Cal, at Walton feed.com, there are good recipes, very good
family types.
There was a link there to a Civil War Cookbook, my interests were always in the old ways of cooking.
There was a recipe chat board, for using the dehydrated products they sell.
If you do any baking, buy Walton's dry buttermilk, you get about 10# for the price of 8oz at Safeway here.
The SAF yeast that they sell for about $4.00 a pound is the exact same thing as the $8.00 bottles of bread machine yeast.
It was cheaper for me to order from them and pay shipping by
UPS to my kitchen, than to go to Kingman and shop at regular stores.
Your bean stew is easy, lots of herbs, garlic, a can of tomatoes, celery, onions and cook, the crockpot is excellent.
Serve it Texas style, with cornbread, fried potatoes, and Mustard or Turnip greens.......
Sliced tomatoes and green onions or sliced onions and yes
that is better than a steak.....
Bake extra cornbread, use it for a tamale pie, add whatever you have to the left over beans, corn, etc, mexican spices cover with cheese and crumple the cornbread on the top, bake an hour. (Or make a fresh batch of cornbread)
In a tamale pie, you can hide anything. All the dabs of leftovers for a week, get or make enchilada sauce to use in it, if you want that taste, I used canned tomatoes and chili
powder and found it good.
In the early 1970's I worked in the Wellton Variety store, a small family, what do you need, we will get it for you store.
Wellton was a farm community and we had a large Mexican population.
We ordered one Crockpot, to see if it would sell.
Someone bought it for a Mexican mother.......
I loved to see her drag in her friends and listen to them talk of the magic of owning a crockpot, "all you do is put the beans in it, turn it on, and when you wake up in the morning, the beans are done, it is a miracle".
That year, Crockpots were our best sellers.
Unless you were raised, as I was, cooking beans on the stove and letting them boil dry, and burn, or not have the time to do it right and making them come out so hard, you can't eat them, you won't understand the magic, we find in cooking the beans in a crockpot.
>>>>If you do any baking, buy Walton's dry buttermilk, you get about 10# for the price of 8oz at Safeway here.
Dry buttermilk? Now that is interesting. I've not seen that! That will be worth getting. The stores by me don't carry much buttermilk. Not much yeast either. And the yeast I've bought over the past few years is old. It is hit and miss to get a good rise with dough. The stores stock stuff to discourage cooking and baking. They want to move the premade garbage.
I've not made tamales yet. My kids don't like too much hot spicy stuff. I have managed to get them to have a taste for garlic; but not hot. They will grow into it though.
I'm going to add a crockpot to my shopping list. I've only used the stove to date. I think a crockpot will work for pea soup? Sounds like a worthwhile investment. I'll try the bean stew recipe in it.
Going to light the BBQ coals now. Just got back from my son's Baseball game.