what came off your land for dinner?

[SRSLADE]

I'm kinda bored with having to think about what meat to have at dinner.So tonite,we are having boiled eggs from our chickens (got more than enough...need to be used),green beans,frozen from the garden last year and still plenty of them,with french fried potatoes,also from the garden!Dinner not done yet but I think it will be a fine meal.What about you?

[TnAndy]

Last night ? The pork chops, the sweet potatoes, the spinach ( fresh out of the hoop house), the stewed apples.

Tonight ? The lettuce bed, the taco meat. (Taco salad). Cheese and chips from town.

Tomorrow night ? I spied a home grown chicken thawing in the fridge....don't know what she has planned to go with it, but I'm sure some of it will be from here.

Honestly, WHO can get inspired to go 'out to eat' ??

[SRSLADE]

TnHandy!
I couldn't agree more.We try sometimes to buy something outside of the home that has been prepared.We are not food snobs or critics but we just don't like it!Just don't have that home-spun flavor!

[elkhound]

Originally Posted by SRSLADE

TnHandy!
I couldn't agree more.We try sometimes to buy something outside of the home that has been prepared.We are not food snobs or critics but we just don't like it!Just don't have that home-spun flavor!

amen !

[elkhound]

some of my doings...most of my red meat comes from my forest...smoked deer on homemade tortillas.

soon it will be a glut of eggs and asparagus...i cant wait !!!!

[SRSLADE]

Elkhound!
That deer meat with home made tortilla and jalapenos...looks delicious..."savor the flavor"!

[big rockpile]

Not off my land but had Trout from the river.

big rockpile

[davrhods]

Breakfast was my own maple syrup with dab of cream of wheat ,dinner was fresh pork loin.

[SRSLADE]

Big Rockpile!
Anything from the wild or off your own land,works for me!No trout here yet,later in the spring!...plenty of snow though,no idea how to prepare it!

[SRSLADE]

davrhods!
I haven't had cream of wheat for a long time.When I was a kid I loved it...It all sounds great!

[countryfied2011]

Tonight the only thing off our land was fried green tomatoes....but we normally have several things.

[Callieslamb]

Beef and chicken, onions and peppers in fajatas. Eggs in the cookies.

[farmerDale]

Moose, be it tenderloins, steaks or ground, or sausage or roasts, or backstrap: It has been our popular choice lately. I may have to take up poaching, my kids eat WAY too much.

We dip the backstrap in milk and egg, then flour and salt and pepper, and sear them on high heat for a few minutes a side, to lock in the juices and to preserve the tenderness. It is so lean, it is easy to overcook and dry it out. I never imagined something so simple and plain, could be so dang yummy!

Add in some frozen squash or green beans, and/or mashed potatoes all from the garden and a family is LIVING!!!

I thought I had a line on some goats, but that fell through. With our own dairy, we will scarcely need to buy ingredients for a meal. NEED some goats. Did I mention we need some goats???

[Vosey]

Yum farmerDale, I grew up on moose stew and really miss it! No moose here...

Tonight the brussel sprouts and potatoes were ours, not the pork chops though.

[TnAndy]

Originally Posted by TnAndy

Tomorrow night ? I spied a home grown chicken thawing in the fridge....don't know what she has planned to go with it, but I'm sure some of it will be from here.

The chicken, roasted on the gas grill, came with fresh out of the hoop house broccoli, a yellow squash casserole, (went in the freezer last fall), and a can of cranberry sauce (Ocean Spray). Iced tea to drink (Lipton), and semi-frozen strawberries (ours) out of the freezer for dessert.

Mmmmmmmmmmm.....

[linda in se ny]

Roast turkey and chestnuts in the stuffing raised here.

[Oldcountryboy]

Sorry got home late, frozen pizza tonight! But I did eat free range chicken eggs for breakfast this morning. Looking forward for some more tomorrow morning. Ate deer chili all weekend. I was home alone so I made a great big pot friday night and that's all I ate all weekend long. And Monday!

[Vosey]

For dinner, scrambled eggs with rehydrated peppers and onions and a salad with greens from the hoop house. Didn't grow the bacon or ingredients for the toast...

[lmrose]

Our main meal of the day is for us at noon time. It always consists of a lot of vegetables, a little protein, and some fruit for dessert. A typical meal might be a small piece of chicken, goat meat or boiled eggs. There will be potatoes, broccoli, turnip and squash or carrots. Every main meal has a green vegetable, orange or red one, either a white, blue , red or purple potato and something light color like parsnips or turnip. We put parsley, basil, or fennel on our vegetables. All is grown at home here. We buy olive oil and black and red pepper to use on our potatoes but can do without it if we had too. The principle I follow for portion control is half of the plate should be a variety of vegetables, on fourth protein and one fourth carbohydrate. This is using a normal sixe 9" or 10" plate not the giant dinner plates. Getting your vitamins in balance is easy if you think color. Every meal should be colorful. That makes meals interesting.

Suppers are light . Usually a pot of beans or soup and bread made at home is supper. Breakfast is always oatmeal with flax seed and fruit like blue berries and goat's milk.

[Shrek]

Deep fried breaded catfish fillets from fish caught in my stocked pond on my parents farm down the road and garlic chive foraged from my 2 acres here and potatoes dug from my garden last fall.