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Freezer Meal Combinations To Make
Necie replied to Jeepers's topic in In The Kitchen-The Heart Of Our Home
@Mother, your potatoes froze ok being raw? Mine turned brown. I learned quick to blanch/parboil. Are you freezing them in liquid is maybe why? -
Homegrown dinner: Venison backstrap Roasted fingerling potatoes (garden) Tomato/cucumber/onion *salad* (garden)
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Freezer Meal Combinations To Make
Necie replied to Jeepers's topic in In The Kitchen-The Heart Of Our Home
DH and I don’t care for frozen leftover pasta. But I do need to learn to freeze more leftovers instead of them going to waste. My biggest problems are: 1- not enough room in the freezers. 2- I forget to write what it is and it becomes unidentifiable. -
But... but... BUTT??? Did you really think no one would notice?
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Can we talk all things Bread?
Necie replied to ANewMe's topic in In The Kitchen-The Heart Of Our Home
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Sunday was a good lunch with *the girls*... albeit a long one. As I was coming into town to go to the restaurant, I ended up behind over 50 corvettes. Guess where they were going?? I wasn’t worried about it cuz we had a reservation and I *assumed* they did too. I overheard a couple of the wait staff talking while waiting for a table and the other gals to get there (I got there at 1:00 and the reservation was for 1:30) and asked “Didn’t you know they were coming?” One stated that they had called that morning. The restaurant doesn’t open til 11. 😒 Having worked service before, this is not cool. No time to get more staff in... wait and kitchen. We did have excellent service, but everything took forever and you could feel the staff’s frustration. Luckily, DD, DDIL, and DD’s cousin have also all worked service... so we all understood. And it’s why we agreed on the 1:30 reservation... 11-1 is usually the *busy* lunch time. 😂 We all joked that it gave us more time to visit and chat. But we didn’t get out of there til almost 4:00. Monday I worked around the house a bit. Managed to combine 6 boxes of books (for market) into 4 boxes and hauled them out to the trailer. DH had to haul one down the steps to the van cuz I packed it too heavy. 🙄 I’m ok on flat ground or even going up stairs, but my knees give out going down stairs with anything heavy. Yesterday, mom and I went shopping. Amish store and discount store. I was exhausted by the time I got home. So I hauled everything in and took care of the stuff that had to go in the freezer or refrigerator, but the rest is sitting in bags and I still need to separate meat and cheese that’s in the fridge into smaller portions to put in the freezer. That’s the plan for today along with emptying the bags and finding room for everything.
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For us, I think that canned turkey would just go to waste. I can some chicken. But not much. And dark meat only. I use it for chicken/noodles, creamed chicken and biscuits, chicken alfredo. DH can be, ummm... picky. He likes chicken pot pie, but not turkey. He doesn’t care for casseroles. He won’t eat *mayo salads*. We would eat the meat if I roasted them and froze it... but, again— no freezer room.
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Freezer Meal Combinations To Make
Necie replied to Jeepers's topic in In The Kitchen-The Heart Of Our Home
Goes with the recall thread... -
Yesterday I saw that Meijers had turkeys for .99c/lb. Wish I had freezer space. <sigh>
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This is the jar sealer that I have. But, sheesh!!... I paid A LOT more than that for it. Over double. 😒 https://www.amazon.com/Electric-Handheld-Accessory-Storage-Regular/dp/B0B6BCXB3D/ref=mp_s_a_1_13?crid=V9PUL656SFJX&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ptLMoRbJHK76iWMmCXpDR3HWDLFBls9ZWJWLb9v-bPCpErRYJvq2gOJwmrPVYpDPXZK6PS0rikfGZH4m20hZulDzZLLfcUiPuzuGgSAqdZJXE5RYmPRku_84ahkxHW__GHTNFDLS0V1_6ysUFJvasVCC-KTjLKIeiv24KPo198qmJqzSPZl_GBMOUtOsH64FP60Rt_SlECnAd4AdqiJbdw.ipBVbi0JTvvpQbckBG261R5IVOmJ6wLyQdvrI3rvdFc&dib_tag=se&keywords=jar+vacuum+sealer+for+mason+jars&qid=1730038348&sprefix=jar+%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-13 Busy weekend. Haven’t got much done around the house. Went shopping with mom on Friday. Exhausting. Yesterday, DH’s sister and BIL had a Halloween party. Went up and helped for awhile, then DH and I sat up town and watched the kids trick or treating. We don’t get many at our house. Then back to their party for awhile. Today, we are doing *girl’s lunch* for DD’s (36) birthday. She got to pick the restaurant. Will be her, I, my mom, DD’s cousin, DDIL, and 2 DGDs.
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These are the kind of things we deal in at the flea market. There are many different kinds of china, bone china, porcelain, stoneware, etc. Things made in some countries are highly valued— German and English china/tea sets ($$$) especially pre-WWII. For figurines and knick-knacks, anything that is stamped ‘made in occupied Japan’ is very collectible. As is Nippon, which is highly decorated and very old. Mostly dishes/tea sets, but some trinket bowls and hair savers and such. And dragonware. Your elephants were probably brass. Anything metal— brass, copper, nickel, pot metal— has SKYROCKETED!! We’re getting 2-4x what it was priced just a year or two ago.
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The thing that worked for the ladybugs was Hot Shot ant-roach-spider spray from Dollar General. The can says good for indoor and outdoor use, and works for 3 months. I sprayed the entire outside of the camper and the inside walls/ceiling/floor and especially around windows, seams, vents, door, etc. Regular flying insect spray didn’t work... it would kill them with direct contact spraying, but not just the mist in the air. And more kept coming. Vinegar didn’t work to deter them. I sprayed the outside end of the camper (it was COVERED due to the sun). They did all take off, but within 10 minutes it was covered again.
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I have 3 junk drawers in my kitchen. Two are smaller ones below my microwave and next to the fridge. One is specifically for light bulbs... if I have overflow, they get put on top of the fridge. The other is for *tools*... hammer, screwdrivers, nails/screws, scissors, hooks, etc. If I had an attached garage, I would put a small cabinet out there just for those type things.
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I’ve read *somewhere* of the recommendation to dry dill pickles that turned out mushy or such and grind them to make a dill pickle flavored salt/powder. Might be good on popcorn, homemade potato chips/fries, homemade crackers, etc.