Frisco HIS Book Sale & My 1st Tackle it Tuesday

This is my first time joining in the Tackle it Tuesday meme. The Tackle it Tuesday meme is up to #103. Pop over and get caught up.  My Tackle it Tuesday is to set up the garage for the FHIS Book Sale drop off. This is an unusual project because I will actually be taking on [...]

Menu Plan Monday

4 Meals in 4 Minutes Fits Easily into your Current Meal Schedule
Michele doesn’t have a blog and she had a great idea that she told me about, so I’m going to share it with you!  Last week I shared the 4 Meals in 4 Minutes concept with Michele. She took home the menu plan with [...]

Mother’s day

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Pizza Crust

Many people have Pizza and a movie night on Friday nights and we hope to continue this as our children get older. Pizza for the family from the delivery joints is usually $22-$25 by the time they add delivery charge and you tip the guy at least the price of a gallon of gas. That is $1,300 [...]

How to freeze Meal-sized portions

There are several methods to freezer meal sized portions. I’ll call them:

Jell-o mold method,  

Bag-in box method, 

Small bags inside zip-lock freeer bag, and

Single freezer bag method.

The last is actually the most simple method. For the single freezer bag method you simply place one meal worth of meat or leftovers into a quart or gallon freezer bag. I [...]

My 1st Slow Cooker Thursday post

Homemade Gourmet Southwest Chicken in the Slow Cooker
When you host a Homemade Gourmet 4 Meals in 4 Minutes presentation, I give you the mixes to make for your guests. Tonight’s hostess, Kim R, chose the Southwest Chicken to put into her Slow Cooker.
She simply put 3-5 lbs of skinless, boneless, chicken breasts (4-8 pieces) into [...]

My Gallon of Spaghetti Sauce

This is my first “Works for Me Wednesday” entry.
My Gallon of Spaghetti Sauce
adapted from Mega Cooking page 357
Use your large dutch oven to combine
2 15-ounce cans tomato sauce
1 15-ounce can crushed tomatoes
5 6-oz cans tomato paste
10 Tbsp HG Spaghetti Seasoning
5 Tbsp dried oregano
1 1/4 cup chopped onions
1 1/4 cup chopped bell peppers
1 1/4 cup chopped [...]

Personal Meal Planner

Last month I added a new hat to my list of titles. I’ve joined Homemade Gourmet as a way to solve our family’s personal meal crisis. So now I can also help you as a Personal Meal Planner.
I always plan our menus around the activities of the week, especially activities after school or after dinner.
* [...]

Blog Memes

I just found out about Blog Memes and Lizzie and I are going to try out a few.  We won’t be able to keep up with every Meme every week, but we hope to have some fun and learn a little and share a little.
Here are the Memes that I like:

Meal Planning Monday
Tackle It Tuesday
Works [...]

Wonderful Teacher

It is Teacher’s Appreciation week next week. I wrote this Acrostic Poem to celebrate our wonderful teachers.
Wonderful teacher
an acrostic poem by Jean Butts, visit me at www.JeanButts.us  
 
Wise
Objective
Nearly perfect
Dear to me
Enjoyable
Reliable
First-class
Unstoppable
Loving
Truthful
Educator
Artistic
Caring
Helping
Essential
Rare
If you want to give it to your teacher, you could give her a few lines a day each day this week.
Maybe wrap each peice of [...]