Link to Homemade Cleaners!

Home made cleaners 

and

this idea  , which I LOVE!  (I hope pinterest links will come up on a blog.  We'll see.)

Dry Milk Powder

It seems like my milk packages always tell only how to reconstitute huge amounts at a time, like how to make a gallon of milk.  Since I usually use my dry milk to cook with when I'm out of regular milk, I Never need to make an entire gallon. 

I found this handy little chart online - Yay!  I'll never have to guess (wrongly, generally) again how much powder to add to my water! :)

http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/reconstituting.htmhttp://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/reconstituting.htm

Decluttering, Part 2

Regarding the decluttering links I posted before - this blog post.....

I worked 4 hours last evening finishing off the last of the first week of January's list.

My kitchen has never looked better! It's so amazing....

Decluttering!

Two resources I'm using this year, in an attempt to be more organized:

http://www.home-storage-solutions-101.com/organized-home.html

http://www.mysimplerlife.com/decluttercalendar.htm

Salad Dressings

I'm trying to lose weight, because my blood pressure has been up. I enjoy eating salads, but can't stand only having oil and vinegar dressings, so I searched for easy, homemade dressings that won't have hoards of additives.


I found these two that sounded like what I was after:
Ranch dressing and Thousand Island dressing ....here's hoping they're as good as they sound! :)

VERY Helpful Site!

I came across this site today:

Hillbilly Housewife ....awesome resources for those trying to save money!


She even has a worcestershire sauce recipe! I've searched high and low for a good, easy, worcestershire sauce recipe, because I haven't been able to find one without HFCS at any local stores.

Woo-Hoo! ;)

Pumpkin Pie!

It's been too long since I've posted!

I miss the pumpkin in the picture in my last post! I kept it sitting around the living room until January, then I finally cut it up...heartbreaking! lol I kept seeds, though, for this year's garden, and I PROMISE to take better care of them!

Anyway, I peeled him, and put all his lovely chunks of flesh in the crockpot with a bit of water and cooked him over night. In the morning, after he'd cooled, I packed him into freezer bags in two cup portions and froze him.

Then, when I got a craving for pumpkin pie I pulled him out and ATE him! Bwahahahaha! I mean, YUMMY! lol

He tasted very.....squashy. Not unlike the cushaw squash of my childhood. (My grandmother always grew cushaw squash and kept them under her bed until she needed one.) ; ) He was much more squashy-tasting than pumpkin-tasting, but VERY TASTY! : )

His two little brothers I sliced into thin slices and cooked like Apple Pie, like Laura Ingalls Wilder mentions in By The Shores of Silver Lake.

(Ah...a link that with a recipe! http://www.stoptheride.net/2007/09/green-pumpkin-pie.html )

The recipe calls for vinegar...and when I make it again I'll use less. Emma refered to it as "pickle pie", although she said she liked it. I liked the comment about topping it with a dollop of molasses before the top crust goes on, too...I'll prolly try that.