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In September, 2023, I wrote this blog post about canning this Chipotle Beef Soup (link to recipe is included). I followed the recipe pretty much exactly (“exactly” isn’t always *exactly* for me) except I may have double quadrupled the recipe because, according to the blog post, I ended up with 12 quarts and the recipe...

Almost 7:00 p.m. and I’m just ready to start stitching. Got the ground beef canned, sheets washed and lunch cooked, cleaned up and leftovers in the freezer. The biggest project was getting the ground beef canned. I love canning and would do it every day but . . don’t need that much canned food. We...

One of my favorite cooking YouTube channels is Rachel Cooks With Love, though most of the time I call it “Rachel Loves to Cook”. I’ve made so many of her recipes and they are all delicious. I told Vince at dinner . . if I could cook only one ethnic food forever, it would be...

Every time I post about using leftovers, someone will tell me they don’t like leftovers or their husband doesn’t like leftovers. You may not believe this but I don’t like leftovers if it’s “just” leftovers. Take roast beef for example. I don’t like reheated roast beef as far as sliced or chunks over rice or...

We love the eggplant salsa I canned in 2022. I only have a few pints of it left so I’m rationing it til I can get more made. Most dinners that involve something that’s canned are so quick and, so yummy! I sliced up two chicken breasts, seasoned the meat, browned it in a skillet,...

Anyone out there who hasn’t made the Mississippi Pot Roast recipe in the pressure cooker – the one that uses one package of Ranch Dressing Mix, one package of Beef Au Jus mix and a few other things? There’s also Italian Roast beef and the recipes are very similar. This is one recipe. Here’s another...

The tomatoes are slowing down so I’ll soon have more time to can things other than from the garden. I need to put more effort into canning food from the freezer. This morning I pulled out 15 pounds of ground beef for canning and 2 more pounds that I planned to use (1) for meatballs...

This week I’ve cooked on the outdoor griddle four of the last five days. When the weather is halfway cooperative, I try to plan meals around the griddle. Any time I can cook a meal in one “pot”, I’m happy. Yesterday I had taken a pound of ground beef out and was going to make...

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I think I’ve mentioned that we’ve been stopping by a little hamburger place in town where they have 5 cheeseburgers for $12 (I think that’s the price). They’re not like White Castle or any of those burgers. They’re just lie regular hamburgers but smaller. This place has been in Joplin forever – the old timers...

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Over a week ago, I found marked down bell peppers. I bought 12 of them, thinking I would make stuffed bell peppers for the freezer. I never got around to making them and didn’t want them to go bad so I cut them into good sized pieces, vacuum sealed them and stuck them in the...

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I’m never 100% comfortable having freezers full of food. Yes, I do it but there’s always the thought in the back of my head — what happens if . .? The power could go out. We have generators but what if we can’t get fuel? We have propane powered generators which are our first choice...

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I love beef enchiladas and have never been happy with the ones I make at home. Tonight I made them using this recipe and they were delicious! Vince said they were better than the Mexican restaurant but then later he said . . I never got enchiladas at the Mexican restaurant. Then how the heck...

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In the kitchen this morning, I had to giggle. I told Vince . . anyone watching me cook would think I’m crazy. He said “Anyone watching you do anything would think you’re crazy!” He was joking . . don’t get mad at Vince. I had a thick sliced top round roast that was defrosted. I...

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Here’s how I make hamburger steak. Our local meat market sells 80/20 (which we use for grilling burgers) and 90/10 which I use for everything else so this was 90/10. I used 2 pounds of ground beef. I don’t measure so this is just a guess but probably close. Here’s what I added to the...

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We are so lucky to have two “farm to consumer” type beef places near us. We’ve never lived where we had anything like that. The first is J-H Cattle Company. Their store is up in Joplin and I’ve never had beef like their beef. Even in the few times we’ve eaten really expensive steaks, it...

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It seems that no matter what my plans are for the day, I am not going to take my first stitch til between 4 and 4:30 p.m. I’m going to start stitching as soon as I finish this post. I showed Addie her pumpkin and she loved it. I still hope to finish it today...

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During the summer, soups, gumbo and stews are not on our menu often but I’ve been so hungry for beef stew. We had two big packages of stew meat in the freezer that we bought from the guy who raises cows and sells the meat. Today was beef stew day! We’re going to pick blueberries...

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The bottom line is this – Brenda Gantt is NOT going to be asking me for biscuit advice!

For those who were wondering about the meat allergy . . I’m cautiously optimistic that I’m over that! The technical name is alpha-gal syndrome and I find it to be a very interesting “allergy”. For those not reading the blog during the time that I was really having a time with it and no one...

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I’ve been wanting chile rellenos for a long time but since we aren’t eating out, I’d been thinking about making them. We have several kinds of peppers growing that would work but then I thought about making a chile relleno casserole. That would be so much easier. It was delicious but when I looked at...

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