Sesame chicken with a side salad! Wow, it was great!
We feel pretty blessed around here with all the good food, fresh air, rain and good “farm-ily” members! Well there are more blessings, but I can’t count them all. There is too much of a good thing, I hope the rain slows down next week so we can get some garden beds prepared! We have exciting things going on the the cow barn! We got our first bulk tank to chill the milk faster! It’s a big expense that we have been saving for. It will help farmer Tommy be able to more efficiently bottle the milk. A big part of keeping raw milk fresh is to get it as cold as possible quickly, which this tank does for us! Small tanks are hard to come by since most dairies are huge operations and need tanks that are hundreds of gallons. We were able to find a company that makes small ones up north and we purchased a 60 gallon tank that is a perfect fit for our needs! Very exciting!
Speaking of exciting, the Summer CSA begins this Thursday! If you are a member you should have gotten a boring but necessary email last week about all the details of the changes concerning pick up during the current situation. Thank you for reading it so we may better serve you. We look forward to returning to normal, but are so happy to be able to serve you in the current times too. See you Thursday the 30th and Saturday the 2nd for our first meat pick up and (all other shares) of the new season! Both days 2-5 Pm, with curbside available at 5 PM (please schedule with us by Wednesday for that service). We are also extending our “extras” order until tomorrow (Wednesday) this week. If you need anything extra like broth then you may either shop the cabin or fill out an extra order form on the website under the products heading.
Now for the fun food we’ve been eating lately! I took a beef chuck roast frozen and put in the instant pot for 75 minutes with salt and 2 cups of water. We then shredded it and added chopped onions, about a cup of ketchup, 3 TBS molasses, some salt and garlic powder and had the BEST BBQ we’ve had in a while. We also used some carrots and cabbage to make a slaw and it too was so yummy. I love making extra so we can have it at a second meal with no work!
We also keep making this great instant pot sesame chicken recipe that Maddie found. Ask her about it at pick up, she’s sure to share the details. Over some rice with a nice side salad, is the perfect quick dinner that makes you feel like you’ve been out to eat! I’m looking forward to trying a members recipe for collards tonight. She says: ”Favorite collard recipe: creamed collards (like creamed spinach). I chop the stems and sautée in fat, then cut the leaves into ribbons and add. Grate in a small potato and season with salt, pepper. Once cooked lower heat and add cream and a little nutmeg. Let thicken and serve!”
We’ve had a lot of extra milk lately with the girls going back to pasture and off of hay. We’ve been making butter, cheese and LOTS of ice cream. I found a great way to make ice cream with milk instead of just cream. You make pudding first and then churn it. It’s creamier and just needs a little extra sweetener as the pudding is less sweet when it freezes. We still haven’t named the little Brown Swiss heifer, so we will have to decide soon! She did get de-horned over the weekend and was very brave! Well the vet did a nerve block, so she didn’t have to be brave, she couldn’t feel it. We don’t like de-horning the calves, but it’s the only way to have our children or ourselves around them in the milk barn when they are older! So we do it when they are young and it’s an easier procedure.
Well folks, we are headed into a big harvest day tomorrow so we better get some dinner and sleep! We look forward to seeing lots of you this week!
Blessings,
Your farmers