My fridge is empty. I have a cheese, carrots, celery and condiments. I need to get to the store and pick up the basics. I only have ingredients on hand. It's time to catch up on batch cooking some freezer meals. I started with tamales. We were completely out. It's a two-day process for me. I prepare the homemade stock, meat and sauce on the first day. On the second day I put the tamales together and steam them.
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| 39 Tamales |
Next, I cooked a pot of brown beans and rice in my Saratoga Jacks thermal cooker. It is the first time that I have tried beans in the thermal cooker. I usually cook beans in my electric pressure cooker. Beans do not cook well at high altitudes, and they did not cook well in the thermal cooker. I reheated the beans and allowed them to continue cooking in the thermal cooker, but I had to finish them on the stove.
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| I turned the beans into refried beans. |
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| Perfect rice every time... |
I decided that I would work on breakfast for my next task. I batch cooked high protein whole grain waffles and homemade chicken breakfast sausage.
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| A baker's dozen. |
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| Breakfast sausage links - No casings |
I needed to focus on main courses next. I started with Carne Guisada, a Mexican stew, that we really love. I will serve it with rice and beans or make burritos once I make tortillas.
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| Delicious! |
Other than baking bread, I am finished for this week. I will start up production again next week. We made it to the store and picked up fresh fruit and vegetables along with milk from the store. Iceberg lettuce was $2.57 a head. I wanted it for the tostadas I want to make with some of the refried beans I made. I will start some sprouts. I just cannot bring myself to pay these outrageous prices. If we all took a stand prices might drop. A new movement perhaps?
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| Soaking alfalfa seeds for sprouts. |
Shalom,
Mrs. Smith
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