So here is my confession. I really wanted to learn how to make homemade corndogs as a follow up on Thursday’s cornmeal post. (Yes you really CAN use corn/cornmeal in a LOT of different foods!) However, I got a little intimidated by the whole deep frying thing and I chickened out. [...]

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My mom (known as Grandma Lori around here) used to make homemade chili that had lentils in it. I remember always hating chili growing up because of those darn lentils. In fact, I am still working at overcoming my loathing of lentils (see my lentil sprouting post for proof). When I first [...]

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Corn Cakes
Serving Size: 4 servings
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
1/3 cup cornmeal
1 egg
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/2 tsp. salt

Directions:

Preheat a skillet over medium heat.
Spray skillet with nonstick spray
Combine all ingredients in a large bowl with a mixer set [...]

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In doing our research to prepare the page for BabyStep 5: Grains (coming tomorrow!), we realized that there were several grains on the long term food storage list (see BabyStep 4) that we didn’t really know how to use. We decided to try to find good recipes for those ingredients before we actually start [...]

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