• Family Recipe: Grandma’s Crunchy Coleslaw

    The red and green cabbage fresh from our garden is now ready to be turned into coleslaw!

     

    During the summers when I was a kid I always enjoyed going to visit my Grandparents.  Many summers I would spend a couple weeks helping Grandma Willa make meals while the guys were harvesting wheat.  Grandma made the BEST coleslaw.  It was one of my favorite side dishes she would make throughout the summer.  I recently harvested a couple cabbages out of our garden so I had the opportunity to make Grandma’s Crunchy Coleslaw for guests.

    Grandma’s Crunchy Coleslaw:

    • 1 package Coleslaw Mix or 1/2 medium head of Cabbage, shredded (or part of a green cabbage and part of a red)
    • 1 small Green Onion (yellow onion will work too)
    • 1/2 cup Sunflower Seeds
    • 1/2 cup Almond Slivers
    • 1 package Ramon Chicken Flavored Noodles (uncooked), noodles broken in pieces (beef flavor will work as well)

    Dressing:

    • 1/2 teaspoon Pepper
    • 1 teaspoon Salt
    • 1/3 cup Vinegar (white or apple vinegar)
    • 1/2 cup Sugar
    • 1/2 cup Oil

    Mix the coleslaw (or cabbage) and onion together.  Measure and place in a separate bowl the Sunflower Seeds, Almonds, and Ramon Noodles.  Mix the dressing and add chicken ramon flavor packets to the dressing.  Pour the dressing over salad and mix well.  Before serving add the mixture of Sunflower Seeds, Almonds and Noodles (adding before serving makes sure they are crunchy when you eat the salad).  Serve and enjoy!

    You can also add a lot of other great items to make the coleslaw more colorful and tasty:

    • 1/2 cup Raisins
    • 1/2 cup sliced Apples
    • 1/2 cup shredded Carrots
    • 1/2 cup shredded Broccoli Steams

    I always add the raisins to the coleslaw and sometimes the carrots & apples depending on what I have in the kitchen.

  • Fresh & Healthy: Our Garden – Leafy Lettuce, Zucchini, Summer Squash, Purple Beans, Strawberries, Tomatoes, Green Beans, Cabbage, and Cauliflower!!

    We are loving the fresh vegetables from our garden!  This week I did a little  better at taking pictures of the items our family picked.  Although I must say the strawberries didn’t get in most of the pictures, they were ate immediately after washing.   We were able to give some of the garden produce to friends and family this week so it is nice that the garden is producing extra to share with others.

    Here are some of the fresh veggies we were able to eat and share this week:

     

    Produce from the garden!

    We hadn’t been out in several days because of unexpected emergencies with friends and a busy week so we got quite a bit in this batch.  We had a whole bunch full of green beans and purple beans, 2 heads of cabbage, 2 heads of cauliflower, lots of cherry and roma tomatoes, leafy green lettuce, purple leaf lettuce, cucumbers and strawberries!

     

    Giant Zucchini and Summer Squash from the garden!

    The girls were VERY excited to pick these, as they called them, GIANT Vegetables!  We are hoping to get a couple more later in the week!

    What are you eating out of your garden this week?

  • Fresh & Healthy: Our Garden – Cabbage, Tomatoes, Purple Beans, Green Beans, Strawberries, Squash, Zucchini, Cucumbers, Peppers, Lettuce, and Peas!

    We are loving the fresh vegetables from our garden!  I didn’t have a chance to take pictures last week with all the traveling, guests, and fun activities.  This week I did better at taking pictures but the girls ate a few items before the camera came out, they have been enjoying helping more in the garden now that they are on summer break from school.

    Here are some of the fresh veggies we were able to eat and share this week:

    Fresh Cabbage, Tomatoes, Peppers, Strawberries, Summer Squash, Snow Peas, Green Beans, Purple Beans

     

    Fresh from the Garden Leafy Lettuce, Summer Squash, Cherry Tomatoes, Regular Tomatoes, Sweet Basil, Dill, Snow Peas, Beans, and Banana Pepper.

     

    Fresh Fruit and Veggies - Tomatoes, Zucchini, Pepper, Summer Squash, Purple Beans, our first Cucumbers, Lettuce, Strawberry, and Snow Peas

    A few strawberries, tomatoes, and some other veggies barely made it inside to be rinsed before they ate them so the pictures didn’t happen.  After picking one day the girls informed me “we picked a rainbow of food from our garden today Mom”.  We had a lot of stormy nights the past couple weeks with hail, heavy rain, and high winds.  We even had a tree fall down in the yard and break our fence during one of the storms.  The garden has “shifted” a little bit but thankfully continues to produce some goodies despite the damage.  We haven’t gotten a lot of any one vegetable or fruit but we have a nice variety of goodies to eat every week.  Plus we haven’t had to water for a couple weeks.

    We were able to share some of the veggies this week with family, friends and people at our church.  During the summer months our church does a “Corner Harvest” where people can share fresh produce from their garden.  It is neat to see what other families are growing and share our produce.

    What are you eating out of your garden this week?