Earlier this week I was drinking coffee and going over emails/tweets from the night before* and I was curious… what is this #bakingday thing everyone was talking about?!!?
(*I live in Germany (hubby is Army) and we are 6 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time… so when I go to bed – most of ya’ll are getting ready to make/serve dinner! So there’s always LOTS to catch up on by the time I wake up!)
SOOO I did a search… and stumbled onto Life as a Mom’s post describing a planned “Baking/Freezer day” where you spend your whole day baking ahead things – in order to save time overall! What a fabulous idea!!!
Because I have three small children, I decided to keep my goals small and do simple things that allowed me to drop at any moment to nurse the baby, kiss a booboo, and change diapers…. And I wouldn’t start anything until everyone was down for a nap – and it worked wonderfully!
For my #bakingday I accomplished 3 things.
o Baked Squash
o “Loaded” Mashed Potatoes
o Prepped locally grown Apples
I can’t tell you how much FUN I had cooking and tweeting this #bakingday! (What is this “tweeting” you speak of?!!) Half the fun of this #bakingday was updating via twitter – Bake at 350 said it best when she wrote “Twitter is like a giant beauty shop with all of my best (cyber) girlfriends (and their friends)…”
Ok Ok, enough chit chat – here are the goods!
I babysat a good friend of mine’s daughter two days this week after school,
and I think I should pay my friend! It was wonderful to have an older child
for my boys to play with while I was cleaning up the kitchen!
because I was nursing the baby on the couch during their fashion show!!
Ah well… Here they are cuddling/watching a movie while I made dinner…
I will definitely remember this idea NEXT baking day!!
This post is linked to “Recipe Swap” hosted by Life as a Mom
and “Freezer Cooking Day” hosted by Money Saving Mom.
November 5, 2009 at 1:36 pm
I really should have participated in that! What a great idea! Beauty shop was the closest thing I could think of for Twitter.
November 5, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I linked to you from Life As Mom. Your loaded mashed potatoes look yummy. There is a future for those in my freezer
November 5, 2009 at 3:19 pm
It looks like you had a very productive day! Your pictures are wonderful!
November 5, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Where can we find the recipe for the potatoes
November 5, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Dear Anonymous — It is mostly just an estimate!!
or what is available in the fridge!
I made a whole bag of potatoes… then put half in my mixer and added a stick of butter, half a container of sour creme, two handfuls of shredded chedder cheese and then dumped in some bacon pieces!
oh – and repeat with the rest of the potatoes!
November 6, 2009 at 5:41 am
This is a great idea. I've seen it done were several moms get together (maybe Dad's watch kids) and make a day of it. Sounds fun too. I've got a full freezer right now with stuff from the garden and my husband just got an elk this morning so will be putting in lots more meat. Glad for that!
November 6, 2009 at 10:20 am
Where are you getting your "locally grown apples"?????
November 9, 2009 at 8:21 am
Manually cutting up the apples probably would have killed off my desire to cook, lol. You should look into the apple peeler corer slicer that PC has! I LOVE those mashed potatoes, looks delicious! And the squash looks soooo yummy! I'm probably going to have to make them, lol! Thanks!
Stephanie