The hardest thing about these carrots is keeping them from stealing the show at dinner time! They pair really well with braised or smoked meat dishes but they can be served with almost anything.
Bourbon Glazed Carrots
Steak Taco Loaded Nachos
We had normal loaded nachos planned for Tuesday night’s dinner … but I wanted to experiment with a few additions (and I got a fun new crockpot for dips a few weeks ago so really wanted to break it in LOL)
Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuit Copycat Recipe
Sometimes you really just want that bread from you favorite spot but you don’t want to go out for it. This is one of our favorites and it’s easy to replicate at home
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Easy Slider Rolls
These sweet rolls double up as amazing slider buns! Here is the full recipe:
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Roasting Garlic (the easy way)
Roasted garlic adds amazing flavor to recipes and dips. Our favorite way to use it is whipped into grass fed butter to spread on toasted french bread! YUM!
Here is an easy way to do it …
Homemade Chicken Chimichangas recipe
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Homemade tortillas are the delicious … homemade tortillas that turn into chimichangas are AMAZING ❤
We made these incredible golden fried treats last weekend and posted pictures of it in our private Facebook group (click here to join our Stocking our Shelves group) . You guys asked for the recipe so here it is ?
Ingredients:
For the tortillas:
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup water
- 3 Tbls olive oil
For the filling:
- 1 lb chicken breast, chopped
- 1 Tbls cumin
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tsp salt
- 1-2 tsp chipotle chile powder
- Zest and juice of 1 lime
- 8 oz shredded cheddar cheese
Equipment:
- Rolling pin
- Flour sack cloth
- Cast iron skillet
- 1 qt cooking oil
Directions:
- Combine the ingredients for the filling except the cheese, mix well and set aside
- In a large mixing bowl, mix the ingredients for the tortillas to form a dough ball
- Knead the dough until it is smooth and elastic, 3-4 minutes
- Divide dough into 12 roughly equal balls
- On a well floured surface, press out each ball and roll out to an 8-9 in circle. As you complete each tortilla, you can place them on a floured flour sack cloth.
- Once all tortillas have been rolled out, it’s time to cook the chicken
- In a large skillet, heat 2 Tbls oil over medium-high heat. Add the spiced chicken and cook, stirring occasionally, until fully cooked, about 5-6 min.
- Spoon cooked chicken and an equal amount of shredded cheese onto the tortilla centered in the top half (don’t over stuff). Fold the top toward the center over the stuffing. Fold the left and right sides toward the center. Wet the bottom edge of the tortilla with a little water and roll the whole tortilla toward the bottom and seal.
- Heat 1 qt cooking oil in a cast iron skillet to 350-375 degrees. Place 4 chimichangas in the hot oil. Turn over when bottom half is lightly browned, 1-2 minutes. Cook the second side 1-2 minutes then remove to a wire rack over a baking sheet to drain off excess oil.
- Serve with lime wedges and your favorite Mexican condiments. Goes great with our favorite guacamole! (click here for Farmer J’s guacamole perfection recipe)
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Homemade maple marshmallows
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It’s been a snowy cold start to the year!! So we decided to warm up with some hot coco and homemade marshmallows. Made with grass fed beef gelatin that is great for your skin, hair, digestion and joints, these little treats are much better than the bagged puffs of oil and sugar from the store. Here is how we made them …
Ingredients:
- 1 cup water, divided
- 3 Tbs unflavored gelatin
- 1 cup real maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla extract (learn how to make your own here)
- 1/4 tsp salt
Equipment:
- Stand mixer or large bowl and hand mixer
- parchment lined baking dish or silicone baking mat
- medium pot
- candy thermometer
Directions:
- In your mixing bowl, sprinkle the gelatin over 1/2 of the water and set aside
- In the sauce pot, mix together the other 1/2 of the water, the maple syrup and the salt.
- Bring the mixture to a boil over high heat, then reduce the heat to med-high and cook, stirring occasionally, until it reaches 238F.
- With the mixer on low, slowly pour the syrup over the gelatin then add the vanilla extract. Next, turn the mixer up to medium high (as high as you can go without making a mess). Whip the mixture until it becomes light and fluffy and turns white (it will look like marshmallow cream). This will take 5-10 minutes.
- Now, working quickly, scrape the marshmallow from the bowl onto the silicone mat and shape into a rectangle about 1″ thick. Allow the marshmallow to dry until it is set enough to cut into squares (about 4 hours). It will be sticky. You can sprinkle your cutting board with powdered sugar, cornstarch or arrow root to make it a little easier to work with.
- If you are going to store the marshmallows we suggest sprinkling them with powdered sugar so they don’t stick together, or you can dehydrate them for long term storage.
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Farmer J’s Massaman Curry Rabbit
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We’re finally back from maternity leave!! Excited to share what we have been up to and our new recipes with you ♥
Our newest addition is now 4 months old and full of smiles
Thank you for all the well wishes while we were away!! Now on to the food!!!
Farmer J is a huge Thai and curry fan. He makes the most delicious dishes using some yummy ingredients. Earlier this week he made a Massaman curry using rabbit. This dish will work with Chicken or turkey as well.
Ingredients:
• 1 pound rabbit meat cubed
• 2 large potatoes, cut into chunks
• 2 large carrots, sliced
• 2 cups chicken broth
• 1 14 -ounce can coconut milk
• 3 Tbls coconut oil OR vegetable oil
• 1 large shallot, sliced
• 2” piece fresh ginger, minced
• 4 large cloves garlic minced
• 1 stalk lemongrass, minced
• 3 kaffir lime leaves
• 1 teaspoon turmeric
• 1 tsp ground coriander
• 1/2 tsp ground cumin
• Zest and juice of ½ lime
• ¼-1 tsp red pepper flakes to your desired spiciness
• 1 Tbls red curry paste
• 1/4 cup chopped dry-roasted cashews
• Cilantro, additional cashews and the other half lime for garnish
Instructions:
- Heat oil in large pot over med-high heat. Add the curry paste, turmeric, coriander, cumin and red pepper and stir for 1 minute.
- Add the meat and stir well to coat. Brown for 2-3 minutes.
- Stir in the shallot, ginger, garlic, lemongrass and kaffir leaves.
- Pour in the broth then add the coconut milk and lime zest and juice and reduce heat to low.
- Simmer for 30 minutes to 1 hour to allow flavors to mingle and tenderize the meat.
- Add the potatoes, carrots and cashews and simmer for another 15-30 minutes until vegetables reach desired tenderness.
- Serve over plain steamed rice or quinoa and garnish with cilantro, chopped cashews and a wedge of lime.
*Notes: Many recipes call for fish sauce, of which I intended to add 3 Tbls. I forgot to add it and the flavors were perfectly wonderful without it. Also, if you cannot find kaffir leaves, you could substitute bay leaves.
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Homemade hummus in less than 30 seconds!!
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Over the years we’ve perfected our hummus recipe. It is so simple but incredibly delicious.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups cooked chickpeas (if buying dry, 1cup dry will become 3 cups cooked)
- 1 cup Tahini (for buying options click here)
- Juice of 1 large lemon (about 4 Tbls)
- 3Tbls Roasted garlic olive oil
- Salt to taste
For top:
- EVOO and
- Smoked paprika
You will also need
Blender or food processor.
Instructions:
- This will be the easiest recipe I’ve shared. Put all the ingredients in the food processor
- Puree until smooth.
- Taste for salt and season to taste
- Plate hummus and drizzle with extra virgin olive oil and smoked paprika
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Fried Green Cherry Tomato Jalapeno Poppers
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Farmer J creates some amazing recipes from what we have on hand. We got a large crop of jalapenos this year and he has smoked some of them, then dehydrated for a Chipotle chili powder, dehydrated some without smoking for a jalapeno chili powder, made several batches of hot pepper jelly, and is still fermenting Tabasco style hot sauce.
But this … THIS has to be my favorite … Fried green cherry tomato jalapeno poppers!!!!
We went out on the last day of the season just before it frosted and picked all the tomatoes we had left on the vine. We ended up with about 10 gallons, half of which were green cherry tomatoes. We used a few dozen to make the poppers. Here is how he made them:
What you will need (you may need to adjust amounts based on the size and number of your tomatoes):
24 green cherry tomatoes
8 oz cheese (we’ve done chevre, cream cheese and pesto cheddar)
4 oz finely chopped jalapeno peppers
Salt and black pepper
For the breading station: (adjust as needed for larger batches)
Station 1:
- ½ c Flour
- ½ tsp Salt
- ½ tsp Pepper
Station 2:
- 1 Egg
- 1 tsp water
Station 3:
- ½ c Flour
- ½ c Bread crumbs
- ½ tsp Salt
- ½ tsp Pepper
- ½ tsp Smoked Paprika
- ½ tsp Thyme
- ½ tsp Garlic powder
- ½ tsp Onion powder
Directions:
- If using a hard cheese like cheddar or pepper-jack, chop it finely.
- Mix your cheese with the jalapenos and add salt and pepper to taste
- With a paring knife, cut a hole in the stem end of the tomatoes just large enough to allow you to core the seeds out of the tomato.
- Core out the tomatoes using the paring knife or a mini melon baler, removing the seeds and any inner flesh.
- Stuff each tomato with the cheese mixture, making sure not to leave air pockets.
- Bread the tomatoes using a 3 part breading station
- Seasoned flour
- Flour, salt, pepper
- Egg wash
- Egg beaten with a tsp of water
- Breading flour
- Equal parts flour and bread crumbs, salt, pepper, smoked paprika, thyme, garlic powder, onion powder
- Seasoned flour
- Heat frying oil to 375 degrees. Lower breaded tomatoes into frying oil and cook until golden brown, about 5 minutes.
- Remove from oil and place on flour-sack (or paper towels) to drain off excess oil.
- Wonderful served with your favorite dipping sauces (we use ranch, ketchup, bbq sauce and jalapeno jelly) or just as they are.
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