Showing posts with label recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recipes. Show all posts

Friday, July 10, 2009

making gluten free flour and almond milk!

ya baby! thats what I love to do! Bake, whip it up from scratch, I mean the very beginning! I used to do it all scratch, grind my wheat the whole thing. Then L was arrested and life changed. I am either to tired, to sick, not enough time, dont care whatever there is a reason. So we have mainly eaten store bread(YUCK GAG SPIT SPUTTER EW) But now with chubby not being allowed any dairy I have to make sure he can have substitutes. And with the possible gluten issue no one gets it for a month or 2! We will see if there is a difference in anyone after the month, if there is on Chubby is in for more testing, if not we will give it another month, if no one does anything different its back to gluten. But in the mean time we have to find good stuff! I love to cook and bake. So instead of sitting here complaining about what we cant have I am looking for new stuff to try! Been fun so far!Since we love yogurt and ice cream I had to find substitutes! I did! Ice cream can be made from coconut milk and it is delicious! Creamy, just oh awesome. We made chocolate coconut ice cream. I would take it over store ice cream any day! Its a soft serve, but thats ok, I dont mind. It was yummy. I think I put the recipe for it in the last post. If not and you want it let me know I will repost. I am putting together a recipe book of the dairy and gluten free stuff we try, keeping track of specifically the yummy ones!
I just whipped me up a breakfast/lunch drink, its yummy and fast took me under 5 minutes here is the recipe:
Coconut milk smoothie
½ can coconut milk
Coconut
Hersheys syrup(small amount)
Ground flax
Almont flour(from making almond milk)
Ice cubes
Blend in blender and drink up!
This filled a 1 qt jar.

ok back to my flour and stuff. I took pictures and am going to write the process. The items I have to make flour, and I am finding I can make any flour with these. I had all but 1 I picked it up cheap I have:
* wheat grinder
*blender
*food processor
*coffee bean grinder- great for grinding beans for bean flour!
*juicer
Cheese clothe for straining some things

Ok first recipe to cover Almond milk. Of the options for Chubby its all he likes, and having tasted them with him I understand why! Almond milk tastes like almonds, its good stuff! But its expensive and you know me if I can make it cheaper I am all for learning how to do it, so I did! Plus making it I also get almond flour for baking, he can have almond flour!
So start off
2 cups almonds
6 cups water, cover and sit over night
in the morning put almonds and the water in blender and blend until smooth.
strain with cheese cloth
you can keep the left over almond and dry and grind for flour, use and make a paste for baking or whatever.
I added 2 TBS almond back into it and blended, about 3/4 cup coconut ground and 1/2 can coconut milk, blended and its cooling in the fridge now. Tastes pertty good. Hope its even better when chilled.

Next up flours

* Brown rice flour- simple same for white rice also, but it is stickier
put the rice in blender or if your grinder will do it the grinder and turn it on until flour consistency!

*Flax-
flax in blender and blend- refrigerate after if you dont it goes rancid fast. Also only do small amounts at a time. I keep a spice grinder full and in the fridge, no more than that. If I want more I grind it when I want it.

*bean flour- I know what would I want bean flour for? Well we discovered it is awesome as a thickener for gravies and sauces! I used white northern beans and we made sausage gravy, turned out good. Its a little different to get the amount than using corn starch but it works good, and it adds to the daily protein! You can use any bean. Some bread and other recipes call for it. Good for soups and stews either as thickener or for flavor and nutrition

*Oat flour- in blender oats(oat meal) or steel cut oats, blend until flour, makes awesome cookies! Use to thicken also but I love this in cookies and bread

The biggies now! Potatoe flour, can also do with sweet potatoe/yams! I did this and made starch and potatoe flour! it was fun!
Step 1 -
Grate the potato very finely and place the wet pulp into a clean cloth that you have sitting in a bowl or chop and run through juicer. I did both and got more juice from the juicer than shredding
Pulp is dried for flour, juice is saved and made into starch

Step 2 -
In this step you will be rinsing the starch out of the pulp by squeezing the bag of pulp then adding clean water and squeezing again until the water runs clear when you squeeze. I forgot to rinse repeatedly as I was squeezing the bag, I sq ooze and then went to next step, the result was less starch and my flour was gray. Still can be used but not as pretty as the starch

Step 3 -
Settling out and rinsing the starch is next. At this point you will need to place the liquid into the refrigerator (to keep the liquid from oxidizing or fermenting). Let it sit in there for 1-2 hours Take it out as carefully as you can so as not to stir up the starch that has settled to the bottom. Pour off as much of the liquid as you can without loosing all the white starch at the bottom. No add some clean water and stir up the starch. I used a turner which worked really well to loosen the starch from the bottom. Then place back in the refrigerator for at least an hour. The starch will have settled again. Pour off the rinse water being careful not to loose the starch. Allow what water does remain to evaporate until you have dry starch. Collect this and store it once you are sure it is dry. I let it sit in the pan with cheese cloth over it to dry

OK, Now. How to Make Potato Flour:
If all you are after is the flour and not any separate starch you can skip the steps above and merely dry the pulp with the starch in it. All you need to do is let the pulp dry out. I dried the pulp in my dehydrator and then used the blender to grind, after the blender I used the coffee grinder for a finer grind.

I threw together a large bowl of all purpose flour for mixing fast, bread, cakes, cookies whatever. If its handy we are more apt to do it, and less intimidated than grinding it all every time the kids want a cookie! The mix I made was simple and tastes good. Here it is:

6 c brown rice flour
5 c oat flour
2 c quinoa
1 c flax
1 2/3 c corn starch
mix well seal in air tight container.
This may sound like a lot but with the baking we do its not. I also have the following I found and have not tried but plan on trying this next week or at least soon.

add this to the above:
Self-Rising Flour Mix
Combine:
1 cup gluten-free flour mix
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

more tricks
Adding Moistness and Flavor to Gluten-Free Baked Goods
Choose a recipe wisely. Recipes containing pureed fruit, shredded veggies, yogurt, or sour cream translate beautifully to gluten-free. Think: banana muffins, carrot or pumpkin cake, sour cream apple cake.
Adding applesauce, pureed fruit or yogurt to recipes helps gluten-free cakes, muffins and quick breads stay moist.
Adding shredded or desiccated coconut, chopped nuts, dried fruit, and chocolate chips also goes a long way to improving texture and flavor. Start with adding one half cup to your favorite recipe. Experiment and have fun.
Use organic brown sugar instead of refined white sugar. It boosts moistness and flavor.
Honey is a humectant and adds moistness [use less liquid in the recipe if you use honey].
More recipes later! Any ideas? Questions? Let me know love to hear thoughts
oh and yes I do know about the oats and gluten being unsure, I made sure mine are gluten free.
Agave adds moisture, too. But if it's humid on the day you are baking, use less agave (or honey).
Use more vanilla. I always double the vanilla in my recipes. Gluten-Free flours can taste strong and unfamiliar, and a little extra vanilla helps soften their flavor.
Add extra baking spices - like cinnamon and nutmeg - to deepen flavor complexity cinnamon and chocolate is a yummy secret
here are some pics of making the almond milk, some of the flours I have made and the simple appliances needed to do it!
boring? Ya maybe, for someone else. I am easily entertained and love doing this stuff! So now you get lessons and pictures!

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

gluten free, dairy free what else are we free of next?

I really dont want to know. So far Chubby has made massive improvements with the dairy cut out of his diet! He is feeling better, getting more regular, its good! His appetite seems to be doing better. We are now on part 2, removing gluten. You know it sounds simple, but its not, its in everything. My cans of tomato soup have it! Its every where. I cant make 2 meals, one for him one for everyone else, I dont have time and health not up to that. Also if its in the house I run the risk of him eating it and getting sick, so we all get gluten free. We only do it a short time, unless there is more improvement then we continue. So we started today. I am kinda taking it slow, removing as much as I can as I go. Its a shock to see how much has wheat in it. Today was a busy day, one I totally enjoyed. I was doing things I love to do, things I have missed doing daily since L was arrested. I made Gluten free bread(from here on out referred to as G-free cause I am to lazy to type it) it was not bad. Everyone ate some, did not mind it much. The texture is like corn bread, we all love corn bread. I will try more recipes. I made 2 loafs. I threw together a G free flour mix so its already to go for pancakes or whatever. I made potato flour and potato starch. That was a pain! But the starch turned out awesome, the flour not as good. Doing it a little different next time I think. Then we made chocolate coconut milk ice cream! iT WAS AWESOME! No dairy for Chubs means no ice cream. I have made yogurt from coconut milk and its good, now I have ice cream for him. It was so good, creamy. Its a soft serve, not real firm. But thats ok, its creamy and awesome. I plan on making more soon when its gone. I am looking for more good recipes, found some that look awesome. Found one with yams, apple, lime and cilantro. We are having it tomorrow, I hope.
For now I'll share the recipes used today, if your brave enough givem a try.
the ice cream first cause it was awesome! I would eat this anytime!
This was enough for our family- 7 kids 2 adults. With some left over!
Chocolate Coconut Milk Ice Cream
6 cans of unsweetened coconut milk
1 2/3 cup of cocoa powder
6 tablespoons agave syrup or b sugar(I used b sugar)
3 teaspoon vanilla extract
Almond milk enough to fill line on ice cream maker after using 6 cans coconut milk

Whisk cocoa powder in a small amount of coconut milk, until smooth. Then add the rest of the ingredients and whisk until well combined. Or dump all ingredients together and blend with a stick blender. Make according to your machines instructions.

Can use any sweetener choose in place of agave syrup

The bread I made:

G free bread- 2 loafs
2 ½ c rice flour
2 ½ c oat flour
1 1/3 c tapioca flour
2 tsp salt
3 TBS b sugar

Wet Ingredient
1 can coconut milk, and the rest soy to make 3 cups
4TBS olive oil
2 TBS yeast
4 eggs
1. In a small bowl, combine milk and yeast.
2. Place all dry ingredients in a mixer bowl and wisk through to mix together.
3. Add yeast mixture, coconut oil and eggs.
4. Using an electric mixer, mix dough for 2 mins on medium.
5. Lightly grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan with butter.
6. Spread batter evenly into the pan.
7. Cover pan with greased saran wrap.
8. Allow dough to rise for 1 hour in a warm place.
9. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
10. Bake dough for 50 minutes.
11. Remove bread from oven and allow it to cool in the pan for 5 minutes.
12. Ater five minutes, turn bread out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Makes one 9x5 loaf
Heres a copy of the directions for potato flour and starch the blog is here
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/armoorefam/47426/
The bread was not bad. I found a recipe for potato bread I am going to try. Hope it turns out good!
anyone have any dairy, gluten free recipes you want to share? Either email or comment with it, I would love to see more!

Monday, June 29, 2009

mmmmm dinner! Fruit! and more flowers!

so Baby E wants mac n cheese, YUCK! so we get mac n cheese and fruit salad. this fruit salad has lots
5 cans fruit cocktail
1 large can peaches
1 large can pears
1 frozen bag 3 berry=raspberry,blueberry,blackberry
1 cup fresh ground flax seed
craisins
coconut
yogurt
vanilla
Cinnamon
vanilla
cloves
ginger
and I cant remember what other spice Loo decided it needed. But it is one delicious fruit salad
also I have 2 Rose of Sharon trees they are blooming!!!!!!!!! BEAUTIFUL! I will snap pics this week for yawl's(is that hick enuff fer ya?) and post them. Garden is doing good. My corn is popping up pretty good! And squash. Not sure I have any tomato left. The birds may have eaten them, I cant remember what was planted where, so it will be a surprise, and now I am afraid to weed, it may not be a weed. The year I pulled all the carrots thinking they were weeds keeps going through my mind! I do not want a repeat!
I am transferring all posts from the old blog so I don't loose them over here, so if you start seeing posts that make no sense for the timing that's why. They will be new here. Be a walk down memory lane!
I found garlic in the yard growing today! MMMMMMMMM you know how I am, picked it and ate it raw right there! I did not eat the whole thing but part, so good. I love garlic! I have so much stuff growing around the yard, I AM GOING TO HAVE TO INVEST IN BETTER HERB IDENTIFYNG BOOKS THAN WHAT I HAVE. I CANT FIGURE OUT WHAT ANYTHING IS. I AM WAITING ON MY TEACHER TO HELP IDENTIFY ONE THING. oops there goes the caps again, sorry. To lazy to go back n fix it!
I am working. May not be after the 3rd. I am working on school, thinking I will try to study more while not working if I end up job hunting. Hope I don't. I have already looked at a couple other companies.
I am really enjoying learning. Right now I am just studying pretty basic stuff, nutritional healing. I have not learned anything I did not know, but have been reminded of many things I have forgotten. The class even takes a religious view, not any 1 view, but 2. It is interesting to see the similarities, and how following the belief leads to suck a healthy diet, a better way to care for ones body. I had not realized other religions had such strong views on diet and everything. I know the WOW for me as an LDS person. But the Koran has reference, the Bible has more reference than I knew. I know we use it also, but I did not know how much is in it about diet, eating and caring for the body. How herbs are here for us to heal and medicinal reasons and stuff. Its interesting. I am enjoying that its also reinforcing my religious view on diet, the W O W, care of the body, herbs place in our life.

I also got results on chubby's tests today. The enema and x ray show no abnormalities beyond the damage done by the chronic constipation and impaction. Massive stretching, may or may not go back like it should eventually. Only time will tell. The blood tests for celiac say negative. They did all kinds of tests for it, I was lost when she went over it. The nurse is all I talked to. I have questions for the doc so she will be calling me tomorrow. If its not an abnormality or Celiac I want to know what it is! We are going on a GF diet for a min of 1 month to see if it does anything. I have learned that the blood tests do not always come back accurate, and you can react to gluten with out it being celiac also. So we will all change diet. I have to wait till I can go shopping and buy for it for a month. So it will start next week. Many of us have the symptoms of celiacs. I am really wondering about me and a couple other kids. So we will see. The worst that happens will be we do it, no changes. We will know for sure.
I am going to try to work out a 1 month menu, breakfast, lunch and dinner. At the end of the month we will look at everyone and see how we are. I know if any one of us needs the GF diet we all have to pretty much do it, its to hard to have foods in the house that basically poison you and not eat them, to hard to cook separate meals. I wont do it.
Chubby still is dairy free. He will have to stay that way indefinitely. I will know tomorrow if I can make yogurt from coconut milk for him. I have the stuff, and its made the same as I make the other yogurt, but a coconut tastes I guess. Sounds yummy actually! So if Doc agrees that's how I will make his yogurt. We saw the new Ped today. This is the one that saw him in the ER and got it so he could see the specialist. I like her for the most part, some things I am unsure on but over all I like her. She is concerned about the lack of calcium due to no dairy and wants him taking calcium. I how ever am not sure than just giving him a pill is the best way to cover the need. So I am looking through school material, and considering asking my teacher her thoughts, also going into herbalist tomorrow and see what she says and has. There has to be another way. I know some teas have the vitamins and minerals we need, we can get them all through herbal teas, I am wondering if there is one that will give him his calcium.
so now you have my rambling thoughts. Remember as you read over the next while if things don't make sense its due to my bringing posts from the old blog over here. I am going to start at its beginning and work through. I may not bring them all, I am not sure. There are some very hard times, sensitive, emotional writings on the old blog. So if you get confused and wonder what is going on just drop me a note, give me a call and ask. I do not know how long it will take me to get it all done, or the easiest way to do it. I think I can bring them over and keep them private, I thought about that so I don't mess with the flow here, but then people wont be able to read and I know several people look through for reference and things in their life's. So I just don't know
anyways love y'all
I'll snap pics this week
oh and Nana will be back tomorrow, and boo is gone to a week long training at camp to learn to work it next year! I am so proud of him for that! He gets home Friday and then leaves early Monday for a week of scout camp! When I say early I mean ewwwwwwwwwwwwww make me cry early, I have to drive an hour there and he has to be there at I believe it was somewhere between 3 or 4 am! WAAAAAAA. He may find somewhere to sleep over so I do not have to make the trip that time in the morning. I am thinking I hope that's what happens.
Jae

Thursday, June 18, 2009

dinner lunch breakfast all this week

It is way to hot to cook, we have no air in the lower part of the house, I refuse to cook in this heat if I can avoid it. So we are eating fresh fruit, and homemade smoothies! here is what we have done
#1
homemade yogurt
cinnamon
brown sugar
watermelon chunks
fresh ground flax
ice cubes
blend in blender, add each to taste nummy

#2
home made yogurt
peaches
flax
ice cubes'
milk
vanilla
b sugar
honey
blend

#3
fruit cocktail from can
juice
flax ground
vanilla
cinnamon
cloves
wheat germ
nut granola(soaked over night, drained)
steel cut oats(soaked over night)
ice
blend

#4
steel cut oats n nut granols (soaked over night and drained)
peaches
vanilla
cinnamon
ice
blend

these are all delicous, feeling and healthy! the kids lovem I did not use as much ice with the last 2 so they were not frozen, maybe next time I will use more ice so they are
we have eaten these for dinner, lunch and snacks. Kids are also eating popcorn to munch on during the day. We have had steamed vegies, fruit salad, cantalope, green salad and cole slaw along with out smoothies, oh and some ice cream!
I have been drinking these for breakfast. I hate to eat breakfast, but I will drink something. So these are good!
For those that wonder why soak the granola and steel cut oats: Ever notice if you eat much oatmeal or granola you get gassy, bloated a little even. Sometimes worse than other? Its because our bodies cant break down the oats all the way, they do not spend enough time in out tummy. If you soak it for about 12 hours, drain and rinse it it starts the process and your system can break it down, also easier to absorb anything it needs from it that way. So I try to soak or cook all oatmeal, granola, steel cut oats over night to eat. Plus it tastes better I think!
So go soak some oatmeal pull out the blender and make a smootie!

Tomorrow the boys come home! I cant wait! I have missed them so much. its been weird to have them both gone all week long. Its been so much quieter here with only 4 kids! Nanna has been gone also, missing them all! I pick up the boys and eat dinner with them then come home.
I got a call from Peekachu's camp today. It flooded, washed out the road, they took all the boys to the main camp to finish the time. He is fine, but they forgot his meds! The lady calling says "we did not get his meds, will he be ok without them?" um NO or he would not have them! "Can you bring us some?" "no, he has them all there, no I cant get refills, they only refill on certain days, you must be out to get more, you need to find a way to go in and get his meds", shouda to begin with, they have canoes!
So she said they would ind a way to get them, if not she would let me know. So I called the pharmacy, explained, they are working on getting approval for early refills, I am not to thrilled. I would have preferred all his belongings be left and the meds taken, as long as he is safe! But his belongings made it out.
I am grateful he is ok, safe and not freaked out. I wish they would have made a priority of getting meds. I am sure other parents with kids on meds felt the same, I know he was not the only one with medications. Oh well!
So thats it for now, its bed time, I am off to get kids ready for bed and turn n for the night, I am beat!

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Raviolies?? Ya well they started out that way

I had not made pasta- home made pasta for a long time. Feeling a little more like getting back to my normal cooking these days so I decided we were making home made raviolis! Cheese raviolis! So I put the stuff in pasta maker- and turn it on- it goes! and stops after oh maybe 20 seconds. We repeat this process till I am totally ticked! SO I set up the food processor with the dough mixers and go that route. Mix it all up. I decide the kids are going to want to help, why not make them cute raviolis! I pull out the larger cookie cutters, a heart, circle, octagon, and house shape. This should be fun right? 

Have Nanna mix up the cheese filling for me. I roll out the dough and kids go to town! cutting shapes, we fill with a spoon, pinch edges together to seal it up. So after doing this for what seems like forever- really was not to long but when you have a 3,5,7 and 10 year old helping time stretches! Now don't get me wrong it was fun. They were having fun and adorable. Chubby laughs and says "I am awesome chef! HAHAHA!" It was great. made me laugh hard.

So first batch cooks! HMM some of the filling leaked out it seems, oh well, not a biggie.

So me and nanna think on new idea for rest, kids have mostly lost interest, not totally but they are ready to try a new method also. So I roll out a LARGE piece of dough, use pizza cutter and make a slice. I fill it every little ways, fold over and cut, pinch edges and cook. Even more filling runs out, but still taste yummy. 

Well by now I am bored, hungry and want to be done. Nanna says why don't we just spread the cheese over 1/2 the dough, fold it over, cut it, pinch it and call it good. Hey that sounds good! So we dump and spread! fold, and hm may not work but lets give it a try. I slice into squares. But they are all so full there is no edged to pinch any of them shut! lol so we squish them together as good as possible, loosing filling in the process. What started out looking like cute little raviolis now looks like a mushy mess of gooey dough covered in slimy cheese!

But I figure in the end it gets chewed and looks yucky anyway so hey we can start out looking yucky! Don't mean it tastes gross right? Into the boiling water they go! We loose more cheese filling! drain when done and put into a bowl. Now a lot of the cheese filling at this point leaked out into the water and kinda made its own sauce. Some of it was put in the pasta ( I say pasta because I am not sure they qualify as raviolis, raviolis are supposed to have filling, this does not for the most part!)

I make the Alfredo sauce, pout it over, mix it up and we eat. Amazingly enough they turned out good! Not as many lost their filling as we thought. and it was good. Here is the recipe

Pasta dough- this is from my friend Dulie- I doubled it 

Basic pasta

 4  eggs

1 tbsp water

3-1/2 cups flour, you can sift it, seems to make mixing time easier for me.

1/2 tsp salt

I added onion powder- no measurement just dumped, and garlic powder, just dumped. I used a lot, the dough tasted like garlic and onion It was good 

This is where I change the recipe some, I add all ingredients and mix, as it needed more moisture I used milk until it was moist as I wanted. Dulie uses water

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Cheese filling

1 container cottage cheese

cheddar cheese                                                                                            I mix them together, this is kind of an eye ball it thing. You can use whatever cheese you want, mix it up and call it good. My kids love this mix

 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alfredo sauce

1 package cream cheese

1 cube real butter

melt, mixing a lot, it wont really melt just get all gloppy

add bottle of shredded mozzarella/Romano cheese (one or both)is- this is where it melts. 

Add milk enough to make consistency you want. It can be thick or thin, your choice  . This stuff is good Pour over pasta                           


            

 

Friday, March 27, 2009

variety of favorite recipes

Stroganoff Recipe        

         cups mushrooms, sliced

         medium onion, diced

         tablespoon olive oil      

         tablespoons margarine 

         cup beef, cubed

         tablespoons flour         

         tablespoon Worcestershire sauce         

         cup milk          

         cup sour cream

         teaspoon nutmeg          

         package pasta, any kind

            salt and pepper

 

   1. Cook Pasta according to package.

   2. In a deep skillet.

   3. Saute Onions and Mushrooms until tender.

   4. Remove from pan and set aside.

   5. Saute the beef until brown and add to the Mushroom mixture.

   6. Next, add the flour to the juices in the pan and mix until blended well.

   7. Then gradually add in the Milk and Worchestershire sauce.

   8. Add back in the Mushroom Mixture and let simmer on low heat for about ten minutes.

   9. Add in the sour cream and stir until blended and heated through.

  10. Serve over the pasta.


Sour Cream

 

Method 1

I N G R E D I E N T S

1 cup cream

1 tablespoon cultured buttermilk

Recipe can be increased at the ratio of 1 tablespoon buttermilk to 1 cup of cream.

 

I N S T R U C T I O N S

In a double boiler bring the fresh cream up to 180 degrees. Cool to room temp in a cold water bath. Add the buttermilk, cover, and let sit at room temp. for 24-48 hours. Stir and refrigerate. The batch will keep approximately 3-4 weeks, refrigerated

 

 

 

Method 2

I N G R E D I E N T S

1 cup cream

1 1/2 cups pasteurized whole milk

1/2 cup buttermilk

 

I N S T R U C T I O N S

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl over warm water. Raise the temperature of the mixture to (68 degrees to 70 degrees F) and let it stand for 12 to 24 hours or until it is sufficiently sour and thick enough to cling firmly to a spoon. Keep in the refrigerator until you want to use it. For a richer heavier sour cream combine 2 cups of pasteurized heavy cream with 5 tablespoons of cultured buttermilk and incubate as before. For better texture refrigerate for 24 hours before serving.


Jae, Here's my base recipe. I use a food processer, and my kitchen aid attachments but I don't see why it wouldn't work for your machine.

 

Basic pasta

 

4 lg or 5 med eggs

1 tbsp water

3-1/2 cups flour, you can sift it, seems to make mixing time easier for me.

1/2 tsp salt

 

When I make the dough I add only half the water and the remaining I add a few drops at a time. I don't pour water onto the noodle dough, I dip my fingers in the water and flick it on, a little at a time. Sometimes I need to add a bit more water to the recipe. I think making noodle dough is a bit like candy making, the weather seems to affect how much liquid is needed

 

*** I add herbs to my noodles, the family favorite is when i add basil and garlic and throw them in stock. If you are using dry herbs soak them in the water you use for the noodles before you add it to the flour.

 

 

Wheat pasta

 

2-1/2 cups ww flour, sifted

1 cup sifted flour

4 lg eggs, or 5 med

2 tbsp water

1/2 tsp salt

 

Lots of people I know dry their pasta. As i make mine I hang them over my cupboard doors that have been covered by bread cloths. Then as I finish I dust them with flour and fold them into wax paper, i make sure the wax paper is between the layers of noodles to keep them from sticking, and put them in the fridge or freezer. We like our noodles on the soft side, makes them 'meatier' for soups and great with sauces. For spaghetti I will hang them out to dry some.


Cucumber Yogurt Sauce

         cups plain yogurt           or sour cream  

1/2       cup chopped peeled seeded cucumbers           

         tablespoons chopped onions    

1 1/2    teaspoons dried mint     (optional)

1/2       teaspoon garlic powder

1/2       teaspoon salt

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C's spagettie  

I use spaghetti; it would probably be wise to break it into pieces to make it toss more easily--

 

I also use whole wheat (organic) spaghetti--

 

1 cauliflower, cut into florets--with stems peeled (if they are tough) and diced

4 T. butter

1/2 cup finely chopped parsley . . . if I don't have enough of this, I use basil and chives, but the parsley is GOOD!

1 tsp. coarse mustard (that's the seeds, coarsely ground)

1/4 tsp. red pepper flakes (that's what you often find in Italian restaurants)

1 pound spaghettini (I use spaghetti); you may also use orecchiette or conchiglie (small)

1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan or Romano or both (I mix them)

1/2 cup fresh bread crumbs, toasted until golden and crisp

 

salt and freshly ground pepper

 

Bring a large pot of water to a rolling boil. Salt it to taste, add the cauliflower, and cook for three minutes. Scoop the cauliflower into a large pasta bowl and add the butter, parsley, mustard, and pepper flakes. Add the pasta to the salted boiling water and set the bowl over the pot to keep it warm, leaving a crack so the water doesn't boil over, while the pasta cooks. Drain it when it's done and ad it to the cauliflower. Grind a generous amount of pepper over al, the toss with the cheeses and crumbs--

 

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Apple donut balls:

 

5 eggs

2 c. sugar

1 c. heavy cream

7 cup flour

1 3/4 c. buttermilk

1 t. vanilla

1 t. cinnamon

2 t. baking soda

1 t. salt

1 quart jar of apple pie filling

Cooking oil

 

 

Beat eggs. Add sugar and mix until very creammy. Stir in cream and buttermilk. Add baking soda, salt and vanilla. Mix then add apple pie filling. Add Flour a little at a time while mixing.

 

Heat oil to 375.

 

Drop by heaping teaspoon full into oil. Fry until golden brown on both sides. Drain on paper towel then roll in sugar. They are great without being rolled in sugar.

 

This will make 11 dozen.

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Wheat Meat: To make Wheat Meat you soak 3 cups of wheat for 24 hours, rinsing when the water gets cloudy. I soak the wheat around 36 hours. Then drain and rinse the wheat and put through a meat grinder. You can use a hand meat grinder or an electric one. I have used both.

 

Then Add your seasonings 2 T of beef flavoring or 2 T chicken flavoring or flavoring of your choice and 1 tsp salt. I often use the Lipton Onion or Lipton Onion Mushroom dry soup mix envelopes for seasoning. The wheat will take on the seasoning of your choice. Your and also add taco seasoning, italian seasoning to make the wheat meat like sausage.

 

Put some oil in a pan and add wheat ground up and heat, breaking the wheat up with a spoon to acheive a meat like texture. To use for tacos add 2 T onion flakes, chili powder and cumin.

 

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Wheat Patties: You can make Wheat Patties and use for hamburgers or salisbury steak, etc.

 

Soak 3 cups of wheat for 36 hours, rinsing when water gets cloudy. Drain and rince and put through a meat grinder.

 

Add the flavoring of your choice

Mix in a mixer until gluten forms (about 3 min) Divide into 12 balls. On a lightly oiled cutting board, form into patties. Cook on a griddle, on top of the stove or bake in the oven, turning over to cook each side.

 

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Wheat Loafs: To make Wheat Loafs just soak for 36 hours, drain and grind in the meat grinder. Then put into the mixer adding your flavorings, 1/3 cup of chopped onion, 1/2 cup water, 2 tsp salt and 1/2 cup oil. and mix until gluten forms (about 3 min). Put in a well greased loaf pan. I use a wilton 9 loaf pan and make 9 individual wheat loafs. Then cook a large loaf for 1 hour covered with foil at 350 degrees. Then remove the foil and bake 30 minutes more.

When I use my wilton 9 loaf pan I bake the loafs covered for 30 minutes and then uncovered for 15 minutes longer. Exactly half the time of a large loaf.

 

I serve the wheat loafs with mashed potatoes and gravy. The patties work well as salsibury steaks in gravy.

 

Note:

You can use the wheat meat recipes in any recipe that calles for ground meat. Use in spaghetti sause, in chili, for taco meat, stroganof  and in casseroles. You may also sprinkle over salads, season with taco seasoning for taco salad or sprinkle on a baked potato. The possibilities are endless.


Tuesday, March 24, 2009

My new yogurt recipe

I made it, it turned out great! Its a combination of  another recipe and my own thoughts
It turned out super thick, sweet, creamy and very tasty

1/2 gallon premade powder milk
2 14 oz cans sweetened condensed milk
2 12 oz cans evaporated milk
fill gallon to top with mil- leave enough room for yogurt start
warm in crock pot, cool back down to around lukewarm- 110 degrees add start place in crock pot with hot water again 
cover and let sit for 6-8 hours. refrigerate and eat up! I do mean eat- its to thick to drink!
taste before flavring. Its already sweet. I think next time I make it I may use 1 1/2 cans of sweetened condensed milk. See if I can make it a little less sweet. 
This turned out very good, thick and creamy! It may be my new favorite way to make it!