Pictures

Just thought I would post a few pictures. 

Some of my new strawberry plants that will be going into the ground this year, so hopefully I will have strawberries to sell next year.

  

A pallet full of potting soil, and my hoophouse behind it.

 

My hoophouse and my new shelf which I built a frame around and covered with plastic so I have more room for plants that need to stay warm. 

 

Inside my hoophouse.  Flats of greens above, and pots of rhubarb (that I started from seed last year) below.

Rhubarb plants I started from seed last year.

Up close of young rhubarb plants started from seed last year.

Chicken Noodle Soup

I have not done a post in a very long time, so since the other day I make a really good chicken noodle soup out of all our canned foods I figured I would do a post about my homemade chicken noodle soup.

All I had to do was throw everything together and heat it up.  First went in the two jars of turkey broth, which was made from the left over bones from our Thanksgiving turkey.  I also added vegetable broth, which was made from celery, potatoes, garlic and turkey broth, and about a pint of water.  Then I added the corn, and cut up about half the can of garlic scapes and added them too.  I then added the liquid from the canned chicken, cut up the chicken into bite size pieces and threw it in.  Last I added the beans since they are canned and already soft and I did not want to them to boil for too long.  I cooked up the pasta separately and added it to the bowl before eating.

That was it, and it was soooo good!

Left to Right

Pickled Garlic Scapes, Corn, Canned Chicken Breasts, Mixed Beans, Vegetable Stock, and Two Cans of Turkey Stock and in the front Garlic Rigatoni Pasta

 

More Thanksgiving Pictures

Here are a few more pictures from our Thanksgiving.

I brought home our farm fresh turkey on Tuesday along with some very large celery.

Next to me on the stove is my cooked pumpkin that I used for our pumpkin pie and my onion bread cut up and drying for the stuffing.

 My dad pulling our turkey out of the salt brine.

 Turkey all done and being cut.

Thanksgiving 2014

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Here are pictures from what we cooked this year for Thanksgiving.  I tried a bunch of new recipes this year.  I will be posting some of the recipes soon. 

Stuffed Winter Squash

I made this early, since we ate dinner pretty late, this was our lunch.

 

Spaghetti Squash with Pesto and Kale

Winter Squash, Turnips, and Radishes

Garlic Potatoes Gratin

Onion Bread Stuffing

 made with my homemade onion bread

Sweet Corn

Mixed Beans

 Homemade Gravy

 

Blue Potatoes

or if you ask me purple potatoes

Pasta Salad

with a mixture of my homemade spinach, regular, and whole wheat shells

and of course our turkey!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Recipe- Goat Cheese Pasta with Micro Greens

Goat Cheese Pasta with Micro Greens

 

 Ingredients:

1 (8 oz.) package kale rigatoni

1 (8 oz.) package rosemary garlic rigatoni

1 lb. smoked kielbasa (sliced)

1/4 cup goat milk cheese

2 tablespoons parmesan cheese

1 container brown mustard micro greens (approx. 1 cup)

1 container sunflower micro greens (approx. 1 cup)

4 medium cloves garlic (minced)

8 medium turnips (sliced) and about 1 cup turnip greens (chopped)

2 tablespoons butter

Directions:

Cook pasta according to package directions. Strain and add goat milk cheese and parmesan cheese, set aside.  To a large frying pan add butter, kielbasa and turnip roots.  Cook over medium heat until turnips are slightly browned and softened, and kielbasa is slightly browned.  Then add garlic and turnip greens, cook until greens start to wilt, then add micro greens and cook until just wilted (will not take very long).  Remove from heat, add pasta, combine and serve.

Note:  If you do not have any turnip greens or micro greens you and change things up by adding any type of greens that you like, maybe some arugula or kale.  You can also use any type of rigatoni pasta you like, but I would suggest a thicker type of pasta for this recipe, which is why I used the rigatoni.

Digging Dahlias

I almost have all my dahlias dug for the winter.  Yesterday I finished up digging most of the rest of my tubers.  Here is a picture of almost half of my dahlias, that I dug out about a week ago.  Overall I was pretty happy with the tubers that I ended up digging.  Considering that we had a bad growing year, too much water then too dry, I ended up digging out some large, nice looking tubers.

 

I can not wait till next year when I can have this again.

 

Brunswick Pumpkin Festival 2014

Just wanted to do a quick post with some pictures of our table, from the first pumpkin festival at Brunswick farmers market this past Sunday.  I also wanted to thank all our customers that stopped by on Sunday, and all our customers from both Valley City and Brunswick farmers markets.  It is hard to believe that both of our farmers markets have already come to an end for the year.

Real Veggies Farm, Brunswick Pumpkin Festival 2014