When is a storm coming? What do you usually cook? Thank you.
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MMHFebruary 17, 2022
If you live in a cold weather climate, you should be prepared for it.most of the time it is overblown.
drbabsFebruary 16, 2022
I like to make soups, stews or beans and greens when I’m stuck inside. And cornbread.
drbabsFebruary 17, 2022
Butter! Here’s an easy recipe. https://food52.com/recipes...
AntoniaJamesFebruary 16, 2022
It's snowing here in Boulder County right now, but we're only expecting 3" or so, all told. We get snow on a fairly regular basis, so unless I've just been hiking in a snow storm that arrived a few hours early (it happens!), I usually just cook what I normally would on a cold February day - such as Tuscan beef stew with polenta (Cook's Illustrated recipe for the stew, which I've adapted for the Instant Pot, over Instant Pot polenta - thanks, Emma!! https://food52.com/recipes... or Archana Mundhe's Butter Chicken https://food52.com/recipes... (where the butter is actually coconut cream - amazing - with frozen chopped spinach thrown in at the end for a one-pot entree, served over black cardamom rice made in the Instant Pot the day before); beef stew made with leftover chunks of beef from the Tuscan stew served at our dinner party last weekend; or roasted salmon with roasted rosemary potatoes and pan-roasted broccoli - to name some fairly typical storm-worthy meals served here lately.
And for the record, if I'm really cold from a bike ride or hiking when the weather comes through, and dinner's not already prepped in advance (it usually is), I work with what's in my freezer, fridge and pantry to put together a hearty stew-like soup - along the lines of this old favorite, https://food52.com/recipes... - these days featuring local grass-fed pork sausage (Skypilot Farm) and kale I grew last fall, which I blanched and froze for use through the winter and early spring. ;o)
And for the record, if I'm really cold from a bike ride or hiking when the weather comes through, and dinner's not already prepped in advance (it usually is), I work with what's in my freezer, fridge and pantry to put together a hearty stew-like soup - along the lines of this old favorite, https://food52.com/recipes... - these days featuring local grass-fed pork sausage (Skypilot Farm) and kale I grew last fall, which I blanched and froze for use through the winter and early spring. ;o)
IrinaFebruary 17, 2022
Is it difficult to grow an own kale? Is it growing in a pot?
AntoniaJamesFebruary 17, 2022
Mine grows in a garden, not a pot, and it is amazingly easy to grow! You could, however, grow it in a large pot, though you'd end up with large plants that wouldn't produce as profusely as the rows of smaller plants I grow in my beds.
I don't thin the plants much, so my rows of kale look like a jungle. I pick kale (red Russian and lacinato) all summer and into the fall, blanching it, then squeezing out the water to compress it into small blocks, which i freeze immediately. I must have frozen 70 or 80 blocks in 2021.
We use it on pizza and in all kinds of soups and stews. Kale tolerates cold well, so I am able to pick through early November. (We didn't have any snow last fall, so I'm not entirely sure whether a good snowfall would end the growing season - but I'm guessing it would not!) ;o)
I don't thin the plants much, so my rows of kale look like a jungle. I pick kale (red Russian and lacinato) all summer and into the fall, blanching it, then squeezing out the water to compress it into small blocks, which i freeze immediately. I must have frozen 70 or 80 blocks in 2021.
We use it on pizza and in all kinds of soups and stews. Kale tolerates cold well, so I am able to pick through early November. (We didn't have any snow last fall, so I'm not entirely sure whether a good snowfall would end the growing season - but I'm guessing it would not!) ;o)
IrinaFebruary 17, 2022
It’s impressive to freeze from 70 to 80 blocks. Does it require a lot of watering of kale when it’s growing? How often do you water it during a day?
IrinaFebruary 17, 2022
AntoniaJames, what’s kind of meat do you cook with kale to make a stew? How long does it take to eat a 70 block of frozen kale?
NancyFebruary 16, 2022
When? Depends on where you are.
What? Just have enough food, including shelf stable supplies, to tide you over any power outage.
Other? Candles and flashlights.
What? Just have enough food, including shelf stable supplies, to tide you over any power outage.
Other? Candles and flashlights.
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