The other day, based on what I read at Fias Co Farm, I tried turning my chevre into “sour cream”. It isn’t true sour cream because it isn’t from the cream. However, the taste is so good and the texture so right that we all swear (not really) it is the best sour cream we’ve ever had.
I did get back to the corn tortilla dough I mentioned on Tuesday. I’m grateful because the tortillas turned out so awesome! In this post, I will share the few things that helped me roll them out. We ate them for lunch, topped with leftovers. It wasn’t the most graceful thing to eat, but they were incredibly good!
I’m sure I’m not reinventing the wheel on this oatmeal – but here’s how we’re eating our oatmeal lately. It is sweet from the milk, raisins, and a bit of stevia. Depending on how sweet you like your oatmeal, you may want to add raw honey, too. Soaking the oats the night before in an acid medium ensures maximum benefits and assimilation of nutrients. It is not hard to do, just needs to be done ahead of time. It is a good job for kids to do before bed! Beyond nutritional benefits, you’ll find that the soaking decreases the cooking time necessary in the morning ~ thick rolled oats take just 5 minutes to cook!
Even though I am actively praying and looking for a cream separator, I wanted to give making cultured butter from whole milk one more try before I threw up my hands and declared it was not possible or not worth the effort.
For today’s Weekly Kitchen Tip (and Fight Back Fridays! at Food Renegade) I dug in my comments and pulled out this gem. My friend Christina once asked her Amish friend, Bethany, how she made cheese. Bethany wrote down all her methods and Christina keeps the paper in her recipe box. What I love is the simplicity of each recipe. Each type of cheese explained in five sentences or less! Makes it seem so easy! What do you think?
When we’re busy and I don’t have time to do much cooking, or if it is hot and I don’t want to heat up the kitchen, this is how we eat. Easy. Cool. Satisfying.
Without a cream separator, we are having trouble making our goat milk ice cream creamy (think ice milk instead of ice cream). Meg shared how she modified the Nourishing Traditions’ recipe for ice cream, and I’m so thankful for that because of the excellent flavor and color! But what can I say, my husband (bless him) wants creamy not milky. With that in mind, I remembered how Sally took my coconut ice cream and revamped it with avocado for creaminess (and fresh mint for flavor) back in July 2008. So I added an avocado to our ice cream this weekend. It does help. A little. Having straight cream in place of some of the milk would be better. But this is pretty good.
It is hard to know whether I should share this dressing or not… because not everybody was crazy about it. As usual, I did like it very much, while everyone else thought it was so-so. See what you can do with it! It came from this recipe, only I used kefir instead of yogurt and green leaf stevia instead of honey. Perhaps I should do it again with honey. I can tell I’m really convincing you to give this a try with all my ho hum comments. 
But I think it has potential – and I really liked it. (Thank you to SueEllen for suggesting it to me!)
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