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07
Jun

buttermilk biscuits

  • 3 cups self rising flour
  • 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
  • 1 stick softened butter or 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • extra flour for rolling, maybe a half cup at most

Mix all ingredients, first with a spoon then with your hands, it should be gooey, don’t really knead, but if necessary you can add a little more flour. Spread extra flour on rolling surface, just enough to cover well. Put dough on the flour then sprinkle more flour on top and roll to approx 1 and 1/4 inches thick, cut with cutter and place on oiled cookie sheet. Bake at 400 for about 20 minutes until they are golden brown on top.

notes- this is Georgia’s recipe and it is great, but Hannah is really the biscuit queen in our house, however she doesn’t use a recipe, she cooks like me, some of this and some of that. Don’t be afraid to start with a recipe and experiment. We don’t use shortening in our house, we usually use butter but you could use oil. For a biscuit cutter we use a plastic cup.

Great topped with butter, jam, honey, syrup, or gravy, also great for making sandwiches.

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03
Jun

feasting on the Word wed

Genesis 6:21 (New International Version)

You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them."

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03
Jun

Chicken Noodle Delight

What you need is:

  • 1 box spaghetti noodles
  • 1 half stick of butter
  • 1 chicken breast
  • 2 Tablespoons of oil
  • 1 Bell pepper
  • 1 Onion
  • 1/2 cup of flour
  • 2 cups milk
  • 2 cups mozzarella cheese grated.

Cook spaghetti, drain then add your butter. Let the butter melt in while you cook the rest.
Pre heat oven to 350.
Dice chicken breast into little bite sized pieces.
Dice bell pepper and onion into small pieces.
Put pepper, onion and chicken breast in a medium sauce pan, nearly cover with water and add two teaspoons of veg oil cook on medium heat until tender, as soon as the water evaporates out let it get just a little brown. Cook uncovered.
As soon as your chicken mixture is done:
Add your flour, mix well. Then add your milk slowly, create a white sauce by stirring regularly as it gets thicker.
As soon as it is about as thick as gravy remove from heat, add to noodles. Mix well.
Pour into a casserole dish, cover with cheese and bake for 20 min.
Take it out and enjoy!!!

This recipe was contributed by my dear daughter April, thank you!

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30
May

baking bread

We find that baking bread has become almost automatic around here. If we plan to have rolls or bread that day we just start a batch of bread a couple hours prior and it is no big deal. You don’t need expensive equipment, we do it by hand. All of my daughters except the 6 yr old can make bread and make it better than most. We make loaf bread but we also make sandwich rolls and dinner rolls.   Bread does not have to be hard.  It can become automatic for your family also. If you don’t  bake bread I encourage you to learn. Here is an ebook I wrote on the subject, from my bookstore.

 Most homemakers that don’t make bread are afraid they can’t make perfect bread. Well I have news for you. No one can make perfect bread. Not every time anyway. There are too many variables that affect your bread making and skill is only one of them. So do it as a way to serve your family rather than a contest to make the “perfect” loaf, you will have fun and it will probably turn out pretty good. Our daughters usually start out making bread at about age 7 or 8, so if they can do it you can do it! You don’t have to have lots of expensive equipment, just two hands, some dough ingredients, a couple loaf pans and an oven.

This book is not intended to make you a “perfect” bread maker. It is intended to give you a nudge to get your hands into that wonderful dough. I will share a secret with you. There is something about making bread that seems to make it easy to meditate on the Lord, I nearly always get a new inspiration or understanding from Him while kneading bread. I pray that you experience the same, while spending some time with Him, He is our Bread of Life.This is just one of a series of Creatively Simple “How to” ebooks approx 20 pages with lots of pictures  ebook download

 

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27
May

feasting on the Word Wed

Genesis 2:9 (New International Version)

And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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27
May

scrambled eggs and rice

This is one of our favorite lunches here. It is similar to an omelet. It is easy and quick. It includes cooked rice, so if you don’t have some already you will need to do that ahead of time. Tell me how you like it. This will make 4 servings. You can alter the ingredients to suite your taste.

  • 3 eggs
  • 2 cups cooked rice
  • 1/2 small diced onion
  • 1/2 small diced green pepper
  • grated cheese (optional)
  • sliced mushrooms (optional)
  • diced chili peppers (optional)
  • diced tomatoes (optional)
  • 2 caps vegetable oil

Place the oil and onions, peppers and any other vegetables in a skillet on med/high. When they get half cooked, add eggs and stir with spatula. When eggs are cooked add warm cooked rice and stir for about 1 more minute. Remove from pan and serve with grated cheese on top. We make this often during the summer using fresh veggies from the garden.

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25
May

sharing the love for cooking

When you are cooking, especially on a holiday, and especially when using a family recipe or technique, teach someone! Never let a teachable moment go by unused. Life goes by too fast and things are not passed down like they used to be. If you don’t have daughters of your own, teach someone else’s.  :)

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24
May

twice baked potatoes

enough baked potatoes for your family

and for each potato

  • 1 T. butter
  • 2 T. sour cream
  • 1/2 cup grated cheese
  • 1/4 t. cajun seasoning

 

  • toppings such as diced green onions and chopped bacon pieces, another half cup cheese and another dollop of sour cream

Take each baked potato and cut in half lengthwise. Scoop out the inside leaving just a shell. Put the scooped out potato insides in a mixing bowl and add all the filling ingredients. Mash the potato insides and blend together with the filling ingredients mixing well. Then put back in the shells. Top each potato half with more cheese, and place all potatoes in a baking dish with melted butter in the bottom. Bake on 350 degrees just long enough to melt the cheese. Then top each potato with a dollop of sour cream, green onions, bacon pieces.

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23
May

budget fajitas

  • 2 pounds ground beef
  • 1 onion cut in strips
  • 1 bell pepper cut in strips
  • 2 jalapeno peppers cut in strips
  • 3 T. fajita seasoning
  • homemade corn tortillas
  • toppings- grated cheese, sour cream, diced tomatoes, lime slices or juice, cilantro
  • 3 cups cooked rice (optional)

 

In a skillet on med heat cook the ground beef, onion and peppers with the fajita seasoning until the meat is cooked. You can add the cooked rice to stretch it a bit further if desired. Serve in fried tortillas and add toppings as desired.

This is one of those meals that can be really budget or a little more extravagant according to what you add on top. We use what is handy or on sale. Not as tasty as steak but will do :) . This makes enough to feed my big crowd.

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20
May

feasting on the Word Wed

Genesis 1:30 (New International Version)

And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.

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