Yesterday the shredded chicken finished up in the freeze dryer. Start to finish, it took 44 hours, 48 minutes. I'm still working on clearing out some freezer space. I took out four packages of chicken breasts and defrosted those. Each package had two huge breasts, four were boneless, skinless and two had bones and skin. I put them all in the pressure cooker with onions, celery and carrots; cooked ...
Strange Things
Maybe this isn't weird or strange but these things happen to me so often. I spent most of the day in the kitchen. I cooked breakfast, then stirred up another batch of bran muffins, which required milling three kinds of wheat/grain; then I milled the wheat for two loaves of bread and got that going; then I chopped enough onions to fill three freeze dryer trays for the next load in the freezer. ...
Dry Soup Mixes
Last week I mentioned that we were almost out of dry soup mixes. During the winter we eat a lot of soup. In the summer, we eat a fair amount of soup. Sometimes soup and a salad are perfect . . even when it's super hot outside. Having a variety of soup mixes works well for us. If you're interested in finding dry soup mix recipes, Google it and there are so, so many out there. These are some of my ...
Snickerdoodles
One of my goals this year is to use no white, store bought flour. So far . . I know - it's only been about 1-1/2 months . . I haven't used anything except fresh milled flour. I don't know if we were just ready to make the change but several times before I had tried to do it but biscuits or cookies didn't taste "right" and I would always go back to the store bought flour but we both have been ...
Freeze Dryer Loads
Friday night as soon as Vince had the freeze dryer pump hooked up, I stuck the loads in that had been in the freezer waiting for the new pump. It took 43 hours to complete the cycle. That's one half gallon jar and one pint jar of the ground beef pucks. They're actually for when I need to give the dogs a pill. I'll re-constitute one in water, lightly cook it and stick a pill in it. I'm also ...
The Next New Start
Hope and Love by Teresa Kogut still isn't finished but . . maybe tomorrow. I say that every day. It's ok . . I've been doing other fun things too. Today I got more peppers and a few tomato seeds in their little starter cups. I cleaned out the containers I use for microgreens so I can start more of those tomorrow. I got a good sized bunch of leeks washed and cut to go into the freeze dryer. It's ...