Constantly Cooking - Home Grown

YUM!  The kids, especially my son, love this dish!  It's a hit with me, and the other moms!

1 LARGE FROZEN Pkg. of Vegetable Medley (carrots, broccoli, cauliflower) thawed
1/2  to 1 cup Soy Sauce
1 to 2 tbls. oil

Get oil HOT!  Slowly add thawed vegetables to oil (use common sense, don't splatter oil!).  After vegetables begin to slightly soften, add Soy sauce.  While stirring, allow vegetables to blacken slightly (not all over, just in areas).  Cook until tender, NOT OVER COOKED!  I also use this method of cooking with fresh cut or whole green beans (FRESH, NOT frozen!).  My kids love the green beans a little parched, and the Soy Sauce makes it extra YUMMY!

Boy is this refreshing!  I like to serve this with the Kielbasa Cabbage meal, as a side! ENJOY!

1 Med. box of Wheat, or Regular Spiral Noodles
1 large bunch of FRESH broccoli
1 Peeled and chopped fresh onion (Vidalia or White)
1 Small can of pitted, drained black olives
1/2 cup of Italian Dressing
8-9 RIPE, RIPE FRESH Cherry tomatoes cut in halves

After cooking the noodles until tender (not overly cooked, you don't want them falling to pieces or breaking apart), drain noodles and combine them, along with the rest of the ingredients in a bowl.  Add salt and pepper to taste, serve cold.

Recently, my family and I decided to take a camping trip.  My husband purchased a LARGE heavy cast iorn pot which came with a heavy cast iron lid.  He came up with this brilliant idea of cooking over the fire a meal of FRESH cabbage and kielbasa.  Here's how it went:

1 LARGE WHOLE Cabbage
2 Pkgs. of Kielbasa Sausage
1 Whole Onion
1 Whole Green Bell Pepper
1/4 cup water
1 tbls. canola oil
Cajun Spices (We used Weber N'Orleans Cajun)

Obviously, you peel the onion, and remove seeds from the bell pepper.
Chop the onion into 1/4's, dice or slice up the deveined, seeded pepper, cut the cabbage into 1/4's and the kielbasa into 1/2" thick pieces.  Put oil and water mix at bottom of pot (before adding to heat!), place the rest of the ingredients into the pot and season to taste (the more you use, the spicier it will be!)  We cooked our first serving of this delicious meal over an open fire, and it took appoximately 30 minutes.  I tried it again in a conventional oven, and at 425 degrees, it took 45 minutes.  Please use caution and common sense when removing the lid, the steam WILL BE HOT!  This meal is QUICK to make, and EASY!  I call it "Chop it Plop it style cooking!"  You chop, and plop into the pot, wait for it to cook... and WAAALLA!  It's done!