Home turkey

For my family. I cooked it with a stuffing of rice, onions and chicken livers, on the bed of Sauerkraut with the kraut juice. 

Killer taste and moist turkey. I cook it for the last 30 plus years. Never fails me!!

Happy Thanksgiving Every one!!

Picture from Malad, Idaho ( from archives)

Fast Pan Fried Okra

If you have some salsa left,you can use it this dish.

Get one pound of fresh okra
Quarter of a cup of salsa ( any salsa you like)
Little bit of oil for frying
Salt, Pepper


Cut the hard ens of okra, and slice it to size you like

Fry it in a pan with salt and pepper, adding the salsa half way before end

Enjoy!

Organic Bread

This is not an add, it's just posting about life in Utah. 

Good bread is half of the meal. Organic bread is wonderful thing. Over the last year, I am buying bread made from organic flour in Harmon's.  I only wish,  they start baking German Organic Rye  again.

Fast lentil soup

All we need is
For vegetarian version:

2 cups of dry lentils
1 cup of sliced onions
1 stick of celery ( chopped)
1 little carrot ( chopped)
few cloves of garlic

A little bit of yogurt (plain)


Boil the lentils without salt in water until almost done
Fry the garlic, onions, celery and carrots, add a little bit of  salt and black pepper. You can add cumin, but not much.

When lentils are cooked, just pour the fried vegetables into the lentils. Mix well. Cook until lentils are done. Let the soup stay for a about 10-15 min. for aromas to mix.
Serve hot.
When the soup is in the serving dish , put one table spoon of yogurt on the top.

You can turn it into a lentil and sausage soup by adding into the fried vegetable  mixture a little bit of your favorite smoked salami. I add  Polish kielbasa, andouille sausage or smoked chorizo.
 
So you will get something like this:

Lot's of grill lately. It's a good thing

Buffalo steak

Buffalo ( Bison ) steak, true American Delicacy 

There is a cooking technique called "Blackened", which is used on meat or fish. It's perfect for bison meat.  Bison or buffalo  it is really lean meat

Buy any type of Cajun, Creole or Blackening Spice mix. Put oil over the steak, cover with spice mixture and put on hot  grill.

As soon as the spices darken - the steak is ready. I prefer my buffalo medium rare. it is to lean to be cooked more, because it will become chewy.

Enjoy. I did !!!!