For some reason, just having the flour already measured out makes the task of making bread so much less daunting! I am really not a baker, actually. That's why I have the bread machine do my dirty work and I just take the lovely dough, bake it in the oven and call it my own homemade bread. Boy is it good! Especially with freshly ground flour, oh my goodness.
I also experimented with grinding popcorn into cornmeal today. I haven't made anything with it, but I did pop it in my freezer to keep it fresh until I do use it. I'm thinking of making some corn muffins. How cool is freshly ground cornmeal?? I'm looking for a good cornbread/corn muffin recipe that I can use to make homemade mixes from. I would prefer more of a savory taste than sweet, and not too much milk/sour cream, etc since my husband tries to stay away from large amounts of dairy. Now that I'm grinding cornmeal, I will probably be experimenting with corn bread recipes in the weeks to come. If you have a great recipe, please share!
The one other quickie freezer meal-making I did was a few pork loin roasts. The huge ones were on sale at our high-end grocery store, so I bought one and split it into three big roasts, about 3 lbs each. They worked out to be less than $5 each, which is pretty good considering each will provide at least 6 meals but probably more for us. I seasoned one of the roasts with a new dijon marinade, and the others I left plain. I've got a maple glazed pork roast recipe I've done a couple times that is fabulous. Hopefully this will give us a little variety from the 35 lbs of chicken I just added to our freezer two days ago!
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