Indigenous Meal Photo Post

Indigenous Meals Photo Post

My Indigenous Food Game has become a satisfying habit rather than just a day's delight.  Here are a few random photos of meals we've made from (mostly) indigenous foods:

Scrambled eggs with onions and sweet peppers, mashed potatoes and a fresh salad made a quick and filling dinner.  Everything but the salad dressing, butter and milk were from Hawk's Hill.

Vegetable Tian:  This is a slightly tweaked version of Ina Garten's Vegetable Tian (click here for the original recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/vegetable-tian-recipe.html  ).  I used yellow summer squash instead of zukes, and added some sweet bell peppers, omitting the cheese.  Delicious and so quick to prepare.

Pancakes made with fresh eggs and homemade maple syrup are my favorite breakfast for slow mornings.  Also, a few home grown apples alongside.  Yum.

This is the chicken I used to make chicken and dumplings one night for dinner.  The bird was a rooster I raised, butchered and froze.  It was delicious with dumplings, mashed potatoes, and green beans.

Here's the recipe:

Put chicken in a pot, cover with water and bring to a boil, simmering until meat falls off of bones.  Pull meat from broth and allow to cool.  Strain broth and return to pot.  Pick meat off of the bones, chop into bite-sized pieces, then make dumplings, roll out very thin and drop two at a time into boiling broth.  Simmer for 12 minutes and then add meat chunks, salt and pepper to taste, and serve.

Dumplings:

2 cups sifted flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1/3 cup butter

1/2 cup milk, about

Sift dry ingredients together, then rub in butter and add enough milk to make a soft dough, as if you were making biscuits.  Roll dumplings out very thin, and cut into 2" by 2" squares, roughly.  Drop dumplings in two at a time, keeping the broth boiling.  Turn down heat, and simmer for 12 minutes.  Return meat to pot, season with salt and pepper to taste, and serve.

Hope you are enjoying local foods.  This is the best time of year for eating from the land!

Betsy