Food storage recipe - beef stew

I love this recipe. I use it a lot. Use cheap stew meat or you could even get cheap steaks and cut them up into bite size pieces. I use my dutch oven for this recipe.

Beef stew

Need:

3/4 pound of stew beef or other cubed beef

Salt , pepper, and flour

1 onion sliced

2 carrots, diced

2 potatoes, diced

1 tablesppo parsley

2 tablespoon oil

Sprinkle the salt, pepper, and flour on the meat and brown it with the onion in the oil. Add water to cover it. Put lid on pan and cook slowly until the meat is mostly done. About 2 hours. Add the potatoes and carrots and cook until they are tender. Add the parsley and serve.

How To Plan For A Blizzard

How To Plan For A Blizzard ( Or Major Storm) was a free kindle book at the time of this posting. With the way that this winter has been for most of us, this is a much needed book and it is free today.

 The famous blizzard of 1888 occurred from March 11th through the 14th. Snow fell at times up to 3-4 feet in New York, New Jersey, Conn. and Massachusetts.Huge drifts were reported and some covered entire houses.Drifts were reported to average 30-40 feet, over the tops of houses from New York to New England, with reports of drifts which covered 3-4 story houses.Severe floods occurred throughout the New York City area and in Brooklyn in particular.This book provides specific guidance for citizens and even officials to mitigate even the worst potential damage given simple preventive steps taken on an anticipatory basis.

Homeschool minute - teaching the presidents

I have a little man that pretty much has to have everything be like games. We were going over the flash cards last night and he got bored by about the 10th card! This morning I got up early and using a printable that I had printed a while ago and some craft sticks I made him something that is funner for him and more hands-on.

Craft sticks

Printable of all of the presidents

Glue

Write the president name on front of stick. I wrote the dates and the number of which president they are on back of stick. Glue the head on! Easy and almost free! Craft sticks were a dollar at dollar tree!

Fun for him.

Beef Jerky In The Oven

This is an easy way to make beef jerky and you do not have to to have a Food Dehydrator to make it.

Beef Jerky

NEED:

2 pounds of flank steak, round, or lean chuck steak - let it be semi-frozen so that it is easier to cut into slices

1 cup of water

1 teaspoon of coarse salt

1/4 cup of soy sauce

1 1/2 teaspoons of liquid smoke

1 teaspoon of onion powder

1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder

1/2 teaspoon of black pepper

a dash of tabasco

Cut all o the fat off of the meat. Mix all of the ingredients , except the meat, in a bowl. Slice the meat into thin and long strips. Put the strips of meat into the mixture and let marinate for a couple of hours. Set the oven temperature to 200 degrees and hang the strips of meat on the oven rack. I bought an extra one just for using for making beef jerky. Leave the door open slightly and the strips should be ready in about 24 hours.

Cooking In Your Fireplace

If you are lucky enough to have a fireplace in your house than you have a great way to cook if the power ever goes out. It is not hard to do. Just need a few things, like a pie iron or a Dutch Oven, and you are on your way to having a meal while you heat your house.

For cooking with a dutch oven in your fireplace you should have some way to have it hanging over the fire. Sometimes fireplaces have a bar built in them to use for hanging pots. Or you could use a Campfire Tripod easily enough. A roasting fork would be easy to use also, just place a couple of hot dogs on it and hold over the fire. Yummy! Fun for the kids.You could also pop some popcorn over the fire with one of those long handled camping corn poppers.

 A Pie iron is a must. With its long handle it is the best for doing sandwiches in or take apart and use for a skillet. Just use a bit of butter or cooking spray and the stuff won't stick. You can do just about anything in a pie iron. Imagine cooking up some beans in your dutch oven over the fire and then having some corn bread done up in your pie iron! That is a great meal to have done in your fireplace!