It is a extremely wonderful working day outdoors with the sun shining so brightly. The sunshine is welcome at any time and is considerably appreciated for our solar process.
With gas charges so large, we really do not like to use the generator extra than required. We run a generator to cost up our battery packs when the sunshine doesn’t shine for as well lots of days in a row. Our photo voltaic electrical power operates two freezers, and drinking water and some lights in our pole barn. On days we clean laundry it usually takes more electricity. Also, with every person showering and pumping drinking water to the horses every single day, it will take pretty a little bit.
We are all completed with our beef now. What a reduction! On Friday evening we cut up all 4 quarters of beef. The steaks ended up slash out, beef chunks slice up, and so on., then the relaxation was prepared to grind for hamburger. On Saturday the hamburger was floor and the steaks, T-bones, etcetera., sliced. Most of the meat was vacuum sealed on Saturday. Some of the hamburger we waited to deal right up until Monday. The meat filled our freezers, and Dustin and Loretta took their 50 percent dwelling to place in their freezer.
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On Monday, daughter Loretta and I canned some hamburger and beef chunks. Son Joseph didn’t have to work since of the weather, so we had been glad for his aid to vacuum seal the hamburger and pack it in the freezers.
On Monday though we were being packaging, Uncle Joe and Aunt Betty stopped in to say hello. They experienced introduced sister Verena property. She experienced used a week out in Berne, Indiana, with sister Liz and Levi. Most of the winter Verena had been being with us or sister Emma.
Saturday, we program to go aid daughters Susan and Verena slice up two quarters of beef to place in their freezer.
Subsequent on the agenda is to start out carrying out some spring cleaning. Lord keen, we will host church services in May.
We have been savoring exceptional beef, as we connect with it, considering that we butchered our beef. We slice the tenderest steaks incredibly thin and place salt and pepper on both sides then swirl it in scorching oil the moment and flip it above and swirl 1 all over again and it is completed. It is really fantastic and our loved ones enjoys it.
Saturday morning, I produced fried eggs and potatoes with some contemporary bacon (from our the latest pork butchering). Then I also had to fry up the cow brains for Joe and some of our small children that like them.
Sunday night, our complete spouse and children was in this article for supper. Child Andrea gets loads of focus. She is this kind of a sweetie, just like all my grandchildren are. All you Grandmas out there know the important feeling of grandchildren, I’m confident.
For those people visitors that normally say they like to listen to our menus, I’ll share what I manufactured Sunday night time with the enable of my daughters. We had mashed potatoes, beef gravy, macaroni and cheese, environmentally friendly beans, grilled T-bones and steak, sliced Colby cheese, cookies and ice product. The menfolk grilled the meat.
I nonetheless have paper plates still left above from my excursion to Sam’s Club just before Dustin and Loretta’s wedding ceremony. On evenings when the entire relatives is listed here, it will make it much easier to use people and do less dish washing. It presents us far more time to just take a look at. It is these types of a blessing to be ready to perform with each other as a family members and get foodstuff stored for an additional 12 months. God is great, and may well His several blessings achieve throughout the miles to all of you.
I am likely to share my sister Susan’s recipe she wrote of beef and gravy when I advised her how to make it. She desired to compose it down decades ago so she would remember it. RIP Susan.
4 heaping tablespoons flour
1 pint canned beef chunks
Potato h2o (saved from cooking potatoes)
Directions: Place 4 heaping tablespoons flour in a pan and brown flour right until it’s dark. Allow flour awesome. In a 3 1/2-quart kettle, vacant 1 pint of beef and put in 2 pints of h2o and 1 full onion. When it commences to boil, get out beef and put in potato water. If you never have potato h2o, then use drinking water. Insert more drinking water as wanted. Combine the cooled flour and drinking water to make a thickening until eventually it is just a very little watery. Then combine the beef and thickening in the kettle until it boils all over again. Clear away the onion ahead of serving.
Lovina’s Amish Kitchen is created by Lovina Eicher, Old Purchase Amish writer, cook dinner, wife, and mom of eight. Her latest cookbook, “Amish Household Recipes,” is accessible where ever textbooks are marketed. Visitors can create to Eicher at PO Box 1689, South Holland, IL 60473 (you should involve a self-resolved stamped envelope for a reply) or e mail [email protected] and your concept will be passed on to her to go through. She does not personally reply to e-mail.