Chili for a Chilly Day

Well, it's a chilly day for Texas anyway.  

I adapted this from a recipe for Venison Chili using hamburger instead.






Saute:
1 or 2 lbs of beef
1 chopped onion
2 cloves garlic

Mix in a bowl:
1 t salt
1/2 t pepper
1 t sage
1 t cumin
2 T chili powder


Add this mixture and the following to the cooked meat:
1 quart of tomato juice
2 cans of kidney beans.


Simmer for one hour or so.


My husband likes it, even with the beans.

Baking Ingredients

I bake bread, cookies, pizza, cake, cinnamon rolls, pancakes and waffles using four kinds of sugar, a dozen types of flour and oatmeal.  I organized my most used baking ingredients in these retro canisters I purchase on ebay.   Everything is labeled and easy to find.

A Muffin a Day

I measure one cup of pumpkin puree into a sandwich bag.

Next, I put all the sandwich bags with puree into a freezer bag.

When I want to make muffins, I thaw out one sandwich bag.

Cut the tip of the bag off with a scissors and squeeze out the puree like toothpaste.

After I make my muffins, I store them in pint sized freezer bags for a  Muffin a Day.

Putting up the Harvest

This year we grew corn, cauliflower, summer squash, butternut squash, pumpkin, and green beans which we froze.  I canned spaghetti sauce (with tomatoes, green peppers, oregano, basil, and onions from the garden), bread and butter pickles, icicle pickles, and sweet relish.

Who can repent?

"Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good  person can repent perfectly.  The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it.  The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person -- and he would not need it."  C.S. Lewis

Lasagna

made with whole wheat noodles, homemade spaghetti sauce and organic ground beef.

What to do after First Language Lessons?

We loved First Language Lessons by Susan Wise Bauer and used these books for four years.  After we finished them all, we switched to Rod & Staff for grammar.  But this curriculum had no poetry memorization.   I found out about Andrew Pudewa's Linguistic Development Through Poetry Memorization and we have been following it, in theory anyway, for the last two years.  However, many of the poems are the same and the charts in this new curriculum don't coincide with what we have done.  So I made my own schedule and put it in an Excel document, which you can download here.   


Pick your poems.  Work on them one by one.  As one  is memorized, start another, but recite the first one everyday as well.  As soon as the student can say it in his/her sleep, have him/her recite it every other day and then every third day as more and more poems are memorized.  Don't hurry, take your time and have fun.