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Homemade Gravy Mixes

Apparently, I was on a roll the past few days. We weren't doing a turkey for Thanksgiving, as I'd found a perfect lovely pork rib roast and was gifted home grown acorn squash from my co-worker, Theresa. That left me with a lot more time to play with jars and mixes. 

First, I made homemade gravy mixes, and when I was finished, I had quart jars with mixes for multiple batches of chicken gravy, beef gravy, and mushroom gravy. No running out to the store for those anymore.

I looked but couldn't find any recipes for turkey or pork gravy mixes, so I'll still get those, making sure they're non-GMO or non-bioengineered. Those are the ones I will make and serve here.

Homemade Rice Mixes

While I was doing the gravy mixes, my order was delivered with the bulk packages of Zataran's long grain rice, as well as more of the organic tomato powder, and I was stocked to make my seasoned rice mixes.

The two I immediately put into jars were the Herb Butter Rice Mix (like Uncle Ben's Original Seasoned Rice Mix), and the other was a Spanish Rice Mix. 

I started by putting the seasonings in the bottom, and then rice on top. Although the recipe didn't call for it, I used white and brown rice in the herb butter variety. The seasonings went into the jar first so that when I vacuum-sealed the jars, it didn't suck the powders out the top. After the jars were sealed, I shook them up to mix them, and then put labels on the lids.

In case you'd like recipes for these, They're from a YouTube channel called "Plow and Pantry". HERE is the link. In addition to these two, she also makes chicken, curry, beef, and onion rice mixes. I saved those recipes, but only made these two for now. I'll make the others later.

I pulled the gravy mixes off the Internet and don't have the links with me right now, but I'll share them later if anyone is interested.

I hope you all had a lovely and enjoyable Thanksgiving. We're expecting a doozy of a storm that should begin overnight tonight. We're not sure how much is going to fall around here, but in the Midwest, you just never know.

Handsome and I have hair appointments on Saturday morning, and once the snow starts, we'll know whether we have to reschedule or not. Honestly, when the weather gets crazy, we just prefer to stay home. Oh, and I'm breaking a hard and fast rule today. I'm out of birdseed, and didn't find it out until I went to fill the feeders yesterday afternoon. As all the stores were closed for Thanksgiving, I want to run out and get what I need before this storm hits so the birds will have food. Believe me. Absolutely nothing else would get me out of the house today! Well, except work. I work my three hour shift starting at 4, and if we're slow, I'll be coming home early.

Another weekend has rolled around, so put your feet up, eat your leftovers, and have a great weekend, my friends. I'll be back tomorrow with another Steve the Otter meme (or two).