Update on prepping activities

The newest addition to the "Prepping" activities.  Its the LDS Preparedness Manual very informative and easy to read and follow.

Bzz Report Private Selections

First of all I need to state that I am a Bzzagent and in a sense they “pay” me to try and report products.   For this report I want to tell you about three Private Selection

First Ground Angus Beef:

 #1 this stuff is expensive my 1 pound package costs $5.22.  Thankfully my “payment” was a $5 coupon.

#2  The amount of grease that remained after I browned the meat was definitely smaller than my regular ground 80/20 beef.

#3  I could not tell any difference in the taste of the spaghetti sauce that I added the meat to.  I’m not sure what I was expecting but I was slightly disappointed in the flavor.  It tasted the same as my regular ground beef.

The second product was ice cream!!!  Butter Pecan ice cream to be exact.  Oh my how yummy it was.  The ice cream wad very creamy and the pecans tasted great.

The final product was potato chips – salt and black pepper kettle chips.  Now don’t stick up your nose salt and pepper chips are very good.  In in my humble opinion kettle chips are about the best way to eat potato chips – and trust me I really enjoy my chips.

Overall I am very happy with other Private selection products and would buy almost any of them again. Although I am too cheap to pay the price per pound for any Angus beef.

See what happens with an empty closet and a new kitchen tool

The new kitchen tool.  Given to me by a dear friend.

Turkey pot pie mix, Barbeque turkey and a jar of plain turkey with stock.

Dried ground Beef

the full shelf

Need some coffee?

Four boxes of Genvalia coffee and 4 cans of Maxwell House

The new coffee maker free thanks to Genvalia

I found the coffee maker deal on Refund Cents a couple days ago.  What a wonderful coincident that our other coffeemaker broke and we needed a new one.  4 boxes of Genvalia coffee and the coffeemaker for $9.95 plus shipping.

Have a blessed day, laurqa

Chocolate chip cookies

Chocolate chip cookies

Ingredients

2 cups flour, sifted
1 tsp soda
½ tsp salt
¾ cup butter or margarine or shortening
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
¼ white sugar
1 egg
1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
1 cup (or 6 oz) semi-sweet chocolate pieces
½ cup chopped nuts

Preheat oven to 375 Yield: 42 cookies

Sift flour, soda and salt.
Cream butter (or whatever you use) and then add sugars cream until light and fluffy.
Add egg and vanilla; beat well.
Blend into creamed mixture the flour mix.
Sitr in chocolate and nuts.
Drop by rounded teaspoon onto greased cookie sheets.

Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes, until golden brown.

From Pillsbury Family cookbook (1963)

One of my moms cookbooks that is now in my collection. I really love this cookbook it holds the banana bread recipe and this recipe plus several others.

I didn’t have any butter or margarine and Greg asked for some cookies. After a internet check I found out that you can use shortening in place of the butter. I like how it held the nice round shape of the cookies instead of them spreading all over the pan.

New recipe - Bacon egg and cheese biscuit casserole

Now I admit that I did not come up with the whole idea for this dish. Greg & I were watching the Chew (ABC daytime show) on casserole day. One of my goals for 2012 is to put up meals in our freezer to use on really busy days. Such as during Christmas season at work – think Christmas time at a toy store.
My version of Bacon Egg & Cheese Biscuit Casserole:
• 1 pound bacon (cooked and chopped)
• cheddar chive biscuits
• 6 large eggs
• 1 1/2 cup milk
• salt, pepper and chives to taste
• 1/2 cup cheddar cheese (grated) or more if you like
I used cheap store brand pop and bake biscuits. I baked according to the directions and let cool. Bacon was also baked (my favorite way to cook it) and cooled. Cut open the baked biscuits and layer the bottoms at the bottom of a baking pan. Top with bacon and then cheese then the tops of the biscuits.
Mix the eggs, milk, salt, pepper and the chives.
Pour egg mixture over the sandwiches and allow to soak into the sandwiches.
Cover and bake in 350 oven for 40-45 minutes.

Results: very good but I did make a mistake. I didn't reread the directions before making so I missed the part where you were to use the whole pound of bacon. At the end I added the rest and more cheese over the top.

But that lead to another thought. I do not reuse a fork after touching it to uncooked eggs - how can I salt, pepper and chive to taste?

Thanks for reading

New kitchen tool

Last year (early Fall) I was given a new kitchen toy. One of our neighbors gave me their old dehydrator. Its a cheap Ronco but I am having fun with it. The past couple of days I have dried strawberries


, cherry tomatoes and currently I have grapes in there.

I am finding that I am not wasting so much food the little bits of vegetables that are looking none to good are getting dried and then used later on. I am really excited about using the dehydrator to help with the garden produce that we grow and or buy.