On my KINDLE recently, I downloaded an interesting & FREE book. It was written in 1878 by Juliet Corson. It’s entitled: Twenty-Five Cent Dinners For Families of Six. Interesting! Here are some of her comments, she starts off with this: TO ECONOMICAL HOUSEWIVES: The wide publicity which the press in different sections of the country [...]
Last weekend I hosted a dinner party/committee meeting here at our home. As I planned my menu I was looking through this wonderful French cookbook that our kids Anita & Neil gave to me for Christmas. Here are some of the reasons I like this recipe: It’s easy it can be prepared early in the [...]
We keep eating off those 3 whole chickens I bought last week… this time pan fried chicken breasts with diced tomatoes for me… low-carbing it…that’s #4 meal and #5 is using the last breast for a chicken salad spread for sandwiches. I still have wings & a few legs & thighs to use up this week. [...]
Meal #3 is made from the backs of the chicken. I usually make rolled tacos with this meat but this time I’m trying out a recipe from this OLD cookbook I bought at a yard sale about 35 years ago. It was originally published in 1948 with a revision in 1965. It doesn’t use ingredients [...]
Today I started out with 3 whole chickens for a dinner party/committee meeting I will host tomorrow and you can see some of what I’m going to do with them. Today’s meal is fried chicken with the 6 wings + 1 thigh (John likes thighs): with pasta & green beans. My menu tomorrow will be: [...]
today…. the 3rd of January… I will continue with the help from the Lord and all who pass through my house… to REDUCE by food storage.. NEW plans are in the works.. NEW goals… NEW ideas, NEW stirrings…. so… I took out of the freezer: 1 small pk of cooked garbanzo beans (chickpeas for those [...]
I have a lot of potatoes. I bought a big bag for 5€ but they are so useful! It looks like we’ll be taking some to Anita & Neil over the holidays. soups * or make any creamed soup and add 1 potato and blended with an immersion blender for a very creamy soup [...]
For those of you who are new to baking and thought the dough to be ‘too wet’… it is! When the recipes says to to roll out on a ‘heavily floured’ board; well that means, add the flour needed to make it manageable to work with, but don’t add so much that the dough is [...]
A few years ago our kids Anita & Neil introduced us to the Moravian Love Feast. This photo is of our table with coffee & the buns, that our Neil took. It was a wonderful time of fellowship with a few families. John and I had never heard of a ‘Love Feast’ even though we [...]
Here are some freezer & pantry items I will be working through: chicken wings- freezer pie crust-freezer bean soup- freezer re-fried beans green chili salsa chalupas~ beans and shredded pork with wonderful southwest seasonings enveloped in a flour tortilla~ yum. I had to market today and bought a package of napkins and 0% fat yogurt… [...]