A Completely Home Grown Meal - Page 5

ILG · #41 09-02-2013, 05:57 PM

Wild grapes picked down our road.

Sasha · #42 09-02-2013, 08:48 PM

I'm still waiting for my delivery....

ILG · #43 09-03-2013, 07:29 AM

LOL! Sasha, do you have any home grown things you grow or make?

ILG · #44 09-14-2013, 08:31 PM

Tonight, this is what I made for supper:

A few days ago, I found a chicken that was marked down to 76 cents a pound. I cooked it in a crock pot, outside, so it wouldn't heat up the house. We ate on the chicken for a couple of days including sandwiches for lunch. Today, I took the chicken off the bones (what was left) and made a chicken gravy. Then, I made mashed potatoes (from a box! Ugh! Rare, but I didn't want to go through the work of making fresh).

Then, we had garden tomatoes, garden corn, canned spinach and canned baked beans.

I boiled the carcass and poured the liquid in ice cube trays to use later for chicken broth.

Waste not, want not!

KeptByTheWord · #45 09-23-2013, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by ILG

Tonight, this is what I made for supper:

A few days ago, I found a chicken that was marked down to 76 cents a pound. I cooked it in a crock pot, outside, so it wouldn't heat up the house. We ate on the chicken for a couple of days including sandwiches for lunch. Today, I took the chicken off the bones (what was left) and made a chicken gravy. Then, I made mashed potatoes (from a box! Ugh! Rare, but I didn't want to go through the work of making fresh).

Then, we had garden tomatoes, garden corn, canned spinach and canned baked beans.

I boiled the carcass and poured the liquid in ice cube trays to use later for chicken broth.

Waste not, want not!

Roast chicken is one of our favorite comfort meals! And, the nice thing about it is that leftovers can be remade into some pretty awesome dishes! Chicken soup, chicken pot pie, chicken gumbo (made from broth of boiled bones), chicken tortilla soup, chicken quesadillas... the list goes on and on!

ILG · #46 09-23-2013, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord

Roast chicken is one of our favorite comfort meals! And, the nice thing about it is that leftovers can be remade into some pretty awesome dishes! Chicken soup, chicken pot pie, chicken gumbo (made from broth of boiled bones), chicken tortilla soup, chicken quesadillas... the list goes on and on!

Exactly. And it is a comfort meal for sure! I LOVE roasted chicken skin. Yeah. I know they say it's bad for ya. But it sure does taste good!

Pressing-On · #47 09-23-2013, 10:01 AM

ILG, I bought this compost pail on Amazon. I really like it! I save a whole lot more of my peels, etc. this way. It has carbon filter in the lid for smells and the bags are degradable.

ILG · #48 09-23-2013, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Pressing-On

ILG, I bought this compost pail on Amazon. I really like it! I save a whole lot more of my peels, etc. this way. It has carbon filter in the lid for smells and the bags are degradable.

Cool! I have a compost pail but fruit flies seem to find their way into it and so I stopped using it. Any suggestions?

Pressing-On · #49 09-23-2013, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by ILG

Cool! I have a compost pail but fruit flies seem to find their way into it and so I stopped using it. Any suggestions?

Well, I am thinking that the carbon filter is not allowing the emitting of smells, hindering fruit flies. I'm not getting them anymore. I am very happy that I am saving more for my compost. It is so hot here that I didn't always want to go outside to throw stuff, throughout the day, into my compost. So, I was throwing away probably half in the trash.

I'd get the pail when you can. It is working great for me.

I've also been brewing my own Kombucha and make sure I rinse off the outside of the bottles before putting them up. Haven't had trouble with fruit flies there either.

ILG · #50 09-23-2013, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Well, I am thinking that the carbon filter is not allowing the emitting of smells, hindering fruit flies. I'm not getting them anymore. I am very happy that I am saving more for my compost. It is so hot here that I didn't always want to go outside to throw stuff, throughout the day, into my compost. So, I was throwing away probably half in the trash.

I'd get the pail when you can. It is working great for me.

I've also been brewing my own Kombucha and make sure I rinse off the outside of the bottles before putting them up. Haven't had trouble with fruit flies there either.

Well maybe with me working at home here in a few days, I can keep up with dumping the pail more often. My compost is a little walk from the house and it gets tiring walking down there.