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Sylvia’s Pastures of Plenty Cooking Therapy Chro

Sylvia’s Pastures of Plenty Cooking Therapy Chronicles: Day 15 - Ben’s Cream Biscuits (aka James Beard’s Cream Biscuits)⁠
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I have a longstanding biscuit baking ‘date’ with my nephew Ben. Every time I visit him in Chicago, we bake a double batch. This recipe is a family favorite here at the farm and is slightly modified from the James Beard Cream Biscuit Recipe in my tattered Fannie Farmer Baking Book. Mostly, I make this as a breakfast treat. Or, I’ll make them savory by adding fresh parsley or chives to the dough. They’re also my secret weapon for Strawberry Shortcakes. ⁠
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I understand grocery stores are beginning to have shortages on flour as so many of us are turning to baking therapy in our home kitchens. To bake is to be a craftsperson. It requires the uncanny combo of both science and art. Exact ingredients, but also a sculptors’ sense of touch. While I cannot replicate my baking with Ben ritual until this darn pandemic says a final ‘bye-bye’, I can embrace the simple act of baking with a loving and present heart. When I’m with Ben, I always feel in the moment with him. Now, I’ll try that practice just for myself using the alchemy of flour, cream, butter and just a bit of salt. Recipe link in bio!⁠
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#pasturesofplenty #cookingtherapy #biscuits #baking #quarantinecooking #easyrecipes #familyrecipe #cookingfromhome

Sylvia’s Pastures of Plenty Cooking Therapy Chro

Sylvia’s Pastures of Plenty Cooking Therapy Chronicles: Quarantine Day 14 – Three Meals From Two Chickens⁠
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While multitasking is supposed to be bad for one’s brain and overall psyche, I still am a big-time believer in its virtues for the tummy. Take Roast Chicken. In a matter of just one or two extra minutes, you can triple your meal opportunities. ⁠
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Here’s how my poultry multitasking mind and math work: roast two chickens rather than just one, and you then have enough leftovers to make Chicken Salad and also Garlicky Chicken Noodle Soup. (Note: these two recipes coming in subsequent posts). In this new world disorder, it feels good to be productive and to have power over your choices, even if just in the confines of one’s kitchen. To make extra (and I always am guilty of making extra), means you can gift those elder and quarantined neighbors with nourishment and leave a little love note. Check the link in our bio for the recipe.⁠
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#pasturesofplenty #quarantinecooking #cookingfromhome #chickenrecipe #easyrecipe #roastchicken ⁠

Sylvia’s Pastures of Plenty Cooking Therapy Chro

Sylvia’s Pastures of Plenty Cooking Therapy Chronicles: Quarantine Day 13 – Therapeutic Potatoes Au Gratin⁠
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This is a time for us to come together while distancing physically apart. Food can do this – create a connection. Just last week our daughter Maddie shared a dozen phone calls with The Curmudgeon (her dad) to make his meatball recipe. One video was shared as the meatballs were cooking in the red sauce. Father and daughter connected from afar to teach a beloved family recipe . . . finally. Because they could. ⁠
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Look at the photo – it shows connection – through a togetherness of potato, cream, and Gruyere cheesy unctuous goodness. Each potato leans into the next one to become one whole, classic comfort dish. Let’s do that – each lean into our dear ones, to stay whole, and provide comfort. Check in the link on our bio for the recipe.⁠
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#pasturesofplenty #farmlife #quarantinerecipes #potatoesaugratin #poratorecipe #cookingtherapy #quarantinelife #longmontcolorado #colorado #foodie⁠

Sylvia’s Pastures of Plenty Cooking Therapy Chro

Sylvia’s Pastures of Plenty Cooking Therapy Chronicles: Quarantine Day 12 - Highly Adaptable Huevos Mexicanos
The most profound human character trait is? Adaptability. In these eerily changed times, embracing the ability to adapt, even to the unknown, is our true human super power. And that’s how I approach breakfast these days. With no agenda but achieving comfort and yumminess, I approach my morning cooking with a blank canvas philosophy.
Adapt to what you have. And then we all adapt to this new world we now have. Check the link in our bio for the recipe. .
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#pasturesofplenty #farmlife #quarantinecooking #recipes #huevos

Sylvia’s Pasture of Plenty Cooking Therapy Chron

Sylvia’s Pasture of Plenty Cooking Therapy Chronicles: Quarantine Day 8 - Minestrone ‘Remedy’ Soup
I’ve always thought of minestrone as a marriage of complementary ingredients. In fact, my husband and I made minestrone as the soup served at our wedding reception. I’ve come to believe after 24 years of marriage, that indeed it is the contrasts in character and the flexibility and adaptability that make a relationship not just last, but last lovingly. And soup is just like that, too. Click the link in our bio to learn more about our love affair with Minestrone + the recipe. . . . .
#pasturesofplenty #minestrone #soupforthesoul #farmlife #quarantinecooking #recipes #soup #weddingsoup #quarantinerecipes

Sylvia’s Pasture of Plenty Cooking Therapy Chron

Sylvia’s Pasture of Plenty Cooking Therapy Chronicles: Quarantine Day 7 - Taking Stock by Making Stock⁠
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Empty grocery shelves prove many of us are stocking up. I imagine many of us are also now taking stock of what really matters. I highly recommend you actually make your own stock, as in the foundation of all delicious soups. (I know. I know – everyone’s now calling it bone broth, and I’m just not that hip, not yet). Once you learn to make stock from scratch –and it is so damn easy – you’ll just never be satisfied with store-bought broths. ⁠
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Today’s Cooking Therapy is teaching you how to make stock in a very no-sweat, no-stress way. Tomorrow, we’ll use this stock for the soup The Curmudgeon and I made for our wedding meal: minestone. With each step of making stock, say a little gratitude as a way of taking stock of what is still really working in your world, and ours. ⁠
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When I make stock it feels like I’ve completed a purposeful circle. See, the basis for 95% of all of my stocks is food waste – or vegetable, chicken bones and parsley scraps most folks still throw away. This week’s heavy vegetable-infused stock was made from about two weeks of scraps I kept frozen in plastic bags. Carrot peels, celery stalks, onion peels, parsley stems, bruised tomatoes and the bones from last week’s roast chicken – these all gave flavor to what will be tomorrow’s huge pot of minestrone. What many see as trash, I know is flavor. ⁠
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#pasturesofplenty #quarentinerecipes #takingstock #easyrecipes #farmlife #cookingtherapy #stockrecipes #healthyliving ⁠

Sylvia’s Pasture of Plenty Cooking Therapy Chron

Sylvia’s Pasture of Plenty Cooking Therapy Chronicles: Quarantine Day 6 - Cassidy's Nutty Oatmeal⁠
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My oldest daughter is nuts for oatmeal. Cassidy would eat it every morning if she could. Over the years she’s experimented with all types of oatmeal variations. This is the one I find the most comforting with the clever addition of nut butter to add a tasty protein hit. As we each begin to feel a bit nutty from our social distancing and other new realities, cooking this kind of comforting food is therapeutic. There’s flexibility in this recipe so you can choose if you like a runny or thick porridge. ⁠
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Click the link in our bio for the recipe.⁠
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#pasturesofplenty #oatmeal #quarentineday6 #quarentinerecipes #covid19 #farmlife #homecooking #feelgoodfood

How to make a quarantine a daily escape? Cooking

How to make a quarantine a daily escape? Cooking therapy, that’s how. We’ve been self-quarantined for five days on the farm, and this means the kitchen is our respite from the daily COVID-19 grind. We will be sharing with you therapeutic escapes in the form of recipes, tips and photos. Recipes will all be 150% ‘do-able’ by any level of cook with lots of flexitarian options. It will also be comfort food – and not always healthy. Pasture of Plenty’s Cooking Therapy Chronicles begin right now with a comforting 20 minute No-Fuss Miso Soup. Recipe link in bio. .
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#quarantine #day5 #quarantinerecipes #pasturesofplenty #comfortfood #colorado #bouldercorado #farmlife

Peaks and Valleys. This is a theme we have lived a

Peaks and Valleys. This is a theme we have lived and embraced as accidental farmers. The 2020 farm season must be of increased focus and less complexity. For that reason, we will no longer have regular and large CSA shares available, but you can still find us at the @bcfm + @southpearlst markets. You can read more about this decision in the link in our bio. ⁠
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