Make It Monday 5th August 2024

Good morning!

Welcome to another Make It Monday round-up.

Last week kept me busy working in the kitchen. There was a pumpkin to process, and potatoes, and mince. I ended up freezing the mince, I ran out of time to pressure can it. I may get to that this week.

I made another huge pot of chicken soup. Thomas in particular has taken a liking to it and has been having it for his lunch every day. I love that - it's full of good veggies like onion, carrot, celery and celery leaves, turnip, lots of garlic and made with my MOOed chicken stock and canned chicken. I used the pressure cooker to make 6 litres at a cost of $2. Using homegrown veggies and MOO stock, the cost was the chicken! You can eat well for very little cost. This soup cost 33 cents a litre to make, or 8 cents per 250ml serve! If you think you can't feed the family on a budget, rethink the ingredients you use.

Lunches were creative last week, to use up bits and bobs in the small freezer. Sandwiches, wraps and rolls with various fillings. Muffins and biscuits from the freezer. Fruit from the fruit bowl, including oranges and mandarins off our trees. Our fruit trees are all in pots. I grow the dwarf varieties so they love pots, and while they may look a little squashed, they provide us with plenty of fruit. 

All our meals were cooked from scratch, using ingredients in the pantry. 

We celebrated a family birthday with MOO parmas, wedges and coleslaw with ice-cream for dessert. In our family, the birthday person chooses the dinner, another reason an ingredients based pantry works. 

The garden was just more weeding, feeding, turning over. I checked over all the pots, and made a note of which plants need to be put into bigger pots. 

I picked more rosemary and rhubarb. The rhubarb has been especially giving this winter. 

I cut out some aprons and some pot holders. This week I'll get them sewn up. 

What did you make, bake, grow and sew this week?