It has been in my plans to make a quiche for breakfast (I know its not a breakfast food necessarily) while I am living on my food storage. I had two Marie Calendar pie crusts in my freezer. I could also make a pie crust with flour, oil and water, but frozen are easier. Since I have them, I might as well use them. Every time I’d think about baking up the quiche I couldn’t decide what ingredients to put in it. Finally this morning after my run I decided. Yay! The quiche would have, spinach, mushrooms, onions, sausage, and cheese of course. We love Thrive freeze dried sausage.
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Sprouts
I am a salad girl. I love a big green salad with all sorts of fresh vegetables, nuts, seeds, fruit, a little blue or feta cheese. A light homemade vinaigrette. Unfortunately storing lettuce is difficult if not impossible to do. I was cleaning out my plastic food container drawer when I found a green wire mesh lid for a wide mouth canning jar. This triggered a memory of when I bought a small packet of salad sprout seeds. I had never done anything more with those seeds. Now that I am doing my food storage challenge I dug out the packet of seeds and watched a youtube video on how to sprout seeds.
Steel Cut Oats, More Waffles, Taco Soup
Growing up my mom would make oatmeal for breakfast and I hated it. Despised it. I would NOT eat it. I am very mindful of my experience as a child and allow my children to listen to their body when it comes to food and eating. We have healthy food available and not a lot of junk. Especially these days. Yesterday my kiddos were snacking on Thrive fuji apples and freeze dried peach slices. I am confident they are getting the good vitamins and minerals they need.
Cinnamon Rolls
I found a recipe from the blog Moms Who Think. I have never made cinnamon rolls without yeast. But those take 2 1/2 hours or longer to make with the rise time. We wouldn’t have been able to eat them until 9:30 at night or later. This quick bread recipe worked out well. I didn’t use all the butter, I only used 2 tablespoons and the rest of the butter I substituted with oil.
My Reese was satisfied. I have in my fridge some honey nut cream cheese I used to make the frosting. It was all good enough, but I still prefer my yeast cinnamon rolls. Next time I will start them earlier.
Natural Leavened Waffles, Left Overs, and Broccoli Rice Casserole
Mr Incredible and I went to a natural leaven bread class last year, it was a date I planned. We actually really enjoyed it. Now I have natural leavening and use it for quick breads like waffles and pancakes. The following week was a class about how to make loaves of bread using natural leavening. But we had a conflict. So I never graduated to making loaves of bread with natural leavening.
I love these waffles with real maple syrup and butter. I make them with brown rice flour. Lately, I love to grind my short grain brown rice into flour for these waffles.
Cupcakes from Food Storage
Apparently Julz and Pagey have been watching too many episodes of Cupcake Wars. All P would talk about today is making cupcakes. So we did. I found a darling blogger who spent countless hours and ingredients searching for the perfect vanilla cupcake. I really admire this in a blogger, because it saves me so much time and hassle. I can just take what she’s done and move forward with a well tested recipe. She did recommend using the highest quality ingredients. And a must have for a good cupcake according to her is cake flour. Well I don’t store cake flour in my food storage. So I found this recipe/modification for cake flour.
One Week’s Worth of Food
Its been just over a week since our food storage challenge began. Here is a listing of the foods we have opened or used. Since this was our first week we had more fresh ingredients available to us then we will this week or for the rest of the challenge.
Flour/Grains to keep it simple I am going to tally cups of flour. Unless I am making rice or some other whole grains. I used brown rice flour and a mix of grains for bread or waffels. 2/3 cups popcorn,
Pasta 6 1/2 cups macaroni noodles
Biscuits and Gravy, California Casserole, and Sweet Beef Tacos
This morning I woke up and made biscuits. I found a recipe last night that looked simple enough. I had four pounds of butter in my freezer plus part of a pound in my fridge. I am rationing the butter. I used a 1/3 cup for the biscuits. Generally through this challenge I am saving the butter for spreading on top of toast or bread and vegetables. I would rather use oil when I am baking. I used a packet of gravy mix and some freeze dried sausage. It mixed up fast. The best by date was in August of 2009! I had that packet in my cupboard for quite some time, over three and a half years! Another reason to use your food storage.
Waffles, Minestrone Soup, French Bread
For breakfast this morning I made waffles, an easy no fail meal. Sticky sweet syrup and peanut butter. Its a stick-to-your ribs breakfast. Everyone mostly likes waffles in our family except the oldest, but she ate them too.
Earlier in January I bought a box of oranges, 38 pounds of oranges! The kids and Mr. Incredible love oranges. I don’t care for them myself. It was a fantastic deal, $.38 per pound. We finished the oranges up today. Aaah fresh fruit, we will be seriously craving it I’m sure come March.
Breakfast Scramble and Breads
Growing up, breakfast was my least favorite meal of the day. As I am getting older I appreciate breakfast foods more. This morning I whipped up an egg scramble. I have a few fresh potatoes in my pantry. I grated 3 or 4 for hash browns. I always use hash browns as my base for a breakfast skillet. The rest of the scramble came from my food storage. Sausage crumbles, onions, and scrambled egg mix. I rehydrated the sausage and onions and added those once the potatoes were crispy. Then added water to a half of cup of the egg mix. This is a high calorie breakfast especially since I use a fourth of a cup of oil to fry the potatoes in. I served this scramble with some salsa in the fridge. Mr. Incredible couldn’t tell the eggs weren’t fresh eggs.