Wednesday, May 12, 2010

From the emergency notebook....

This is about the fourth or fifth or umpteenth time I have started this post--when I first started, some part of the program was automatically putting the English into another script. Never know what will happen when technology meets up with little fingers, (I don't know for sure what happened, but that's my guess, and I'm sticking with it) so I hope the final product turns out normal when I publish it. Ah, technology.

Anyway, I have been thinking about the garden, and have also been thinking it's just too early to send those seeds out on their own. So in place of a gardening post, I thought that I would include a couple of recipes that I have commented on on my other blog, but haven't mentioned here. One is for cornbread, found on Friday's Food Fancy, which is just a really good resource for all sorts of food storage recipes. Another is this recipe for tortillas, over at The Happy Housewife. I have gotten better and better at making these, but alas, they are still not really round.... :) They taste good, as does the cornbread--I highly recommend both recipes, and they are the way I like my recipes--really, really, easy.

As for the title, I really do have these recipes and others in what I call my emergency notebook, because I never know when the power will go out, and I want to have those recipes and lists of substitutions and etc. in one place in my hot and sweaty little hand in times of emergency. If you don't have an emergency notebook, please consider starting one. And for those who have not seen other recipes I have already listed, you may want to look here for bean recipes and here for another list of bread recipes--- just in case you would rather not jump all over this blog trying to collect them one by one. :) Gotta love having recipes where you can use those food storage staples or at least do simple things from scratch--hope you like them like we like them around here!

4 comments:

APN said...

Thanks for the recipes, I'll pass these on to my wife.

There is going to be a Sustainable living Festival in Nez Perce and Latah county fair grounds July 31st. I sent you and email for more information. I hope we can make it to it.

Marie said...

APN--I will check out that info--having some internet connection problems a little too often lately, but hopefully it will continue to work better now that some adjustment has been made. Thanks for your comment!

Susan said...

An Emergency Notebook is a GREAT idea! I've got a boat load of emergency info, but it could sure use some consolidating! I think I'll start putting one together. Thanks for the idea.

God Bless,
Susan
The Reliant Self

Marie said...

Susan--I find my emergency notebook convenient even in non-emergency situations... :) Thanks for your comment!