My Lastest Kitchen Things

So I thought I would post finally so you know what I've been up to at least in the kitchen and since mom isn't on pinterest she can get the recipes from here.   I've been trying to eliminate some processed foods in our house by making my own mixes, inspired by a thing on saw on 20/20, healthy and SKINNY Carrie and pinterest of course!    Here is my next project to make with organic/healthy chicken bullion that I found on amazon, hope to find it at Harmons or Costco here in town.  So this will replace cream of chicken soup, mushroom soup, lipton onion packet and beef bullion, they have healthy versions of those bullion at amazon. 

http://1orangegiraffe.blogspot.com/2011/07/anything-you-wanna-call-it-casserole.html?showComment=1310864846151#c3489139395376988271

This is what I've made so far

Homemade Refried Beans in Crockpot
http://neartonothing.blogspot.com/2010/09/homemade-refried-beans.html 

So easy and made a yummy bean burrito dinner with cafe rio lime rice and lettuce, salsa, sour cream.  Everyone ate it.  Good one for a meatless dinner which I'm trying to do once a week.

And since we are Ranch Snots and go through a bacth a week, I thought I would love finding one that I can make without the packet.  After some failed attempts the one I think   WON with me, glen and the kid is : make sure to scroll down to the BYU one at the end of the post.  It is yummy and tastes really good.  I made a  mix, in my pantry now and all I have to do is grab it and NO PACKETS,  I halved the recipe at the bottom to use the mix because I only wanted  a smaller batch.  It was perfect!  The only thing is that you use 1 cup milk with 1 tsp on vinegar to make your own buttermilk and make sure you add the lemon juice too  http://www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com/2011/07/ode-to-homemade-ranch-dressing.html

I also made these 12 at the begining of the week and then put them in the fridge for quick eggs in the morings or egg sandwiches too.  We Loved them.  Trick for us was putting 1 TBS of water before cracking egg to keep it soft boiled and no crusty edges.  Bake at 350 for about 18 mins.  perfect!  I don't think I'll ever make boiled eggs again!

I also felt like little Susie homemaker this week by doing 7 quarts of frozen peaches.  I got them from bountiful baskets for 75 cents a pound and got 24 pounds.  They were so good, I ate 3 while doing them, which is saying something cause I don't really like peaches, but I'm changing my mind.  Peaches also remind me of Carrie???  I think because she LOVED them when we were little right??  or am I remembering wrong?  Never done them before so I was nervous but they turned out I think, we will see when I eat them.   Anyway with the leftovers I blended them and made these muffins.
http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2012/08/09/peach-pie-muffins-with-brown-butter-glaze/
 Emma said they were my best muffins ever, my second are the blueberry ones from Jamie Cooks it up.  So nice not having to buy the mixes from the store and the kids loved them as after school snack and in the lunch boxs or for breakfast.  

I also want to make this.  Looks easy and yummy, let you know when I do.  
http://www.shape.com/healthy-eating/healthy-recipes/10-healthy-peanut-butter-recipes?page=2

Okay love you all!

Rachel