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Pioneering Today-How to Make Your Own Sweet and Smoky Barbecue Sauce

January 23, 2013 by Melissa Norris 7 Comments

We try to replace as many processed products with homemade ones as we can. When we'd raised, butchered, and roasted our own pig, I couldn't very well serve it with store bought barbecue sauce. (Okay, I could have, but I didn't want to)

Homemade Sweet and Smokey Barbecue Sauce

My neighbor makes one of the best barbecue sauces around and she gave me her basic recipe and I tweaked it a little. I like my barbecue sauce on the sweet side with just a bit of smoke.

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Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Recipes Tagged With: barbecue sauce, from scratch recipes, homecooking, homemade, More Canning, processed replacements, traditional cooking

Turkey and Dumplings Recipe

December 28, 2011 by Melissa Norris 12 Comments

After Christmas dinner, many of us have leftover turkey or chicken. I actually had deboned my turkey after Thanksgiving and froze a bag of cubed meat. While writing a scene in my novel, my heroine made turkey and dumplings and my mouth started watering. So here's today's post and recipe.

Homemade Turkey and Dumplings Nourishing Comfort Food www.MelissaKNorris.com Pioneering Today

Turkey and Dumplings

1 to 2 cups turkey or chicken

1/2 medium onion, diced

2 cloves chopped garlic (grow your own)

2 cups of chicken broth or your own stock (preferably organic)

Add whatever vegetable you have on hand or prefer. For time and ease, I usually toss in half a bag of mixed frozen vegetables, but canned works too. Some veggies I end up freezing from our garden instead of canning, such as butternut squash, broccoli, etc.

Add broth until the top of your vegetables and meat are covered by a half-inch or so. Bring to a low boil.

Dumplings (the original recipe was half this, but I love dumplings & always doubled it, so I rewrote it this way)

1 cup flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

1/2 cup milk

2 tablespoons oil (your choice, lard, melted organic butter, olive or coconut are my choices, vegetable oil is chock full of GMO's)

Mix dumplings and once vegetables are cooked half way, drop dumplings by the spoonful on top of your soup-dough will be sticky. Low boil for 10 minutes with the lid on, this will cook the top of the dumpling. Then, simmer for 10 minutes with the lid off.

Turkey and Dumplings Recipe

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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 30 mins
Total Time 40 mins
Servings 10

Ingredients
  

  • 1 to 2 cups turkey or chicken
  • 1/2 medium onion diced
  • 2 cloves chopped garlic grow your own
  • 2 cups of chicken broth or your own stock preferably organic
  • 2 cups chopped veggies of your choice frozen work well
  • Dumplings the original recipe was half this, but I love dumplings & always doubled it, so I rewrote it this way
  • 1 cup flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 2 tablespoons oil your choice, lard, melted organic butter, olive or coconut are my choices, vegetable oil is chock full of GMO’s and not used in our kitchen

Instructions
 

  • Put vegetables and meat in a Dutch oven. Cover with broth or stock, bring to a simmer.
  • Combine dumpling ingredients and stir together until it forms a sticky dough. When vegetables are cooked half way, drop dumplings by the spoonful on top of your soup-dough will be sticky. Lightly simmer for 10 minutes with the lid on, this will cook the top of the dumpling. Then, simmer for 10 minutes with the lid off.
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

Hope you enjoy. Some recipes are classics and I love imagining the pioneers sharing the same dishes we still enjoy today. Cooking with wild game (so it tastes good!) has some great tips for those of you preparing a wild turkey.

A lot of my recipes are shared by characters-here's my molasses sugar cookie recipe. What's your favorite leftover recipe?

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