• Feb. 3, 2009
Cooking for a month

After making my list and checking it twice I finally got to the store and purchased the last of the items I need to do a months worth of cooking.  I will, over the next few days, be making enough meals to fill our freezer and last us for a month.  Here are the items I will be making:

• Goulash
• Taco Soup
• Chicken Cheese Enchiladas
• Spaghetti Sauce
• Cream of Mushroom Soup
• Pizza Pockets
• Tamale Pie
• Lagana
• Baked Oatmeal
• Banana Bread
• Stuffed Shells
• Chicken Pot Pie
• Chicken Casserole
• Beef Casserole

For the items that I have not hyperlinked I will post recipes over the next few days.  I will also post my progress of cooking through these items.  Between these pre-cooked meals we will eat things that I prepare fresh like roast, chicken, spaghetti, etc.  But having these pre-cooked meals will prevent the inevitable, "what in the world am I going to cook?" question.

Today I am basically making sure that my kitchen is prepared for 3 days of constant use.  I am however cooking up two things.  The first is rice.  I put 8 cups of rice and 16 cups of water into my crockpot and turned it on low.  In a few more hours I will have 16 cups of cooked rice that I will freeze in two cup portions to use in recipes in the future.  (Some of it will be used in the recipes I will be making this week.)  You can read about using your crockpot as a rice cooker HERE.  I also cooked up the 9.5 lbs of ground beef that I purchased today.  I have already put the seasonings for taco soup in a bag with 2 lbs of that ground beef and put it in the freezer.  That is all I have to do for that recipe because the rest of the recipe only involves opening cans!  Therefore when we are ready to have taco soup I just dump everything in a pot!  Since I have that item done already I will post the recipe here:

• Taco Soup -
  

  2 pounds ground beef

  1 envelope taco seasoning

  1½ cups water

  1 15 oz can chili beans

  1 15 oz can corn drained

  1 15 oz can pinto beans drained

  1 15 oz can stewed tomatoes

  1 10 oz can rotel

  1 4 oz can chopped green chiles

  1 envelope ranch dressing mix

  
  After browning and draining ground beef, add all other ingredients to large pot and simmer for at least a half an hour.  (This is one of those dishes that tastes better the longer it cooks.)  Serve with tortilla/frito chips, cheddar cheese and sour cream for garnish.

Shannon

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