Posts Tagged ‘Nebraska’

Food Stamps Cooking: Cooking With Corn?

January 11th, 2010

 

 

When the giant snowdrifts melt, this will be what Nebraskans see during the summer months!

 

We live in Husker land; the famous Nebraska Cornhusker football team is just up the road from our little town and corn is grown in Nebraska like nobody’s business.  If we did not love eating sweet corn we’d probably followed by the Corn Police.  At the very least we’d be denied access to the sweet goodness!  Corn in Nebraska is pretty much comfort food all year round!

Firehouse #1 in Lincoln was featured in Nebraska Life Magazine recently, where they shared a casserole from their kitchen that makes my mouth water, just thinking of it.    It’s beautiful, it’s golden and will travel beautifully to a pot luck meal, where it will receive rave reviews from people who will gobble it up immediately.  You have GOT to try this one:

BAKED CORN CASSEROLE

2 cans cream style corn

2 cans whole kernel corn, drained

2 sticks butter, melted

2 cups sour cream

2 boxes cornbread mix (I used Jiffy)

In a large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients.  Mix well.  Pour into greased 9 X 13 inch casserole dish.  Bake at 350 degrees for  45 – 50 minutes.  It will be light golden brown and smell delicious!  This serves 6 – 8, depending how hungry your gang is!

When the oven is baking something it warms the kitchen; your home baked goods will be heart warming!

If you have the time to look at the great comment Anne left for us on our previous post, it will be worth your time.  We are so delighted to have good comments like Anne’s!  We love our mail, too:  foodstampscookingclub@gmail.com!

We make every effort here to help people who use SNAP or WIC or food from food pantries or have food commodities; we hope we offer hope to folks who avail themselves of Angel Food Ministries and Farmers Market Coupons.  We make every effort to inspire and empower people who simply need to stretch every food dollar in their food budgets.   We hope to do all this while pointing people in the direction of healthy choices in order to be well and happy.

Other sites we invite you to visit are: Mother Connie Sez.  Mother Connie is all about health; this is the main push of this site but she does reminisce, too.  The Healthy and Wealthy You deals with health and wealth; imagine that!  Rapid Cash Review is a business blog that offers ideas for the work at home  and internet marketing crowd.  As you might expect, we are jonesin’ for comments on each of those, as well!  See how we are?

Your visits, your comments, your support are truly the lifeblood of this site.  We are all in this crummy economy together, kids.  We may as well hang together, help one another, and make the best of it!

Connie Baum

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Calling All Kids! Especially in Johnson County, Nebraska!

July 10th, 2009

Terri Brethouwer, Family Development Associate tells me the South East Nebraska Community Action Center crew is BUSY! They are gearing up for an event to help children get back to school with all their needs met!  That’s because they are investing in people to build strong communities!

Later this month there will be an event to prepare youngsters for the new school year!  It will be held at the Action Center in beautiful downtown Tecumseh, Nebraska!  The next day there will be an identical event in Pawnee City, Nebraska.  The kids will be given backpacks filled with socks and underwear and there will be professionals on hand to assist them from their areas of expertise.  Here’s a list of the key players:

  • I’ll be there to share information about healthy snacks!
  • Someone from our County Extension Office will have meal ideas!
  • An eye care specialist will do something regarding their vision
  • A Physician’s Assistant will be on hand for medical issues
  • Dental care will be addressed

Being a part of this-being a part of this community, even, just gives me goosebumps!  Oh, how I wish everyone from all over the country could come to this event so I could give you a hug and thank you for being so faithful to the Food Stamps Cooking Club!

You have been faithful to our partners, as well.  For this we are all grateful.

Summer is a great time for great food.  The ideas are pouring in at foodstampscookingclub@gmail.com  and we will be sharing those in the hot, humid days to come.  Meantime, please continue sending those in your circle of influence to Food Stamps Cooking Club so they can sign in and receive our occasional messages of information and tips.

As you are keenly aware, this site is dedicated to helping recipients of the SNAP program, food commodities, food pantries, and we hope we are assisting everyday people in managing their food budgets.  Those who get help through Angel Food Ministries seem to appreciate our offerings, as do people who are using Farmers Market coupons.

You are more than welcome to post your comments.  They will need to be moderated so you may not see them immediately but please know we are most grateful to receive them.  They give us fresh perspective and make us feel appreciated.  Thank you so very much!

Connie Baum