Family Recipes
Sheet pan dinners are a staple of weeknight cooking. This particular meal uses the sheet pan concept and adds in an element of pasta to act as the vessel to enjoy this meal. Roasted Chicken & Veggies Dinner is a fantastic autumn weeknight meal to use those root veggies, squash, and mushrooms. When it comesContinue reading “Roasted Chicken & Veggies Dinner”
Autumn is certainly here and that means it’s soup season. I mean, we like to eat soup all year round, but it is at least once a week once the weather turns cooler. This hearty soup is for your family to enjoy for a weeknight dinner. Wild Rice Chicken Soup is full of great homeyContinue reading “Wild Rice Chicken Soup”
Roasting a whole chicken is something I wish I did more often. More and more it’s hard to even find a whole chicken at the grocery. And when we process our own meat chickens, keeping the whole significantly slows down the butchering process (you have to be much more delicate with the removal of theContinue reading “Citrus Roast Chicken”
For the last few weeks we have embarked on the world of microgreens and growing them ourselves. We are totally hooked and will be scaling up our efforts to ensure we have them on hand year round. So far our favorites are Radish and Broccoli. We also tried pea and sunflower – but they wereContinue reading “Greetings from The Coop #5”
If you haven’t heard of Cluck sauce, you are in for a real treat with this recipe. The best way to describe it is taking the popular chicken tender dipping sauces and mixing them together – spicy mayo, bbq sauce and honey mustard. It is the perfect sauce to go with the crispy chicken tendersContinue reading “Cluckin’ Chicken Wraps”
It has been really great to see the positive response this series is getting. I love getting the chance to share my passion for raising Chickens and ducks in my Modern Micro Homestead. They are a big part of my life, as they are the first task I complete every single day. I have toContinue reading “Greetings from The Coop #4”
Duck Eggs vs Chicken Eggs – what is the actual difference? In general the size is the most obvious difference, however it is not always the case. We have had both chickens and ducks for about 2 years now. More often than not the duck eggs are larger than the chicken eggs – even thoughContinue reading “Greetings from The Coop #3”
If you have been around the blog for a while, you know that I love to make Chinese fakeaway – popular Chinese take-out dishes at home. My family loves a good takeaway but the cost can really start to climb when you want the good stuff and enough to feed the whole family. So IContinue reading “Garlic Ginger Chicken”
Lemon and garlic make such a great flavor profile for some many proteins, but it especially sings when you add it to chicken and grill it up! The bright citrus notes play so well with the pungent garlic flavors to give the simple chicken a full bodied flavor. And then grilling it up adds thatContinue reading “Lemon Garlic Chicken Skewers”
This week is all about the eggs. Of course eggs are one of the main purposes of tending to a flock of chickens & ducks. Eggs are such a great source of protein and important part of a well balanced diet. But if you have been to the grocery recipes, you probably see how quicklyContinue reading “Greetings from The Coop #2”
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