My Midwest Life November 21th

Happy Saturday! It's a quiet morning as everyone else is sleeping here. I've practiced yoga and eaten breakfast, leftover teff flour pumpkin pancakes, baked apples, peaches & green smoothie and coffee). I'm also starting to think about the holidays and what to make for dinner of course. However in the past week we celebrated my husband's birthday.  It's always nice no matter what to celebrate something no matter how big or small.  But on with the week..

Last Saturday was fermenting day. I made sauerkraut and sourdough bread.  I'm loving the book Fermenting Vegetables. 

The Christmas Cactus started blooming.  This plant is probably 6 or 7 years old.  I'm amazed. 

Our turkey friend was back!  This time just one, maybe it is the baby from the summer. 

We celebrated my husband's birthday with a brunch, eggs benedict.  My mother-in-law brought me flowers.  It's so nice to have fresh flowers and I rarely buy them for myself.

Making cake and pulled out these 2 cute eggs. 

Speaking of cake, my husband and son's favorite, German Chocolate. 

I also did some miniature paining and sent our cards. It really is nice to send mail to people. 

First of the chili for this cool weather season, Cincinnati style. 

I hope you had a wonderful few weeks and a Happy Thanksgiving no matter how that looks for you this year.

And as always with love from the Midwest,

Beth 

 

Weekly Eats November 11th

 Hello! First of all I would like to thank all of the men and women who serve and have served our country on a daily basis.  You are truly appreciated. This past week was beautiful here, yet I didn't take too many pictures of my daily life, but I did take pictures of food.  So I decided to give you some inspiration in the kitchen with my week's eats. 

Breakfast on Monday as scrambled eggs topped with radish micro greens, pears and a piece of cracked wheat toast topped with homemade jelly and natural peanut butter.  Everything is local except the peanut butter.

Monday's dinner was moo shu mushrooms and pork.  I served it with local brocolli and rice.  I added some hoisin sauce on the side. I love this meal.  I brought it for lunch a few days later with cauliflower rice. 

Avocado toast, spinach, homemade kimchi and an egg. Trust me the avocado is there as well as  the bread. 

Dessert was German chocolate cookies again from the New York Times.  I would put in a bit less fillings for more cookie, but it was yummy. 

Lunch for most of my week was bean enchilada soup. It was okay; I didn't think it merited saving the recipe.  

Dinner with the Packer game was Defined Dish's turkey skillet nachos. I served roasted butternut squash on the side.  This is a family favorite.  I highly recommend this book. 

It was so warm on Friday we decided to grill hamburgers. This is crazy in November in Wisconsin.  

Saturday's dinner - Calvados and apple chicken with rice and local bock choy.  This comes from the Bonne Femme Cookbook , again another favorite cookbook. 

Sunday I finally made my favorite teff flour pumpkin pancakes.  These are so good and gluten free if that is something you need or want. Yup a smoothie of blueberries and spinach as well as apples. I was full for hours. 

I hope this inspires you in your kitchen.

Bon Appétit!

And as always with love from the Midwest,

Beth