It's Shelftember

You know I love participating in Shelftember- saving money on groceries. So here we go again.

So far I've:

inventoried our freezer, 

collected and used produce from our garden,

tried out new recipes using what we have (These chicken and dumplings are from a little book from our young married ward at BYU.),

made what I wanted from what we have (mmm, enchiladas, using falling apart corn tortillas and BLTs using homemade bread and tomatoes from our garden),

ground wheat to make homemade bread.  

You know, the usual. 

Indian Food

January 12 was National Curried Chicken Day. I had good intentions to make Indian food that day. It didn't work out. Instead I tried out a freezer meal. Instant Pot Cream Cheese Chicken and Pasta from Six Sisters' Stuff. That took a lot shorter time than Indian food.

The next day, January 13, was Korean American Day. Instead of Korean Beef and Rice like I made last year, I made that Indian Food.

For Christmas Jeremy got me an Instant Pot Indian food cookbook. I used it to make Punjabi Chicken Curry. Along with it I made Alloo Gobi, Basmati Rice, Raita, and I tried out a recipe for Naan from Mel's Kitchen Cafe.

It took a long time but it was nice to have a whole meal of Indian food again instead of just one dish to go along with something else we're eating.

Ice Bottle

Jr. Jr. left his water bottle in the freezer for a few hours (overnight) and when he took it out, it looked like this.