Week by Week Food Storage

June Week 4: Paper towels, TP, aluminum foil, sandwich bags etc
For full year schedule click here.

Week by Week Food Storage

June Week 3: Cheese. Buy in 5,10,15 pound blocks and cut into smaller blocks and freeze.

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Week by Week Food Storage

June Week 2: Safety week, replace flashlight batteries, check smoke detectors, practice your fire
escape routes

Link to full year schedule here.

Week by Week Food Storage

June Week 1: White sale month; buy those much needed sheets or towels.

RS Presidency Message for June

Dear Sisters,

As Summer approaches and we get to enjoy the outdoors, we hope you will have fun and be
happy.

The following thoughts for June are from President Eyring’s General Conference talk ‘Mountains
to Climb.’

“You and I have faith that the way to rise through and above trials is to believe that there is
a “balm in Gilead” and that the Lord has promised, “I will not…forsake thee.” That is what President
Thomas S. Monson has taught us to help us and those we serve in what seem lonely and overwhelming
trials. But President Monson has also wisely taught that a foundation of faith in the reality of those
promises takes time to build” (pg.23). Helaman 5:12 comes to mind.

Also, “Our choosing the right consistently whenever the choice is placed before us creates the
solid ground under our faith” (pg.24) We are grateful for that same message that was presented in Stake
Conference. It is important to choose the right. Our choices will make an impact. President Jones asks
us to ponder, “Would you sell your soul for a nickel?” This is a question he uses with his own children
and has been effective!

President Eyring continues, “…I wish to encourage those who are in the midst of hard trials,
who feel their faith may be fading under the onslaught of troubles. Trouble itself can be your way to
strengthen and finally gain unshakable faith. That particle of faith most precious and which you should
protect and use to whatever extent you can is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.” The prophet “Moroni
taught the power of that faith this way: “And neither at any time hath any wrought miracles until after
their faith; wherefore they first believed in the Son of God.”

We hope all of you are well this summer and enjoying life. And we testify that these words on
faith are true.

Love, Sue, Amy, Lisa and Vickie

Week by Week Food Storage

May Week 4: Garden seeds: don't forget the radishes! They grow fast and are full of vitamins.

Click here for local locations for seeds.

YW Garage Sale

The Young Women of the Arvada 1st ward are having their girls camp fundraiser garage sale on Saturday, May 26th, 7am-2pm at the Alkire building. Please come support us by shopping our very  large selection of clothing, furniture, children's items, bedding, and more. There will also be a bake sale full of delicious homeade treats. Be sure to invite your neighbors and friends!

Week-by-Week Food Storage

May Week 2: Dry soups and crackers. Restore crispness by placing crackers in microwave (dehydrator and oven work as well.

Here is a link to a couple of recipes to make your own soup mix.

http://www.ellenskitchen.com/pantry/mixes1.html

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road

Too good not to try

How to Make Stuffed and Crusted French Toast
By Dennis Weaver

If you can make a sandwich, you can make stuffed and crusted French toast. In fact, a peanut butter and jam sandwich made into French toast is quite good.

Full-OrangeCrustedFrenchToastTo make stuffed French toast, you literally make a sandwich, dip it into your egg batter, and fry it on the griddle. It’s that simple. The magic is in the fillings. You can use a cream cheese filling and fresh fruit.

You can use jam. We usually use pastry fillings, often Bavarian cream, to make fillings like strawberries and cream.

You cook your stuffed French toast exactly as you do “regular” French toast except that you turn the heat down and cook it longer so that the heat drives through both slices of bread.

When making stuffed and crusted French toast, after dipping your sandwich in egg batter, you dredge it in chopped nuts or coconut. I’m sure there are other things you can dredge your French toast in.

In our cooking class, we dredge French toast in a candied toasted coconut topping. The sugar in the coconut melts creating a crunchy coating. By the way, in this same class we make pecan crusted French toast filled with either a cherry or raspberry filling paired with Bavarian cream or cream cheese filling. We simply squeeze some of the fruit filling with some of the cream filling on the bread before sandwiching the two bread slices together. (See all our pastry fillings.) You can make breakfast exciting.


Pecan Crusted French Toast with Cherry Cream Cheese Filling

Full-PecanCherryToast

You can make this stuffed and crusted French toast either withpremade pastry fillings from scratch using cream cheese and jam for your filling. The scratch recipe follows.

Ingredients
4 ounces cream cheese (regular or low fat)
2 tablespoons sour cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
about 2/3 cup cherry jam
bread slices
3 large eggs
2 tablespoons milk
1 to 1 1/2 cups finely chopped pecans

Directions

Finely chop the pecans. We used a plunger-type nut chopper. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, whip the cream cheese, sour cream, and extract. Fold in the jam. Spread the cherry and cream cheese mixture between two slices of bread sandwich-style.
Whisk the eggs and milk together. Dip the sandwiches in the egg mixture and then dredge the egg-coated sandwiches in the crushed pecans.
Cook the coated sandwiches on a medium griddle or in a frying pan first on one side and then the other. Serve immediately with the syrup of your choice. Our preference is cherry syrup.

Yield is about four double French toast sandwiches.

Dennis Weaver is the founder of The Prepared Pantry. He is the author of How to Bake, a 250 page book about the art and science of baking. You can download a free copy of How to Bake here.