Archive for the ‘Homemaking’ Category
July 5th, 2010 | 
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Well with the super hot and humid weather this week, I’ve had to change my normal menu plan around! Its time for some lighter and cooler dishes.
Breakfasts
- Oatmeal
- Fruit
- Muffins
Lunch
- Yogurt
- Fruit
- Salad
Dinners
- Tomato sandwiches, veggies and dip
- Chicken breast, garden salad
- Pork chops, potato or pasta salad
- Stir fry, rice
- Pasta, cesar salad
- Pizza, garlic bread, cesar salad
- Chicken breasts, mashed potatoes, carrots
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Monday: Baked chicken breast, mashed potatoes, gravy, veggies.
Tuesday: Sheppards Pie, mashed potatoes, garden salad.
Wednesday: Hamburgers and fry’s.
Thursday: Stir fry, rice.
Friday: Baked tomato pasta, garlic bread, ceasar salad.
Saturday: Pizza, garlic strips, salad
Sunday: Roast, scalloped potatoes, carrots.
We are starting our summer canning with strawberry jam.
Normally I use low/no sugar pectin and only add a cup or two of sugar in my recipe. However I’m out of that so I’m using up some regular pectin. This uses more sugar then I like, but considering how small of a serving you use it’s not to bad.
Basic Strawberry Jam Recipe
2 quarts strawberries
2 TBS lemon juice
7 cups sugar
1 packet powdered pectin
Mash berries and add lemon juice and pectin.
Bring to a boil and add sugar.
Boil for 1 minute.
Remove from heat, stir and skim for 5 min.
Ladle into jars and can for 10 min.
Posted in Canning, Homemaking, In the Kitchen, Recipes, homestead series | 
Tags: Canning, food storage, harvest, strawberry jam | 
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Sharing some tips and ideas that have worked well for us.
Posted in Homemaking, In the Kitchen, Preparing, homestead series |
Tags: bulk shopping, food storage, homestead series, Homesteading, menu planning, preparedness, Preparing |
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I started making my own laundry soap 6 years ago. We love it and I hope this video helps you.
Posted in Homemaking, Homesteading, homestead series |
Tags: frugal, Homemaking, homestead series, how to, laundry, make your own laundry soap |
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This is how we make sausage for our pizzas. We make it a little stronger then normal to stand out on pizza.
If you wanted to make sausage patties then reduce the salt and pepper to taste.
Posted in Homemaking, Homesteading, In the Kitchen, Recipes, homestead series |
Tags: frugal cooking, homestead series, how to make sausage |
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A short video on how we make maple syrup here on our little homestead.
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Tags: Homesteading, how to, maple syrup |
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Perfect for Saving Money & Getting the Family Together – AND Healthier!
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Who could complain about that?
It all begins with simple meal-planning. In other words, knowing EXACTLY what your family is going to eat each day, having the ingredient on hand and quickly putting together delicious meals. Seriously – it IS possible and not as complicated as you might think.
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Imagine…the family around the table together, eating healthy meals and reconnecting. Now THAT’S priceless.
The night before our Thanksgiving in early October our oven died. The dial that sets the temperature broke. It would turn on but you couldn’t tell what setting it was at. Eventually we figured out were to set it for most baking. But then a few weeks before Christmas it started surging temps. cold one min to hot the next. We have already had the thermostat, 2 oven elements and many burners replaced on this thing…We decided not to try and have it fixed again. There must be something wrong with it that causes the burners and thermostat to keep burning out. We searched every were looking for used stoves. We finally found one place. They must be in high demand right now! Dh looked and they had this very old yellow stove. The store thinks it’s from the 60′s. But I tell you it cooks better then any stove I’ve ever had!! They sure made things to last back then. It also has an extra broiler oven on top. I LOVE it!!
This pic is just after dh brought it in the house.
First batch of cookies as a “test”. Bakes great! My other stove was alway burning everything or under cooking.
