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How to Use All Those Garden Tomatoes


Grape tomatoes.

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I juice my tomatoes.  They are delicious alone or you can add zucchini or yellow squash.  Or whatever you have in the garden that you think would be good with it–  a little spinach,  a pepper, etc.  I use a Breville Fountain Juicer.  Here is a sample of what I juice.

8 to 10 ripe tomatoes.

1 zucchini or yellow squash

1 small banana pepper

handful of spinach, swiss chard or kale

 

After you have juiced, use the pulp to make tomato soup.  Put the pulp in a large saucepan.  Add 2 16 oz. cans of organic tomato sauce and 2 cans of water.  You may add 1 cup of almond milk or any other kind of milk if you like your soup creamy and leave out 1 can of water.  Chop an onion and a clove of garlic and add.  Add 1 cup of fresh basil removing large stems.

Cook on stove top on medium heat for 30 minutes.  Use an immersion blender like the Cuisinart Smart Stick ($30 at Bed, Bath and Beyond) to mix it until it is creamy.  Serve with garnish of basil if desired.  I freeze extra soup for later.

 

 

 

 

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Links About Pastured Animals vs. Those Sold by Agribusinesses


I have been trying to be vegetarian for the 4 years since being diagnosed with cancer.  Here is a different slant on meat.  I still am trying to keep meat to a minimum but when I have it, I search for good quality.  You pay more on the front end but less at the doctor’s office.  This is from a website of a farm selling pastured meat.
Links

Eat Wild – www.eatwild.com – Eatwild.com provides up-to-date information about the benefits of raising livestock on pasture. You will see why pasture-raised animals are better for the animals, the environment, the farmer, and your health.

Weston A. Price Foundation – www.westonaprice.org – “The Weston A. Price Foundation is a non-profit, tax exempt charity founded in 1999 to disseminate the research of nutrition pioneer Dr. Weston Price, whose studies of isolated non-industrialized peoples established the parameters of human health and determined the optimum characteristics of human diets. Dr. Prices’ research demonstrated that humans achieve perfect physical form and perfect health generation after generation only when they consume nutrient dense whole foods and the vital fat-soluble activators found exclusively in animal fats.

A Campaign For Real Milk – www.realmilk.com – If you want to find out more about the nutritional benefits of drinking raw unpasturized milk and eating products made with raw milk, this is the sight for you. The sight features research and news updates, suggested readings, as well as where you can find real milk products.

Althernatives To Intensive Confinement For Farm Animals –www.awionline.org/farm/alt-farming.html – This up-to-date bibliography provides practical published information for consumers who are concerned about factory farming and are seeking for alternatives.

Grace Factory Farm Project – www.factoryfarm.org – The Grace Factory Farm Project’s goal is to shift away from factory farming and replace it with a sustainable food production system that is healthful and humane, economically viable, and environmentally sound. They provide information on the environment, economical, and social impacts these farms have locally, nationally, and globally, plus their effects on the animal’s and farm worker’s health.


Farm To Table – www.farmtotable.org – Although based in New York state and is mostly used to link in-state producers and consumers, it has great features for everyone. It has current news articles, recipes a large selection of books, and an extensive listing of links to various educational and organization web-sites.

 These were compiled by Eric Rubel at Crossroads Farms in Belmont Ohio.

Here is an article by him from his website.

Crossroads Farm
45021 Belmont-Centerville Road
Belmont, OH 43718
(740) 686-2153
ericjayrubel@yahoo.com

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Making Bread with Freshly Ground Grain


Jenny, our amazing daughter in law started us on a few new adventures–grinding grains for baking and vermiculture. Vermiculture will be a future subject.

Freshly ground grains. Do you like heavy and dense breads with lots of seeds? Do you like baking to be fast and easy? This is the recipe for you. It is adapted to the freshly ground flour which absorbs less fluid:

3 Minute Spelt bread

3 1/2 c spelt flour

4 t yeast

1/4 cup flaxseeds (toasted)

1/4 c sunflower seeds

1/4 c sesame seeds

1/2 c dates (opt)

1/4 c walnuts (opt)

1 to 1 1/4 cups warm water

Preheat oven to 400 degrees letting it automatically readjust the temperature if you are doing convection cooking. Combine ingredients, adding water last. Add water slowly to get the dough to the right consistency. Mix well and make loaf.

Put in greased pan and either :

1. bake immediately for 1 hour in regular oven on 400 degrees. If you cook it this way then take the loaf out after an hour and return it to oven for additional 5 to 10 minutes
or

2. Bake for 40 min on 400 degrees ( it will reset itself to 375) in convection oven.

We bought the grinder attachment for our Kitchenaid Mixer. But if you are going to do lots of grinding, I would not recommend it. It is slow, and it bogs down. Ours was around $130 — we already had the mixer. Good grain mills cost in the neighborhood of $400 to $500. Apparently stone grinding is best. Obviously you want one powerful enough to meet your needs and fast enough so that it is not time consuming. Here is a link for comparison: http://www.everythingkitchens.com/article-grain-mills-flour-grinders.htm

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