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Chicken Broth!                 

     Many good soup recipes begin with chicken broth.  I have found the quality of the chicken broth makes a big difference in the taste of the soup.  While there are chicken broths you can purchase, (my favorite being the Imagine brand), homemade chicken broth is easy to make and quite inexpensive.  So here goes…

1  4-5 # natural or organic chicken (got to recommend the healthiest )

      Place all of the ingredients into a large stock pot.  Fill with water (about 4 quarts).  Cook on high until boiling.  Cover and reduce heat to maintain a medium boil.  Cook for about 2-21/2 hours or until chicken is tender.  My technical way to decide if it is done is to see if the legs will easily come off.

      For the delicious cooked chicken, I remove it from the bone and freeze in 2 cup quantities. Most recipes calling for cooked chicken usually call for 2 cups.

 Now you have the beginnings of several good meals, including Pumpkin Soup.

Blessings,

Marcie

Here is a link to my friend Kelly’s skin care products. She is having an awesome sale!  Click on the picture to learn more.

Happy Savings!

Marcie

Too Good Not to Share!

American Vision is having a 50%-90% off sale on a bunch of books, two of which we have used and really recommend:

Looking for a good book on the American War Between the States?  We were, too, until we found this book:

It’s 50% off!

For our Civics course, we use God and Governmentby Gary DeMar.  Very thorough teaching on what the Bible teaches about government and on our government.  Interested in your children having a biblical worldview?  Get these books! 

75% off!

To see all the items on sale, go toamericanvision.com

Happy Savings!

Marcie

Light of Faith Resources

  10th anniversary sale!

up to 70% off selected resources.

http://www.lightoffaith.com/xcart/home.php

Happy saving!

Marcie

I will get back to the final post on homeschooling soon, but I thought I would share this little bit of humor with you first

     Last November, we replaced our 20 something refrigerator with a new one.  The old one was falling apart and the ice maker had busted when we moved.

     We were all so excited about this brand new shiney appliance in the kitchen.  It is larger, has water and ice in the door and the ice maker works!  Here in the south, that REALLY matters. 

     Little did we know then how important our ice was to our civil government, but recently we found out.  We were having problems with the ice maker not working correctly.  The basket had cracked and that ice maker just wasn’t making much ice.  As I said, ice in the south in July is important!

     Thankfully, it is still under warranty, so out comes the repairman.  He replaced the basket and adjusted the temperature, but could not do anything about the output.  Our civil government’s Department of Energy a couple of years ago decided these refrigerators were causing us to use too much energy making ice and by golly, what about all the water those ice cubes take!   They created regulations  that ice makers cannot make more than about 8 cubes every 1-1/2 hours! 

     Wow, do I feel safer!   But it does make one wonder…

Could the next Czar be in control of Ice Cubes?

       They also decided we were using too much energy preheating our ovens.  Preheating causes the upper and lower elements to both stay on until the correct temperature is set, usually between 5-10 minutes.   They regulated that new ovens should have the top and bottom elements alternately come on until the correct temperature is reached, taking about 15-20 minutes to preheat.  I’m so glad those guys up there are keeping busy. 

     I wonder what Sam Adams would think about all of this? 

Guess I better go fill my supplemental ice trays. 

                                           Keeping cool,

                                           Marcie      

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”   Isaiah 55:8-9

“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.”
Romans 12:2

We are doing lots of cooking outside and having lots of salads to help keep the house from heating up (and cut down on our horrible utility bill).

Salads fit the bill!  I found this FREE salad e-book download over at the Urban Homemaker website.  Just sign up for their newsletter, and you will receive this cookbook! 

Enjoy!

http://urbanhomemaker.com/productcart/pc/home.asp

      There are a couple of bread recipes in the salad book as well.   Oh, and don’t forget about the $2 off my whole wheat dessert cookbook.  You can check it out under the cookbook tab at the top of the page.  My mouth is watering!                   

Marcie

     It is peach season here in Alabama and have we been enjoying them!  By purchasing 2nds, my buying club  was able to get them for $.45 per pound.  I bought 125 pounds.  Katie learned how to make and can peach jam while I canned the peaches.  Zach did a great job on peeling.  We are looking forward to enjoying the “flavor of summer” all winter long.  If you enjoy peaches, try to find some 2nds from an orchard.  They are delicious and economical.

     Other  “flavors of Summer”

Flowers

  Friends, blueberries, swimming, and puppies!

Harvest 

Have a Peachie Day!

Marcie

“A penny saved is a penny earned” is not a very familiar saying in these days of so-called borrowing your way to wealth, but with hubby out of work for 3 months so far, we are reminded of how true this is. As many of my friends have been showing me, frugality and creativity go hand in hand!
An experiment in saving energy has been cooking on the grill. I have a dilapidated gas grill and began to wonder if I could use it as my stovetop, so I tried stewing a chicken on it! It turned out great plus my house did not have to get heated up. (Very important when another experiment is having the air conditioner off )  Since then, I have cooked dried beans, brown rice, soup and boiled eggs on the grill. Today, I was trying to can dried black beans on the grill but my very old canner is unusable this year. If you try this, please let me know how it works out for you.

Here are some pictures of my “kitchen with views”.