Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Back to Basics- The Menu Mailer Series

by KerryAnn Foster on September 7, 2010 · 0 comments

in Frugality,Menu Mailer



Beginning this week, the Menu Mailer is doing a series of weekly mailers called ‘Back to Basics.’  If you are subscribed to the mailer, you will receive these issues as part of your regular subscription.  In addition to receiving all of the instruction in Menu Mailer format complete with your weekly menu, preparation schedule and shopping list, we will be covering such topics as:

  • How to produce tasty and moist roast beef in the crock-pot and the oven.
  • How to pick cheaper cuts of meat.
  • How to roast a whole chicken in the crock-pot and the oven.
  • How to pan-sear chicken without drying it out.
  • How to brine meat.
  • How to stir-fry.
  • How to roast vegetables.
  • How to make soup.
  • How to make ‘cream of mushroom soup’ replacement.
  • How to lacto-ferment vegetables without whey.
  • How to use your broiler.
  • Homemade mayonnaise
  • Homemade spice mixes
  • How to reduce sugar and additives in your diet if you are new to Traditional Foods.
  • Homemade dressings
  • Homemade sauces and gravies
  • Homemade gluten-free breads- quick breads, flat breads and sourdough.
  • How to soak and cook grains.
  • A variety of egg cooking techniques.
  • How to cut up a chicken.
  • KerryAnn’s formula for great hamburgers, meatballs, meatloaf and more.
  • Nourishing breakfasts, snacks and desserts.
  • What to do with leftover, cooked meats.
  • How to make stock.
  • How to make ghee.
  • How to make yogurt.
  • How to make water kefir.
  • How to make kombucha.
  • How to make other lacto-fermented drinks.
  • How to take a technique and change it into multiple different recipes.
  • How to stretch meals and save on your grocery budget.
  • How to decrease your time in the kitchen.
  • A Traditional Foods Thanksgiving and Christmas.
  • How to hide vegetables and liver in your meals.
  • And much, much more.

Once you master these basic techniques, you can make a wide variety of meals using different spices and ingredients.  Your family will never realize you are using the same basic recipes, again and again, to turn out a wide selection of meals!

If you’d like to join us for this series, please subscribe to the Menu Mailer or the Mailer and Archive Package Deal at the CTF Website.  The website will be updated weekly so you can join in on the class in progress without missing an issue.  We will also offer the course for sale, in full, at its completion.  We plan to run the series for at least 16 weeks, through New Year’s, but we are taking suggestions for items you would like to see included in the series, so we will add weeks as needed to incorporate in those requests as well.

The Menu Mailer costs as little as $1 a week!  Sign up now to take advantage of this full series with the added benefit of having your menus planned out for you, one week at a time.

KerryAnn Foster runs Cooking Traditional Foods, the longest running Traditional Foods Menu Mailer on the internet. KerryAnn has over nine years of traditional foods experience and is a former Weston A. Price Foundation chapter leader. Founded in 2005, CTF helps you feed your family nourishing foods they will love. Each mailer contains one soup, five dinners, one breakfast, on dessert and extras. You can learn more about our Menu Mailers at the CTF website. For a free sample Menu Mailer, join our mailing list. You can also join our forum to chat with other traditional foodists and learn more.

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