Homesteaders

[Woodsdweller]

Iffn I'm cooking for anyone.. it's gonna be here as I don't relish the thought of packing up the cooking "stuff" I'm used to and dragging it around. My truck only holds just so much.

 

[Woodsdweller]

How about meals on wheels?. I'll make the meals and you can use your wheels to drive up my mountain to get them.

Or you can make them yourself.

1 tablespoon butter
2 leek (white and light green parts only), halved and thinly sliced, then well washed
1 pound asparagus, thinly sliced on the diagonal
4 large eggs
1 1/4 cups half-and-half
Ground nutmeg (heavy pinch)
4 ounces Gruyere cheese , shredded
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper, freshly ground
1 - 9" deep dish or 2 regular 9" crusts

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, move rack to lowest position. In a large skillet, melt butter over medium. Add leek and asparagus; season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until asparagus is crisp-tender, 6 to 8 minutes; let cool.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, half-and-half, salt, pepper, and a pinch of nutmeg. Place pie crust(s) on a rimmed baking sheet. Sprinkle with cheese; top with asparagus mixture. Pour egg mixture on top.
3. Bake until center of quiche is just set, 50 to 60 minutes, rotating sheet halfway through. Let stand 15 minutes before serving.

Other cheeses can be used such as Jarlsburg swiss, smoked Provolone, regular Swiss or Cheddar. Great hot or cold.

 

[MoonShadows]

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Why eat out when it's fairly easy to make good eats at home?

Accck!! 2 days ago I had a crap up the kitchen day. Ever have one of those days when you open the fridge and get an overpowering urge to purge? The fridge, not the contents of yer stomach (Probably not cos yer saner than me). I spent the previous couple of days cleaning up broken branches from the ice storm last week and had neglected cooking. I looked in the fridge and noticed all the fresh veg and 2 whole chickens that needed something done with. So.. 8am cut up chicken, remove bones. 8:30am add onions, carrots, celery, carcasses, spices, water to stock pot. Cook stock, skim scum, skim scum, yadda yadda. 9:30am fry chicken fat and skins for the mutt. Mix up bread dough for dinner. 10:30am vacuum seal some chicken parts and put in freezer. 11:10am dice up chicken not frozen for chicken/rice soup tomorrow. 11:30am divide risen dough put into pans. 11:45am. prepare asparagus, leek, gruyere quiches. 12:10pm put quiches into oven. 12:45pm put bread into oven. 1:00pm take quiches out of oven. 1:20pm take bread out of oven. 1:25pm eat pastrami sandwich for lunch. 2:00pm cut up 2lbs. broccoli, dice an onion, peel & dice 2 cloves garlic, dice leek greens (the dark green bits that most people throw away). Add 2Tbs butter to dutch oven, toss in previously cut up veg and cook to death for 20 min, add in water, chicken stock & 1/2lb spinach and cook for 3 mins. add shredded parmesan & cheddar cheese and puree with blender, let cool then put in freezer containers to freeze overnight to be unmolded and vacuum sealed tomorrow. 3pm put quiches in fridge. 7pm eat some quiche with fresh bread. 8pm strain stock, cover and put outside overnight to cool. 8:30 p.m. Look at kitchen.... Arrrgh!...Arrrgh! again.. then let the cleaning begin.



Today: Stocked up on stock and soup.


Kitchen is nearly back to "normal".


Yum, yum. What time should we be there for leftovers?

 

[MoonShadows]

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What's a restaurant? LOL I haven't eaten in a restaurant in a few years.

 

[Woodsdweller]

Just give me a call when you get to the bottom of the mountain. Everything should be heated by the time you got here.

 

[MoonShadows]

On the subject of throwing garbage/trash by the roadside.....When I moved here in 1995, the roads were as clean as a whistle. Now, I can't believe the garbage people throw out their car windows. There is one country road that has signs saying: "No dumping allowed". DUH...isn't that common sense? But, it is constantly littered with fast food containers, bottles, cans...and today I saw a sofa, mattress and box spring dumped along the road. There are a lot of animals out there, and many of them are human!

 

[MoonShadows]

Quote:
Just give me a call when you get to the bottom of the mountain. Everything should be heated by the time you got here.

Where are you in Virginia? My family was from Culpeper.

 

[Woodsdweller]

Quote:
Just give me a call when you get to the bottom of the mountain. Everything should be heated by the time you got here.

Where are you in Virginia? My family was from Culpeper.

South of Roanoke near the Carolina border

 

[KlopKlop]

On the subject of throwing garbage/trash by the roadside.....When I moved here in 1995, the roads were as clean as a whistle. Now, I can't believe the garbage people throw out their car windows. There is one country road that has signs saying: "No dumping allowed". DUH...isn't that common sense? But, it is constantly littered with fast food containers, bottles, cans...and today I saw a sofa, mattress and box spring dumped along the road. There are a lot of animals out there, and many of them are human!

Right! I don't understand the train of thought! What do the think will happen to that junk?

 

[Woodsdweller]

Quote: I'm guessing there was no real thinking involved.