What did we ever do before Aldi came to town? My first mistake, and believe me . . I've learned this lesson: This morning for breakfast, I served fresh cranberry juice. Vince was hurrying up to finish eating. He wanted to go to Aldi to get more cranberries. That's easy for him to say. First, his knee isn't hurting . . every step he takes and mine is about to kill me. Second, he's not the one ...
Cooking
Results of Juicing Cranberries
Twelve bags of cranberries are juiced and I have 13 quarts of juice. Let's just say we bought enough cranberries that I'll be canning cranberry juice for a week and we'll have enough to have one quart per week for over a year. There's actually 13 quarts and one pint. I didn't can the pint . . I'll stick that in the fridge and we'll have it tomorrow for breakfast. We were determined to do ...
Cranberry Juice
Aldi has cranberries for 99¢ per 12 oz. bag. We bought a lot to make more cranberry juice. I get about 1 quart of juice per bag. I'll add a little sugar but I'm not going to add orange or lemon juice. Sometimes I will add orange juice when we open a jar of fresh cranberry juice but for the most part, we drink it plain. There's a lot of pulp left and it's great for adding to muffins ...
Gumbo Today
This morning when I woke up, the first thing I thought about was . . we're having gumbo today. Yes, I love gumbo! I got it totally done yesterday so the flavors could do whatever they do overnight . . blend, intensify . . I don't know. All I know is that I like gumbo better the second day. How good does that look? It was all done except for the okra. I still have a few jars of okra that I ...
Beans & Sausage
Red beans, sausage and rice is one of Vince's favorite meals. I like it but I don't love it. We had gone by the grocery store early this afternoon and I was tempted to buy a bag of pre-cut coleslaw but it was $2 or a small bag. I had a whole cabbage at home and it wouldn't take long to chop enough for dinner so I saved myself $2. Yarn money! :) We sat down to eat and Vince said "This is ...
A Day of Cooking
This morning I began cooking early. There was a chicken to boil. There was roux to be made. There were veggies to chop - onions, green pepper, jalapeno pepper, garlic. A trip to the greenhouse and garden for bay leaves, parsley and green onions. The gumbo is for tomorrow. Today we're having beans, sausage and rice, cornbread and coleslaw. Last night I soaked the beans ...
