This Week On The Menu

June 28th 55 degrees , cold wet yuk!
Sunrise 5:48 Sunset 8:18 Days Length 14 hrs 30 min. loosing daylight.

All the boys are in the barn and it is time for chili and American Sniper.

Monday: Beef Pot Roast Potatoes Carrots and Gravy
Tuesday: Spaghetti with Fresh Bread Crumbs, Garlic Broccoli and Extra Virgin Olive oil
Wednesday: Hummus Feta and Cucumber Mediterranean Salad
Thursday: Cheese Burgers Fried Egg and Home Fries
Friday: Fish and Home Made Fries

Two Great Meals and One Effort

Mexican Pasta Salad with Black Beans

for tomorrows rain day lunch

Chicken Taco salad with Corn Chips

tonights movie and dinner

So I just grilled up two chicken breast covered in taco seasoning, and five ear of corn.

For the Chicken Taco Salad

Crush up some corn chips and place in a salad bowl.

Top with lettuce, onion , tomato , corn and cheese and the chicken.

Dressing is:

Mix 1 cup salsa and 1 cup sour cream and chopped up olives for each salad dish 

(the taco chicken and the pasta salad)

For the Pasta Salad

Boil Up Some Pasta

add corn, onion and tomatoes, black beans, dressing  top with green onion.

Simple Pleasures

"In cooking as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection," - Curnonsky

The very beging of summer.

Miso Chicken

Summer Begins

Most people know today Sunday June 21 st. is Fathers day, this year it also happens to be first day of summer.
 The sun rise started at 5:46 am, sunset will be at 8: 15.
Days length 14 hrs. 29 min.
 This is my favorite time of year for menu writing and cooking, with so many great local choices.
It is already week 3 for our garden csa deliveries. this week we got:
Kale
Swiss Chard
Lettuce
Spinach
Broccoli
Chinese Cabbage
and Dill


My one lone cucumber plant is only just starting to sprout , but at the farmers market this week pickle cucumbers we 1.00$ a pound so refrigerator pickles are in the works.

The Farmhouse Table
Saturday: Cheese burgers on the grill, topped with fried egg
Sunday: Sweet and sour chicken
Monday: Spinach and kale Ravioli Grilled garlic pizza
Tuesday: Seared Salmon
Wednesday: Miso Chicken
Thursday: Lamb Rissotto

This Week on The Menu

Thursday: Chicken Piccata, this was good

( but next time I will add Marcella, I used Chardonnay, out of my glass )

Friday: we had Grilled Pizza

Saturday: Date Night

On Saturday we took some time off the farm for a much needed Date night,

Arron Lewis

and Toby Keith concert

Sunday grilled steak with potatoes, kale and radish from our garden share Jireh Hill Farms

Monday : Chicken Tenders

Tuesday: Seared Cod Fish

Wednesday:Chicken Meat Balls

Thursday: Steak and Potato

June 14 th day 165 / 200 more

Sunrise 5:46
Sunset 8:12
What a week , I can not help but think of my Pastors series on " margins" . I really need to work on creating some for my self.

www.newlifemaine.org/sermon-series

My very dear friend Linda lost her husband this week. 

Today I cut some purple Iris, transplant from Linda's home in Ma. many years ago.

Each time I walk by these beautiful Iris over the next couple of days,

 I plan to pray for Linda and Bill and their girls.

There is allot of new life on the farm:

Wild Maine blue berries, just sprouting.

Pumpkins

Potatoes

The pumpkin patch.

Peas

raspberry blossoms

Phenylbutazone — My Investigation And Questions

Phenylbutazone — My Investigation And Questions

This Weeks Menu

Monday : Turkey Chedder Burgers on Pretzel Rolls with pasta salad

simple box mix with fresh tomatoes, green onions from our CSA Share and basil off our farm.

Tuesday Salmon Burgers and Slaw

Wednesday: Chicken Piccata fresh Linguine 

Thursday: Arepas de Carne Molida