Making A Home And Family

Breakfasts ~ Juices, Smoothies, Cereal

Lunches ~ Egg salad sandwhiches, avacado tomato sandwhiches, nachoes, and leftovers

Sunday ~ Spaghetti and garlic bread

Monday ~  Tacoes


Tuesday ~ Vegan pizzas


Wednesday ~ Veggie burgers and roasted sweet potatoes


Thursday ~ I will be packing up the RV for a weekend trip.  This will include a grocery shopping trip and an easy dinner – like soup or something.


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I was asked for my recipe for spicy rice and black beans, so I thought I would make a new post for it.

Ingredients:

1 cup organic brown rice

1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil

1/2 cup chopped scallions

1 medium pepper (your color of choice)

1/2 cup diced celery

3 garlic cloves, medium

1 bay leaf

1 teaspoon dried thyme

1/2 teaspoon paprika

1 15 ounce can of red kidney beans or black beans

2 cups canned Italian tomatoes, chopped

Directions:

1.  Cook the rice according to package.

2.  Coat skillet with oil over medium heat.  Add scallions, bell pepper, celery, garlic, bay leaf, thyme, and paprika.  Saute until veggies are softened.

3.  Add beans and tomatoes.  Simmer until beans are heated through and most of the liquid has evaporated – about 10 minutes.

4.  Remove bay leaf.  Transfre rice to a large serving platter and spoon the beans over the rice.  Serve.

Recipe from Yogi in the Kitchen

Monday ~ Spaghetti with asparagus on the side

Tuesday ~ Nachoes with black bean salsa

Wednesday ~ Cheeseburgers on the grill and homemade fries

Thursday ~  Quiona and black beans

Friday ~ Frozen pizza

Saturday ~ Veggie kabobs and corn on the cob

Sunday ~ Porkchops on rice in the slow cooker

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 DH and I wholeheartedly believe that we should learn tradeskills that make us independent of the “outside world.”  Just in case we ever need to care for ourselves – as in feeding ourselves from our land.  As of right now, we don’t own land but that’s for another post and another venture.

For now, we are working with what we have and who we know.   My parents own quite a bit of land and have offered to share a garden with us and to house chickens!  How exciting is this!  We are using a building that is already on their land and equipping it with a fence and some nesting boxes (which DH’s father is going to make for us out of scrap wood).  Then we are going to fill the coop with sawdust from the nesting box project.  Our chickens will be arriving in the beginning of May.  We are pretty sure we will only be using our chickens for eggs at this point and not for meat.

Then the garden!  My mom  has already started planting – the onions and garlic that were planted last fall and covered with hay are now sprouting.  She even started some tomatoes and peppers in the house and we are awaiting warm weather to put them into the earth.

I am also part of a community garden this year.  When James and I put in our work hours each week, we will receive our share of food.  Isn’t that amazing!?!  We get to work with friends and earn vegetables.  If you are interested in the concept, please check out the garden blog here.

So we are taking a few big steps to tread a little lighter, grow our own food, and learn independence in feeding ourselves.  Are any of you growing your own food this season?

Picture courtesy of ~ http://www.greenestcity.net/resources/Aerial+Garden.jpg

 Monday ~ Broccoli soup and homemade bread

Tuesday ~ Chili mac and grilled cheese

Wednesday ~ Beef roast in crockpot

Thursday ~ Out or breakfast for dinner

Friday ~ Homemade pizza

Saturday ~ Making a meal for 4H Challenge after cross country skiing, but I don’t know what yet

Sunday ~ Spaghetti with garlic toast

For more meal plan ideas, visit Org Junkie!