My Once A Month Cooking (OAMC): Italian Bread

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Italian Bread

I tried a new recipe! The Italian Bread that I have posted here is a new one to me. I made it and it is great but the "two" loaves are HUGE! Two loaves will feed at least 3 families! It is easy to make. But they are HUGE! love it! We are going to have it with our Penne in cream sauce with Sausage.

Next month I will try to post our menus that I will be serving at home. The month that my husband works the evening shift, I don't do menus as he isn't home and I don't eat enough to cook or warm up anything. The only times I "cook" a meal is on weekends for the noon meals. So, I will also be posting our OAMC menu toward the end of this month, then next month I plan on posting my home menu for each week. I find meal prep is a lot easier if I have a menu. It also helps with the grocery shopping and cuts down on unnecessary trips to the store.

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I will post some more recipes tomorrow night. I will also post pictures of the HUGE loaves of bread! LOL

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Introduction

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by deciding what to prepare for a meal? I know I have. Many times. Especially our evening meal when our three children were growing up. Then one day I stumbled across a program called "Once A Month Cooking" (OAMC) and thought I'd give it a try. It was a lifesaver and I loved it. I did it for years, from the time my youngest was in preschool until he was in the 8th grade. I don't remember why I quit, just that I did. When I was doing the OAMC back then I prepared a lot of full, complete meals and froze them, entree, side, and dessert. The only thing I had to actually prepare for the meal was the vegetable or the potatoes. For those of you not familiar with the OAMC program, I will try to explain it to you here. This blog is to try to help you see what it takes, how to do itm give you ideas and how much fun you can actually have. OAMC is the ultimate do-ahead dinner preparation technique. The secret of the OAMC technique is that you cook all your dinner main dishes for a month (or two weeks or even a week) in one day, freeze them, and enjoy eating tasty food, every night without the hassle of lengthy meal preparation. In this blog, I will try to provide the menu we use, shopping lists and recipes. You do not have to have organizational skills, nor do you have to be a good cook to successfully accomplish OAMC. What you need to expect and plan to is: Take a longer-than usual shopping trip, preferably the day or night before your cooking day. Spend the bulk of your month's food budget on this shopping trip (saving money over the course of the month) Cook with a partner or two or three, like I do, for maximum fun and efficiency. Cook half a day for a two week cycle, a full day for a month cycle. Love the freedom and possibilities this will bring to mealtimes. Enjoy family building times around the table and like us, the time we cook together. Take the stress out of having company for dinner I suggest for the first few time you do the OAMC to try to do the two week cycle. Then when you get the feel of the "system" advance on the full month if that is what you want and have room for the food. Also in this blog I will frequently give you suggestions of what to serve with a certain recipe. Please feel free to email me with any suggestions and question syou might have. Even leave a comment here on the blog.