1 lb beef, cut into chunks, or ground
½ tsp lavender buds
8 oz sliced mushrooms
7 red potatoes of variable size
2 Tbsp cream cheese
¼ cup milk
½ tsp salt
½ tsp ground black pepper
2 beets
3 carrots
1 onion
¼ cup fennel leaves and stalks
2 Tbsp flour or corn starch
Cook the beef and mushrooms with the lavender buds in a small amount of water. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Cut potatoes into chunks and boil until soft. Drain the water; mash the potatoes with the milk, cream cheese, salt and pepper.
Preheat oven to 400° F.
Chop up the vegetables and place in a casserole dish. You can use just the beet root, or use the leaves as well. Put the beef and mushrooms over the vegetables, it's okay if it's not fully cooked at this point. Sprinkle flour over everything.
Spread the mashed potatoes over everything.
Bake for about 30 minutes. Broil it at the end if necessary to brown the top.
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1 Tbsp butter
6 eggs
½ cup milk
½ tsp ground pepper
½ cup grated cheese
½ cup chopped onion (optional)
Put the butter and onion, if using, in a skillet over low heat. As it melts, beat the milk, eggs, and pepper together until mostly homogeneous. Stir in the cheese.
Increase heat to medium high. Pour the eggs into the skillet and let sit for about a minute. Gently scrape along the bottom of the skillet with the flat edge of a spatula. Let sit again for about 30 seconds, then scrape again. As it loses liquid, stir it more frequently until it is all cooked.
For larger clumps and a stronger egg flavor, reduce milk to ¼ cup.
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4 Tbsp butter
½ cup – 1 cup diced onions
4 lbs tomatoes, diced
¼ tsp thyme
½ tsp basil
¼ tsp black pepper
3 Tbsp flour
2 cups vegetable stock or chicken broth
¼ tsp baking soda
3 Tbsp sugar
1 ½ cups evaporated milk (12 oz can)
½ tsp salt
6-10 slices of bacon
In a large saucepan, saute the onions in the butter until tender, about 10 minutes (do not brown). Add the tomatoes, thyme, basil and pepper. Simmer 10 minutes. Whisk the broth and flour together and add to the soup mixture. Cover and simmer for 25 minutes, then remove from heat.
Fry the bacon until crispy and let cool, then crumble. Puree the soup in a blender, then return to the stove. Stir in the baking soda, sugar, milk, salt, and bacon. Heat, stirring, to a bare simmer, just to get it hot again.
Serves 3-4 people.
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½ cup rolled barley
4 cups vegetable stock
1 tsp olive oil
½ leek, chopped
4 oz. white mushrooms
1 clove garlic, minced
2 beets, chopped
½ large fennel bulb, chopped
2 Tbsp fresh dill
¼ cup corn
½ tsp salt
Dumplings:
1 cup white wheat flour
1 cup cornmeal
1 tsp salt
1 cup water
1 Tbsp oil
Combine the ingredients for the dumplings in a medium bowl and mix with a fork.
Bring the stock to a boil, then add barley, olive oil, leek, mushrooms, garlic, beets, fennel, dill, corn, and salt, and let it simmer for about 5 minutes.
Plop in the dumpling dough by the spoonful, cover the pot and let simmer for 10 minutes. Do not lift cover until dumplings have cooked for 10 minutes, but make sure it doesn't overflow.
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Old favorite from an Amish cooking book.
Snitz:
1 ham hock
1 ½ cups dried apples (or chopped fresh apples if you don't have the former)
2 Tbsp brown sugar
Place ham hock in heavy saucepan. Cover with 2 quarts water and boil 2 hours. Add apples and brown sugar. Add an additional 1.5 quarts water and cook until apples are soft. Add knepp.
Knepp:
2 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 egg, beaten
2 Tbsp melted butter
1/3-½ cup milk
Mix flour, baking powder, and salt. Add beaten egg, butter, and milk. Use only enough milk to make a sticky dough that will drop easily off a spoon. Drop by spoonfuls into boiling ham and apple mixture. Cover tightly and boil for 15 minutes.
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