucket because once you hammer the ring onto the bucket, use a rubber mallet, it's there for good! You'll have to destroy the bucket to get the ring off.
Starter Pantry Inventory List
This list is by no means meant to be comprehensive but it is a start for a well stocked pantry providing a large enough variety of foods for any and all occassions. -well I'll post it as soon as I can figure out how to put the link here!