American G Recipes

Serve up these festive fruit kebabs at your Memorial Day or Fourth of July cookout!

Great for your 4th of July parties!

For added flavor, cook eggs with melted bacon fat or cut calories and fat by using a cooking spray.

The staple foods for Native Americans are the combination of corn or maize, beans and squash which were called 'The Three Sisters".

Most every meal contains at least one or all three of these foods.

Native people planted the three plants together such that the beans grew on the tall stalks of the corn, while the squash formed a ground cover to protect the plants from weeds.

They grew corn or maize, for hominy and dried it to make corn meal. Flour for bread was made from dried, ground acorns.

They had plantations and grew potatoes, pumpkins, beans, tomatoes, peppers, sassafras, muscadines, blackberries, raspberries, other wild berries and wild onions.

Other staple food are: Quinoa which is a variety of amaranth and sumpweed or marsh elder.

They also grew barley, maygrass, sunflower and foraged for mushrooms.

They harvested seafood, fish, oysters and salmon. And kept live stock like pigs.

They hunted wild game, boar, deer, duck, opossums, pheasant, quail, rabbit, raccoon, squirrels and buffalo.

These were all staple foods for the Western Native Cultures.

And all parts of the animal was used including chitterlings, which are fried large intestines of hogs, pork brain and eggs and livermush made from hog liver.

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I just put this recipe in so I can log it into my food tracker.

Fantastic Vegetable Dish! Serve with steamed Wild Rice and a grilled Venison Steak!

Fantastic!! Adapted from a Food Network recipe to reduce the calories and sodium content.

good source of potassium and fiber

Yummy tacos that the whole family will enjoy!

This recipe came from Robyn's Home Remedies facebook page :)

What better way to show your homeland pride than by digging into a GoodBelly-style 4th of July smoothie?! We whipped up a good-for-you frosty treat, bursting with probiotics and worthy of its own fireworks show.

Pretty typical goulash almost every mom made in the 80s and 90s.

Large, satisfying servings

Acorns taste like a cross between hazelnuts and sunflower seeds and were nearly as important a food to Native Americans as corn, squash and beans.

Cherokee, Apache, Pima, Ojibwa, and most all other Native Americans tribes across the oak growing North and South America routinely harvested and used acorn nuts from oak trees and they taught early settlers how to harvest and use acorns, corn and other traditional foods too.

Native Americans carried dried Acorn Cakes, Pemmican, shredded meat and or soups on journeys.

Pre-mix the dried ingredients in a zip lock bag to carry along on a camping trip to make Apache Indian bread over an open fire.

Native Americans have had Bannock cooking over a campfire for many many years. It's now becoming popular with campers.

Prepare a favorite bannock recipe, bake in an oven or divide the dough into egg sized lumps and firmly wrap each lump around the end of a four foot stick. Prop the stick securely over the fire until golden brown. Turn the stick to cook the bread evenly.

Acorn bread is a delicious, sweet, crumbly dessert bread that was introduced to Colonists by Native Americans.

Enjoy! This is a Native American favorite from the Seminole Indian Nation in Florida and other southern states.

Delicious! Indian pudding is a traditional New England Thanksgiving classic. It is a baked custard named "Indian Pudding" by the early settlers because it is made with what they called "Indian meal", corn meal.

It can be traced back to the 1650s when milk became prevalent and molasses arrived on the scene courtesy of the Caribbeans who traded molasses for salt cod.

"Do you know American's Original People?"

In the 2000 census North American Indians and Alaskan Natives number only about 2.5 million.

Native American Indians believe that patience is considered a good quality and that respected members of some Nations are ones who shares and gives their wisdom and wealth to others.

My inspiration in collecting and sharing these recipes is to continue in that tradition of sharing wisdom and wealth.

My cookbook also has a Mini Tutorial for you and your family to learn "Pow Wow Etiquette"!

Enjoy,
Love, Vera

My Sparkpeople Cookbook is "Food Origins ~ Native American" is at: http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/Cookbooks.a
sp?cookbook=462388

This is the first Meal to my 365 Meal Project, to which I've been posting on Storymash.com, and Triond.com under Lilithia.

This is a very good burrito, with Ground Beef, Beans, and French Fries. My family enjoys this meal why not let your family try it.

Delicious! Enjoy this light fresh vegetable salad dressed with fresh lemon juice, olive oil, sea salt and black pepper!

Dear Spark Friends!

Thanks for visiting my cookbook "The Pioneer Spirit ~ Early American Recipes".

This is a great collection of 280 Colonial, Early American & Contemporary Recipes gathered from our Spark Brothers and Sisters!

The recipes are easy to locate as they are listed from A-Z with special categories for Breads, Canning , Candy, Drying, Pickling, Spices & Dry Rubs.

Enjoy!!
Love, Vera

Celebrate the Pioneer Spirit!

Enjoy some great recipes for Early American Breads, Olde Fashioned Candies, Canning & Preserves, Dried Meats, BBQ Rubs, Spices, Infused Herb Oil & Pickles!

More great recipes and the Canning and Drying techniques can be found in my Sparkpeople Cookbook "The Pioneer Spirit ~ Early American Recipes".

http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/cookboo
ks.asp?cookbook=524597

Love,>Vera