Belle continues to be busy in the kitchen preparing meals with garden ingredients. Our meals are certainly not 100% homegrown. Maybe once in a while we're able to do that, but it seems like every meal includes something from the garden. We've saved a ton of money on our grocery bill. We're still hoping for the day when we can produce our own dairy products. So many of you out there have goats for milk and cheese and all things dairy. We'd sure love to have that opportunity to have goats.
Here's a couple things Belle has prepared with garden ingredients since our last post with Robin at
The Gardener of Eden.
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| Asian cabbage salad |
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With our humble winter cabbage harvest Belle made Asian cabbage salad. Its a cold salad dish made with dry noodles, sweet sauce and sliced cabbage.
Dressing
1/2 cup olive oil
3 tbs rice vinegar
2 tbs sugar
1 pkg of ramen noodle seasoning (I know, I know...)
Meat of your choice (optional)
1/2 head of cabbage (in our world that meant many, many tiny winter heads)
1 pkg ramen noodles crumbled/uncooked
2 tbs toasted sesame seeds
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| Grilled "Hen of the Woods" mushrooms. |
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We included these
wild mushrooms (above) in a fondue dish that was part of our New Years Party spread of food.
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| Mashed potatoes with cauliflower and radish |
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Belle blended some of our cauliflower harvest from last spring with the radishes we harvested last week in mashed potatoes. It's our secret way of getting the boys to eat vegetables.
Shhhh, be very quiet, we're fooling our children!
To our surprise, even though the radish flavor was very strong, the boys ate it. I guess our pediatrician is right about children and their eating habits. The boys get to say whether they'll eat and how much, but we get to say what they'll eat and when!
