Sunday, February 15, 2015
How to Archive Your Family Photos
This week I'll be sharing some great tips for archiving your shoebox of family photos, see post #1 here
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Monday, March 4, 2013
Make Room for Mushrooms!!
"Dry Canning" dehydrated Mushrooms
This weeks grocery travels took us to the land of Smurfs. Mushrooms were on sale at Meijer 10 for 10, get the 11th free. I bought 11, totaling $.80 per pack, now that is a great deal! Very proud of myself for spotting this deal but now what am I going to do with all these mushrooms?I can dehydrate them of course! Then what? I can't fit anything else in my freezer and I know we're not going to use 11 packs of mushrooms within a month or two even if we were to eat them with every meal, so what do I do to make sure they are preserved for long term storage. Google, Bing, Youtube...my buddies, help me out!
I was looking around on the web and found a couple sites showing how to "dry can" dehydrated or already dry foods(flour,salt). Most canning is done by placing cooked or blanched foods, liquid, and salt or (syrup for fruit) in a canning jar and pressure cooking for a specific amount of time making them safe for storage. This method will preserve most foods for a couple of years. The liquid canning and jelly making is the only type of canning I have ever done.
This "dry canning" seems interesting. You can "can" already dehydrated foods and it takes out most of the oxygen from the jar and many people are saying this method has a 20-25 year shelf life. I don't really need my mushrooms to last 20 years but I like learning new things so I gave it a shot.
I got out a few wide mouth canning jars, washed, dried, and sanitized the jars, lids and rings. Do I really want to run my oven for 2 hours for just two jars of mushrooms? Naw, I took out my dried potatoes and I am going to 'Dry can" those as well.
I now have 6 jars of dehydrated foods cooling next to my stove listening for the familiar ping of the jar lid suctioning down to complete the seal........ping! There goes one now, gotta go check it out! See you later!
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Ibotta rules!
I just used the ibotta app for the first time..there is already money in my account....you guys gotta try this apphttp://ibotta.com/r/zoaDSQ
Friday, December 14, 2012
What more can we do?
Tonight I am very disturbed that the security measures they had couldn't save more kids. Thankful that our schools have lock down procedures and my kids know what to do. Fearful that it is not enough, our procedures are much like Sandy Hook almost exact and it still wasn't enough to save them.
Maybe our PTO's should shift their thinking to SAFETY before a new playscape or dry erase boards for each child. Use dry erase markers on their desk, it wipes off. Pay for security if the district cannot afford to do so. It would be nice if we could add security to our "No Child left behind" or create something new like "no more children shot at school. A playscape means nothing to the kids who watched their friends and teachers die, and you can not wipe away the grief of a dead child like you can a dry erase board. I believe all of the teachers at the schools that my kids go to have a stong parental instinct and will do all they can to keep these kids safe, sadly I don't believe that is enough.
I want security to check my purse when I walk in,I want to go though a metal detector and be escorted to the office as this should be the only place I need to go when entering a school. I wouldn't mind one bit, if that meant everyone else would be put through the same security precautions and I knew that no one would be able to get to my kids.
Holding them close tonight, and praying for healing for the families left behind.
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