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Gourmet Meals At The Farm TableGrilled, marinated, grass-fed, tender and juicy Icelandic lamb chops, roasted Purple Viking potatoes with purple onions, sea salt and 4 minced cloves of our very own Spanish Roja garlic, fresh diced tomatoes and onions marinated in sea salt and raw apple cider vinegar on a bed of Sucrine lettuce, homemade breadsticks made from freshly ground spelt flour with melted garlic butter dip and homemade apple sauce was what filled our house with wonderful aromas this weekend.All of the food except the spelt was grown on our farm. For the table, we used a pretty blanket throw and a centerpiece vase of beautiful pink Cosmos flowers from our garden. For the background music we used a CD of classically arranged hyms played with stringed instruments. Our company consisted of Grandpa and Grandma and the conversation was delightful. Gourmet = food that is of the highest quality and flavor, prepared well and presented in an artful manner. Yes, the quality just couldn't be beat, the flavor and aromas were rich and the color combination was a feast for the eyes. And the satisfaction, well, there just is no statement to describe the feeling that comes from partaking of fantastic food that you produced on your own farm (I write this with humility and awe). The meal was fabulously delicious in our humble abode which we prepared, consumed and savored after handmilking the goats, gathering the eggs, fighting off a rooster that was in the protective mode (who will be in the stew pot if he pulls that again!), slopping the hogs (while they put their muddy nose prints on our clothing nudging us to pet them), catching and wrestling rams to a new pasture, stepping in some fresh cow pies, fighting cob webs in the old, decaying barn, putting another load of farm clothes in the wash, and sledge-hammering some concrete chip by jarring chip (this was John's project, it hurt just to watch it). We may live simply (and love it!), but we also eat like kings! John remembers well his father's statements many times after eating of the provision of their farm while growing up, "President so-and-so doesn't eat this good!!" Grateful for God's provision of such good food and the opportunity to grow it, The Farmer's Wife 03:57 - 2006-Sep-18 - post comment
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Description Sharing our thoughts, events, ups and downs, as we restore a once profitable farm to its former greatness as a Christian agrarian family. Home User Profile Archives Friends Lighthouse Farm Our DVD's for homesteader's Homestead Series e-books Lighthouse Farm Podcasts No NAIS Recent Entries - Pig-headed or chicken-hearted???? - Health care - the way it used to be - The Egg Hog - Back in blogdom after chasing sheep - Ode to Winter 2007 - Chicken and Hog DVD's are now finished!! - Video clip of the birth of a piglet - News about Haitian friends!!!!! - Authentic AgricultureTM - Welcome! - A Peaceful Night in the Pasture - Big Sale at The Old Schoolhouse!! - Rendering Lard - Hog Butchering Time - John Ray - Founder of Biology - A Breath-taking Field Trip - Fat and Sassy - Real Men Eat Quiche - Green Tomato Recipes - Harvest - Two Cents Worth on Pinching Pennies... - Cockle burrs and stinging nettle a blessing? - Gourmet Meals At The Farm Table - Seeds Worth Saving - Sweet cartoon - Commercial rice supply has been contaminated - Spermicidal Corn - Agricultural Science Fiction Horror Flick or Truth? - SImple Entertainment - "Gardening is like a treasure hunt!" - Pigs don't stink - Diggin' For Gold!! - Rain - a Blessing or a Curse? - My Sheep Know My Voice - er - Chain Saw... - The Old Farm Dog - An Alarming Nightime Visitor - Farming Magazine - A Pig's Nest - Meager chicken harvest - Bacon + Garlic = Piglets? - A Rare July 4th Tribute to Farmers - Fencing in more pasture - Three months on our new place.... - Blood suckers in Minnesota :( - Miss Bacon and Rocky Mountain Oysters - Sheep without a shepherd - Haying with my man! - Mink solutions, anyone? - Goat meets pig... - I Smell a Skunk... - URGENT!! Please forward!!!! - Did Adam Smell Like That? - Minnesota!!!!! - Problem solved - God is good - The Rat Trap and One Happy Girl - New Podcast - Farm Restoration - The Beginning - An Honorable Gentleman Has Died - Why teach our children about agriculture? - Cheap, Safe Food??? - New NAIS links worth reading - Old Tractors Never Die - A Lawyer comments on Constitutional Rights and NAIS - Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks - Big Bellies and Big Bags - Hosting Haitians on the Homestead - Minnesota, Here We Come (after we sell our house) and "the Chip" - And God saw that it was good - Greetings |