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Just a few of the dishes we have cooked.

I have this pressure canner. It does have a flat bottom. Which is necessary for a smooth top/glass stove. You do however, need to check with your owner's manual for the stove because not all of them are able to handle the weight of a canner with water and jars of food. Check you manual, make...

My favorite is like some others here it is the wooden spoon with the flat blade on it. I tend to grab that one first. I like the feel of the wooden spoons over the plastic spoons. My wooden spoons are just the ordinary ones you find at stores like Target, Wal-Mart, ect. and they work just...

I was laughing so hard when I read this post that my DH wanted to know what I was laughing about. After telling him, he said he wanted me to stop reading these forums. This mostly comes because he is a meat and potatoes kind of guy.

It is just what we get when we as adults decide to no longer take personal responsibility for any of our own actions, or precautions to raising our children. I am so glad my kids are young adults now.

I believe this thread has some misunderstandings here. There is a difference between a glass top stove and an induction stove. Glass top stoves do require the flat bottom cookware. The induction stove like Andy says does require the pans to be magnetic in order for induction.

I learned the hard way about what time of year to use my self cleaning oven. I thought it would be a good idea to use self clean in the winter taking advantage of the extra heat from the oven on. Bad idea because of the smell and smoke of the oven when cleaning. I now only use the self clean...

We have raised beds and they are not staked. Some have been in place for 2 years now. Made of wood, with metal brackets in the corners. We live in a rocky poor soil area. Raised beds are the way to go.

You are right that would be hard to do get your fruit and veggies both crisp and leathery. Depending on what you want. If you are making a fruit roll up like item or fruit leather then you are drying a blended mixture to a dry leather. Mostly used for a snacking. If you want your fruit and...

We like to make balsamic chicken. It makes a nice glaze and chicken breasts that are moist and delicious. 2-4 chicken breasts, 1/3 cup balsamic vinegar, 1/2 cup chicken broth, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 clove garlic minced and 1 teaspoon italian herb seasoning. You marinade the chicken with all...

I cut broccoli off the stalk leaving a small stalk with each head. If some heads are larger I will slice themin half. I drop them into boiling water to blanch, usually only about 30 seconds to a minute. I take them out of the boiling water and put into a bowl filled with ice and water. That...

Some people that are into eating RAW or living foods. In other words they don't eat anything cooked. From my understanding it is about not losing the enzymes in the food. Anyway that is the reason they like to dehydrate foods at a low or cool temperature. The Excalibur has a section in their...

We used some of my dehydrated broccoli in a dinner side dish. It was a packaged side dish of broccoli and rice. But they never seem to have anything in them but broccoli crumbs. So I rehydrated a 1/2 cup of my dehydrated broccoli and tossed it in. It was really good. The rehydrated broccoli...

I use Big Oven software and they are also online at BigOven.com. :smile: The software lets you search by ingredients, or by category like main dish, side dish ect. You can also search by occasion holiday, season, try soon, favorite ect. I really like using it and have owned it for almost 4...

I have heard there are a few options with old beans: You can cook and freeze. Freezing helps crack the bean skin making it easier to cook until softened. You can boil the beans for 2 minutes, then use 3/8 teaspoon of baking soda per cup of beans and soak. Rinse before cooking. Pressure...

Canning is the biggest thing that I know which has changed greatly since my Mom and Grandmother did their canning. Wax was used to seal jelly. No water bath canning for jelly then. I remember sometimes you would open a new jar and there could be some mold under the wax. It was just scraped...

My husband dashes his popcorn with tabasco sauce. I like to sprinkle parmesan chees on mine, no oil needed the cheese sticks in the puffs of popcorn. Sometimes for a savory taste we use garlic salt. And hubby has a bacon salt he will use when he feels like it.

In our state they want to make it so that it is required to have a prescription to buy any sudafed. Talk about making the price of an over the counter decongestant sky rocket. I only considered my kitchen scale for measuring recipe ingredients. Great for bread making and having a consistant...

I own a Nesco American Harvest Square Dehydrator but upgraded to the Excalibur which is so much more efficient than the square Nesco dehydrator. I have compared them side by side running and the Excalibur is hands down the better of the two. I read somewhere that Excalibur now does a layaway...

Another alternative to Crisco is to use Coconut Oil which is a solid at room temperature, and natural.

I like mine soft scrambled. I mix the eggs well in a bowl first then pour into a hot pan that is coated with non stick spray. On medium heat I stir constantly with a silicone spatula. I like large to medium clumps of egg not small scrambled bits. That is the closest way I can explain it. I...

Thanks Goodweed. Glad to know that pies made from regular pumpkins and not just pie pumpkin still works. As a kid the kind my mom used were from our jackolantern pumpkins too. I found canned pumpkin filling today at the local Aldi's Store. I bought some of them to use in other recipes.

I have made scalloped potatoes both ways. Making the sauce separate and also just adding the ingredients in the pan. Sometimes when I just layer the ingredients in the pan with the potatoes I end up with some lumpy or flour globs in the mix. I am not as good as "Sprout" in judging the...

We just went to the Nashville, TN Farmer's Market today and there was no shortage of pumpkins in all shapes, sizes and colors. If there is a shortage of pie filling this holiday season it will definately be "suspect" and probably price increases to up their profits during out slow economy.