Prep Time: 5 minutes. Cooking Time: 5 to 7 minutes. The first time my wife made her homemade BBQ sauce for me, it was an afterthought to our dinner. I was on the porch grilling ribs and told her they would be ready in ten minutes, and she casually asked if I wanted BBQ sauce. I assumed she meant generic store-bought [...]
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Super Bowl Champion Thai Lettuce Wraps
Posted in A Wee Wife, Recipes, tagged lettuce leaf, mirin, rice wine vinegar, sesame seed oil, wraps on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Thai Lettuce Wraps Ingredients Although we prepared several wonderful dishes on Super Bowl Sunday, the absolute champion was Kayla’s Thai Lettuce Wraps. She decided to make Thai Lettuce Wraps only after taking inventory of the ingredients I brought into the house and set on the table: freshly picked bibb and red salad and buttercrunch lettuce, baby cabbage [...]
Homemade Breakfast Sausage Recipe
Posted in Recipes, tagged breakfast sausage seasoning, ground pork, homemade breakfast sausage on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
What is better than the smell of good breakfast sausage, frying in the morning pan? Stop by Coastal Bend Health Foods and get a free packet of Homemade Breakfast Sausage Seasoning with each pound of ground pork. We offer three flavors of seasoning: sage, hot, and breakfast blend. For a limited time, when you buy [...]
Collard Greens Recipe
Posted in Recipes, tagged collard greens on January 19, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Freshly picked collard greens offer a unique and robust flavor in this healthy and delicious recipe. Prep time is 15 minutes and cooking time is 45 minutes, or up to 2 hours. The longer they simmer, the better the flavor. Collard greens are not particularly popular outside the Deep South, where folks know their country greens. Many [...]
Three Good Recipes for Green Tomatoes
Posted in Recipes, tagged green tomatoes, recipes, tomatoes on December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The following green tomato recipes are delicious and exceptionally healthy. Kimmi’s Oven-Fried Green Tomato is the healthiest and lightest fried green tomato recipe you will ever try! And her Green Tomato Rice is a hearty dish, perfect for a blustery winter day. Thank you Kimmi for these fabulous recipes! Green Tomato Chutney is sweet, spicy, tart, and wonderful–use this chutney to spice [...]
Easy Roast Chicken Recipe for Pastured Chicken
Posted in Pastured Poultry, Recipes, tagged pastured, roast chicken on March 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The following recipe* is the easiest and best way to cook a pastured chicken. A pastured chicken is vastly superior to a conventional, supermarket bird. This recipe involves almost no preparation time and only a couple of ingredients; however, it unlocks all the delicious flavor of a pastured chicken. Preparation time is less than 10 minutes. Cooking [...]
Pulled Pork Sandwich Recipe
Posted in Recipes on December 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
On the off-chance you have leftovers from your Fresh Ham Roast Recipe, this sandwich recipe is perfect. Shred the ham roast to make “pulled pork” and prepare your sandwich as follows. I use only fresh homemade bread or tortillas with this recipe. Try a handful of fresh garden herbs instead of lettuce. I love the crispness of [...]
Fresh Ham Roast Recipe
Posted in Recipes, tagged fresh ham roast, ham roast, ham roast recipe on December 31, 2010 | 8 Comments »
The following recipe is my all-time favorite for our fresh ham roasts. Preparation time is less than 15 minutes. Cooking time is 2 hours 40 minutes. If you manage to save any of this roast, the left-overs are wonderful. Fresh bone-in ham has not been cured or processed in any way. Our ham and picnic roasts are cut by [...]
Venison Stuffed with Greens
Posted in Pioneer Farming, Recipes on December 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
If you follow this blog, you know that I protect, as best as I can, the predators on my farm: coyotes, hawks, owls, coons, bobcats, gators, and so on. Obviously, this policy includes the peaceful, graceful, gentle deer. Today, I would like to discuss with you a shift in policy. I went out this morning to check [...]
Okra is Not a Four-Letter-Word
Posted in Pioneer Farming, Recipes, Vegetables on September 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I never liked okra, and that’s not my fault. I had only ever eaten it slimy, deep-fried, and wrapped in a wad of corn meal. However, my opinion of okra improved greatly when I learned to roast it in the open fire; to sauté it with onions at altitude; to spice the okra with some foreign four-letter-words. A Vegetarian [...]
