Home Ec 101: Home Ec for Adults and Those Just Pretending to Be. About. Hello and welcome.
My name is Shannon. I grew up in a small town in northern Minnesota. I studied chemistry in college, graduated, and married the papa one month later. We were then blessed with two baby boys within the first four years of marriage. Having babies gave our family a desire to return to the old paths – to nourish our family with traditional, homegrown foods; rid our home of toxic chemicals and petroleum products; and give our boys a chance to know a simple, sustainable way of life. We are building a homestead from scratch on our two little acres in central Texas. Nourishing Days is a space where I can share our adventures in real food and sustainability. I also like to write (and photograph for) seasonal cookbooks full of the grain-free, nutrient-dense real foods that I feed my family in my home kitchen. If you’d like to say hello feel free to drop me a line. Thank you for stopping by! The Best Pot Roast....EVER! I live in a small town.
Like really small. DIY Frozen Meals for the Slow Cooker. Slow cookers are most often pulled out of storage and into dinner service in the fall, when schedules become busier and hearty; stick-to-your-ribs chilis, stews and soups are more well suited to the cool weather. But I think a slow cooker is a perfect tool for summertime use — it won’t heat up the kitchen like turning on the oven will, and it requires minimal prep, so you can toss ingredients in and get back outdoors to enjoy the sunshine. Frozen slow-cooker meals were a popular new grocery store item last year, but can easily be made at home, from scratch — simply toss ingredients for virtually any Crock Pot recipe into a durable Hefty Slider Bag and stash in the freezer. When you need a quick dinner, all you need to do is open the bag and dump the frozen block in your slow cooker in the morning, turn it on, and dinner will be ready when you get home from work or the pool.
How easy is that? Improv. This is the home of the Improv Cooking Challenge, a monthly party where everyone takes the same two assigned ingredients and lets their imaginations run wild.
It doesn’t matter what other ingredients we use, whether we make something savory or sweet. You do NOT have to be a blogger to participate. But if you are a blogger, please make sure these are New-to-Your-Blog recipes, not links to things you have already published. There is no obligation to participate every month. Once you sign up with the Facebook group, you can check in each month when I post the ingredient guidelines and linky codes (for bloggers).
We begin posting every third Thursday of each month at 9am Eastern Time. Current and upcoming THEMES: Improv Dates: for international bloggers please feel free to use the following converter to get the right date and time for your post: A note on ingredients: you may substitute similar products to fit dietary restrictions (vegan, kosher, gluten-free, etc.) eMeals - Meal Planning Made Simple. Modern Manna recipe / Homemade Israeli granola. Coconut Curried Pork, Snow Pea, and Mango Stir-Fry Recipe. Amaretto Chicken. Sweet and Sour Pork. Food. Improv Day! The Challenge this month was Peanut butter and jelly and this was a riot.
Special thanks to Kristin our amazing host from: Do you ever start to make something and it turns into something totally different but that is totally fine too. I thought I would do a nice meatloaf but it didn’t really turn out that way. I mixed; 3 T. grape jelly, 1 clove garlic, 1 T. chilli garlic paste and 2 T. sweet chilli sauce. I mixed 1 lb. of beef with 1 cup of thai peanut sauce (that’s my peanut butter), 2 T. chopped cilantro and my jelly mix.
I cooked the meat mixture like a sloppy joe. Then I had 2 cups of biscuit mix and 1/2 cup hot water and I patted it out. Put my meat in the middle. Folded up the sides and baked the whole thing up for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. I served it with a simple salad chopped cilantro, cherry tomatoes, avocado and a healthy shot of lemon. (Linkup closed) Panlasang Pinoy. Positive feedbacks keep coming-in as a result of the different fried chicken recipes that we featured to date.
Along with it are requests for a good gravy recipe to compliment the fried chicken. There isn’t any good gravy recipe that I can think of other than KFC’s so I tried whipping-up some ingredients to arrive at the closest copycat KFC Gravy recipe (in my opinion) using basic ingredients that should be available in your local supermarket. While trying to browse the internet on this topic, I discovered several KFC gravy recipes that claim to be the closest. Though it might be true, these recipes require the use of canned beef gravy plus many other ingredients which I think is not practical at all.