Time for more recipes!
I have a double-sided crockpot (about 3 quarts each) and a large crockpot Hubby brought into the marriage that's maybe 4 quarts. I like it when they are all going.
In my double crockpot today:
Left: it has 1 1/2 qts goat milk heating. As soon as it gets hot enough, I'll add some vinegar, stir until it separates into curds and whey, and strain the whey out to make bread with later. I'll separate the curds into two bowls. Then (1) bowl will get a little honey and powdered dehydrated raspberries to make raspberry cheese and Bowl (2) will get a tiny bit of salt and powdered real garlic with lots of basil. YUM!
Right: making yogurt! In another 25 minutes, will turn off the crockpot, let it cool for 3 hours, add some yogurt starter, wrap the thing in towels, and leave it till tomorrow. Already have 4 oz jelly jars ready and waiting ... will place a little natural jam in the bottom of half of them and scoop yogurt into them. Then will refrigerate. Some will get honey and vanilla for the Kid. And any leftover will get flavored with powdered dehydrated peach and placed in popsicle molds for a frozen treat.
All very healthy snacks.
Oh, guess what I had for dinner last night? Okay, I'll tell ya: salad from my garden with lettuce, chard, spinach, radishes ... added peanuts and 1000 island dressing. PLUS homemade cheese with crackers. So proud of myself.
BUT ... THIS blog entry is about a recipe I just read.
ALL PURPOSE CROCKPOT ROAST
INGREDIENTS:
Big ole hunk of cheapo almost-expired beef
1/4 dehydrated onion bits (or packet of dry onion soup mix)
2-4 cups salsa
2 cups fresh-squeezed (!!) goat milk
2 cups chopped fresh mushrooms
2 cups water
DIRECTIONS:
Add water first to crockpot then throw the rest of the ingredients on top of the hunk o beef. Cook on high 4 hours or so, then turn to low and cook until meat is fork-tender (falls apart easily with fork).
I'll eat it as the protein for a quick meal: with gf crackers, on rice, on cooked sliced potato rounds, or my hubby could eat it on bread or tortillas.
I have to go into town on Wednesday for physical therapy so I'll pick up some mushrooms and the chunk o beef then.
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I'm determined to get back in shape. Can barely walk with this extra weight hurting my knees and my right foot.
Now that the garden is starting to produce ... it'll be a whole lot easier.
Have more lettuce than we can handle ... and my gut will tolerate a salad only every 2 days. So ... selling extra. Potatoes and radishes coming along too. Tomatoes going in this week as are bell peppers, cucumbers, etc. Will plant corn and more next Monday. My mouth is watering!!!!
HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?
It's so nice to have a goat-in-milk again. Made some cheese the other day and it's as yummy as I remember it. It's just a simple farmer's cheese, but still! After I separated the curds from the whey, I added a little honey, cinnamon and powdered dehydrated peaches. So delicious and had no ingredients that I didn't recognize. Had a bit more fat than I'd like but I don't have a way to make whole milk into skim so ... that's ok. I only eat a spoonful a meal so it's not an over-indulgence.
The rest of the time, eating healthy is difficult. So much going on with my health and that of my Kid that half the time I don't feel like eating, and the other half, I just grab things. Can barely wait until my garden is producing. We already have salad greens, but I had to plant more because it's just not enough for us AND to sell!
But soon ... yummy ... tomatoes, peppers, scallions, radishes, cucumbers, 8-ball zucchini, beans ... my mouth is watering just thinking about it all!
Oh, and the berries! Come on berry brambles ... Mama wants some blueberries. Er, blackberries. No, raspberries. Ah come on ... I want them all!!!
Probably why I was able to so easily (yeah, right) lose the weight summer before last. Our garden did great that year AND we really didn't have the major health problems to deal with. Now, with my own physical limitations even worse, and my Kid's diagnoses of autism and epilepsy AND worrying about my Kid's daily seizures and meltdowns, I'm just a mess.
Come on garden. I need your help to lose all this weight I've put back on.
The rest of the time, eating healthy is difficult. So much going on with my health and that of my Kid that half the time I don't feel like eating, and the other half, I just grab things. Can barely wait until my garden is producing. We already have salad greens, but I had to plant more because it's just not enough for us AND to sell!
But soon ... yummy ... tomatoes, peppers, scallions, radishes, cucumbers, 8-ball zucchini, beans ... my mouth is watering just thinking about it all!
Oh, and the berries! Come on berry brambles ... Mama wants some blueberries. Er, blackberries. No, raspberries. Ah come on ... I want them all!!!
Probably why I was able to so easily (yeah, right) lose the weight summer before last. Our garden did great that year AND we really didn't have the major health problems to deal with. Now, with my own physical limitations even worse, and my Kid's diagnoses of autism and epilepsy AND worrying about my Kid's daily seizures and meltdowns, I'm just a mess.
Come on garden. I need your help to lose all this weight I've put back on.
SEVERE STRESS
Now that we're back home (from my kid's stay in the hospital), I was working to become healthy again. Food all planned out. Exercise planned.... my b-day is this week so we were going to install an above-ground pool for $279.
All shot to SH*T.
Can't do the pool. Too much iron in our water (well water) which would result in brown murky water and me constantly cleaning the pool. Nuh uh. Plus my kid can't swim alone and if he wants to swim and I can't get away from chores or whatever, chances are he'd sneak down there. If he had a seizure in the water, he could drown.
So ...
Okay, from pool to bathtub. Will exercise my knee once a day in our big ole tub, swimsuit on, in case I need to hurry out and help when my kid has a seizure. Okay, I'll start that next week.
Besides, my son now needs an additional seizure med that will cost us almost $900 a month! Yes, that's our portion for a month's supply of seizure meds. ARGH! We can maybe afford 2-3 months, using the rest of my husband's inheritance money but after that, no clue how to pay for it.
And food? Yeah, right. We had planned to buy a small cultivator so we can plant fields of gluten-free grains plus stuff for the livestock. Also needed more bags of potting soil for our veggie garden AND had planned to get the fruit bushes, brambles and trees this weekend to get them planted. I always eat healthier when we grow it.
Now ...
I want cake. Ribs. Bread.
Ugh.
All shot to SH*T.
Can't do the pool. Too much iron in our water (well water) which would result in brown murky water and me constantly cleaning the pool. Nuh uh. Plus my kid can't swim alone and if he wants to swim and I can't get away from chores or whatever, chances are he'd sneak down there. If he had a seizure in the water, he could drown.
So ...
Okay, from pool to bathtub. Will exercise my knee once a day in our big ole tub, swimsuit on, in case I need to hurry out and help when my kid has a seizure. Okay, I'll start that next week.
Besides, my son now needs an additional seizure med that will cost us almost $900 a month! Yes, that's our portion for a month's supply of seizure meds. ARGH! We can maybe afford 2-3 months, using the rest of my husband's inheritance money but after that, no clue how to pay for it.
And food? Yeah, right. We had planned to buy a small cultivator so we can plant fields of gluten-free grains plus stuff for the livestock. Also needed more bags of potting soil for our veggie garden AND had planned to get the fruit bushes, brambles and trees this weekend to get them planted. I always eat healthier when we grow it.
Now ...
I want cake. Ribs. Bread.
Ugh.
TOO MUCH COFFEE
My son just got out of the hospital yesterday. He was only there for about 27 hours, for a constant EEG/video monitoring of his seizures. We got the info we needed; there's no cure for a physical abnormality, except for brain surgery. Hoping meds will at least lessen/eliminate his big seizures.
But this is a "diet" blog, right? So this post is about how I handled my diet in the hospital.
Yeah, right.
He had a seizure within an hour of being there. One of the huge massive seizures that can kill. He did turn blue.
It was downhill from there. I did eat the broccoli slaw, fruit and yogurt I took BUT when he got his dinner, I was so hungry that I got a BLT (but with a salad!). Drank lots of milk and juice because it was free, but when they started telling me that they wanted to do a sleep deprivation study on him on Tuesday, I knew I needed coffee. That goodness that was free too! I must have drank 15-20 cups of coffee, from mid-afternoon on Monday until we got home on late Tuesday, just to stay awake AND to keep him awake.
Home. Slept hard last night. Whew!
(So did my kid: he slept about 12 hours!).
So far today, I've had a diet protein drink and a drinkable yogurt. Guess I should go eat: we have about a million eggs (ok, seems that way) so probably will make scrambled eggs for us for lunch. Tomorrow he goes back to school.
And I'm back to no caffeine.
But this is a "diet" blog, right? So this post is about how I handled my diet in the hospital.
Yeah, right.
He had a seizure within an hour of being there. One of the huge massive seizures that can kill. He did turn blue.
It was downhill from there. I did eat the broccoli slaw, fruit and yogurt I took BUT when he got his dinner, I was so hungry that I got a BLT (but with a salad!). Drank lots of milk and juice because it was free, but when they started telling me that they wanted to do a sleep deprivation study on him on Tuesday, I knew I needed coffee. That goodness that was free too! I must have drank 15-20 cups of coffee, from mid-afternoon on Monday until we got home on late Tuesday, just to stay awake AND to keep him awake.
Home. Slept hard last night. Whew!
(So did my kid: he slept about 12 hours!).
So far today, I've had a diet protein drink and a drinkable yogurt. Guess I should go eat: we have about a million eggs (ok, seems that way) so probably will make scrambled eggs for us for lunch. Tomorrow he goes back to school.
And I'm back to no caffeine.
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