I love summer! I love the heat and lots of sunshine! I love things growing even if I do have to mow/weed eat my day away! But this summer I feel like I'm getting pulled 5 different directions all at the same time. We're living from the garden and getting lots of stuff put away for winter time too! I've written off all peas and will let them mature and dry out and save seed for next year. Got salad greens replanted and choosing out the ones I want to go to seed so we can have it next year also. Last year I waited until fall to start saving seed and most never fully matured so was worthless to try and save. This year I will save early in hopes I will have most of my own seed to use next year. Someone told me I could let early broccoli go and flower out and it would then go to seed even though its a biennial. I'm not convinced it will work but I will try it this year and see!
Today I needed cream of chicken soup and can't use any store bought soups due to my food allergies. I am using white bean flour with hot water, chicken bouillon and chicken. It looked so good I went ahead and made 3 batches so I had what I needed tonight and have 9 pints in the pressure cooker right now so I have it on hand. I used 1 pint of chicken for the 3 batches and it has way more chicken than the store bought stuff ever had! I had some old navy beans in my storage so used those to grind for my flour and they worked great going through my Wonder Mill!
The recipe I got comes from a great book I've had for years! "Country Beans" by Rita Bingham ISBN 1 882314 10 7. I had used her tips and ideas to sneak beans into so many meals but never once noticed or tried her instant soup recipes! Now that I am so very allergic to dairy and gluten these recipes are saving my life! No need to try and figure it out myself, she already had tried and true recipes for me to use!
Cream of Chicken Soup
6 cups boiling water
1 cup fine white bean flour
2 Tablespoons chicken or vegetable soup base
1 cup chicken dices (opt)
Whisk bean flour into the boiling water and then stir in the soup base. Stir and boil 3 minutes and add chicken if using. Serves 3 to 4.
I got 3 1/2 pints from this. Made 3 batches and got 9 pints and enough to do make a casserole up for tonight's dinner.
I turned our 6 week old chicks/turkeys loose today after spending 2 days locked up with our 3 year hens/ducks. They have finally begun venturing out close to the chicken coop and least little thing they all run back in and hide. I don't remember our 3yr old hens being so shy but it's been a while and the kids mostly took care of them. I guess after a few weeks they'll start venturing a little farther out. I did at least remember to lock up the dog today. He loves to run in the middle of the hens and watch them fly up and bark. Our hens are used to it but figured our 6 week old's would do better without Sammy the dog playing with them!
So working around here and in the garden and trying to get some outside things added in and running almost faster than I can trot anymore! But I'm here and loving this hot summer weather.
Take care and hope you are able to get lots of stuff laid in this summer!
Cherlynn
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