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Dina-Marie Oswald

Old Fashioned Boiled Custard

September 20, 2013 by Dina-Marie Oswald 17 Comments

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Like most old-fashioned desserts, this vanilla spiked, creamy dessert is simple, uses the basics, and is delicious! Brought to you from Dina-Marie from Cultured Palate.

I recently visited my mother who still lives in the middle Georgia town of Macon, where I grew up. What a special time we had together. Besides just spending time talking, we visited several restaurants that are still in business from my younger days. One restaurant was a special favorite and Boiled Custard was the favored dessert served. In fact, it was my all-time favorite dessert! Seriously, I ordered it every time we went to that particular restaurant. And, would you believe, the menu was much the same and they still have Boiled Custard!

I have made a lot of healthy changes to my diet since the days of childhood. One of those changes is the greatly decreased amount of processed sugar in my diet, in fact, none while on the GAPS diet! So, when faced with the question of ordering Boiled Custard, I chose to say, ” no”. First , I did not want to splurge with the sugar. Second, I was afraid the taste of the Boiled Custard would not measure up to the delicious childhood memory!

But, as I thought about the Boiled Custard, I wanted some! There had to be a healthy alternative without sacrificing the taste. So, my experimenting began and the following recipe for Old Fashioned Custard is the result. A result that I hope you will enjoy.

Old Fashioned Boiled Custard can be sweetened with honey, Rapadura, Sucanat or processed sugar. If you are not familiar with Rapadura, it is a whole food varying in color from batch to batch. The molasses is not separated out of Rapadura, it is not heated to high temperatures and therefore retains its vitamins and minerals. However, Rapadura is expensive. So, in an effort to balance health and budget, I chose Sucanat. Sucanat is heated to higher temperatures, the molasses is separated but then re-blended to make a consistent product. Sucanat also adds a delicious hint of molasses. If your budget does not allow for Rapadura, Sucanat may be an alternative for those special treat times!

Old Fashioned Boiled Custard can be cooked either in a double boiler or a heavy boiler. I used my Le Creuset enameled cast iron pot which I had purchased at an outlet store. Check out How to Save Money When Buying Le Creuset for ideas on purchasing at discount prices. Le Creuset allows for even heating and there was no problem with the custard sticking during cooking.

Now, on to the recipe…

Old Fashioned Boiled Custard
 
Author:
Dina-Marie @ The Nourishing Gourmet
Recipe type: Dessert
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Ingredients
  • 1 qt. plus ¼ cup whole milk
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 1 c. Sucanat, Rapadura, raw sugar or ¾ c. honey
  • ¼ c. unbleached flour or sprouted flour
  • 2 tsp vanilla
Instructions
  1. In a double boiler or heavy boiler, heat 1 qt of the milk to scalding - just before boiling.
  2. Cream egg yolks and Sucanat, Rapadura, honey or raw sugar thoroughly. Stir in the flour then add the remaining milk. Cook stirring constantly until the custard thickens and coats the spoon.
  3. Remove the custard from heat and stir in the vanilla.
  4. Pour the custard through a sieve or wire mesh strainer into a large bowl. Whip vigorously for a few minutes.
  5. Chill and Enjoy!
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Hi, I am Dina-Marie, the mother of 10 children, 7 of whom are still at home. I live in West Texas with my husband who also happens to be my best friend. We decided to make a lifestyle change in 2008 and left the corporate world of southern Alabama and moved to West Texas. We now have 27 acres of grapes, 2 family milk cows, chickens and raise our own beef. Working the vineyard together as a family is hard work but very rewarding.

Moving to West Texas to begin a vineyard has brought many changes including a return to health through the GAPS diet, learning about “real” food and becoming a chapter leader for the Weston A. Price Foundation.

Cooking REAL food for a large family has been challenging and fun. I love trying new recipes and sharing them with others. I have a passion to spread the healing potential of real traditional food, as well as, to encourage others with a nutrient dense diet and simple family living.

I would love to have you follow our adventure in real food and vineyard life at my blog, Cultured Palate.

Filed Under: Desserts, Nutrient Dense Foods Tagged With: Dessert, Desserts

Frugal & Delicious Italian Pasta Salad (plus 10 other pasta and pasta sauce recipes!)

August 2, 2013 by Dina-Marie Oswald 2 Comments

Italian pasta salad

With the heat of summer upon us, our appetites tend toward lighter meals. Our family works together on our 27 acre vineyard  (you can follow our adventures at my blog, Cultured Palate) and with the temperatures reaching into the 100’sF, we are not hungry for a heavy meal. So, salad meals are on the menu!

But, salad meals consisting of primarily lettuce just do not fill up growing teenagers – at least not mine – for very long! I have had to find other cool, refreshing salad meals and they usually include beans and/or pasta. Add to that a homemade salad dressing with good-for-you oil and some homemade bread lathered in real butter and you have a healthy, filling meal!

Feeding a large family can be challenging, especially on a budget.  I normally take a recipe and triple or quadruple it. You probably know how it goes, when you begin to multiply a recipe, many times the spices are just not quite right. Often you can not just multiply the spices, it may be too spicy. Taste testing certainly has its place in my kitchen – a little bit of this and a little bit of that, taste it and repeat!

But, with pasta, it is so easy to just throw more noodles in the pot and adjust the other ingredients accordingly – tasting as I go, of course! Pasta is economical, healthy and filling – that is important with teenage boys! Which makes this recipe (plus the following recipes ideas) perfect for the 52 ways to save money on a healthy diet series.

Here are ten other frugal and nourishing pasta or pasta sauce recipes from The Nourishing Gourmet:

1. Homemade Buckwheat Soba Noodles

2. Soaked Handkerchief Noodles

3. Homemade Soaked Noodles 

4. Fresh Clam and Herb Sauce  

5. Quick and Easy Marinara Sauce 

6. Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce 

7. White Bean and Kale over Pasta with Smokey Bacon

8. Asian Noodle Salad 

9. Pasta with Creme Fraiche and Salmon 

10. Weekend Pasta Feast (with grilled vegetables.

(Kimi notes: The first edition of the Everyday Nourishing Food contains several simple, super nourishing and delicious pasta sauce recipes and for a limited time you can buy it as part of a bundle with my salad cook for a big savings using these coupon codes) 

In the following recipe, regular pasta or specialty pastas like gluten free, whole grain or even homemade all work well. Kimi did a comparison of 4 grain-free noodles and of the four types reviewed, the zucchini noodles would work for the following recipe if cut into smaller pieces. As you can see in the photo above, I used garden rotini pasta.

For a variation of the Italian Pasta Salad, try adding kidney beans or pinto beans as they taste great!

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Filed Under: 52 ways to save money on a healthy diet, Nourishing Frugal Recipes, Salads, Vegetarian

How a mother of many uses meal planning to keep food costs down dramatically

May 30, 2013 by Dina-Marie Oswald 10 Comments

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In this economy, I think saving money is an area of interest to everyone. One way I have been able to cut my grocery bill over 60% is by menu planning.

As Kimi has posted before, you can save money just by preparing creative meals out of what you have on hand. For me, this works great since our freezer is normally filled with garden produce and I buy my staples in bulk. But, this was not always the case!

When my husband, John and I were first married, we lived off  his stipend while he was in graduate school. It was quite challenging and made budgeting a necessity. With our family just starting, one large dish could last the whole week so, my meal planning consisted of deciding which ONE casserole to cook for the week. These economical meals not only saved money but also my time! Variety was not so much an issue with my husband (provided it wasn’t bad), but I tried to make sure each dish was nutritious and microwaveable!

After graduate school was completed, we moved to lower Alabama and enjoyed a lucrative job. As our income increased, so did our grocery budget – only it increased dis-proportionally! Before I knew it, we were spending $800 per month on food. Granted, we had 8 children at the time but I thought this was excessive and wanted to decrease the amount – I considered it a challenge.

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Filed Under: 52 ways to save money on a healthy diet, Nourishing Frugal Tips Tagged With: Frugal Tips

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