What's Cooking?

 

We are still enjoying our home canned herbed tomato sauce (Ball Recipe).  Our newest, and favorite way to use our frozen (previously roasted) spaghetti squash is with the sauce and homemade meatballs (also previously frozen, with oats, not bread crumbs).  It's delicious and easy.   

To make this in the crock pot I thaw the spaghetti squash and squeeze out any water first.  I layer that in the crock pot, with sauce, then the cooked meatballs (cooked from frozen), then more sauce.  I set it on low all day to enjoy later.

We are also using the freshly snipped green onions from the herb garden.  

I have a few items in the freezer we are highlighting on our menus right now, so we make sure they are eaten.  Those items are the ones we grew a lot of last garden season.  

Green beans top the list.  I'm planning on a few sides with those.  We have plenty of diced and sliced bell peppers, more spaghetti squash, shredded zucchini, and pumpkin (just to name a few).

Every year the garden produces differently, and it all depends on what and how much we plant.  There were years we got zero zucchini, and last year it was the largest producing year of all years.  I think we ate it for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack.

The chickens are patiently waiting on us to get their new home finished.  I'm patiently waiting too.  I have a few new breakfast recipes too try soon.

What's Cooking?   © May 2024 by Kristina at Pioneer Woman at Heart

New Food Tried ~ New Recipe Tried (or so I thought) ~ Question about a product

I can say that my husband gets credit for finding this "pasta" at the store.  Ingredients are lentil, pea and cauliflower.

(Source:  Google)

I used the vegetable pasta to make Zucchini Linguini with Walnuts, but used the veggie pasta, and added some homemade pesto.  The texture is different from regular pasta, but it was good for being made with vegetables.  The only downside on this "pasta" is that it does not re-heat very well.

I tried a random recipe I found online, to use that delicous rhubarb I picked (and my foot paid the price).  Anyway, the recipe called for any "berry" but I mixed some thawed strawberries with the rhubarb, and it turned out very good.  The recipe uses einkorn flour vs. all purpose white flour.

It's called Einkorn Berry Crisp from Farmhouse on the Boone.  After I wrote up this post, I saw that I had tagged the recipe once before, so I apparantly made it before ha ha!  Oh my.  I also used monkfruit vs coconut sugar the last time too.  Also, the recipe doesn't say old fashioned oats or quick oats, so I used old fashioned this time.  I will try quick oats next time (both are organic that I buy).

Tried a new recipe with swiss chard!  Roasted Swiss Chard with Feta, and it was delicous.  Definitely different, and I read the reviews and added a bell pepper and 2 cloves of garlic.  I will be making this again.  Recipe is from AllRecipes online.

Once again blogger is having issues.  Spell checker is not working, nor is the search mode, while working on a blog draft.  If you view your own blog, and use the search bar there, it works.

(Source:  Amazon)

Does anyone have one of these (like this one)?  I'm looking for the best bang for the buck, to make my life easier the next 3-4 weeks.  It's either that, or hire someone to clean, and this is way less expensive.

New Food Tried ~ New Recipe Tried (or so I thought) ~ Question about a product  © May 2024 by Kristina at Pioneer Woman at Heart