Baking Day #1 in Progress
This morning I took advantage of the time change and got an early start at 5:40am (babies sure don’t know what a time change is! We’ve been up at 5 the last couple mornings) First up was to set out the butter to soften and the eggs to warm to room temp (makes it easier when I use coconut oil in recipes as a cold egg can solidify the oil again). Also emptied the dishwasher, washed the crockpot and tossed the chicken in, and started cooking the kidney beans.
After making my husbands lunch and sending him off to work, I had to take a break while the baby needed some love and then help drifting off to sleep.
A double batch of blueberry spelt muffins (I made mine w/o the crumb topping) then went into the oven. A couple for breakfast, a couple to leave out, and most to freeze.
Once we ate breakfast and the beans were done, I cooked up 3 pounds of ground beef. One pound for the chili and two pounds ro freeze in 1 pound increments for when we have spaghetti. I finished up the chili, let everything cool (helps the freezer not have to work so hard plus it helps to prevent against chemicals leaching form the ziploc bags.) and tossed it in the freezer. Except a couple servings of chili which will be used for Todd’s dinner tomorrow.
So that’s what I’ve gotten done thus far on Baking Day! Hopefully the baby will take a nice long nap now……
*coming up this week on Naturally Knocked Up:
- Thursday – The ins and outs of sugar: pt one
- Thursday 9-11pm – First ever Real Food Twitter Party!! Come talk real food and have some Q&A with some fabulous real food folks. Use hashtag #realfood Plus, at some point during the evening I’ll be giving away a copy of “Nourishing Traditions”!
- Friday – try your hand at winning the book “Real Food for Mom and Baby” on Figure it out Friday
About donielle
Donielle is an amateur herbalist and natural momma to two littles (with another babe in heaven) after dealing with infertility. She has a passion for nourishing nutrition, natural living, and spreading the word on how food truly affects our health. Her blog Naturally Knocked Up focuses on fertility and reproductive health and her book on natural fertility will be available in June 2012. She also runs a local blog (Grand Rapids Natural Living) and is active the local community in order to provide the area with resources and information for natural families.
I need to do more of this. I do make homemade hamburger buns and pizza crusts every month but I need to make muffins and other baked goods to freeze more.
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