Nov. 4, 2008
Grande Cooking Day 1
 Many people ask how I "do it." I think they are wondering about the practical day to day living and how we get things done. People have a morbid fascination with large families and how we run. It is a wonderfully fun thing to have so many neat people to interact with on a daily basis, but it is also just plain HARD! Well, since I am anticipating having extra time spent with Mercy over the next few months (probably starting next week), I am deep in the middle of a large cooking spree. I have done these off and on throughout the years (more when all the children were little than now when my older girls like to cook dinners). This sort of cooking matches my personality. I'd love to be the type to make a schedule and stick to having a set time every day where we can do certain things... like 30 minutes sewing every day. But I really just work better if I take three days every once in a while to obsess about a project. Am I unusual in that? I make great schedules, but just find that life gets in the way of my perfect plan. Sunday I had picked some recipes (both chicken and beef) which I thought I could assemble and freeze. Then I made a grocery list. So yesterday - I had 14 chickens to cook up. (Turned out 2 were older roosters and I couldn't get much meat off them.) I put them all in pots and roasters and cooked them up while I ran to Wal-Mart for the monthly groceries and to get what I needed for the meals to freeze. We had a new Wal-Mart open up in the next town... it is only 30 minutes away! Wow did that feel like luxury. When I got home, I shredded the chickens into two big bowls, made soup with about 2 gallons of broth for dinner, and still had another three gallons which I will can today. I also will make the casseroles, and get the ground beef thawing for tomorrow's beef recipes. I am hoping to have over 35 dinners in our freezers by the weekend. I'll keep you posted with recipes as I go! Be sure you check back, OR feel free to subscribe to my RSS feed and it'll update you quicker!  |
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Nov. 4, 2008 - Mother Hen says...
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Posted by Anonymous Nov. 4, 2008 - Untitled Comment
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Posted by Nov. 4, 2008 - Wow!
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Posted by Nov. 4, 2008 - broth
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