Month: November 2015

Ahhh Thanksgiving. A day of thankfulness where you gather together and eat ALL THE FOODS. This must be what it’s like in heaven.

Doin’ it up Pilgrim Style, with only locally grown foods. Except for the Mac (of Mac n’ Cheese). I will not relinquish my mac n’ cheese, it’s the only day of the year I make it. I will have my mac n’ cheese!

I’ll be at the Charlotte Regional Farmers’ Market tomorrow but I won’t be there next Saturday! Tomorrow I’ll have:

Loads of sweet potatoes – I just made these Gluten Free Sweet Potato Ginger Cookies, and they are soft and delicious! however I did not make them gluten free, I used my fresh ground flour. You can use your fresh ginger from the freezer in this.

This Sweet Potato and Spinach Frittata is also delicious, but nothing beats a Sweet Potato Pie! For Thanksgiving!!! Yes! The best sweet potato pie recipe EVER,  scroll down.

Beet greens – how about Sweet Potato Breakfast Bowls with Beet Greens & Avocado (and a fried egg!!)

Turnips, radishes, green onions, baby leeks, horseradish root, chives, parsley, sage, cutting celery and a little this and that, and our Animal Welfare Approved, Certified Grassfed Angus beef:                                                                                                                Beef Andouille sausage,  sliced pastrami, hot dogs, and corned beef all made from our Angus beef with no added nitrates or nitrites.  Ground beef, philly steak, cube steak, oso bucco, short ribs, brisket, soup bones, bone-in chuck, sirloin tip roast, eye of round, sirloin steaks, NY Strips, ribeyes, filets, flank.

We just got notice from our beef processor that in addition to all kinds of other new charges, they will now charge an extra $25 per animal if we want our marrow bones. If we want OUR FOUR marrow bones from our cow that we raised for nearly 2 years. Anyone interested in paying $6.25 more for a 6″ marrow bone? Didn’t think so. So I guess they’ll get to keep our marrow bones and not pay us for them.

I’m thinking of a word here…what is the word…

Look at Fran on the tire! She’s terrified of Nikoli.

The Sweet Potato Pie that ended my love affair with Pumpkin Pie

GO AWAY.

I think there’s a horror movie of that name. Where people die when the mist rolls in? I’m only a few days away!  Enough already. It’s been misty, dampish, SWAMPY for at least 2 weeks. The animals are wet and muddy upon wet and muddy. I’ve tracked mud all over the world. Everything is slimy and sticky. WHERE IS THE SUN?

It’s too wet for farmers to cut their soggy beans, which are pretty much rotting in the pod now, and wheat should have been planted last month. BUT it’s almost Thanksgiving and I’m super excited about that. Plus…..

Horseradish root! I’ll have it tomorrow at the Charlotte Regional Farmers’ Market, along with a little bit of a lot of different things: turnips, green onions, kale, beet greens, cutting celery, parsley, chives, spicy red onions, and a few bunches of this and that. Oh and gigantic sweet potatoes. If you thought they were huge last year, get a load of these. All I can say is, you know there are abundant nutrients in that soil because there sure wasn’t any rain to grow them this big.

And our Animal Welfare Approved, Certified Grassfed Angus beef: Beef Andouille sausage,  sliced pastrami, hot dogs, and corned beef all made from our Angus beef with no added nitrates or nitrites.  Ground beef, stew meat, philly steak, cube steak, oso bucco, short ribs, brisket, soup bones, bone-in chuck, sirloin tip roast, eye of round, sirloin steaks, NY Strips, ribeyes, filets, skirt, flank, flat irons.

Everything is so beautiful right now. Shane scattered ryegrass seed over the whole world, and now everywhere is super green, even our yard.  It will stay bright green all winter until the spring heat kills it.

It was hard to tear myself away from the creek this morning to go pick greens. In the mist.

Hey Mommies!