What’s your favorite type of pasta? Is it the all familiar spaghetti? How about spiral pasta like my Mom uses for pasta salad? Or maybe you like manicotti? Or, maybe you know someone who loves fettuccini! My family’s favorite pasta, however, is whatever kind of pasta I can find covered in […]
Cooking from Scratch
Want to learn how to make your own food from scratch? From condiments to pasta to yogurt and other things. Learn them in this category.
Serious DIY Series! My Super Secret to Easily Spreadable Fruit Preserves
Strawberry Jam Packed Family When I was growing up, one of the activities we used to do as a family was pick strawberries. We’d load up in our car or van and drive to a U-Pick strawberry farm. We would each start with a 4-quart basket and go at it. […]
5 Amazing Food Storage Desserts
Do the phrases Food Storage and dessert seem incompatible to you? I mean if you are living on food storage who would want to “waste” valuable resources on dessert, right? Wrong. Why Dessert? How many of you out there have ever read Swiss Family Robinson or seen the movie version? […]
Gourmet Food Storage – The Ultimate Comfort Food!
So, If I say, “comfort food” what comes to mind for you? Is it pizza? Maybe it’s mashed potatoes or fried chicken. Or for some of you, it might be oozy, gooey, macaroni and cheese. I’m not talking about boxed, flat tasting macaroni and cheese. The kind I’m talking about […]
Serious DIY Series! Taking Stock of the Situation
“Eat Mor Chikin” broth. Okay, maybe it should be “Drink” more chicken broth, but I love Chick-Fil-A’s advertising campaign! I don’t know about you, but for me, in my busy stage of life, there is something to be said for convenience. Even when convenience is the word of the day […]
Gourmet Food Storage – It Evaporated into Thin Air!
Have you purchased your nonfat dry milk powder yet? It could be instant or it could be non-fat milk powder. It may be a little easier with instant, but either ingredient will work. We’re going to be using it all month to create some amazing items and ingredients with it. […]
Gourmet Food Storage – Milk it for all it’s Worth
How many of you have tasted powdered milk before? It’s okay, you can nod or shake your heads, I won’t tell. Assuming you’ve tasted powdered milk before, I want you to think back on the last time that you drank powdered milk. Uhuh. It’s not hard to remember, is it? […]
Gourmet Food Storage! How Do You Fix a Broken Tomato?
Bad joke alert. . . . How do you fix a broken tomato? Tomato paste. On a slightly more serious note. . . .As I look back over my blogging from February, Fridays have been given over to blogging on Gourmet Food Storage. This month, we’ve been discussing all the […]
Serious DIY Series! The Most Important DIY Ingredient
I have a confession to make. . . .It’s a startling one considering the blog I write. I’m almost afraid to admit it, and it’s kinda embarrassing. But here it is: I hate to cook. Yep. It’s true. When I have a child who grumps about doing dishes because it’s […]
Serious DIY! Never Eat a Honeymoon Salad
Okay, most of you are probably scratching your heads right about now. What does a honeymoon salad have to do with DIY? Never eat a honeymoon salad? What’s a honeymoon salad? It’s. . . . .let-tuce alone. Read it out loud, and it’ll make more sense. So since you shouldn’t […]
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