Eat what you store &
store what you eat...
This is what I made for
Memorial Day dinner & it made me very nervous. But, yet again I
learned a lot.
First the entire menu
is all from storage. To qualify that: when I say it is from storage,
it means I have multiples of whatever I am using in my stores
already.
MENU
Hamburgers with
mushrooms and loaf bread.
Potato salad
Baked beans
Well, I started the day
rehydrating potatoes. These were probably my very first batch of
dehydrated potatoes, simply cut and dehydrated, not precooked. That
is why the potatoes are a funny color. But, I was determined to use
them, they are perfectly fine food.
As you see, I simply
cut them up, add mayo, mustard, pickle relish, salt and pepper. It
was great to find out I was out of mayo in the fridge and sure
enough, there was plenty on my shelf to save the day.
While I was working on
this, I started rehydrating mushrooms to put to top of the
hamburgers. Have I mentioned I love mushrooms. I find that if I cover
them with water, slowly cook them on the stove & add more water;
doing this about 4 or 5 times they turn out pretty good. They tend to
be a wee bit chewy, but DH really prefers them this way. Who knew? I
added butter and Adobo, one of my favorite spices.
Then I started making
bread. Now I used a mix (Hodgsons) and my bread maker.
Then I unjarred the
hamburgers. Yes I have canned hamburgers.
http://perkypreppinggramma.blogspot.com/2013/10/canning-hamburgers.html
I rinsed off the fat
and spiced them up, since I know canned hamburger tends to lose a lot
of flavor. I used Adobo, salt, pepper & garlic. Let them sit in
the fridge.
We decided to cook them
on the grill to give them even more flavor & it was Memorial Day
after all.
Then the baked beans. I
simply used a can of Bush's Baked Beans with added brown sugar, which
I made myself (how to...).
Here you have it. The bread, the potato salad, the meal.
Lessons Learned:
1. Blanching potatoes
before dehydrating, which I now do already, makes it look prettier.
2. Store water, more
water. Rehydrating takes a lot of water.
3. Seasonings, more
seasoning
4. Time, cooking like
this takes more time & planning.
5. Practice more
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