This weeks grocery theme is Pantry Cleanout. You know, the week where you eat all of the food you have hoarded away just in case you run out of all of the "good food" yet still need to make a meal. For us, this means all sorts of odds and ends. I am trying to use up the green tomatoes that I canned last summer so we will have a few meals with fried green tomatoes. FGT's are one of my fav foods and I was thrilled when I learned how to can them so we can eat them year around. I found some blueberry muffin mix-I don't even know when I bought it or why-but I added some leftover oatmeal and walnuts to the muffin mix and it is baking now. Let's hope it turns out well because there will be 6 unhappy campers if it is a flop. Oh and rice-lots of rice. I am a terrible rice cooker-I admit it. But, I like rice so I buy rice. Then, I remember that I am not a good rice cooker so I don't cook it. So, I am a rice hoarder. I have been needing to buy a rice cooker for a long time. I want one like my vegan friend, Jamie's. Her rice cooker steams veggies too (or at least I think she told me that-maybe I dreamed it). For some, it might be a waste of money but I genuinely cannot cook rice. I will also be going through the freezer to start the clean out before gardening season gets here. I know there are still lots of bags of peaches and corn (not mixed together, obviously). I used up 2 boxes of couscous last night and I promise here and now, that I will never serve 6 very small children bowls of couscous if we are eating inside. DISASTER! Zillions of couscous grains all over the floor.
Our chickens are laying eggs and more of them should start laying in the next 6 weeks. We thought one of the chickens might be broody (for non chicken people, this means when a hen wants to sit on her eggs til they hatch). I think that watching chicks hatch would be a wonderful experience for the kids.
We have lots going on in the next few months but I will post more about that later. We appreciate everyone who has prayed for Weston and our family. God is so good and we know he has a plan for Weston and our family.
Get the rice cooker! After ruining rice for at least 8 years of marriage, we finally broke down and got one and it was worth every penny!
ReplyDeleteOur is like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-SR-TEL18-10-Cup-Cooker-Steamer/dp/B000ON4MWK
My Japanese friend said Panasonic was the way to go even though it was like $60 instead of the cheap-o ones you can get at walmart.
And yes it steams veggies on top, though we don't use the steamer as often as I thought we would.
My only complaint is that you can't really cook small amounts of rice ... which would NOT be a problem for your family!
Go! Get one!
I have one kind of like this: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Decker-HS1000-Steamer-Scenter/dp/B0007VZZNO/ref=sr_1_10?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1301590046&sr=1-10
ReplyDeleteIt's vegan approved!