Food and Meals

  • Food and Meals,  Lifestyle

    How to mostly stress free host Thanksgiving (if you are doing most of the cooking)

    Ok, this is for my ladies who love to do it all – you want to host Thanksgiving but also want to cook everything and have found all your favorite recipes and don’t want any deviations because you know they rock. Or if you are like me, have come from decades of family Thanksgiving dinners that were chaotic at best, with everything but the mac and cheese and turkey coming from a box. And there is nothing wrong with that. Stauffers stove top just happens to be one of my biggest comfort foods, and probably for that reason. However something changed one year when I was broke and couldn’t afford…

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    Why Fresh Milled Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread should be added to your baking repertoire

    Ok, so making this bread fresh milled, whole wheat sandwich bread has been a game changer.  I love baking and I am very much a health conscious person, but not the “fat is bad so are carbs” kind. And my journey to using fresh milled wheat berries has been a long one – in fact, I’m still learning so much. I’ve tried so many recipes it’s not even funny. I’ve tried sourdough and I’m not a fan of the “falling flat” loaf. So to keep this easy for me, I’ve used commercial yeast, it’s Bob’s Red Mill if that makes you feel any better, it does me. So there’s that. Also it’s…

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    Cleaning out our freezers | Making room for our pig!

    As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases We are getting a whole pig this winter so we are trying to clean out some freezer space.  We aren’t going to buy another one since we have plenty of freezers and space. But I have tallow and bones taking up a large space that could be on a shelf in my basement.  So I have been slowly but surely processing throughout the weeks.  One of our freezers has a freezer max system in it, and let me tell you, it is one hundred percent worth. It. We have a half of a cow in our chest freezer and this is…