Meal Plan using 10/18/08

Sweet Potato, apple and chestnut pudding
Mash baked sweet potatoes, bake apples and cut into chunks, roast chestnuts peel and slice. Use two cups of mashed sweet potatoes, add 2 tablespoons melted butter, ¼ cup honey, and ¼ cup brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, and touch of vanilla, whisk in 2 beaten eggs, ¾ cup heavy cream, and ¾ cup whole milk. Stir in chestnuts and apples. Bake at 375 until set (about 40-50 minutes)
Brown rice with pumpkin (pumpkin from 10/11 box)
Cook brown rice, bake pumpkin until tender but not too soft cut into chunks, add pumpkin, honey (or sorghum) , and salt to brown rice. Eat up!!!
Scalloped Turnips and baked Chicken
Bake the chicken (rub with olive oil and seasonings) boil or steam peeled turnips, and then make a thick sauce to poor over the turnips consisting of milk, butter, cheese (if you have it), and flour used to thicken on the stove.
Orzo (rice shaped pasta) with green beans and tomatoes
Cook orzo. Stir fry beans and tomatoes in butter or olive oil then add to orzo. Season as desired.
Peppers stuff with ground beef and goat cheese
Dip gutted peppers in boiling water to soften. Brown hamburger, and mix with goat cheese put into pepper and bake for 20 minutes.
Potato casserole with apples and sausage.
Make mashed potatoes, slice apple really thing, and cook sausage. Put a layer of mashed potatoes, then a layer of sausage, a layer of apples, a layer of sausage, and then mashed potatoes on top. Bake until it browns.
Okra Beignets
Wisk one egg and ¼ cup of heavy cream together set aside. Mix together ½ cup flour, ½ teaspoon salt, and ½ teaspoon pepper. Cut up okra and toss in flour with cooked rice (about half a cup), you can add cup onion and bell pepper if you want. Stir in egg mixture. Drop by the large spoonfuls into hot grease and fry until done.

Meal Plan using 10/11/08 Box

Sweet Potato pie
Boil or steam your potatoes and peel. Mush with ½ cup of melted butter; add ½ milk, and 2 eggs, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg. If making this as a supper dish, leave out the sugar. If making this as a treat put a cup of sugar in it. Put into a pie crust (I make mine out of lard, Martha Stewart makes hers from butter, and I have heard of people making pie crusts in a dehydrator out of almond meal) At any rate, mix up the potato mixture and put in the unbaked pie crust, bake in the oven on 350 for about an hour. It will puff up as it cooks, and come back down as it cools.
Poutine
Make French fries or roasted potatoes out of the potatoes, put cheese curds on top and cover with brown gravy. Doesn’t taste the same unless you use cheese curds, which we get from Milton Creamery- but they sell at Green Acres as well.
Salad with tomatoes
Self explanatory. Add nuts if you want a little protein.
Chicken and roasted zucchini
Cook whole chicken marinated with rosemary and olive oil. Keep some leftovers for later meal. Cut up zucchini and roast in the oven with garlic and olive oil.
Chicken and Noodles
Boil your chicken broth and drop in noodles (See last week’s post to find out how to make egg noodles) When the noodles are done add the chicken.
Baked squash with apples
Cut the tops off and hollow the squash of seeds, add chopped up apples and bake until squash is tender. I add a bit of butter, cinnamon, and sugar as it is cooking.
Green beans with onions
Put green beans in crock pot with onion and a bit of water, add some salt, and bacon (optional) for flavor. Eat when it reaches your desired texture.

Meal plan using 10/04 box

The Clark’s menu for the week:
Savory Winter squash soup, bread and goat butter
Savory winter squash soup: bake squash in the oven until it starts to collapse, cut in half , remove seeds, and put pulp in blender with milk or chicken broth, rosemary and roasted garlic
Oven roasted eggplant and potatoes
Cut eggplant and potatoes brush with olive oil and sprinkle with seasonings bake on 350 turning once or twice until golden brown.
Roast and carrots
Put roast in crock pot with carrots, cover with water and cook until tender
Baked butternut squash, strawberries with homemade whipped cream and sprigs of lemon balm
Cut squash brush with butter and cinnamon or put upside down in a glass pan with a little bit of water, to make whipped cream you just beat cream until it becomes whipped cream.. feel free to add a little sugar.
30 minute mozzarella cheese and tomatoes over pasta
30 minute mozzarella recipe can be found at http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/Mozzarella.pdf - please note that instead of citric acid I have been known to use a half a cup of vinegar.
Beef and homemade egg noodles
Take left over juice from roast and heat to a boil. Drop in noodles (1 egg, and about 1 cup of flour, a pinch of salt… rolled out very thin and cut into strips with an herb cutter (or a noodle cutter if you are lucky enough to have inherited one like I have). Cook until mixture thickens. Add left over roast.
Sweet potato fries, apple and walnut salad
Cut sweet potato into small strips, dust with olive oil and seasonings, bake until done, or fry.
Apple and walnut salad- thinly slice apples, add walnuts (other nuts work as well), make a honey and water mixture (1 part honey, 2 parts water) and drizzle over the top.