Stuffed Jalapeños

Stuffed Jalapeños


You will need:
1/2 lb. bacon
12 Jalapeños
12oz cream cheese
Finely shredded Fiesta Blend Cheese


Cook the bacon and crumble
Cut Jalaleinos in half and de-seed (take out the white spines to help with the heat and soak in ice water)


mix bacon, cream cheese and shredded Cheese
fill Jalapeios with the cheese, bacon mix
top with extra shredded cheese

place on baking sheet and broil on low heat untill cheese is melted.
OR place on BBQ on low heat.

Fruit Pies

3 Cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
¾ cup lard
1 egg beaten lightly
¼ Cup cold water
1 teaspoon white vinegar

Combine the flour and salt. Add lard with fork into mixer, mix until crumbly. Beat egg and water together, add to flour and then add the vinegar. Mix until all ingredients are well combined. Press into a ball, wrap, and then chill.

The pie filling can be whatever fruit flavor you desire.
1 can peaches
1/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Making the pies:
1. Divide dough in to twelve golf size balls
2. Roll out balls into a 5 to 6 inch circles
3. Add 2 tablespoons filling
4.Wet inside edges
5. Fold into half moon shape
6. Seal edges with fork

Place in pizza oven until a golden brown color
** Pies can be fried at 375*F for around 4 min.**

The new outdoor oven is....

Awesome!!!!!!!!!

We cooked rabbit, carrots, potatoes and apple pie in our new pizza oven last night.

Bread

Schlotsky’s Bread
This is more like pancake batter… but it will make a great bread
INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup warm water
2 tablespoon white sugar
2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/4 cup warm water
½ to ¾ cups powdered milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
2 tablespoons white cornmeal (yellow will work but I like the white)

DIRECTIONS
In a small bowl stir together the ½ cup warm water, sugar, and yeast. Stir to dissolve and set aside.
In a large bowl dissolve baking soda with the 1 1/4 cup warm water. Add the powdered milk ,salt and one cup of the whole flour. Beat with a wire whisk until smooth. Beat in yeast mixture and remaining flour.
Batter should be thick, sticky, and smooth.
Prepare 2 10 inch cast iron pans with non-stick spray. Dust pans with cornmeal. Place 1/2 batter in each pan. Batter will spread during rising time. Spray top of batter with non-stick cooking spray. Cover and let rise for one hour.
Spray top of bread with non-stick cooking spray a 2nd time just before baking .
Bake in a preheated 375 degree for 20 minutes.
Allow to cool for an hour before slicing.

Note Schlotsky’s toasts the bread and cheese them make the sandwich.

Outdoor Cooking!

This is my husbands version of making flat bread. He has them on the gas grill, on a pizza stone, cooking up outside. They were delicious. We also cooked some chicken, porksteaks and some port tenderloin on a wood fire in the fire pit. Cooking outside in such wonderful weather is awesome and keeps the house cool too. We love it.

Meat Everywhere

We went to day and picked up our pork from the butcher. We had two whole hogs taken in to process. One hog was 202 lbs and the other was 200 lbs at live weight. Their dressed weighs were 145 lbs and 143 lbs for a total of 288 lbs of meat. This pork is nice, lean, and oh so delicious.







We ended up with:
27 packs of bacon
65 packs of ground pork
23 packs of ground sausage
1 huge whole ham
2 packs of baby back ribs
1 pork fillet
18 packs pork chops
7 packs pork steaks
2 packs heart/tongue
2 packs heart
4 packs spare ribs
2 packs ham hocks
2 packs neck bones
2 very large bags of lard

Our End cost was ONLY $1.40 PER POUND!!!!!!!!!! OH my gosh this is so, so super!!!

Let there be Camping!!

We are all camping right now and so this will be short, but I wanted to share a few pic with everyone...