Carrot and Fennel Hash Recipe

I've never had fennel before. It's something I feed my rabbits and they love from bulb to frond. They can't get enough! It smells good. Kind of like anise or licorice, but milder. I thought I would give it a try and acquired a small bulb.

I found this pic on the web.

Then, I searched for a recipe. I found this one: Carrot and Fennel
I didn't have all of the ingredients, so modified it a bit:

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
3 carrots, shredded
1 fennel, diced
1/4 teaspoon fennel seed
1/4 teaspoon parsley
1/4 teaspoon cumin
1 tablespoon butter
1/3 cup milk

Sauté carrots and fennel in olive oil/butter mixture on medium-high, until slightly tender and browned.
Lower temperature and add spices, continue stirring until mixed with vegetables. Add butter/milk mixture and cook until absorbed.
Fennel will have a slight 'crunch'. The carrots lend a sweetness.

This made enough for 2.

Served with a small T-bone steak and milk.

And, an FYI, fennel is used to make absinthe ... which I have no intention of trying. ;)

Holiday Dinner - December 25, 2013

We didn't really plan to have a big dinner for the holiday, but it sure turned out to be a feast.
We had a baked organic whole chicken infused with homemade bone broth (via syringe) & rubbed with rosemary, thyme, garlic salt and pepper; chicken gravy; wild rice blend and millet with lots of butter; dressing made of chopped chicken offal (the heart, gizzard and liver from the chicken), wild rice blend, millet, cranberries, apples, olives, gluten-free croutons, walnuts and pine nuts); homemade tapioca pudding with apples and cream; gluten-free rolls with lots of butter; and, milk.

Homemade cranberry sauce

Dressing before meat, rice, millet and broth are added.

Tapioca with apples (forgot to add the cream for the pictures)

I should have taken the lid off of the cranberry sauce for this shot ...

I. Am. Stuffed.
Lots of yummy leftovers will commence tomorrow.

Thanksgiving Dinner 2013

Although we don't really 'celebrate' Thanksgiving here, we did make up a nice dinner tonight.
Turkey thighs stuffed with fresh sage, rosemary and thyme. Garnet yams with lots of butter. Green beans, pearl onions, Granny Smith apples, dried peppers, dried tomatoes all steamed together. With milk. And, a dessert of sliced Pink Lady apples in a dip made of pumpkin pie filling, mascarpone, Crème fraîche, cinnamon and ginger and topped with walnuts and raisins.
MMMMMMMmmmmmm.

Dinner - June 2, 2013

We decided to have breakfast for dinner. And, it was so good!
There was enough flour left in the bag of Pamela's Baking & Pancake Mix for 4 gluten-free pancakes. So we each had 2. My mom added pine nuts to the batter. Loved that little bit of crunch. Topped with lots of butter and maple syrup!
I made this to go with the pancakes - Maple Chili Bacon SOOOOO good!

The butter melted far too quickly to get a good picture!
And, of course, a glass of raw milk!

Squash Hash with Fried Eggs Recipe

I got the idea for this recipe from Cave Girl Eats on Facebook. I saw her picture and had to make it - with my own variations!

3 strips bacon - diced
2 eggs (I actually used 2 chicken and 2 dove eggs this time)
½ small squash (I used Carnival, but Acorn, yellow or other would do) - de-seeded and diced
1 Jalapeño Pepper - de-seeded and diced
¼ onion - diced
Cumin - to taste
Butter

Cook bacon (I baked mine - 350°F. for 30 minutes, until crisp).

Heat butter in 2 small cast iron pans.
In one, fry onion until transluscent. Add squash and Jalapeño. Stir in bacon. Cook until squash is tender. Stir in cumin to taste.
In the other pan, fry the eggs. Sprinkle with cumin to taste.

Plate the hash and top with eggs (I'm adjusting to a new stove, so the eggs got a little crispy!)

This served one - moi!

Dinner - March 19, 2013

Dinner tonight was leftover roast beef. I heated it up in the oven with lots of butter. I added a chunk of one of my favorite cheese on the side - Clawson Scarlet White Stilton® & Cranberry. Simple, but good!

Lunch - March 10, 2013

Today's lunch was simple, but very good. Wild salmon baked in butter and sprinkled with onion powder, garlic powder and chili powder. It was so tender.

Dinner - March 6, 2013

Baked salmon sprinkled with white pepper and broccoli sautéed with butter and topped with herbed goat cheese/cream cheese mixture. So good.

And, yes, the white stuff on the salmon is its own fish oil.

Dinner - March 5, 2013

My busy day ended with a very good meal.
My mom used the last of the BBQ sauce I made for her the other day (I'll have to get that recipe up on the blog later in the week.)
She coated a whole chicken leg/thight with it and NuWaved it. Then, there were yummy mashed sweet potatoes with butter. And, a nectarine to top it all off! So good.

Lunch - March 3, 2013

Few meals are easier or quicker to make than simple bacon and eggs or sausage and eggs fried in pasture butter. And, it's easy to add a little extra before putting it all on your plate. I added a few dandelion flowers I picked about 15 minutes beforehand while I was hanging clothes on the line! The flowers were quickly seared and the meal was ready!
So good!

Lunch - February 12,2013

Today's lunch is not very Paleo or gluten-free! But, it's pretty good.
Leftover pork roast on buttered rye toast and a banana.

Apple Bacon Hash Recipe

I originally found this on Facebook shared by Just Eat Real Food. It is sooo good.

1/4 cup unsalted

Pasture Butter

2 organic Pink Lady apples, cored and sliced
1/2 cup pecan halves (not in first picture)
1 pound bacon
2 Tablespoons Shredded Parmesan cheese

Melt butter in large cast iron pan (I used a #9). Slice and core apples. Cut bacon in small pieces. Add apples and pecans to pan and sautè. Add bacon and cook on medium heat until done and apples are slightly browned; stir occasionally.

Top each plateful with 1 Tablespoon cheese.

Serves 2.

Cinnamon Butter Bites Freezer Candy Recipe

I originally found this recipe here: Cinnamon Butter Bites. A modified it slightly.

1 pound pasture butter, softened
1 tablespoon local honey
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Add butter, cinnamon, honey, and vanilla extract to your food processor. Process for a couple of minutes, mixing ingredients until it looks like whipped frosting. Stop food processor and scrape down the sides of bowl, as necessary.
Line a baking sheet that will fit into your freezer with parchment paper. Place bite-size spoonfuls of butter mixture onto parchment paper-lined tray.

Freeze for an hour or two until hard, then remove from parchment paper and store in a covered container in your freezer.

These will literally melt in your mouth!

Almond Flour Biscuits Recipe

I found the original recipe here: Almond Flour Biscuit

2 cups organic almond flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3 Tablespoons organic butter
2 organic pastured eggs
2 Tablespoons local organic raw honey
1 teaspoon organic vanilla extract

Preheat oven at 350°F.
Mix flour, baking soda and butter by hand until you have a crumbly consistency. Add eggs, honey and vanilla and mix thoroughly.
Spoon batter onto parchment-covered baking sheet. (You can also pat them into biscuit shapes or roll out the dough and use cookie cutters.)

Bake for 7 minutes or until golden. Eat them plain or top with favorite nut butter or butter!

Enjoy!

Curried Chicken Recipe

I got this idea from an image shared on Facebook by Kris' Health Blog.

1 lb. chicken meat, cut in strips
1/4 lb. raw butter
black pepper, to taste
sea salt, to taste
curry powder, to taste
garlic powder, to taste
2 large lettuce leaves

Melt butter, with spices, on low heat. Add chicken. Raise heat to high. Stir until chicken is thoroughly coated. Cook until the chicken has a slightly crispy coating. Serve on lettuce leaf. Pour excess butter over all.
This served 2.

Homemade Butter Recipe

My plan was to make a small batch of whipped cream, so I skimmed some raw cream off of our latest batch of raw milk from our local farmer.

I wanted to do it by hand, the old-fashioned way. This was taking way to long with the small whisk. So, I got out my grandma's old egg beater.

Then I got distracted just as I was getting to the whipped peaks stage ... and ... I made sweet cream butter! And, a little buttermilk! So, not a real loss. Love me some raw butter!!

 

Organic Butter

I recently joined the YahooGroup for my local Weston Price Foundation. An offer went through the group to co-op for a block of organic pasture butter. But, it is 10 lb. blocks, so would be about $50. I so want to do it. But, I can't this month as Curtis is going to do some work on my car. So, the extra money is going to that. Sad ... Hopefully, next time it is offered I will be able to do it.