Cooking & Preserving

Some days you have wins and some days you have fails Today, we had a bread fail. Today’s Plan for in the Kitchen I woke up this morning with a plan to: • Cook a chicken  • Feed my sourdough starter • Make some homemade bread  • Cook another batch o

Save time in the kitchen by making double batches and preserving one for the future.  [Saving_time_in_the_kitchen.PNG] I woke up in the middle of the night with my mouth watering, thinking about that delicious pear crumble that I made the other day.

Cooking like grandma means cooking from scratch [Cooking_from_scratch.PNG] My grandmother, the one that I knew, had a family of twelve to feed on a daily basis. And - she did it in the 1920’s and beyond. Just imagine that. Now, I don’t remember

Cook a chicken; eat some; make bone broth; have leftovers; grind up the rest for chicken salad … for the win!! [Ground_chicken_leftovers.PNG] I absolutely love my new meat grinder attachment for my KitchenAid stand mixer.  Somewhere in my cupboards

“Good morning to you,  Good morning to you, We are all in our places, With bright happy faces, And that’s the best way To start a good day” That’s the song I used to sing to my children when they were young. Singing it this morning put a smile on

I like routine in my life - it’s my best strategy for being productive, efficient, and living my goals. Today, I did a “thing” and I think it is the beginning of a new routine in my life and I like it! [Simpler_life_routine.PNG] After trying the

Bread, soup, dessert - all from scratch, before the expected storm takes out our power. Can I do it? [Meal—prep_before_a_storm.PNG] The Plan They are predicting a severe storm, including freezing rain, for today and I’d like to have some meals prep

Are you having a big family gathering and serving a turkey for the feast? Don’t throw out the turkey bones/carcass when you are done eating. The turkey bones are a great resource for making bone broth. [Turkey_bone-broth.PNG] Cook your turkey a

We had a fresh garden salad today, this Christmas Eve day. [Hydroponic-lettuce .PNG] Fresh? How fresh? Well, I picked it, put some dressing on it, and ate it. That fresh! 30 days ago I set up my indoor, hydroponics gardening system and started som

[Preserving-foods.PNG] I love my vintage cookware. … and I love my modern gadgets. I was watching a video the other day and the cook was using an electric pressure canner. I was excited and intrigued. Back in the day when I was learning about pr

As soon as I saw that they now make electric/digital pressure canners, I went shopping online!! The first couple of canners that I saw were for about  $700 Canadian and so it went on my wish list for “some day”. I told Rick about them and he said “

Carey Pressure Canner Review (continued) As soon as I found out that they now make electric pressure canners, I was shopping!  My research ended up with the purchase of the Carey version.  Trial #1 was the very expensive chicken thighs.  I cubed up