Saturday, June 16, 2012

Pots and Pans

I've learned many over the years of cooking for the family and the marathon cooking I've been doing of late because of that blessed deep freeze.  Here's a list because I love lists. 

  • You need a plan!! That's why I include my menu plan fo the next 2 weeks including 'extras' to make so we're good and stocked up. 
  • Make sure you have all the ingredients on hand that you will  need. I know I make my menu plan with extras and then grab the notebook and make my list based on that.  It's a cumbersome task to start with but planning a wedding is costly time wise and $ wise, but you wouldn't have one without careful planning.  To me this is no different. 
  • Have all your supplies. I fyou have to invest in more utinsels or pans or whatever, go for it.  This is a long term plan for me to cook lots and lots until my kids leave the house. The rate at which they are eating and the time I invest in just the food maintenance, I need to work smarter, not harder.
This last bullet leads me to the purpose of this post.  I GOT 2 NEW PANS.  Yeah, exciting for me; others, perhaps not so much.  It cost me $20 for these 2 pans but I save myself time and effort when I can cook 4 things at one time instead of 1 item at a time, washing everything after use so I can use it again. I have been working with 1 big pan and 2 sauce pans, 2 skillets and 1 set of measuring cups.  I bought more measuring cups and THE PANS!!  I am so excited.  At the same time today I am going to prepare chili to freeze and mashed potatoes to freeze. I found a BIG bag of tatoes at a good price so them in the car.

In addition to the chili and potatoes I've made breakfast burritos, pudding pops, pizza pockets (2 cheese and 2 with pepperoni, sausage, mushroom and green pepper) and 4 dozen pigs in a blanket.  My freezer is smiling because it's fulfilling its freezer destiny and my feet hurt.  Hopefully I can talk my sweet youngin' into a food rub later.

Happy cooking! What did you cook today or over the hot weekend!?

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