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Lately, we have been trying to replace foods with either homemade by us like bagels, muffins, pasta, etc. or made by someone local like sour dough bread. This weekend I plan on making our own butter! Any recipe suggestions on other foods we can make ourselves! We do work full time and DD is 18 months so really the weekend is when we have the time to make these items for the week!
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NotYourAverageStepMama wrote:
Lately, we have been trying to replace foods with either homemade by us like bagels, muffins, pasta, etc. or made by someone local like sour dough bread. This weekend I plan on making our own butter! Any recipe suggestions on other foods we can make ourselves! We do work full time and DD is 18 months so really the weekend is when we have the time to make these items for the week!
I wish you luck with the butter! A couple of years ago, I made my own butter - for some reason there was a utter shortage in France but not a cream shortage. After shaking the first batch in a jar, I found myself thinking longingly to the churn that dad's auntie used for the same purpose on her farm. Far more ergonomically sound.
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Why do you want to make it yourself? to eliminate chemicals? or just for fun. For example butter generally just has 2 ingredients.. cream and salt. So, there isn't much risk of chemical additives.. unless you normally buy things like country crock.. which isn't really butter.
You can make mayonnaise with raw eggs and oil.. but you do need to do a pasteurizing step on the eggs for safety.
If you are trying to save yourself from chemicals and other additives.. I would focus on things that generally contain them commercially.
Like salad dressing. You can make your own.. often cheaper and better. whether a buttermilk cream based or oil/vinegar based.. homeade dressings are a great addition to your repitoire.
For baked goods, homeade yeast rolls... biscuits.. bread and of course your own PIZZA dough (which freezes well).
Making your own tomato sauces from scratch.. if you have a garden.. you can even can your own tomatoes for that .. making it double good.
You can make your own cream cheese.. and even mozzerella.. though I have tried mozz and my results were a bit tougher than I would have liked.. so practice might help there.. haha.
Making your own stock.. ie beef, chicken and seafood stocks.. those can be frozen to use in recipes later.
When we get a whole chicken.. my husband actually debones it.. we throw the bones (with bits of meat left) in water with seasonings to boil.. then let it cool.. pick the bones clean.. and add it to the broth.. that makes a great chicken soup if you add your fav veg.
but, that gets the "most" out of a chicken.. we bake the spatchcocked deboned chicken.. then we use the bones for a soup.. makes multiple meals.
Making your own mashed potatoes from scratch is fairly straightforward... and better than a box.
homeade pasta is also great.. but there are probably a lot of organic and specialty options that are available... I would be putting my effort into things I can't get health conscious alternatives easily.