Good morning! I hope everyone is doing well. Plant sale is over, after shoppers have come and gone, and now I will be rushing (after my coffee of course) to get as much planted today as possible because we have rain in the forecast for tomorrow. Not a great amount last I checked, but seeing as how we're in an extreme drought; I gotta make adjustments as necessary to succeed. In addition to planting, I've been collecting rain water, when it does come, to help during the dry times. When we put gutters on the house, we asked that the down spout would come down into a rain barrel. It's been great over the years, but I really need extra barrels for overflow. It's on the list. Until then I scoop the water into other barrels to allow for rain to refill the main one. So all in all, garden is top of the list today.
Planning meals for today is a "use up" kind of day. This mornings breakfast was some french toast made with a half a loaf of sandwich bread that I needed to use up. When the french toast was done, I had a good amount of the egg milk mixture left. I added baking powder, a little more salt, flour, and oil to turn it into pancake batter. Cooked up the pancakes as well and my family can choose what they prefer. I have enough pancake syrup made for today's breakfast but will need to make another batch to restock the fridge. What pancakes and french toast are left over can be frozen for later breakfasts. These recipes use eggs too so that's wonderful. We're getting about 15 a day from our chickens.
Lunch will just be hubby and I and I have some leftover taco/burrito filling. I'll make up a batch of flour tortillas. We'll use those for lunch then freeze them for another meal. I have cooked chicken in the fridge and think I'm going to make chicken and dumplings for dinner. I have two chicken thighs left over from making the Buffalo Chicken thighs the other night, and need to start doing something with that pork loin. I may cook 3 lbs of it in the crock pot as chalupas and can use the flour tortillas I make today to go with it. Hmm. That's an idea.
"Using up" is a wonderful traditional old fashioned way the food budget was managed. It's not poor mouthing. It's smart. Not wasting is a wonderful thing to do. Below is a Dump cobbler I made to use up some canned pineapple that would expire soon( it's good for at least 6 months after sell by date. Just sayin). The recipe is easy. 1 stick melted butter in a 9x13 pan. 1 cup sugar, 1 cup self rising flour, 1 cup milk. Mix it all together and pour in the pan now coated with melted butter. our a can of whatever canned fruit you desire. Bake 350 for 20-25 min.
What was it Benjamin Franklin said? "A penny saved is a penny earned". He was right, but I'd argue it's even more than a penny earned now because that penny is a penny earned untaxed.
Can you think of things in your pantry or fridge that needs to be used up?
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