My Once A Month Cooking (OAMC): july 23, 2011

Saturday, July 23, 2011

july 23, 2011

I was pretty excited last night. I picked the first 2 cucumbers of the season. Roy likes them sliced up with onion in vinegar. So one I sliced up for that and the other will be sliced up and ate as is.

This week was Vacation Bible School at church. It was very tiring, but extremely fun and rewarding! The kids were fantastic and so much fun. We all had so much fun and learned so much. The songs were fun and the Bible verse was encouraging.    The bible with fire in it was a HUGE hit with the kids. Left a big impression on them and the remembered that the bible has fire in it. I was so exhausted I could barely make it home and fall into bed by Wednesday night. But, you know what....I'd do it all again....it was so much fun. Oh the water balloon fight was fun! the kids wanted to get me wet and they succeeded. I was drenched! My how fun that was. My little partner for it, Meadow, was even more wet than I was and she loved it. She is a special young lady, they all are. May God richly bless them all and all the little ones!

I had every intention in sleeping in today. But at 7:30 a.m. I'm sitting here writing this! So, when I'm done with this, I will go outside and work in the yard while it is still cool out. Then I think this afternoon I'll make a pie...try to perfect my pie crust making. How does rhubarb sound? I have a lot of rhubarb in my garden, so I'm gonna try making the crust and make a rhubarb pie for our dinner tomorrow. I think I might try freezing the rhubarb too, before it goes to seed. I'm going to make some bread today so we can have garlic bread for our spaghetti dinner tomorrow.  Amber and the girls and a friend and her children from church and probably Levi and Brooke and the baby will be here for dinner. So...the menu is homemade spaghetti and spaghetti sauce, homemade garlic bread, green beans, and homemade rhubarb pie. Pictures? I'll TRY. I'm not very good at it. I get so involved in my cooking and baking, I forget! But I'll try.

Well I better get off and get in the yard while it is still somewhat cool outside. There are weeds that are taunting me and grass needing cut!

Until later my friends. Recipes will be posted...and hopefully pictures too.

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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.