Food Storage

I received an email earlier today for the Preparedness Pantry.  I decided to check it out, since I can always use to get food storage.  On their site they have a completely free food storage analyzer that will show you how many days worth of food storage you have.  You can enter their food, or your own from the grocery store.  This is a fantastic tool that I will definitely be using in the future!!!

Philadelphia Cooking Cream and Pizza

Over the weekend I got to host a Philadelphia Cooking Cream house party!!  It was a lot of fun! The people at House Party sent me a free box with all the party supplies!  I got a brand new pan, and a bunch of other stuff, including coupons and recipe booklets to give to all my guests. There are four different flavors of this cooking cream.  Since they gave me coupons for free tubs, I got all four.  I made pizza and used a couple of the cooking cream flavors as the sauce.  It was really good!  I think it might even be the best homemade pizza I have ever made!  I've been trying to perfect homemade pizza for years because it is my hubby's favorite food, so when I saw this recipe for crust on my friend's blog, I decided to try it. It was really good!  I will definitely make it again!  Here is what I did:

Yummy Homemade Pizza

• Crust
• Chicken, cooked and cubed
• Pizza Cheese
• Mushrooms, sliced
• onions, sliced
• Philadelphia Cooking Cream (original and savory garlic flavors)
• BBQ sauce
• Ranch Dressing Mix (Dry)
• Pineapple Tidbits

I made two different pizzas.  The first was a BBQ Chicken pizza, the second was a Garlic Chicken pizza.

For the BBQ Chicken pizza, I combined half of the tub of original cooking cream and about 1/4 cup of BBQ sauce.  Then I added in about half of a packet of ranch dressing mix.  I used that as the sauce, and then piled on the cheese.  I then added chicken (cooked in BBQ sauce), onion, and pineapple. 

The Garlic Chicken pizza was easier!  I just put enough garlic cream on to cover, and then piled with cheese, chicken, pineapple, mushrooms and onion. 

Both pizzas were delicious!  I can't wait to try the other flavors and make other things! :)

Banana Pancakes with Butter Syrup

This morning I decided that I would make my kids pancakes instead of cereal.  I decided to save time and use the "Jiffy" baking mix in my pantry.  Here is the recipe:



Banana Pancakes with Butter Syrup

"Jiffy" baking mix
1-2 bananas, smashed
1 TBSP flax
Milk

Make the pancake mix as directed on the box.  Add in bananas and flax (I added it to give it a little more nutrition).  Mix in a little more milk to make batter the right consistency.  Cook like normal pancakes!

BUTTER SYRUP
(I got this recipe from my old neighbor, Annie.  We love it!)

1 Cup Butter
1 Cup Sugar
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 C Buttermilk
1 tsp. Vanilla

Melt butter on low heat.  Once the butter is melted, add sugar, buttermilk and baking soda.  Bring to a boil (it will get really foamy).  You just want to get the sugar liquified.  I just pick up some with a spoon and dump it back in the pot.  When there's no grains left it's done.  Remove from heat.  Add vanilla, stir, and serve.

"Cafe Rio" Style Pork Burritos

One of our favorite restaurants is Cafe Rio.  They have the best pork burritos!  In an effort to save money, we have not eaten there in a while, but we have been missing it!  I had a pork roast in my freezer and decided that I wanted to try to recreate the pork burritos that you can buy there.  I looked online to see if I could find a recipe, and I found several.  This recipe is what I did with it, which was kind of a combination of several different recipes.  It didn't taste exactly like Cafe Rio, but it was REALLY good!

"Cafe Rio" Style Pork Burritos

Pork Roast
Coke
2-3 TBSP Brown Sugar
1/2 packet of Lipton Onion Soup

Put the roast into the crockpot and set it on low.  Pour a cup of coke over it and add the brown sugar and soup.  Cook for 8 or so hours, or until it can be shredded.

When the roast is cooked, shred it.  (I dumped the coke mixture out of my crockpot and put the shredded pork back in.  You could easily put it into a sauce pan to finish.)

Add the following:
1 cup or so of Coke
2 TBSP Brown Sugar
1/3 cup Salsa
1/2 can Tomato Sauce

Let it simmer on low for 20 or so minutes.


Rice:

In the meantime, I put my rice cooker to use.  I cooked the rice in chicken broth and added some chopped Cilantro.  Next time I am going to add some green chilies and lime, as the rice was pretty bland.


We like our burritos without the beans, but you could easily add in black or pinto beans!  :)

To assemble:

Warm tortillas.  Fill with rice, pork mixture and cheese.  Roll up and place in an oven-safe pan. Put some green Enchilada Sauce on top.  Top with cheese and broil on high until cheese is melted and bubbling.

 Here is the final product, and it was tasty! My husband told me that it was even better the second day!!