In my Kitchen, June 2023.

June was the first full month in my home kitchen since our return from traveling through the south. And after cooking for so long in my little RV kitchen, I had a bit of a learning curve to master. 

But I also got a lot accomplished including new recipes to share and a return to baking some of our bread. I had missed homemade bread while we were traveling and I especially missed homemade bread when a loaf of comparable bread goes for about $7 dollars a loaf in most major grocery stores. 

The new recipes shared and/or created this month include:

Easy Saucepan Salted Pecan Squares, gosh these are so good! 

Basic Everyday Meatloaf And now let's talk meatloaf!, because who doesn't like meatloaf and it is the perfect frugal meal to have ready to go in the freezer. 

This Simple Carrot Salad, that can be whipped up at a moments notice. 

Easier to Peel Garlic, and from the comments, it turns out I am not the only one who hates to peel garlic!

Coconut Maple Granola! Enough said, this stuff is delicious...

Pan Fried Chicken with Broccoli Brown Rice, this is more a dinner idea than a recipe. But it turned out so good it did result in a new category on the blog.

Sour Cream Beet Salad. This one is for all the beet lovers out there, and in here around our dining table.

This one is my new favorite go-to for dessert, Honey Bread Pudding. 

Olive Oil Eggs and Spaghetti, perfect to get more eggs into our meals and for those times I forget to take meat out to thaw...

And lastly, Red Cabbage Slaw. 

We have been concentrating on eating down our pantry, because our house has sold and we are waiting to close and move. Most of the new recipes made this month do reflect eating from our pantry. There were only two recipes I purchased ingredients specifically for the recipe, Sour Cream Beet Salad and the Red Cabbage Slaw.

It turns out after over 35 moves, I have a particular way I pack up my kitchen, it consists of three stages. The first stage is all the things I am not going to use before we leave. It only makes sense to get them packed up and out of the way.

From there the second stage is to get all the kitchen chores done that will sustain us until moving day, like grind up enough coffee, or make another batch of granola. Then get all that equipment packed away. Today is finishing up some stage two chores and another round of packing!

Leaving us with just the bare minimum of dishes, pots and pans etc. which are packed up the day before they are loaded on the trucks. Funny as each room is liberated of it's contents, the small echoes begin...

What has been happening in your kitchen? Are you a jam maker and canner and your kitchen is a non-stop food prep area? Are you the neighborhood hostess for all the kids that play with your kids and you love to offer healthy snacks? Or do you take some time off from cooking when your weather gets too hot for comfort? I would love to hear from you, because it is always a pleasure to have friends drop by for a chat! 

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