Jared & his friend Palmer got into a funny exchange for a few months when we would go to piano lessons. They would say “food storage~!” over & over & over again. It was funny (but only the first ten thousand times).
Last Saturday night at the ward party there was an emphasis on food storage. Now, everyone was supposed to bring food made with their food storage. We were kinda late & let’s just say that in the event we have to live off our cupboards, we will all be very skinny. I was a bit discouraged so I got online & found some great sites & resources. My favorite is everydayfoodstorage.net – she has videos, recipes, how-tos, good tips, and practical advice on how to use & store the stuff. Today we made “Blender Cheesecake”. Now, a certain northwestern friend of mine will definitely not think of this as true cheesecake – it resembled the Jell-O kind but it was pretty quick & very tasty – even with dated milk. (I snitched a little taste of the cheesecake & it tasted kinda iffy before it chilled but great once done.)
Blender Cheesecake
(multi-step process but easy-breezy-mac-n-cheesy)
Crust:
1-1/2 cups (one package) graham crackers, crushed finely (rolling pin in a big ziploc bag)
6 tablespoons butter, melted
3 tablespoons sugar
Mix crust together & press into bottom & up sides of 9” cake pan.
Sweetened condensed milk:
1 cup powdered milk
1/2 cup hot water
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon butter
Mix together in a blender until very well blended.
Cheesecake:
To ingredients in blender, add
1/3 cup lemon juice
1 package cream cheese (1/3 less fat okay)
1 teaspoon vanilla.
Pour into prepared crust, top with a can of cherry pie filling & chill for two hours. I will try to add a picture tomorrow!
There! We get credit for rotating our food storage & yummies for our tummies to boot. And how often have I not made a recipe because I needed sweetened condensed milk or cream of chicken soup. Easy & economical.
How do you incorporate food storage into your daily diet?
4 comments:
I think the problem was that only 10 people showed up to the activity! What was there was pretty good, though I lost my copies of the recipes before I left the building. Thanks for the website and recipe!
So true that not many people came. We would have probably had food if we were 45 minutes earlier. :)
so can you use that sweetened condensed milk recipe to substitute for any recipe that calls for it?
It's supposed to work for any sweetened condensed milk recipe. She also had a recipe on the site for cream of any soup. Great for nights that I don't want to run to the store, plus no MSG!
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