The last post isn't yet finished, but I want to get this one up because Mom and Dad will want to see photos of everyone enjoying their homemade wild huckleberry jam in homemade ice cream. Mom says she makes her wild huckleberry jam with less sugar than it calls for. Then we also cut way down on the sugar in the ice cream recipe. I like desserts that are not overly sweet anyway.
Someone (who hasn't spent time in North Idaho) called it Blueberry Ice Cream but I was in another conversation when I slightly overheard that so I didn't correct them. If you have been around my family or other huckleberry gourmets you will know there are several differences between wild huckleberries and blueberries.
Mark came for dinner last night and they knew he was coming so they sent me home with a pint of homemade huckleberry jam so I could make him some ice cream with it. This is one of his favorite desserts. Well I twisted my knee yesterday while gardening so didn't go out and buy the milk, ice and sugar I needed to make the recipe. When Mark got here he generously offered to go to the store and get what we needed, but I suggested I make it for tomorrow night and take it out to the farm for the whole group to enjoy. Anyway it would take more than an hour to make it plus the time to go to the store so it wasn't very practical. I had made black bottom cupcakes instead and we just ate them all right up even though there were only 5 of us. Okay, there were two left and I ate those for lunch today. Sorry Heidi, I'm not being very supportive am I?
I thought I had the home made huckleberry ice cream recipe because Eileen gave it to me a few years back but I could not find it so called mom and got it.
So I was working in the garden again today and tweaked my knee AGAIN so it really slowed me down. But I did hobble to the car and drove across town using my other foot to operate the pedals. Awkward! I went across town because there is a smaller store there that I could get the ingredients without walking so far. It made me glad when there was a parking spot just a few feet away from the entry door. I found the milk, sugar and ice and came back home and mixed up the ingredients. Can you believe I accidentally bought flour instead of sugar. I don't know how that happened. But as you can guess I was trying to figure out a way not to go out again. I had about two tablespoons of sugar in the bottom of the canister (vacation renters used it up last weekend and I forgot to put it on the last list). Also there was about a 3rd cup of sugar in the sugar bowl. Well that so was not enough so I looked in the pantry and found a bottle of corn syrup. I decided to use that as a substitute. It worked.
While the ice cream maker was working away I decided to put together a batch of enchiladas. I have chicken smoked on the Traeger Grill but my husband doesn't enjoy it much unless it is in something like... enchiladas. But of course I was out of the correct ingredients and had not thought about what I was making for supper while I was at the store. That trip to the store was not what it should have been.
Here are the items I had that could be tricked into being enchiladas. I didn't put the corn in and the rice and beans were side dishes. The peanut butter jar contains the smoked chicken.
This photo below is the tomatoes, pureed in the food processor, the can of whole green chiles, also processed in the food processor, the last of the yogurt (see previous post for the rest of that story), and salt and pepper. I dunked the tortillas in this and also put a generous amount on top of the enchiladas before the cheese.
And here it is ready to go in the oven.
At 5:45 the ice cream was done and the enchiladas were in the oven at 200 degrees. I don't know when we will be back so I'll just turn it down low.
Naturally everyone was finished with supper and waiting for us.
Both are really wanting that paddle.
She looks really good for having left the house at 5:15 this morning.
Next are photos of some of the people in attendance.
Middle row with backs to the camera: Bronson W. and Daniel K. They say hi to the North Idaho relatives.
A close up of the yummy wild huckleberry ice cream. Looking down in the can.
Evening sun in the eyes.
Everyone really enjoyed the treat and they thank you for your generosity.
And the children and I ate ice cream with everyone else even though we hadn't had supper yet. Now we are back home and having supper, though we aren't very hungry.
Spanish rice:
Refried Beans: Not such a great photo.
Enchiladas: Our daughter was so sure she wasn't going to like them but she did and took seconds even though she wasn't hungry. Our son said you outdid yourself again. So I guess they liked them just fine. Not bad for being short on the right ingredients. My husband didn't know dinner was in the oven so he ate cereal. Guess he can have it tomorrow and I won't have to cook.
And now for the recipes:
Homemade Wild Huckleberry Ice Cream
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup white corn syrup
1 quart real cream
1 quart 2% milk
1/2 tsp. sea salt
4 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs
1 pint homemade wild huckleberry jam
Mix together and put in ice cream maker. Then surround the cannister with:
1 bag of ice (keep it filled as it melts) and mix with
1 box rock salt
Run it until it stops (about 45 minutes this time).
Chicken Enchiladas
In a food processor:
1 can of tomatoes, 28 ounces
1 can of whole green chiles, 7 ounces
1/2 cup left over plain yogurt
5 shakes of salt and 3 shakes of pepper
Place a thin layer of this sauce in the bottom of the 9 x 13 baking dish.
14 tortilla shells, flash fried in butter then dipped in the sauce above.
1 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella mixed with 1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
3 chicken thighs cooked (smoked on Traeger grill), cut up in small pieces
Put a generous amount of cheese and chicken in each tortilla after it is dipped in sauce and roll up. Place on top of a thin layer of sauce and then spoon sauce over the top. Add a thick layer of mozzarella cheese and cheddar cheese to the top.
Bake at 200 degrees for two hours or 25 minutes at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
Spanish rice
3 cups left over white rice rewarmed and mixed with about a 1/2 cup of the left over enchilada sauce.
There you have it. A fun, tasty and disjointed evening. Though I prefer to think of it as flexible.
