Stonehouse Cooks Contest: Recipe 5 Beef and Barley Soup

Beef and Barley Soup I always start my beef and barley soup with leftovers, as I do most soups. So, as you will find becomes a theme in this book, you need to start with something else; in this case, you begin by enjoying a nice roast beef dinner. Next day, you launch into this recipe. 1 cup cubed left-over roast beef (The quantity here truly is irrelevant, just so long as you have some…

Stonehouse Cooks Contest: Recipe 4 Cranberry Hazelnut Stuffed Pork Loin

Cranberry Hazelnut Stuffed Pork Loin 1 small onion1 clove garlic½ cup each hazelnuts and dried cranberries1 chilli pepper½ teaspoon salt2 pound pork loin, butterfly to open to a thin slab Process first five ingredients to a smooth paste. Spread over the butterflied pork. Roll the meat, tie, season and place in a lightly greased roasting pan. Roast at 350F for about 1 hour. Sauce 2/3 cup each maple syrup and white wine (or apple juice)Zest…

Stonehouse Cooks Contest: Recipe 3 Adam’s Meatloaf

Meatloaf has long been the brunt of jokes about terrible cooking, a fact I’ve always found puzzling because meatloaf was one of my son’s two favourite mealtime dishes. When it came to meatloaf he’d always be back for seconds, would have it cold for lunches. If ever I thought of having leftovers of meatloaf when Adam was living at home, I was always under some grand delusion. Adam’s Meatloaf 1 pound lean ground beef (ground…

Stonehouse Cooks Contest: Recipe 2 Almond Cumin Chicken

I’ve mucked around with historical recipes for years, to figure out what they meant by their odd manner of speech (to our modern ear) and their lack of measurements. It provides a challenge and an insight into the evolution of basic food preparation. The inspiration for this recipe came from a fourteenth century dish from le Viandier de Taillevent. Almond Cumin Chicken 1 tablespoon olive oil4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts¼ cup ground almonds1 cup chicken…

Stonehouse Cooks Contest

Later this year Five Rivers will release a completely revised and updated gardening book from the masters of land husbandry, Patrick Lima and John Scanlan. The Organic Home Gardener, which isn’t like any other gardening book available, will feature not only invaluable information about starting and maintaining your own all-natural, environmentally responsible, body-loving vegetable garden, but a few recipes as well. As a companion piece and expansion to The Organic Home Gardener, Five Rivers will…