Mountain Recipes

I went to Stater's this morning to buy all the stuff on sale. You know save on food so you can afford to buy a couple of gallons of gas!!!
I bought 2 chickens. I cut one entirely in two down the middle. I should have asked the butcher to do it but didn't think about it until I got home. So now those 2 halves are in my big crock pot simmering away with no liquid. Just some seasonings of my choice. Then when they are almost done I am going to put bbq sauce on them and put them on the bbq. One half will go in the freezer and we will eat the other half for dinner plus left overs for sandwiches or whatever. My freezer and refrig are pretty full so I was afraid to buy anymore but if this works out like I hope I will run down tomorrow and get two more. I can always just cook, debone and freeze the meat.

I also bought two strips of pork ribs at 99c a pound. They were really meaty with little fat. I had them each cut up into 3 chunks. I am going to freeze one strip and cook the other one tomorrow (in beer) - then bbq and what we don't eat I can freeze for a day I don't want to cook.

They also had the 1# boxes of strawberries on sale for a $1.

So with chicken, ribs and tamales from tamalamama (plus hamburger, pork chops, and steaks that I got on sale in the last few weeks) and other stuff in the freezer we can buy gas next week!!!! Takes time to do this but it sure does save a lot of money.

I'm boiling a rack of those ribs as I type! Have to go back for chickens, what were they $.69/pound? I'm also cooking some of the breasts w/ribs attached (on sale) tonight for lunches this week. I haven't made decent ribs in awhile, we'll see!

I also trimmed and am marinating a tri tip (on sale) for sometime this week. I saved gas by going NOWHERE this weekend!

I buy almost all Stater brands. A few I don't like and a few things I just have to have other brands!! I am just glad that I do not have a family to feed. I am going back to the store tomorrow. I forgot coffee and it was on my list! But I also want to check out veggie plants at Walmart. They have good stuff and good price.

Besides for six months I hardly ate anything but now that I am feeling better and one of the meds is making me really hungry I want to cook all the time. This has to stop!! Guess I will go ride my exercise bike for a while.

So glad your feeling better, or coping better! My mom lost a lot of weight (finally found she was gluten, dairy intolerant, but can't have much potassium because of her kidneys, or kidney , so most veggies, chocolate, are hard on her)

She was put on the pain patch, and that all went away, weird. Unfortunately it made her SO cold while bundled up in bed she couldn't sleep. She's saving the rest for the heat of summer in Hemet!

Anyway, DH's favorite coffee Yuban is on sale, and has a $1 off in add coupon. Of course, NO Yuban on the Coffee, or end of aisle displays. I really started to get pissed, but ran into an old friend in the wine aisle! at the end there was a little display of Yuban! Thanks hellbilly!

Probably a little of both, KB. Not so depressed now anyway. I will email you. Chickens are going on the BBQ now. I have never done them like this before. That is, doing the whole chicken in two halves on the BBQ. The cooked nicely in the crock pot and now are ready for the final touch! yummmmmmm

This has nothing to do with food, but I just hung a clothes line last week to save a little money so I can gas up my car. And, I bought some tomatoes and have vowed to do even more yard sale shopping and less mall shopping.

And, the clothes smelled so nice when I took them down. I am putting jeans and stuff like that out there, but towels still get the dryer.

Duh!! I am going to plant the tomatoes, as they are plants.

And, Himself says he likes his jeans hung on the line, as they look like they were ironed. He finds this especially nice since he has been trying to get me to iron his jeans since 1971 and I have flatly refused all this time.

Protect your tomato plants for a while if you plant them outside. I would put a plastic grocery bag around them with an air hole in the top. They do not like low temps at all. My squash doesn't either. Just be sure to cover them at night with something or in the day time if it gets cold again. I planted onion seeds. They are great and don't care about the cold. With onions 99c a pound it sure is nice to pull them out of the garden. Good luck!

Air drying clothes is all my mother ever did until she was over 50 years old.

We ate the chicken for dinner with homemade coleslaw and we shared a roll. We ate about half of one half of the chicken. I took them out of the crock pot when they were fork tender and let them cool a little so I could handle them. I put them on the BBQ about 20 minutes on each side. They were perfect and very moist. Must have been the beer in the crock pot?

Now the other half will go in the freezer and the extra from the half we ate will go for salad or sandwiches.

So tomorrow I have to do the other chicken and the ribs. I think I will do the ribs in the big crock pot too. That worked really well. Then throw them on the BBQ for the final stage.

KB- I forgot the tri tip. My son taught me years ago to cut the tri tip into steaks. Dumb me had never thought of that. I did get a package of country ribs but they will just go in the freezer for now.

Oh onions! If we can ever get this little slab of concrete poured, I'm trying onions! Tomatoes are just too depressing when they get eaten!

Well, our dinner was really good, but it would have been even better if my propane didn't run out the minute I got everything on the grill! Luckily everything was cooked, so into the broiler and toaster oven they went! Jeez, you'd think we could keep one of 3 tanks full at all times!

And good thing it was just us! But, if we were planning on having company I probably would have double checked!

My bone in chicken breasts were really good. I just pull up the skin and season with Santa Maria Seasoning, from Jensen's , cram them all in a baking dish, and bake for about 45minutes at 350. I took them out to sit while heating the bbq(or I should say, while using the last of my gas! ) Then brushed some bbq sauce on. Discard the skin.

I used to cut the tri tip into steaks, but sometimes I like thin slices. But you're right, it will cook much better sliced into steaks. Thanks!

I butterfly the tri-tip so it bar b que's much faster and then slice into thin slices.