Food for one year – one meal a day

I was thinking recently that if it came down to it, we could survive on one meal a day for one year – if we HAD to. So…I sat down with a legal pad and my recipe file and made a list of 30 meals that could be eaten each month, then calculated the the [...]

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Southern Chicken & Dumplings

Just thinking about chicken & dumplings takes me back to my mother’s kitchen.  This is comfort food at its finest, and is extremely cheap to make. Now this Southern girl doesn’t like NOODLES with her chicken when it’s supposed to be dumplings.  They are totally different critters. True Southern dumplings are like puffy pillows of [...]

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Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink

Er…in my case, rice, rice everywhere and none to cook with! I learned a valuable food storage lesson recently.  I normally keep a quart jar of long grain white rice in my pantry so there’s not a huge bag open at one time.  I had already put most of the 50 pound bags we’d purchased [...]

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Cheap cleaning tips (that really work!)

If you’re like me, you cringe spending $5 on a bottle of cleaner when you can make something yourself that will work just as well, if not better. Over the years, I’ve found several things that have saved us some cash, plus kept our house sparkling clean. WINDOW and GLASS CLEANER A friend found this [...]

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Taco/Enchilada Sauce – canning a whole batch

Well, I finally ran out of the enchilada sauce I canned in October, and after paying $1.79 for one teeny tiny can at the store, I decided it was time for another batch. I made spaghetti sauce yesterday and canned it today.  While I have the canner out,  it was now or never on the [...]

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