Low Carb Stir Fry

We are trying to get rid of some of our belly fat so we have cut way down on our carbs.  I love rice though and found that grating cauliflower is great in a stir fry recipe or fried rice takes out a bunch of carbs.  I found a recipe that I thought might be good and ohhhhh after tweeking it a bit it turned out to be wonderful!  I didn't even miss the rice!

Induction Spicy Stir Fry "Fried Rice" Recipe
Carbs: 10.9 Net Carbs: 6.2

Induction friendly spicy chicken stir fry "fried rice" handles those cravings for Asian food with just 6 net carbs.  This is really really good stir fry, and you could use shrimp or pre cooked steak.

5 minPrep Time
10 minCook Time
15 minTotal Time

Ingredients

    2 cups cauliflower (after grating)
    2 Thai chilies (I used dried pepper flakes)
    2 tablespoons sesame oil
    2 peeled and chopped cloves of garlic
    leftover  cooked chicken in strips ( I used 2 cups or so for 2 people)
    Broccoli about 2 cups
    soy sauce (about 2 tsp)
    1 beaten egg
  
Instructions

    Grate the cauliflower on the largest setting of the grater.
    Add the sesame oil and Thai chilies to the pan and heat for about a minute.
    Add the garlic and stir fry for about another minute.
    Add the chicken and Broccoli, and stir fry until the chicken is hot.
    Add the cauliflower and the remaining ingredients, including the beaten egg, and stir fry until the cauliflower is cooked      but still firm to the bite. Just a few minutes
    Adjust the seasoning and serve.

Nutrition
Calories: 404 cal
Fat: 32.8 g

Chicken Project

Okay so this is a picture of our chicken house when we first built it.  We used part for storage and part for chickens.  After this we put a lean to on the side where the a-frame is and used the two sides for lambs and goats.  There is now a fence around our fields so we let our chickens roam.  However, when we sold our last sheep and had nothing left but chickens the possums, skunks and foxes began to appear.  We now have no chickens left.  What a bummer.  I never thought of sheep as being a guardian animal, but the timing suggests that they were.

Before we get ANY animals again we are going to re-think everything. We will make an enclosure with chicken wire coming off of this chicken house on the side where the junk is, and the other side (which is now a 3 sided lean to) will become a place to store the lawn mower.

I have found that homesteading is a never-ending and changing process.  Many websites I have visited say the same thing.  Improvements and additions are just a part of learning.  So anyway, there will be photos of our project when we begin.

Pop-up camper

We have been avid tent campers for many years, but now that we have gotten older it's hard to get up off the ground even with air mattresses! So, we took the next step and got a pop up!

Up-Cycled Feedbag Totes

It is so hard to throw away these feedbags!  They are made of a plastic material and are super strong.  I found a way to make them into tote bags and use them all the time for everything! I have combined several different techniques from sites on the web and keep making them better all the time.

One site that has a great tutorial is http://www.instructables.com/id/Feed-Bag-Tote-Bag/
I will be selling some of these at various farmers markets and hopefully online in the future.

Spring planting

We had my Mom stay a couple nights and that is always fun. Taking her home today, we decided to get some bulbs and things from her vast supply of plants and flowers.

Among the things we got from her was a "Chick and Hens". Of course we then knew we had to get a Strawberry planter to put them in.

We got some other things also that I will be planting soon and getting some pics.

Big News!

5/30/16
Many years have passed since we got our goats.  We enjoyed them so much and had others born or purchased.  Boogie and Bessie were our first experiment with farm animals besides our chickens.  They will never be forgotten!

 This was published on 3/13/10
Lex and I are expecting! We are very exciting. We are expecting twins, one boy and one girl. We even have a picture of them.

We should be bringing them home around the end of April.

I haven't registered yet for my baby shower, but I can let you know what I need. (no tin cans please!)

Right now our main concern is the nursery and learning everything we can about taking care of our "twins".

Sausage Sliders

I finally found a recipe to make delicious buns. Then I decided to make some italian sausages with peppers and onions to go on the buns.

The bun recipe:

1 1/4 c milk

1/2 c shortening

3 c flour

1/4 c sugar

1 tbls salt

2 1/4 tsps yeast (one packet)

Heat the milk (not boiling) and add the shortening. Stir until melted and the milk is cool enough to touch. Mix everything except the salt together and stir until well mixed. Cover with plastic wrap for about 20 min. Sprinkle the salt over it and put on lightly floured board. Knead for a short time mixing in the salt. Place in oiled bowl and cover with plastic. Let it rise until when poking your finger into it the dough does not spring back.

Form 18 balls and place on ungreased pan and let rise. Bake in preheated 400 F oven for about 15 mins. Let cool.

For the Sausage:

1 lb Italian Sausage (The kind that is 6 large links)

1 red pepper in strips

1 green pepper in strips

1 onion in strips

Olive Oil (not extra virgin)

1/2 c Shiraz

Put a little oil in a large frypan and cook the sausage about 20 min on med. Slice the sausage down the middle long ways and then half them so that you now have 12 sausages split almost all the way through so that they are open.

Put the peppers and onions in and cook about 20 more minutes covered. Remove lid and pour some Shiraz in and let it all cook down until the wine has gone.

Put one sausage on a bun with some peppers and onions. Add some tasty brown mustard (or wait for my Ruth sauce mmmmmm..... recipe).

I steamed some broccoli and cauliflower and heated some canned cheese sauce to pour over.

Drink the rest of the wine with this meal.