My Once A Month Cooking (OAMC): August 6, 2011

Saturday, August 6, 2011

August 6, 2011

Another busy week at our house. This was fair week. The Police Department (my employer) had a booth there and I worked it or did some things for it, every night! I took in the foods of course. All the canning, baking, and of course the fair foods!

My poor garden sure has suffered this week. I think my tomato plant has got the wilt! Probably won't have any tomatoes this year. I'm not happy about that! Not at all.

Today I picked green beans and cucumbers and jalapeno peppers and okra. Only got enough green beans to have for lunch today. All the cucumbers I picked, I used the larger ones to eat now and the smaller ones for pickling. I made dill pickles. Not many...only got a couple of quarts. I pickled the jalapenos and the okra...so had a canner full. I had purchased some chives from the farmer's market today so I diced them up and got a half pint jar full of chives.

Tomorrow is our family reunion. I need to fix something to take for the potluck. haven't decided what to take. Here is it 3 o'clock in the afternoon and I still don't know what to fix. I need to be deciding. So I'm off of here to figure it out and I'll let you know.

Later

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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.