If you are a new cook and wondering where to start stocking your kitchen… If you are a busy mom who needs to put dinner on the table in 15 minutes each night… I have a great book recommendation for you!
Homemade Convenience Foods by Marcia Washburn is not a book about once-a-month cooking but a guide to stocking your freezer, refrigerator, and pantry with the ingredients that can help you put meals on the table in a flash. The book teaches you a method for partially preparing ingredients and encourages you to keep the basics you need for your favorite meals available.
Also included in Homemade Convenience Foods are 20+ recipes for dishes using beef, pork, sausage, poultry as well as a basic bread recipe and more.
Marcia even has some great tips for seasoned (pardon the pun) chefs like me. For instance…
Commercially-prepared bread mixes are expensive, as anyone with a bread machine can attest. I make my own mixes, a dozen or more at a time, by placing the dry ingredients in plastic bags. I only have to get out the ingredients once, saving precious time. Then when a recipe such as pizza or cabbage pockets calls for bread dough, I add the yeast and liquid ingredients and let my bread machine do the kneading while I prepare the filling or toppings. My bread mixes cost one tenth of a pre-made mix at the store and I can have a loaf of bread in the machine in ninety seconds flat.
I LOVE this idea! I cannot tell you the number of time I have wanted to make fresh bread but was too lazy to pull everything out. This one idea is worth the value of the book to me but there are more tips available.
Buy It
You can purchase Homemade Convenience Foods in an eBook format for $5.99 or in print for $5.99 plus $2.00 shipping and handling from Building Tomorrow’s Generation with Marcia Washburn.
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The hardest part is trying to cook dinner with many little ones around. I need something quick, easy and something they will like!
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My biggest challenge is working around busy schedules, especially during Little League baseball season.
the kids go crazy when I am cooking dinner! It is so hard. I call it the witching hour.
finding something that everyone will eat, that has enough flavor for hubby and I to still enjoy it.
Our biggest challenge is working opposite shifts. I usually work mornings and he works nights so I’m trying to get dinner, baths, homework, grocery shopping, and everything else done from 5pm on.
As a busy mom of 7 – sometimes convenience is what I need! This looks like something I could put to use!
Traveling in an RV for months on end (and little space) has created our ‘fast food’ family. Help me get out of the rut!