saturday: new years day. of course we had to have some sort of collard greens and black eyed pea dinner. since we are also trying to reduce our recently expanding waistlines, i decided to make a really simple dinner. i braised the greens in some apple cider and onions, made a small pot of the peas, and then cooked up a some black forest bacon. i put it all in a bowl and served it up with a bit of homemade cornbread.
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| happy delicious new year!!! |
sunday: for breakfast we had left over cornbread and happy chicken scrambled eggs. then we had a snack of left over salami, crackers, nuts, and cheese for lunch. and for dinner left over greens and cornbread.
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| happy happy chickens. |
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| so nice we ate it twice. |
monday: cereal for breakfast and more left over greens and cornbread for lunch. then, since i was a bit under the weather ("lady troubles"), on the way home from getting hubby from the train, we picked up and split a sandwich from mom's deli and had that for dinner with the last of the potato chips.
tuesday: cereal for breakfast and for lunch the last of the dried pasta with red sauce, capers, and cheese (all things i had in the house prior to the start of the project). tuesday i was feeling better so for dinner i made some irish soda bread and soup with cabbage, carrots, onions, potatoes, homemade turkey stock, and some local smoked andouille sausage from the farmers' larder that i had in the freezer (no antibiotics, hormones, msg, or sodium nitrate. and instead of sugar, they used local honey). this my friends, is so simple to make. just saute the onions (in either butter or bacon grease) for a few minutes. throw in the carrots and let them go for just a bit. add in the turkey stock, cabbage, and potatoes and cook till everything is just about soft. i only thawed out one jar of stock from the freezer (i made about 6 jars with the thanksgiving turkey caucus and neck) so i had to add extra water to have enough liquid. that thinned out the taste of the stock a bit, but after cooking the veggies, that added some flavor. and then right at the end i added the andouille sausage and let that simmer just long enough to add some flavor to the broth but also keep the integrity of the sausage.
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| freezing the stock is much easier than water bath canning. just remember to get freezer safe jars. |
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| soups on!!!! |
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| irish soda bread cooked in my little cast iron dutchy. |
wednesday: cereal for breakfast and then crackers, cheese, an apple, and the last of the salami for lunch. for dinner neither hubby nor i were that hungry (back under the weather for me. darn you uterus) so we just had a buffet of various snacks for dinner.
thursday: oatmeal and almonds for breakfast. for lunch i had happy chicken scrambled eggs, irish soda bread with butter and jam, and a bit more of the farmers' larder andouille sausage. look how orange those yolks are folks!! that's how there supposed to be. not that sad pale yellow color you see in grocery store eggs. and these eggs were REALLY good cause not only did i cook them in a little of the grease from the sausage, but when i went to add milk to the eggs and little blob of cream came out and i mixed that in. oooohhhhh delicious!!!! for dinner we're gonna have left over cabbage soup and irish soda bread.
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| they're looking at you. |
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| breakfast is good anytime of the day. |
and there you have it. week one is going pretty good. but as time goes by i know it's gonna get harder. especially once all the chips, crackers, and such are gone and i gotta find a good subsitute for the hubby. the cereal (and nuts) is already gone so at some point tomorrow i need to make granola. and in the future is see homemade crackers and hopefully some homemade pretzels. fingers crossed!
upcoming post: i joined a CSA, weekend farmer's market loot.
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