Baking Day #2: Tis the season
Tis the season of my life where my littles run my schedule. Last night my baby didn’t nod off to sleep until midnight and then my 3 year old woke up at 5am with a runny nose and barky sounding cough. And when my baby awoke, I noticed the new little grin she’s sporting.
That’s right, teething has begun!
So with both of them on the fritz today, I realized my whole list was not going to get done and just worked when I could. I did end up getting 4 bags of spaghetti sauce bagged up for the freezer as well as some fermented ketchup. I also had some rice to go in the freezer but I forgot it was still on the stove until I looked at the pictures I took today.
It had only been on the stove for 2 hours!
Tomorrow I need to just brown and season 3 lbs of meat for tacos, and make up some chicken noodle soup (minus noodles – I’ll add those when we cook it) for a quick nourishing meal should one of us start to feel unwell.
All in all here’s what I accomplished today:
Wednesdays plan:
- make pancakes (some for breakfast, some for later)
- make cream cheese chicken pasta casserole (half for dinner, half for later) Done. Except we ate it all
- make fermented ketchup – DONE
- make mayo
- marinate and freeze steaks
- marinate and freeze chicken – forgot to buy extra chicken
- make playdoh - NOPE
- make spaghetti sauce, 4 batches – DONE
- make pizza sauce, 4 batches
- make bbq sauce, 2 batches
Better than nothing that’s for sure! And I won’t have to bake snacks for my husbands lunch for a few weeks, plus once I finish up tomorrow I’ll have about 14 quicker to get ready meals.
Not in my written plan, but other accomplishments:
- Loved my babies
- Served as a chew toy for a teething baby
- Doled out multiple kisses to an ill feeling toddler
- Put an end to a few earth shattering tantrums
- Made some good old fashioned cold fighting lunch: homemade chicken noodle soup
- Made a dinner that my husband raved about
- and again – I loved my babies!!!
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.
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Do you have a recipe for the cream cheese chicken casserole? That sounds delicious!
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donielle Reply:
November 5th, 2009 at 11:18 am
@Vanderbilt Wife, Like any good blogger I took a picture of it and will get it up some day very soon.
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Will you post your mayo recipe and the cream cheese chicken pasta casserole? And you are making me want to hurry and get housework done so I can maybe do some baking today.
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donielle Reply:
November 5th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
@Lisa @ Retro Housewife Goes Green,
Casserole: http://www.naturallyknockedup.com/?p=1314
Mayo: http://www.cheeseslave.com/2009/06/01/homemade-lacto-fermented-mayonnaise/
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I am so interested in doing a baking day! Can you please included recipes on your posts?
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donielle Reply:
November 5th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
@Sarah, Yup, I’m working on getting most of them up? Anything in particular you’re looking for?
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