Thursday, September 25, 2008

Peach Pie

I spent all last weekend making jam, fruit leather , and dried fruit. I am still making dried fruit and fruit leather. But I still had a few peaches left over that I did not want to waste. So I asked my mother in law if has some sort of recipe for peach something. She gave me a recipe for peach pie. And it turned out to take only like 10 min plus the time to cook the crust. I could not believe it. Here is the recipe.
1 sm orange jello package
1 cup sugar
2 heaping Tablespoon cornstarch
2 cups water

Mix all together in sauce pan until it boils and thickens. Pour over sliced peaches. You just use a regular pie that you have already baked to put the peaches in. Put in fridge until it is set up.
This was a really simple but soooo good peach pie. The orange and the peach really compliment each other. So now I am all peached out with my peach jam, peach fruit leather, and dried peaches with my dried banana's and apples. It was a busy cooking week for me but it was a lot of fun. I had never used the dehydrator that my grams had given me and I had never made jam before it was a great experience, that turned out easier than I was expecting.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Chinese food

OK this is a non recipe, but I cannot believe what I have found out. Your going to think that I am crazy or dumb for never realizing this before I don't know. Anyway last night all I wanted was some Chinese food but was not in the mood for cooking, (I found a Chinese recipe I am going to try out I will let you know what I think, I am always looking for homemade takeout recipes), so I just called in some random food off the ala carte so I did not have to spend a lot of money. So I ordered lo mein, sesame chicken, and generals chicken, all ala carte it only cost me just a little over twenty dollars. Getting home I unpacked everything and realized I had enough food to feed an army. I could not believe how much food we had gotten. I have never ordered ala carte before we always order the combo stuff. We seriously have enough food for three more meals and it was delicious. It all came with white rice as well I was very impressed. Kenzie even ate generals chicken and loved it along with everything else, it was funny to see her eat it.