Ok, so I know I'll never be as organized, creative, or anal as Martha is, but I've been trying to find ways to make life a little easier lately. One way is to try to cut down on prep time for meals so we're not tempted to throw in the towel and just get take out when the hungries strike.
We ventured out the the farmer's market on Saturday, and got there too late to avoid the crowds and get good tomatoes :( But we did find some good veggies to throw together into a concoction we call Sunday Soup. It was traditionally made on Sundays in Martin's family, and we throw some together every now and again. It's really very simple--a big pot of water, beef (cheap cuts work well and end up nice and tender), seasonings (boullian if we have it, bay leaves, garlic/onion powders, salt, pepper, and so on), veggies (we use potatoes, carrots, frozen green beans and frozen corn). Throw everything but the frozen veggies in a pot and let it simmer for a couple hours, throw in the frozen veggies and some cabbage (half to one head) til warmed and you're set. After I put most of the leftovers in the fridge I took the remaining broth and froze it to use later (soup starter, instead of water in rice, etc). No room for waste these days :)
After I got the soup taken care of, I went to work on getting some meals put together for the next couple weeks. We bought some hamburger on sale this past weekend--two 2lb. packages. I separated one package into two separate pounds. I combined one of the pounds with a package of hot italian sausage (also a good sale find) and some italian seasoning to make meatballs for spaghetti. The remaining three pounds I seasoned with some ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, and McCormack's grillmates we had on hand, formed into 1/4 pound patties and froze them too.
Plans for today are some quick and easy peanut butter cookies, and my first attempt at homemade biscuits. Should be interesting...or disastrous. Wish me luck...
On a less Martha-y note, I'm still scared out of my brain worrying about what's going to happen with Martin being out of work. It's a little ironic because over the last several months when one thing after the other was going wrong with Martin's job situation, I encouraged him to remember that God has plans bigger than those we have for ourselves and we can't always see the logic of those plans until we're looking back at a situation. But somehow now I find it so difficult to really let go of my fear and turn this situation over and trust that things will be ok. I'm working on it, but I have a feeling it's going to be an hour by hour struggle at this point.
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