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 ...
Sourdough Discard Crackers
It's so nice knowing most anything we buy in the store can be made at home, especially those things that take few ingredients and are super easy. One of the best things about sourdough are all the "discard" recipes. Yesterday morning I fed my starter because I was going to start sourdough sandwich bread last night, then I was too tired so I pulled out 30 grams of that, fed it again this ...
Getting Packages
With almost every order I place, and wait and wait for its arrival, I get more apprehensive about ordering anything. Maybe Vince is collaborating with the post office to lose my my packages so I will stop ordering! I have a package from Fat Quarter Shop that is taking forever. I think it's been over a week since it was mailed and it's been sitting in Kansas City without moving for three days ...