Merry Christmas Eve y'all. I hope y'all have all the your preps made and are ready to celebrate and be thankful and grateful for the Greatest and Most Wonderful Gift that this world has ever known!!! that gift is Jesus Christ!!!!!!! in the hubub of all the doing around, don't forget to thank God for all His blessings and for the most wonderful of all Gifts. So let's remember the reason for the season. Happy Birthday Jesus!!!!!!!!
as I started on my post this morning, I'm still dreaming of my 2024 garden. seed catalogs and seeds in hand and I'm ready to do something. but I gotta wait. waiting is not my strong suit. hahaha but I'll do it. I'll just take the time to do more dreaming. hahaha
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this is some more of me dreaming about the days to come. sharing more of what I had not shared on my blog, so I hope it helps someone. it certainly helps me seeing what I have done and looking forward to the days to come.
so, let's do a "2 minutes in the garden and kitchen with me" today. back in mid april, I had gotten a bunch of green onions. I always do this at least once a year. I cut the root end off the onions; just about a half inch of the bulb with any tiny existing roots. I had some empty pockets on the top layer of one of my greenstalks. I had 11 onion roots and I stuck 2 or 3 in each empty pocket. those things took off like wild fire. I kept aiming to give them a "hair cut" sooner, but I would get busy with something else and here it is today, the middle of June and I finally got them cut them back. those onions had grown by leaps and bounds. the base of the onions is larger than my thumb and they were smaller than a standard pencil when I popped them in the soil. I done a drastic cut on them, so I'll see if they come out of it and give me more onion blades.
anyway, you can see there was a huge bunch of onion tops in the collander. I washed them and let them drain for a bit and then took my kitchen shears and started clipping. I didn't figure that bowl would be half full, but it was 3/4 full!! I got 4 trays on my dehydrator filled, but what about the 2 empty trays? I like to have a full dehydrator if at all possible. so I had a pkg and a half of grape tomatoes that was starting to shrivel some. they are still perfectly wonderful. I know they are because I nibbled as I cut them up. they are just that good. hahaha so actually, there would have been more of the tomatoes if I hadn't been sampling them. the tomatoes filled one tray and I was stuck with another empty tray. I dug around in my salad box of prepped veggies and found a bag of sliced up mini bell peppers and that was just enough to put on the empty tray to fill it and make good use of all my trays. once getting the trays filled and on my dehydrator, I set the time for 48 hours and the temp at 115* and we're off to the races now. I'll keep a check on it and see when everything gets dry. it may take more time than 48 hours and that's ok. I let it go till they are cracker crisp. and then start the conditioning process and then put them in my dehydrated goods cabinet. yay and yum!! oh, and it smells so wonderful in the house!!!! a lot of people don't like the onion smell, but I absolutely love it!!!!
so, this is a good start on putting back good stuff to use later on. the onions came from Aldi, but technically, those onion tops came from my garden, right. hahaha I can't wait to get more. by this time last year, I was already getting peppers, tomatoes, squash. it's just been a strange weird year and I'm behind in my garden this year. but I'm happy that I even have anything in the soil!! anyway, just wanted to share.
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I bake bread ALL THE TIME!!!!! so I don't know if I have shared this recipe or not, but it's a good one.
Ok y'all, I baked another loaf of bread today. I had found my little notebook from years ago that has tons of recipes in it for the bread machine and I'm trying them again. Here is the recipe for the one I made today if anyone is interested.
Honey Oatmeal Bread
1 c water, at least room temperature
1/4 c honey
1 tsp. salt
1 Tbls Butter, real butter cut in tiny cubes
1/2 c oatmeal
3 cups all purpose flour or bread flour
1 1/2 tsps yeast
put in bread machine in listed order.
Set machine for "Basic" and "Light"
For those of you familiar with making bread but don't have a bread machine, mix all the ingredients as listed in a bowl and go thru the usual mixing, kneading and rising process and shape it and put into a pan and let it do it's final rise and then bake. Find a trusted recipe similar to this and bake accordingly, for temp and time.
I haven't cut this loaf yet, but this is a great loaf of bread.
The next recipe I'm gonna do is "Golden Sandwich Buns", so be on the lookout for those and the recipe. These can be made into either regular hamburger type buns or hotdog type buns. Your choice.
Pictures is of all 4 sides and the bottom. I was in the kitchen when it done it's last kneading process and I lifted the dough ball out and took the little paddle out of it and that's why I shared the bottom of the bread, because there's only a small hole in the bottom instead of the place where the paddle was when it was baking.
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this is my lemon squash that I air fryed tonight. beat an egg with a couple tablespoons on milk, in one dish. in another dish I had 3 tablespoons flour, 3 tablespoons cornmeal, 3 tablespoon. dipped slices in egg mixture and drained excess then dredged in flour mixture, coating real well. put on plate and popped in freezer for about 10 minutes for coating to set. spritzed both sides with avocado oil. airfryed for 17 mins on 400*. wonderful!! next time I will add onion powder to the flour mixture, I just forget it this time. it's delicious. can't wait for more of my lemon squash to come on and hopefully it won't be long till I have some cue-ball zucchini.
we love all things airfried. it's not greasy like everything skillet fried. we can eat it without getting heart burn or even sick to our stomach from all the grease. absolutely nothing has ever been greasy. I've been using an air fryer for at least 10 years and we both feel better because we don't have the stomach issues associated with greasy skillet frying.
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that's about it for today. I pray that your day is beautiful and that you keep Jesus Christ at the forefront of all you do. blessings of love, joy and peace be yours today. hugs, patty
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