Cooking

If you planted a garden this year and have an overabundance of zucchini, you’re not alone. Zucchini is probably one of the easiest vegetables to grow. So what do you do with your bumper crop? You can make zucchini bread, muffins, and pancakes, or things like deep fried zucchini or grating it into salads. But once you tries all of these things, then what? One year in the midst of hundreds of pounds of prolific production, Annette called a friend about other options for eating up our zucchini. Sue recommended making zucchini relish.

Every time we do a grocery seminar or take phone calls during an interview on grocery savings, inevitably the question is raised, “How can I save money on organic foods?”

One of the best things we’ve done to save money and time and still eat well was to buy a cow! Actually, we split a cow with another family. It is cheaper for the butcher to not have to weigh each package and maintain inventory and a better deal for the rancher to sell just one cow instead of deal dollars away for a herd. Of course, to do this properly you must have adequate storage space — we have a large upright freezer.

Organizing your kitchen is much like choreographing a dance. All the elements must work in perfect accord to create a seemingly effortless, elegant and efficient performance.

If you have the wrong tools, or they’re in the wrong places, your kitchen dance will be stuttering and herky-jerky— not at all pleasant. It’s taken us years to get the right things in the right places.