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What was the last thing you cooked?

2 nights ago, I baked an apple pie.

Last night I made buttery parmesan shrimp pasta for dinner. I also canned four pints of garbanzo beans so I can easily make hummus in the future.

This morning I am baking a fall harvest veggie and cheese quiche.

FYI- I got apples, shrimp, dry garbanzos, and big round pasta for free! So it's been nice. We've been relaxing when it comes to food security. Which feels good, seeing as I didn't have any food stamps at first.
 
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Creamy ham n potato stew. With home canned white beans and bone broth added.

Apple streusel pie

3 pints canned ham

A new gallon of kombucha
 
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Homemade:

Hummus made with my own home canned garbanzo beans

Tzatziki (yogurt dip with minced cucumber and dill)

Tomato slices with olive oil, salt, pepper, and garlic

Moroccan tagine-style delicata squash sauteed with raisins and savoury spices

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I also started a new tincture. Acid tincture of lobelia.
 
Yeshuasdaughter said:
Homemade:

Hummus made with my own home canned garbanzo beans

Tzatziki (yogurt dip with minced cucumber and dill)

Tomato slices with olive oil, salt, pepper, and garlic

Moroccan tagine-style delicata squash sauteed with raisins and savoury spices

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I also started a new tincture. Acid tincture of lobe
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Your post inspires me to take a Greek salad to a dinner party we have to attend next weekend. Just tomatoes, red onion, Kalamata olives, English cucumber, dried oregano, a drizzle of good olive oil and feta cheese. Maybe add some capers and a squeeze of fresh lemon juice. Thanks!
 
Udon noodles I made myself at Nakano udon school in Takamatsu. Other than that I have been living out of a kitbag for two weeks and haven’t cooked anything.
 
Blueberry/Peach cobbler from an old Unalaska Aleut cookbook.

It was supposed to, in the cookbook, be a peach cobbler. The recipe calls for 2 pounds of peaches, but I only had just under a pound of peaches. I remembered that in the freezer had a pound of blueberries. So I combined the two. It's pretty darn epic.

It's really good. Shortbread crumble crust.
 
I baked a triple berry pie. I made three homemade crusts so I would have enough to lattice the top and then made the filling on the stovetop. That was over Thanksgiving and I shared it with my friends/family that I saw over the holiday.
 
I made minestrone soup for dinner last night. It's loaded with fresh vegetables, and I used my homemade chicken stock, Swiss chard and kale from my garden, and the juice from one of my Myer lemons.
 
My daughter's been sick these last couple of weeks. So I wanted to make sure she had a work lunch that would be warm and nourishing.

I got up at 6 am and made mac n cheese and put that in a tub. I then cut a square of the aforementioned blueberry peach cobbler and put that in foil. There's also a thermos of apple juice.

Yeah I know she's grown, but gosh how I love her.

There was a little left over mac that wouldn't fit in her lunch tub, so I gave that to her for a nice tummy warming breakfast in bed, to stave off the near freezing temps, with a hot cup of honeyed tea made with peppermint leaves and slippery elm bark.
 
Day before yesterday I brewed and oven canned 4 quarts of powerfully healing Essiac tea. I know of no stronger remedy. No better combination of herbs for the benefit of mankind (and pets too). Although not a cure, the sheep sorrel root in it alone has been lab proven again and again to shrink cancer cells.

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Last night, my daughter came home very sore and sick. We had leftover Loco Moco in the fridge. My daughter is quite the chef when it comes to Hawaiian street food.

Into a large pot, I melted some tallow, cut up the leftover hamburgers into small chunks, and put them into the pot with the leftover rice and corn, added fresh chopped mushrooms, and poured over everything, the leftover gravy. And just sauteed that all up.

On the side of the yummy quick dinner, I fried a few eggs, and also warmed up some apple sauce that I had canned.

I cooked, and my daughter served up the plates.

It was quite good.

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This morning I reheated a waffle for my daughter and wrapped it in a napkin, and put that in a baggie for her to eat on the run.

A little while later, after she was off to work at her wonderful job, I made myself pumpkin spice coffee, from my daughter's recipe:

Into a 6 cup French press:

1/4 cup coffee
around a tsp of cinnamon (measure with your heart)
Fill the pot with hot water to brew

Once it's all ready, push down the plunger.
I use a silver filter inside my cup when pouring coffee from the french press into the cup, as grounds like to sneak in.
I fill the coffee cup about 2/3 with coffee, add 3 sweet n low's, and then the last 1/3 of the cup, i fill it with whole milk (or if I'm fancy, heavy cream)

After stirring, I grind a little coarse sea salt just on the top. It's so so so good.

I'm savoring my coffee out of my favorite ancient, chipped enamel mug, whilst typing this right now. Everything tastes better in that old mug. It seems to have been around the world with me.
 
I've also been making upper and lower respiratory healing teas:

A heady amount each (I measure with my heart)

Slippery Elm Root
Stinging Nettle
Osha Root
Horsetail Fern
Rose Hips
Marshmallow Root
Pine and Cedar Pitch (I call it "Wild Oregon Myrrh")
Honey

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My kingdom for a pound of Wild Cherry Bark! Oh how I need that! I wish I had been well to forage it this past summer.

The leaves, green twigs, and inner bark of cherry and plum trees (including ornamental) are an excellent replacement for Wild Cherry Bark.

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Upper respiratory gargles such as:

*Hot salt water gargle

*Slippery elm gargle

*Hydrogen peroxide gargle

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Warm healing cider for respiratory illnesses (both upper and lower):

Heat up apple juice along with added:
black pepper
ginger
pumpkin pie spice

Next, while apple juice is still boiling hot, steep the aforementioned upper respiratory herbs into the juice.

Add a splash of kombucha, and stir in a loving amount of honey.
 
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