Pioneer Woman at Heart

Although we love Beef Stroganoff, we love beef burgundy with homemade noodles and mashed potatoes as well.  Here is my recipe (all organic ingredients or home grown and homemade ingredients): First:  Thaw a quart of homemade onion soup from the freezer.  To make the soup, see the blue ball book for the recipe.  I make this when onions are harvested, and I use a mandolin to slice all of my onions.  This soup comes in handy to use for a soup start as well, for corn chowder and other dishes. Add the quart of soup to the crock pot, and add the following: 2 lbs. of stewing beef, cubed and tossed with 1 Tbsp or so of flour 1/2 lb. fresh mushrooms, sliced* 1 tsp. salt* 1/2 tsp. marjoram, dried 1/2 tsp. thyme, dried black pepper to taste 1 1/2 cups burgundy wine *(Salt if your soup hasn't been salted) Cover.  Cook 8-10 hours on low. I like to thicken this a bit with arrowroot powder, but it's up to you really. I boil my homemade noodles, drain ...

My brain has gone plain insane.  I feel like I'm caught up in a whirlwind and I'm trying to reach out to stop and get a job done, and I'm sucked back in again heading another direction.  The barn.... Oh lets not talk about that job.  It's getting on my nerves, although I've wanted that job done for several years.  So. Much. Work. The barn siding was delivered.  Then rain arrived, so garden work halted, and I was back indoors.  Deep cleaning, cooking, putting up. . . The hens are molting.  Egg supply is at it's all time lowest.  I made a crock pot of pumpkin oats.  We are not tired of pumpkin just yet, ha ha!  I picked a handful of red raspberries for topping the oats too. I baked my first flourless pumpkin bread.  I have always baked it with flour, so this was a new recipe.  I only tired it out of curiosity, and the fact it saves me on ingredients.  Einkorn flour isn't cheap. It was so-so.  Not awesome, ye...

We finally got some rain.  It's back to humid and hot.   I've been busy in the kitchen - freezing green peppers, jalapenos, more green beans, some tomatoes, and cauliflower.  Our popcorn is on, and looks pretty promising (although small), but my watermelon is questionable. What else have I been up to?