The best dishes start with the best ingredients! Gardner’s Grove Pork shoulder with Morganic Pepper Jelly! Cook the shoulder in a pressure cooker; 20 min/pound. Cover with pepper jelly and place into a 450 degree oven for 15 min. I served this with a dish of puréed cauliflower. Yum! Thanks Gardner’s Grove!!!
Gardners Grove does it again!!! Tonight’s side features brussel sprouts, with GG bacon! Halve the sprouts and toss in a bit of macadamia oil. Roast for 10 min at 425. Then pour on a glaze of 1Tbs balsamic/1tsp whole mustard/1tsp honey and roast another 10 min. The. bacon adds the perfect savory crunch to this healthy side !
1 lb grass finished beef browned slowly with mineralized salt to taste.
2 lbs of pastured pork shoulder cooked on low heat till falling apart, pulled and shredded. Cook in crock pot for 8-12 hours before assembling other ingredients.
2 cups of chopped onions
10 – 12 cloves of minced garlic
2 cups bell chopped peppers
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup of mushrooms
1 cup of dehydrated cherry tomatoes
olive oil oregano
basil
2 jars of Gardner Grove Family Farms Morganic Heirloom Cherokee Purple Tomatoes
Add onions , garlic, celery and cherry tomatoes to olive oil and simmer till onions are almost clear then add peppers and mushrooms . Cook till soft. Add oregano, beef, and pork. Stir until well blended then pour in tomatoes. Let simmer on lowest heat for 20 minutes adding basil after first 10 minutes. Serve over pasta of choice. Freezes well.
Farmer James says this is an old world Sicilian recipe his adopted family’s matriarch Nonna Giuseppina Cascioferro used to make when he was a little boy.
Our jams and jellies are now carried by White Horse Trading Company in Lynnville, TN! Any of the jellies (strawberry and pepper), Cherokee Purple tomatoes, or Santo Domingo salsa would be fantastic Christmas gifts!!!
Franklin TN:Bagbey House
Leiper’s Fork, TN : Puckett’s
Columbia, TN : Columbia Health Foods
Lewisburg, TN- Pickers Creek Winery – pepper jelly and salsa
I found this recipe as I was scrolling through Instagram one day. It is from Sarah.Eats.Clean and I thought it was brilliant!
Pre-heat Oven to 400.
Prepare your muffin tins with some coconut oil.
Take one piece of Gardner Grove bacon and wrap it around the edge of the muffin tin. (Salt the bacon before hand, if you like. Remember, our bacon does not have any additives!! Yay!!!)
Crack one farm fresh egg into each muffin tin.
Bake for about 15-20 minutes – depending on how well done you want the yolks. My kids do not care for runny yolks, so we baked closer to 20.
Hope you enjoy!!
Many wonderful ways to use beets – here’s one of the favorites of some of our helpers
Chocolate Beet Brownies
2-3 medium size cooked and pureed beets, to equal 1 cup
½ cup unsalted butter (1 stick), melted
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 large eggs
½ cup Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free All Purpose Flour or All-Purpose Wheat Flour
1/3 cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder (I like Ghiardelli brand)
2 tablespoons strong black coffee (optional)
½ cup chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350F Grease a 9×9″ pan. Set aside.
Combine butter and sugar. Add eggs, vanilla, coffee, and beets.
Whisk dry ingredients. Flour and cocoa powder. Fold in beet mixture, add chocolate chips. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 30 minutes or until toothpick in center comes out clean. Cool completely before cutting.
Courtesy of Early Morning Farms (http://www.earlymorningfarm.com/chocolate-beet-brownies/)
Grass finished Black Angus Sirloin
Spinach
Heirloom yellow and red tomatoes
( you can substitute with dehydrated GGFF tomatoes )
Basmati rice
Ground dried shiitake mushrooms
Organic chicken broth
Eggplant
Burgundy and green okra
Sweet onion
Sweet Italian bullhorn peppers
Garlic
Start rice . Add 1 to 2 table spoons finely ground ( or well smashed ) shiitake. Use 1/2 broth for liquid.
Pan fry sirloin whole until desired doneness .
Wilt spinach and tomatoes in meat juice.
Saute eggplant slices in olive oil with garlic until done.
Combine okra, peppers , onion and garlic in pan with olive oil and saute till tender.
Place rice on dish. Cover with tomatoes. Cover that with spinach. Add cut meat. Egg plant and then okra pepper onion medley.
Gently season with kosher sea salt.
This is a hearty yet not heavy meal. Perfect for dinner
Take 1 strip of uncooked bacon.
Secure with wooden tooth pick by skewering the bacon on one end and wrapping the bratwurst until ended. Repeat the skewering to hold bacon in place. Do not pierce the bratwurst. Bratwurst will dry out if pierced.
Place on low heat and allow to slowly and thoroughly cook.
Turn after halfway done and allow other side to finish.
Serve with sauteed garlic, onion, sweet pepper and chopped dehydrated cherry tomatoes. You can throw in some red okra too!
We hope you enjoy this old world variation of Dinklesbuhl’s fame.
Dinner Menu
Gardner Grove Kebobs
Osso buco – cut into inch pieces
red, yellow, orange, & chocolate sweet peppers
red & green okra
baby red potatoes
whole cloves of garlic
skewers
Directions: Alternate items on skewer and light coat with extra virgin olive oil. Set on grill at lowest heat. Cook until pork is done. Sprinkle with Himalayan sea salt.
Kara’s Red Russian Kale Salad
5 cups kale
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup dried cranberries
1/4 cup walnuts
1/4 cup sunflower seeds
Wash and dry kale. Mix in a large bowl the honey and olive oil. Add kale to mixture. Use hands to massage kale for about 5 minutes. (Set timer) Add in any additions (walnuts, dried cranberries, sunflower seeds, goat cheese?)
The massage breaks down the toughness of the kale, and the honey off sets any bitterness. Red Russian is the least bitter and most tender of any kale.
We hope you enjoy this favorite!
Grilled pork backbone braised with Gardner Grove Pepper Jelly
~braise pork with jelly the last 10 minutes
Stir fried okra with cherry tomatoes and garlic
Cucumber, sweet pepper and heirloom tomatoes in olive oil and red apple cider vinegar
Chilled melon balls
Gardner Grove 