Bread and Tortilla Creations

Last week Rachael and Sarah made homemade wheat tortillas and whole wheat bread to place in the freezer for future meals.

We love to have Rachael's tortillas for weekday lunches

We made whole wheat bread in batches of six loaves

Ready for the oven

New Recipes: Rendering Tallow

We rendered some of our beef suet this week, and it turned out well.

First it has to be heated, strained, and then put in jars (top picture). When it cools and hardens, it looks like this:

Tallow is supposed to be healthy to use if you have to fry something. And it makes wonderful pie crusts.

Sarah tried a tater tot recipe (potatoes, flour, salt and pepper: very sophisticated!), and even tried using the above tallow to fry a few in. The remaining were baked. We enjoyed them for our Saturday night dinner with mom's fish sticks!

New Recipes: Pigs In A Blanket

Mom recently decided to make a few convenience meals to put in the freezer.  There seems to be few foods we can take for errand or "music lesson" days.  Pigs in a blanket are not the healthiest food we can eat, but should be better than eating out. 

We purchased preservative-free turkey wieners, and used freshly-ground wheat flour in our  crescent-type dough. Jonathan helped tackle the job with creativity: he is always the first to offer to help in the kitchen.  Thank you, Jonathan for all your work!

Our dough recipe included whole wheat flour, sucanat, baking powder, baking soda, salt, butter, and goat milk. We made 64 small piglets; enough for three outings. Seems it should be a months' worth of meals with all the work and clean up it took.

Ready for the freezer

Jonathan also made what he called "cows in a blanket" - bread pockets stuffed with cheese and pepperoni, although pepperoni does not come from a cow.  Every one knows what animal they come from.

We also tried homemade fish sticks which were a hit. And we are rendering some beef tallow. Sarah wants to try some hash browns next. Yes, we must have too much time on our hands.