Update on Menu Plan Monday – Master List

I have been working on my Master Meal list. So far I am really, really enjoying it. I have everything needed to make any of the meals so I can pick which one we are in the mood for on any given day. I have started to do a cost analysis on the meals as [...]

Make it Yourself . . . Monday

I had this grand idea of hosting a “Make it Yourself . . . Monday”, but someone beat me to it.
I could use that verse in Ecclesiastes here:
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9
So, anyway, I am going to [...]

Homemade Strawberry Jam

Tonight I hosted our Monthly Cooking Club. I invited my great-aunt over to show us how to make and can strawberry jam (oh so delicious). She came over and explained to us the process of making the jam. She also told us the difference between jelly and jam. Jam has fruit in it and jelly [...]

Menu Monday (and Baking too)

This week’s Menu is going to involve some OAMC (Once a Month Cooking) recipes. I am making them for a get together next week. And we won’t be here for Friday so that is why there are only 4 meals for lunch and supper:
Breakfast:Pancakes, eggs and bacon (my husband is off of work)Yogurt, toast and [...]

Homemade playdough

A lot of people have a homemade playdough recipe. I made this because I was babysitting a little one and she wanted to play too, but I didn’t want her to eat the regular playdough. The recipe is equal parts peanut butter, powdered sugar, corn syrup (Because I was out of honey) and dry milk [...]

Baking Monday

So here is what I accomplished on my “Baking Monday”. It should also be called Baking and Laundry Monday since I am trying to get all of my laundry done, but ya know! So today I baked regular bread from my Make-a-Mix “Hot Roll Mix”. It turned out pretty good. I also made pumpkin pancakes [...]

Baking Monday’s

So I am thinking about making Monday my baking day. I don’t have a regularly scheduled baking day, but I think this will help me as the prices of groceries are on the rise. So tomorrow I would like to bake at least one pizza crust and two loaves of sandwich bread. [...]

Cooking Club

Tonight is my monthly cooking club. If you haven’t heard of this, I get together with 6 other ladies and we each pick one recipe to make and we make 7 4-serving meals of this one recipe. We bring them to the hostess’ house and we exchange them sort of like a cookie [...]