Love That Chile Relleno Casserole! Even If I Am Just Makin’ Do.

One of my favorite things to make and eat!

My Foray Into Food Storage

What is Chile Relleno Casserole?  It is all cheesy, chile-y, yummy goodness!

Chile Relleno Casserole

You may be asking yourself, “What does Chile Relleno Casserole, no matter how yummy, have to do with Food Storage?”  Well, I’ll tell you.  To “find” money for food storage in my regular grocery budget, I need to use all the food we buy and not waste anything if I can avoid it.  It also requires me to adapt recipes and make do with what I have rather than buy specialty items unless I can use them in several recipes.  I make this with my leftover sourdough bread, stretching my food buying dollar.

Now, onto one of my favorite recipes, EVER!!

My dear friend, Karen, shared this recipe with me a couple of years ago, and I have made it dozens of times!  It is so yummy and so forgiving!  I really wanted it today…

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April Giveaway Winner Selected!

Before I announce the winner, I want to give a big THANK YOU to my April sponsor, Jennette Albee.  She is just a regular gal like me and provided our prize at her own expense!  Please check out her website (found here) one more time as a “Thank You” to her.   Although no purchase was or is required for this giveaway or any of my giveaways, if you have found something that looks like an item your family like and would use, please feel free to purchase this item from Jennette.  Thrive stands behind all their products, so if you are not 100% satisfied when it arrives, just give Jennette a call or send her an email.

 

April Giveaway Prize courtesy of Jennette Albee, Thrive Life Consultant

 

 

I just sent an email to my April Thrive giveaway winner, Michelle J.  I used random.org to randomly select the winner, and they provided me with the number 35 (out of the 114 comments).  She made the 35th comment and has 72 hours to claim her prize.

 

If you can’t tell from the title of my blog, I am pretty passionate about everyone having at least a little bit of food stored for the unexpected.  If you aren’t sure that long term storage items like the ones Thrive provides are for you, please pick up a few extra things at the grocery store as your budget allows.  That little bit of extra food will bring you peace of mind.

 

I don’t want to go on and on, so I’m ending this post here.  I’ll be back a little later today with a more “traditional” post.

 

~ Laurie

Pizza Friday with “Almost” No Knead Pizza Dough. Still No Mixer Required!

It’s Friday night, Pizza Night! Here’s an easy, delicious pizza crust recipe which will make any pizza lover happy. Enjoy!

My Foray Into Food Storage

Remember my “No Knead Bread Dough” post?  Last Friday, I decided to modify the recipe just a tad bit and try it as a pizza crust.  I have a love/hate relationship with homemade pizza crust.  Over the years, I’ve tried a couple of recipes with varying degrees of success.  The “never fail” recipe my mom used is okay.  It’s super easy, no knead, and no wait time before I can use the dough.  But the flavor is not as good as other crusts, and the texture is not where I’d like it to be.  More recently, I used a friend’s roll dough as a pizza crust, and it’s pretty good.  The flavor is there, but I miss that crisp pizza crust.

So I decided to dive right in and modify the No Knead Bread Dough recipe into a pizza crust.  Here is the recipe.  It’s adapted from a recipe I…

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