Breakfast and Lunch

Tomorrow breakfast and lunch. I'll heat the frozen buckwheat pancakes and blueberries. Top with cottage cheese and 2 hard boiled eggs on the side.  Lunch will be reheated frozen meatloaf and toasted homemade bread.  I pre-toast my bread and put in a sandwich bag the night before. I don't seal in fully until the next morning so the steam escapes. 

I pre-cook big batches of buckwheat pancakes.  Pre-package my lunch the night before.  Breakfast is usually pancakes and cottage cheese or egg sandwiches, sometimes with some dubliner. Lunch is something I made the night before, or something I had extra and froze.  I've been having sliced cucumbers with my lunch this week but I'm out for tomorrow and I'm tired. It's Thursday.  I have zucchini in the fridge but just can't do it.  :-). Cheers!

I'm showing the pancakes frozen invthe background. The cottage cheese and blueberries from my bushes. I also freeze the berries on cookies sheets. Place them in a ziplock and use the same. 

Green Bean Harvest

My husband was dissatisfied with the pole beans we grew last year, so he's planted 3 - 25 foot rows this year. 

There's weeds!  You do what u can do, when u work too. Plus we have had excessive rain the year. 

Here's last weekends harvest, and there will more this coming weekend. 

Blanched and froze 5 pints snap beans and 4 pints french cut beans

Here's how I french cut beans. You can find this rotary cutter or a hand cutter on Amazon. 

Canned 16 pints

My tall pressure canner holds 16 pints. 

Blueberry's and Pancakes!

3 years later I finally got blueberries from my 4 bushes!  My dh put some wonderful cages around the so I could have all of the blueberries to myself!  Now I need to be more proactive about fertilizing them!

     

       Buckwheat Blueberry Pancakes 

Buckwheat Blueberry Pancakes with honey! 

Dehydrator Buckwheat Flakes

Diane on FB shared this with me. http://mitochondrialdepletionsyndrome.blogspot.com/2013/02/cold-cereal-flakes-buckwheatcoconut-and.html?m=1

 

Of course I had to alter the recipe for myself. 

3/4 cup buckwheat flour

3/4 cup King Arthur unbleached white wheat flour

1/4 cup ground flax seed

1/2 cup honey

1/2 cup apple sauce

1/2 tsp salt

3/4 cup Lakewood organic apple juice

Diane said the thinner you spread the better 

the flake so I thinned the batter a bit more 

with the apple juice. Spread in 5 fruit leather 

trays.  Cooking on highest heat.  I'll post the 

results later.  

Bread

I'm making bread with King Arthur White Whole Wheat Flour. (Can be corntaminated). Oster bread maker.
Recipe:
1 1/2 water
2 heaping Daisy Sour Cream
2 Tb sugar
1 tsp salt
4 cups flour
1/2 cup ground flax seed
Make a well add 1 pkg envelope red star yeast

Set bread maker on dough. (Today I also set it to be finish after I got home). After the dough cycle give it another 30 minutes or so to re-rise. Gently pressb stop once to stop the dough cycle. Choose the bake cycle and press start. Beautiful baked bread!

If u accidentally restart the dough cycle. I've done this several times! Let the machine mix back into a round for a few minutes or model manually. Stop the dough cycle. Let the bread rise and then choose the bake cycle.