Category: In The Kitchen

In The Kitchen

This week’s menu…

Gretchen

Monday:  Stuffed Green Peppers, Macaroni and Cheese, and Salad

Tuesday:  Goulash & Homemade Bread

Wednesday:  Yummy Pinto Beans,  Cornbread, and Salad

Thursday:  Tacos w/ Spanish Rice

Friday:  Pizza

Saturday:  Leftovers

Sunday:  Roasted Chicken w/ Rosemary Breadsticks

Had to give credit where credit is due.  Crystal Miller’s recipes are the best.  My husband hated cornbread, but now requests it with dinner after I used Crytal’s recipe.

I hope to also some some Oatmeal Raisin cookies this week.  Some to eat and some to freeze.  It’s suppose to get down to 45 degrees tonight, so tonight might be a good time to fire up the oven.

Have a great evening!

In The Kitchen

Cream of Mushroom Soup…

Gretchen

We had tuna casserole last night.  I made my own cream of mushroom soup and let me tell you it was great.  It wasn’t salty and it didn’t hold it’s shape when you poured it from one container to another.  Here’s the recipe:

Creamy Mushroom Soup

1/4 c butter

1 can mushrooms

Onion

4 T ww flour

2 c chicken broth

1 c milk or cream

Salt and pepper to taste

Garlic salt to taste

Melt butter in saucepan over medium-high heat.  Sauté the onions and mushrooms for about five minutes.  Mix in the flour until smooth.  Gradually stir in the chicken broth.  Cook, stirring, five minutes or until thick and bubbly.

Stir in milk or cream and season to taste.  Heat through, but do not boil.

Very tasty!

We also marked eight of our Bantie eggs last night to see if Miss Thang can hatch us out some baby chicks.  She is a fiesty little thing and apparently wants babies in the worst way.  So, we’re giving her a shot at motherhood.

Have a great Tuesday!

 

 

Budget, In The Kitchen

Grocery Shopping…

Gretchen

My dh and I went grocery shopping over the weekend.  We are determined to go three months without going to the store.  We will get our milk from the dairy near our house and may go to the specialty store near my work for bananas and apples.  Other than that we are buckling down and doing without.  I made a menu for one month and intend to just cycle through it.  This is my first time buying for this long, so I’m sure I will have to get creative come month three.~Smile

This week’s menu:

Monday:  Tuna Casserole with homemade bread

Tuesday:  Scrambled Eggs with Toast

Wednesday:  Beef Stroganoff

Thursday:  Tamale Pie

Friday:  Chicken Rotel with ww tortilla

Saturday:    Stir-Fry with Brown Rice

Sunday:  Grill

We are going to try to start making our Sundays more of  “a day of rest.”  It’s really tough when you work all week and have a small farm.  We really need both our days to get caught back up.  However, we want this to be “family day.”  A day we spend time together, rest, relax, and preparing for a new week. 

My dh and I helped work Dad’s lambs over the weekend.  Approximately 300 of the little darlings.  We used a sore mouth vaccination which is a live vaccine and not once, not twice, but about a million times did I get it smeared on my face or splattered with it as the little critter shook their heads.  I have eight days before I’m in the clear, so wish me luck.  From what I’ve heard it’s very painful and from the looks of sore mouth on the sheep, I know I don’t want it on my face.  Ugh!  However all of Dad’s and all of our’s are vaccinated, docked, etc.  Now they just have to grow up to be big healthy sheep.

One last thing before I close.  I would like to ask everyone to pray for the people of Greensburg, Kansas.  I had a friend, his wife, and their three year old daughter who lived there.  They lost everything!  Their home, their cars, and all their belongings.  Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.