A Journal of My Days: 9/23/24

The theme for this year is "Laser focused, hunkered down and spending as little money as possible.” 

We're talking gardening, bargain shopping and pantry building and how we utilize all three to keep us fed and cared for without breaking the bank!

In the garden:  I continue to harvest bits and bobs of random things.  This week I culled through and picked up a few more pears that had fallen from the tree.  I also picked a few jalapeño and cayenne peppers.  

My plan is to fertilize the pepper plants and see if I can get another big harvest from them before our first frost which is usually in November.

In the kitchen:  I baked a peach cobbler made from fresh peaches.  Oh my, it was delicious!  Those fresh peaches made it lip smacking good!  Both of us commented on how yummy it was, and we may or may not have eaten the whole thing in one sitting!

Notice the crispiness of the top of the cobbler, that's the way we like it to turn out!  The recipe is so simple and has been around for ages:

1 cup milk

1 stick butter

1 cup sugar

1 cup self-rising flour

peaches, cut in quarters. (We used fresh but canned will work too; you can also substitute any fruit or mixture of fruit you prefer for the peaches.)  If you use canned peaches, drain the liquid off and use for something else.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

Melt butter in appropriate-sized baking dish in oven

While butter is melting mix remaining ingredients except for peaches

Pour batter into baking dish and add peaches on top of the batter.  We added quite a few peaches, but you can put the amount you want!  Do not stir or mix peaches in, just lay them on the batter.

Bake at 400 until done, depending on your oven it could take up to an hour.  Start checking it after 30 minutes of cooking.

Thrifting, bargain, and/or loss leader shopping at the grocery store, farmers market, etc:  Hubby made a quick run to the grocery store for some lemon juice (I ran out and needed it for a preserving project I was in the midst of.) and while there found these cans of Mexican Hominy on clearance for $.09/can.  The best buy date is August of 2025.  SCORE!

In the Pantry:  I've been preserving up a storm this week!  I canned squash, tomatoes, peach pie filling and kept the dehydrator going with pears and apples.  

Pictures of tomatoes and squash are shown below.

In other news:

Thus far in our Winter Preps Challenge we've restocked AAA batteries and self-rising flour.  Still to go in the food part of our winter preps is sugar.  That's on my list to purchase this week.  I made sure I had everything on hand to start on my winter herbal remedies and first up is making cider fire which is on my to-do list for today.  It will need to sit for about 4- 6 weeks before it should be used so that will work out about right for cold and flu season.  

Click HERE to see what I've been up to in the sewing/creating world this week!  A little inspiration goes a long way!

My teaching notes for this week's young wives Bible class that I teach have been posted.  You can find them HERE.  This week it's all about the class I didn't teach!

In case you missed my 'Mornings' with Me' posts this week, you can find them here ...

Mornings with Me: 9/17/24

Mornings with Me:  9/18/24

Mornings with Me:  9/19/24

That's it for me this week, what has your week looked like?

until next time,

mrs. patsi @ A Working Pantry

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