Yesterday morning Vince was willing to help me in the garden so I jumped on that. He doesn't enjoy gardening and has other things he'd rather be doing. You may remember that when Chad was in college and he was home for the weekend, I had asked him to do a few things for me in the garden - things I needed help with - not a lot of things. He said "Why do your hobbies always require work from ...
Planning Ahead & Watching Current Events
A lot of the things I buy, I do it because I've heard there's potentially going to be a shortage or a price increase. I am NOT a fan of chocolate in any form . . well Goldbrick eggs maybe but I can't find them here so, for all practical purposes, I don't eat chocolate. But, a few months ago, I heard there was likely going to be a cocoa shortage. I will make a few things during the year that ...
Amish Cooking – Book
This is the little book that toured southwest Missouri before coming to live with us! I love Little Mountain Ranch on Youtube. I watched this video and someone had sent her this Amish Cooking cookbook. I knew I HAD to have this cookbook. She showed several things that were in the cookbook and it did look good so I found it at a used bookstore online and ordered it. Yesterday it arrived ...
A Happy Failure
Tuesday I pulled all the tomatoes out of the freezer. There were 11 one gallon zipper bags of tomatoes. I washed them all and was only able to fit 9 bags of them in the 18 quart roaster so two bags went back into the freezer. I had planned to make ketchup. Most of the tomatoes were slicers and not the paste type tomatoes so there was so much water/liquid. I ended up turning it to low on Tuesday ...
Paying Attention to Prices
Vince is the bargain shopper in the family. I mostly want to get what I need and be done. Our choices here are pretty much Aldi or Walmart and I've always been comfortable that either of those places have fair prices. After the Baltimore port incident, there's been some talk that sugar may be in short supply and/or go up in price. I don't need any sugar but was looking at the prices at Aldi, Sam's ...
Saving on Groceries
With prices going up every day (or so it seems), we're trying to pay more attention to what we buy. Unless there's something I really need, there are just some things I will not buy. There are things I will buy whether they're on sale or not. A few weeks ago, I found "cotton candy grapes" at Aldi. They were not on sale and were more than I would usually pay but they looked interesting so I ...