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LaTigresse -> RE: Food Fest! (12/20/2008 11:40:31 AM)
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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy
I wonder what it is that Amish and other tribes DO... like they have a life force glow that most of us dont have. So they are doing something different.
It's called inbreeding pahunk. They also have a dozen kids to work the gardens and tend all the animals. They can, can can can, everything. They have root cellars. AND, they shop at grocery stores just like the rest of us. I remember on Halloween night, there was a group of kids that had brought the buggy into town, they were in the candy isle buying up the leftover halloween candy.
Here is a recipe (of sorts) I made yesterday.
3 stalks celery chopped, 1 medium onion chopped, 2-3 cloves garlic minced. Sautee in 3ish TBS olive oil. Add 1/2 cup more or less, dry red wine and simmer for a few, then remove from heat.
2lbs sirloin (or whatever you have in the deep freeze) cubed and browned in a little more olive oil.
put together in stockpot with large can beef broth and 4-6 carrots sliced. Add black pepper 1/2 tsp, parsley 1 TBS, basil 1 TBS, salt (sorry I am terrible at measuring, so they are approximate) Simmer forrrr, an hour or so. Add 3-4 potatoes peeled and chopped. Water if needed to just barely cover everything. Simmer until carrots and potatoes are done. put approx 1/4 - 1/3 c flour in a bowl and slowly add milk, stirring until runny. Add this to pot, stirring vigorously. Stir on low heat until stew thickens. Check flavour, add additional salt pepper as necessary.
Can also start the same for beef barley soup, but omit the potatoes and the flour milk to thicken.
Orr, Chicken and rice soup
Start with same celery, onion, garlic, except you brown chicken instead of beef. And a dry white wine instead of red. Chicken broth, carrots, same seasonings but you can also add some rosemary, perhaps less basil. no potatoes. A couple cups of wild rice, simmer until rice is done.
Chicken noodle, substitute a package of egg noodles for the rice.
Cheesy potato ham casserole
8ish potatoes, peeled sliced and boiled until just done.
In casserole dish, spray with none stick and layer half the potatoes. A layer of chopped ham, A layer of your favourite cheese.........repeat.
Put a stick of butter in a skillet and melt, begin adding flour until you have a really thick almost like dried paste. Begin adding milk until you got a runny and lump free gravy, stir constantly on low heat adding salt pepper garlic powder and onion powder, stir until a thick gravy consistancy. Pour over potatoes ham and cheese. Bake at 325 until top is bubbling and yummy brown around the edges.
Sorry about poor measurements...........I don't measure much.
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