What if you could make fresh cream cheese whenever you wanted it? And have it easy to do? If you love cream cheese, this will make your bagels and tortillas feel so loved. And to have the ability to make dishes that call for it, instead of a drive to town when you realize you… Continue reading Pantry Staples: Making Cream Cheese From Powder
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Pantry Staples: Nearly Instant Cream of Soup Dry Mix
Canned cream of "X" soups are handy, for sure, but they are a questionable blend of ingredients, and they are going up in price monthly. Where we live, a can is $2 now for what used to go on sale for .50 cents a can just a year back. Now, if you had a dry… Continue reading Pantry Staples: Nearly Instant Cream of Soup Dry Mix
Pantry Staples: Low Sodium Dry Onion Soup Mix
This dry mix is equivalent to a commercial envelope of dry onion soup mix that makes 4 cups of soup, and it's also low sodium, something that you won't find in the stores! It's handy to have in your pantry, no expensive last minute runs to the store. Low Sodium Dry Onion Soup Mix Ingredients:… Continue reading Pantry Staples: Low Sodium Dry Onion Soup Mix
Pantry Staples: Dehydrated Pesto Mix
Dry mixes for pesto are not cheap, if you can even find them in the local grocery store's dry mix aisle (or the top shelf in the pasta aisle, which is often bare at our stores). It's also not as fresh as when you make it yourself! And no thickeners, no gums, no starches added.… Continue reading Pantry Staples: Dehydrated Pesto Mix
Pantry Staples: Powdered Egg Replacer
For a number of years we baked without eggs, as our youngest was allergic to chicken eggs. It's not an uncommon allergy in children, but fortunately is one of the few food allergies that can go away as a child ages. He was fortunate, and it did go away. But for about 6 or so… Continue reading Pantry Staples: Powdered Egg Replacer