'cause I'm really tired, and I'm in the middle of a zillion other things right now.
Yesterday:
Breakfast: Eggs and toast
Lunch: Fresh bread (had to make another batch a couple days earlier than usual, and it looks like I'm still going to have to make a batch tomorrow! I guess this is a good thing.)
Dinner: Chicken and rice soup. There's been a stomach bug going around (thankfully we've managed to avoid it thus far.), so that sounded like an ideal dinner option. I threw in a handful of greens in for added benefits too.
Today:
Breakfast: I grabbed the last slice of apple pie almost as I headed out the door to help our wonderful neighbors harvest vegetables and put out row covers.
Lunch: I wasn't home, but those that were had grilled cream cheese and apple sandwiches.
Dinner: Mama made a beef vegetable pot pie ... casserole thing.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Catchin' up
Again. Sometimes life just gets too busy to post about what we've bought and what we've eaten! First off, Claire went to town Saturday morning to pick up some things at the co-op, so I sent some grocery money with her. She picked up some eggs, milk, and hot dogs for us a Save-A-Lot for: $17.95 making the new total: $378.81.
Saturday:
Breakfast: I don't hardly even remember Saturday, so I'm thinking it was probably another get whatcha want meal.
Lunch: Lunch was more official. We all sat down and had enchiladas!
Dinner: The band members had a gig at another band member's church, and there was dinner. We all decided to go! We had to go in the truck, so it wasn't the most comfortable ride ever, but it was good to be together as a family.
Sunday:
Breakfast: Get whatcha want, I think.
Lunch: We took potato soup/mash (oddly enough, we ran out of milk, so the soup wasn't very ... soup-like.), hot dogs, and apple pie.
Dinner: I don't think we had anything in particular for dinner. Apple pie, maybe...
Monday:
Breakfast: Daddy and I left at 6am, and I don't think we had anything to eat (though we did grab our favorite coffee concoctions on the way out the door). I don't know what the others had.
Lunch: Daddy and I and another good friend we picked up on the way went to my uncle's house to disassemble and haul away a tower he had in his back yard. Uncle Craig is, by profession, a chef, and he fed us very well on potato soup!
Dinner: Claire made stew, greens, and bread.
Saturday:
Breakfast: I don't hardly even remember Saturday, so I'm thinking it was probably another get whatcha want meal.
Lunch: Lunch was more official. We all sat down and had enchiladas!
Dinner: The band members had a gig at another band member's church, and there was dinner. We all decided to go! We had to go in the truck, so it wasn't the most comfortable ride ever, but it was good to be together as a family.
Sunday:
Breakfast: Get whatcha want, I think.
Lunch: We took potato soup/mash (oddly enough, we ran out of milk, so the soup wasn't very ... soup-like.), hot dogs, and apple pie.
Dinner: I don't think we had anything in particular for dinner. Apple pie, maybe...
Monday:
Breakfast: Daddy and I left at 6am, and I don't think we had anything to eat (though we did grab our favorite coffee concoctions on the way out the door). I don't know what the others had.
Lunch: Daddy and I and another good friend we picked up on the way went to my uncle's house to disassemble and haul away a tower he had in his back yard. Uncle Craig is, by profession, a chef, and he fed us very well on potato soup!
Dinner: Claire made stew, greens, and bread.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
A forgotten purchase
Or rather, a purchase that I forgot to record: $50 for 5 bushels of organic apples (2 bushels of Jonagold, 3 of Mutsu - Mutsu being our favorite!)! We picked them up a couple of weeks ago, and we've been enjoying them ever since! That brings the grocery money total to: $396.76.
While I'm on, here's yesterday's menu:
Breakfast: Get whatcha want.
Lunch: Bread, apples, apple butter, etc. (We were deep in the middle of canning apples at the time.)
Dinner: Spaghetti, winter squash (cut in half, seeds removed, butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, a dash of nutmeg, microwaved for 10 minutes, baked until we were ready to eat.), and bread.
We got 14 more quarts of apples canned yesterday! That used up all our quarts, surprisingly. I'm guessing they're all being used with green beans. We may can some more, but they'll be in pints instead. We're also really hoping to do some cider, but our cider press needs a little work before then. So, we'll see, I guess! In the meantime, we'll have apple pies! I've got 2 in the oven right now, and I should probably go check on them...
While I'm on, here's yesterday's menu:
Breakfast: Get whatcha want.
Lunch: Bread, apples, apple butter, etc. (We were deep in the middle of canning apples at the time.)
Dinner: Spaghetti, winter squash (cut in half, seeds removed, butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, a dash of nutmeg, microwaved for 10 minutes, baked until we were ready to eat.), and bread.
We got 14 more quarts of apples canned yesterday! That used up all our quarts, surprisingly. I'm guessing they're all being used with green beans. We may can some more, but they'll be in pints instead. We're also really hoping to do some cider, but our cider press needs a little work before then. So, we'll see, I guess! In the meantime, we'll have apple pies! I've got 2 in the oven right now, and I should probably go check on them...
Friday, November 4, 2011
Another day bites the dust!
I'm quickly running out of ideas for creative titles... in case you couldn't tell...
Breakfast: Mama made apple muffins! Yay! It wasn't a get whatcha want!!! Today's is though...
Lunch: Potato soup. Joint effort between me and Claire. We made enough to work for Sunday lunch too! (Or it will be when we add a bit of milk.)
Dinner: Yesterday was Thursday, therefore a band practice night, therefore it was just me, Daddy, and Luke for dinner. Having been in the kitchen all morning making cookies, bread, and soup, I didn't want to go back in there, so we had Hardee's. That was convenient because we needed to pick up some hot dog buns for Sunday anyway.
Yesterday I got $12 back for non-grocery items from our last Walmart trip, and we spent $4.31 on hot dog buns and onions at Save A Lot. The grocery total is now, hopefully, $446.76. Today we'll probably be working on more apple things.
Breakfast: Mama made apple muffins! Yay! It wasn't a get whatcha want!!! Today's is though...
Lunch: Potato soup. Joint effort between me and Claire. We made enough to work for Sunday lunch too! (Or it will be when we add a bit of milk.)
Dinner: Yesterday was Thursday, therefore a band practice night, therefore it was just me, Daddy, and Luke for dinner. Having been in the kitchen all morning making cookies, bread, and soup, I didn't want to go back in there, so we had Hardee's. That was convenient because we needed to pick up some hot dog buns for Sunday anyway.
Yesterday I got $12 back for non-grocery items from our last Walmart trip, and we spent $4.31 on hot dog buns and onions at Save A Lot. The grocery total is now, hopefully, $446.76. Today we'll probably be working on more apple things.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Another day on the town!
Yesterday we went to Cheekwood! It was an absolutely beautiful day to do it, too!
Breakfast: Get whatcha want (and quickly!). We were on our way by 9:45 or so.
Lunch: Loveless Cafe. Very expensive, and only mediocre, but none of us had ever been, and it's a Nashville icon, so worth a one-time trip.
Dinner: Left-over creamy, poppy seed chicken.
Breakfast: Get whatcha want (and quickly!). We were on our way by 9:45 or so.
Lunch: Loveless Cafe. Very expensive, and only mediocre, but none of us had ever been, and it's a Nashville icon, so worth a one-time trip.
Dinner: Left-over creamy, poppy seed chicken.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Today is the beginning of the third month!
Being November first and all...
So, today:
Breakfast: Get whatcha want. Again. Perhaps someday we'll get better at "doing" breakfasts...
Lunch: Tuna salad on crackers + left-overs (if you wanted them)
Dinner: Creamy, poppy seed chicken and left-over turnip greens
Claire and I spend almost all afternoon up at the guest house canning apples! Yes, we finally got around to doing some of that! We had time to do 3 water bath batches, or 21 quarts. Still being relatively new to this whole canning by ourselves deal (without Mama and/or Grammy), we weren't entirely confident about what we were doing, but I'm staying optimistic and hoping that the jars won't burst or not seal. ... I exude confidence, don't I? Oh, well. The green beans worked, so perhaps these apples will too.
We canned them in a very light sugar syrup. Our method, step by step (you were anxiously awaiting this, weren't you?):
So, today:
Breakfast: Get whatcha want. Again. Perhaps someday we'll get better at "doing" breakfasts...
Lunch: Tuna salad on crackers + left-overs (if you wanted them)
Dinner: Creamy, poppy seed chicken and left-over turnip greens
Claire and I spend almost all afternoon up at the guest house canning apples! Yes, we finally got around to doing some of that! We had time to do 3 water bath batches, or 21 quarts. Still being relatively new to this whole canning by ourselves deal (without Mama and/or Grammy), we weren't entirely confident about what we were doing, but I'm staying optimistic and hoping that the jars won't burst or not seal. ... I exude confidence, don't I? Oh, well. The green beans worked, so perhaps these apples will too.
We canned them in a very light sugar syrup. Our method, step by step (you were anxiously awaiting this, weren't you?):
- Got the canners and sugar syrup heating up. We had one canner on a propane burner on the deck. The other canner and the large pot of syrup were inside on the stove.
- I started using the handy-dandy apple peeler-corer-slicer to peel the apples (the corer-slicer part isn't functioning correctly, but thankfully it still peels well!), while Claire mixed up the sugar syrup and prepared the jars.
- Claire cut the apples into eighths (unless they were really small, then just quarters), and cut off the cores. I continued peeling, and the pots continued heating up.
- Once the sugar syrup finally got to boiling, we added the apple eighths. Then we did more peeling and cutting as we waited for it to start boiling again.
- Once the apples in the sugar syrup were hot, we pulled out the jars (which we stored in the oven - set at 170* - after we washed them.), and started filling them. I usually tried to cover the final apple slices with a little syrup, but after seeing the final product, I'm not sure that was as good an idea as it sounded at the time.
- The canner on the deck had long since started boiling by this point, so we filled that canner up first. Takes 7 quarts to fill a canner, so once we got all those filled, we dropped the rack into the water, put a lid on the canner, and started the timer for 20 minutes. I'm thinking we'll try 15 minutes next time... IF today's have sealed.
- Then we repeated the steps above. Filled the canner on the stove. Then the canner on the deck again.
- We put our finished quarts on towels on a table. That way they won't leave sticky rings on the table, and clean-up's only throwing the towels in the wash.
So, that's what we did. We'll see if we like them, if they seal, and if they keep as the year goes on.
Monday, Monday
Breakfast: Get whatcha want... I should probably fix that...
Lunch: Left-overs.
Dinner: Claire made pumpkin soup, fried apples, turnip greens, and bacon.
Mama and I went grocery shopping yesterday afternoon. We didn't feel like store hopping too much, so we only went to Walmart and Costco. Oh, I also got paid, so that brings the total to something like $454.45.
Today we're beginning to can our apples, so I'm trying to come up with a quick dinner idea. Thankfully I've already got a quart bag full of frozen, cooked chicken out thawing; if nothing else, that'll turn into something pretty quickly.
Lunch: Left-overs.
Dinner: Claire made pumpkin soup, fried apples, turnip greens, and bacon.
Mama and I went grocery shopping yesterday afternoon. We didn't feel like store hopping too much, so we only went to Walmart and Costco. Oh, I also got paid, so that brings the total to something like $454.45.
Today we're beginning to can our apples, so I'm trying to come up with a quick dinner idea. Thankfully I've already got a quart bag full of frozen, cooked chicken out thawing; if nothing else, that'll turn into something pretty quickly.
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