Meals Made Ahead: New Year Cooking Session--WI

Sunday, January 2, 2011

New Year Cooking Session--WI

You may or may not know that our Wisconsin group has open membership, meaning that anyone can opt-in or opt-out of cooking each month. With the new year being such a busy time for two of our members, this was our first month cooking with "guests". Danielle and Annette, ladies from my MOMS Club, joined Christina and I in cooking this month.

We did AWESOME on price , coming in at an astounding $27.27 for 5 meals. Our secret: Piggly Wiggly offered family-size boneless, skinless chicken breasts on sale for $1.99 per pound! So, each of us will go home with 8 Parmesan Chicken Breasts, one recipe of Lemonade Chicken (with 1 .5 pounds of chicken), a loaf of French Toast, a casserole dish of Creamy Pasta Bake, and a Bacon Swiss Meatloaf. In the past, we have made the Lemonade Chicken "marinade" and opted to buy our own chicken when it was on sale. With the sale price of chicken, we get to have a complete re-heat and eat meal...YAY US!

Next month we will be making a Hash Brown Bake (exact recipe yet to be determined), a Taco Bake, Dr. Pepper Spaghetti, a Beef Barbacoa recipe that is supposed to taste like the Beef Barbacoa used at Chipotle (I'll let you know after I taste it if it is comparable), and Monica's BBQ Chicken. We will be cooking on Feb. 5th at 10am. See you then!

p.s. I didn't remember to take any pictures this month, but since every recipe has been done before I guess it is no big deal!!!

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About this blog:

We are a group of moms who get together about once a month or so to cook Meals Made Ahead.

Meals Made Ahead are great because it's nice to always have something in the freezer for those nights that are busy, those nights when you can't think of anything to make, those nights when you have nothing to cook with because you didn't feel like dragging two screaming kids through the grocery store, those nights when you just don't feel like cooking.

Sure, we could do this on our own. But it's much more fun to cook with friends (and share the clean up!)

The secret ingredient

"If a woman could see the sparks of light going forth from her fingertips when she is cooking, and the substance of light that goes into the food she handles, she would be amazed to see how much of herself she charges into the meals that she prepares for her family and friends. It is one of the most important and least understood activities of life, that the radiation and feeling that go into the preparation of food affect everyone who partakes of it. And this activity should be unhurried, peaceful, and happy because the substance of the lifestream performing the service flows into that food and is eaten, and actually becomes part of the energy of the receiver. It would be better that an individual did not eat at all than to eat food that has been prepared under a feeling of anger, apathy, resentment, depression, or any outward pressure."
~Maha Chohan, Electrons