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Sausage Kale Soup
Ok, I don’t usually use a recipe. I just make the soup, here it is almost gone. Here is what I made Friday night. It is delicious, especially on a cold day. I’ve also made it with bok choy, and even regular cabbage. Each is quite tasty. I think it tastes best topped with sour cream and shredded cheese. Next time I’ll have to take pictures before we eat. Experiment and make substitutions. I’m sure it’d be wonderful with new baby red potatoes.
Sausage Kale Soup
1 lb ground sausage
1 large onion
water or chicken broth, if using chicken broth skip the better than bullion
4 medium potatoes cut into bite sized pieces
1/4 cup butter
1 bunch of kale cut
1 heaping tablespoon of chicken Better Than Bullion
1 tablespoon of Sage Hill Farms Cajun Blend Seasoning
3 cloves of garlic crushed.
Brown sausage and onion in a large pan, I usually use my wok pan. Add potatoes and cover with water. (Around 8 cups of water). Bring to a boil, turn down heat till it is slowly boiling. Cook until potatoes are tender. Add Better Than Bullion and Cajun Seasoning. Add chopped kale. Next I add the crushed garlic. Cook just a few more minutes and serve with sour cream and shredding cheese if desired.
Peanut Butter Cookies
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup butter (not shortening, nor margarine)
1 egg
1 1/4 cups flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
Mix the sugars, butter, peanut butter and egg together in large bowls. Add baking soda, baking powder and salt, mix. Then mix in the flour.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Roll spoonfuls of dough into balls and place in ungreased cookie sheets an inch or two apart. Cook for 9-11 minutes. Meanwhile unwrap chocolate Reese Hearts, Hershy kiss or other chocolate. When cookies some out put a chocolate in the center of each
Oatmeal Cake
My oatmeal cake is in the oven cooking. Smells good. It is a family favorite and one of my most requested cake recipes. To make it easier to share, I’m posting the recipe here. It makes a very large cake. I use my lasagna pan which is a little larger than the standard 13″ x 9″. You can use smaller pans, just fill up more than one.
Soak 2 cups oatmeal in 3 cups boiling water
In another bowl mix 1 c. softened butter 2c brown sugar and 2 cups white sugar
Next add 4 eggs. Then I add dry ingredients alternating with the oatmeal mixture. Usually I
add the spices etc and 1 c of the flour mix, then half the oatmeal, mix, another cup flout, mix, rest of oatmeal
mix, last cup of flour, mix.
3 c flour
1 t. cinnamon
1/2 t nutmeg
2 t salt
1 baking soda
Optional
1 c nuts
1 c crushed pineapple drained
Mix in optional ingredients, bake at 350 for 45 minutes or until done (which is often longer than 45). Use a well greased and floured 13″ x 9″ pan or larger. (or cupcakes, 3 round pans, etc)
Cool and frost if desired. Cream cheese frosting. German chocolate cake frosting. or simply a spread of cream cheese and crushed pineapple with a little bit of sugar.
Homemade flats – Getting Ready to Plant
My roots arrived a few days ago from Herb-Roots.com Black Cohash, Groundnut, Maypops. I’d originally planned on planting them on our land (20 minutes away). Then I got to thinking, new cuttings need to be kept moist, protecting from animals. Hard to do if I’m not there everyday.
My roots came packed in moist newspapers sealed into plastic baggies. Several of each, especially the passion flowers (maypop). I just wasn’t set up to start roots at home. 
Few days later the roots are starting to sprout in the newspaper, thus today was plant roots day.
I’d picked up some 1″ by 4″ lumber, 8 ft long to make the rooting flats. I made the sides 24″ with 10.5″ on the ends. My son cut the wood and built the boxes for me with his dad’s assistance. I took an old, torn screen and cut it to line the inside, help hold dirt and still drain excess water. We used wood screws to put it together.
I’d already picked up potting soil on sale earlier this year. I dumped it into a plastic bin, added water, and used this soil to plant my roots. Now to get my seeds started. Next year, I’ll have my gear in place before my roots arrive.