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Stockpile These Just Add Water Meals in a Jar! Prepper Pantry Lasagna and No Knead Bread Mix - 2026 — Transcript

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  1. 0:00do you want to fill your prepper Pantry
  2. 0:01with food you'll actually want to eat
  3. 0:04then stay tuned because this video is
  4. 0:06for
  5. 0:09you hey guys it's Jara with Wicked
  6. 0:11prepared welcome back to the channel we
  7. 0:14have seen even more craziness in the
  8. 0:15world over the last week am I right and
  9. 0:18it's sure to keep escalating over the
  10. 0:20next several months so it's no wonder
  11. 0:22that many people have really stepped up
  12. 0:23their prepping when it comes to
  13. 0:25emergency food storage there's a few
  14. 0:27issues that we see over and over again
  15. 0:30too many people stock their preps with
  16. 0:31foods that they think they should store
  17. 0:34like beans rice can tuna things like
  18. 0:36that but they give no thought to how
  19. 0:39they're actually going to turn those
  20. 0:40Foods into a complete meal when the time
  21. 0:42comes or they stock up on so-called
  22. 0:44convenience items like these that are
  23. 0:47full of things that they really aren't
  24. 0:48keen on putting in their bodies because
  25. 0:50of these reasons too many people don't
  26. 0:53rotate their emergency food storage like
  27. 0:55they should and that food they spent
  28. 0:57their hard earned money on just sits
  29. 0:58there until it's past stes at which
  30. 1:01point most people just toss it food
  31. 1:03storage can be one of the best and
  32. 1:05smartest Investments that we make but
  33. 1:07only if it's done right that's why we
  34. 1:09love using meals in a jar as part of our
  35. 1:12emergency food storage we can make a
  36. 1:14huge variety of different meals that our
  37. 1:16family actually likes and wants to eat
  38. 1:19because we make them ourselves we
  39. 1:20control what goes into them so we know
  40. 1:22they're made with ingredients that we
  41. 1:24trust and they fit our dietary needs
  42. 1:27they're shelf stable so they can sit in
  43. 1:28our food storage for years if necessary
  44. 1:30and they're ready when we need them they
  45. 1:32don't require any additional ingredients
  46. 1:34besides water just add water and most of
  47. 1:37them cook up pretty quickly and easily
  48. 1:38in an emergency best of all because
  49. 1:40they're meals that we like and we feel
  50. 1:42good about the ingredients in them we're
  51. 1:44more likely to pull them off the shelf
  52. 1:46when we need a quick easy meal that
  53. 1:48helps keep our food storage rotated so
  54. 1:50that nothing gets too old and there's no
  55. 1:51bad surprises when we finally go to use
  56. 1:54our emergency food not to mention it
  57. 1:56helps keep us out of the drive-thru when
  58. 1:58we know we have better options at home
  59. 1:59that are healthier and probably just as
  60. 2:02quick or even quicker you can see how
  61. 2:04meals in a jar tick all the boxes for us
  62. 2:07and why we love them so much we have a
  63. 2:09whole collection of meal and a jar
  64. 2:10recipes on our Channel and our website
  65. 2:12but I try to come out with a new meal
  66. 2:14and a Jar video for our followers at
  67. 2:15least once a month today's meal in a jar
  68. 2:18is a sausage lasagna Skillet this is a
  69. 2:21very simple basic meal in a jar so it's
  70. 2:23perfect if you're just beginning with
  71. 2:25meals in a jar let's get started and
  72. 2:27I'll show you how this meal is done I
  73. 2:29said this was a great jar meal for
  74. 2:31beginners for someone who's just
  75. 2:33starting out with jar meals and this is
  76. 2:34why because there's very few ingredients
  77. 2:36and they're very basic we've got our
  78. 2:38pasta I'm using mafalda pasta which is
  79. 2:41basically mini lasagna noodles I have a
  80. 2:44really hard time finding this I cannot
  81. 2:45find this anywhere near where I live and
  82. 2:47I have a hard time finding it online for
  83. 2:49a decent price so I've been getting it
  84. 2:52from Amazon I will link where I get
  85. 2:54everything down in the description box
  86. 2:55below the video but hopefully you have
  87. 2:58more luck finding this locally to you
  88. 3:00and I'll show a few other options here
  89. 3:01in just a minute I've got some sausage
  90. 3:04freeze-dried sausage now this is another
  91. 3:06place that this is flexible if you don't
  92. 3:08like sausage you don't have sausage you
  93. 3:11could use a freeze-dried Hamburg and if
  94. 3:13you don't have either one of those and
  95. 3:15you don't have it in your budget to
  96. 3:16purchase those right now because Meats
  97. 3:18of course are a little bit more
  98. 3:19expensive um in freeze-dried food just
  99. 3:21like they are in fresh food or canned
  100. 3:24food any kind of food you're buying meat
  101. 3:25is usually going to take the biggest
  102. 3:27bite out of the budget this month this
  103. 3:29freeze-dried sauce is on sale and that's
  104. 3:30part of the reason that I've chosen this
  105. 3:32meal I'm using a lot of ingredients that
  106. 3:34are on sale that's the way I like to do
  107. 3:35it so that I can stock up on things when
  108. 3:38they're on sale and make a lot of Jar
  109. 3:39meals all at once but if it's not in
  110. 3:41your budget to get freeze-dried meat
  111. 3:43right now you could also use a TVP a
  112. 3:46beef TVP that's quite a bit less
  113. 3:48expensive that's a meat substitute it
  114. 3:51works a little bit differently than
  115. 3:52freeze-dried Meats it's going to absorb
  116. 3:53a lot more liquid and it's going to
  117. 3:55swell so you would need to use less of
  118. 3:57it in the recipe and you might need to
  119. 3:59adjust your water amounts but it is a
  120. 4:00little bit more of a budget friendly
  121. 4:02option if that's um something that you
  122. 4:04need and then we've got mozzarella
  123. 4:06cheese this is freeze-dried mozzarella
  124. 4:08cheese of course this is another great
  125. 4:10item to have on hand because it's real
  126. 4:12cheese a lot of times for pepper Pantry
  127. 4:14people feel like they're stuck with
  128. 4:16things like um valvita which is not real
  129. 4:18cheese and it's not a very healthy
  130. 4:20option this is just pure real mozzarella
  131. 4:22cheese shredded and freeze-dried and
  132. 4:24then I've got tomato sauce powder now
  133. 4:26this is one of my um most favorite
  134. 4:27products because it's very unique I
  135. 4:30don't see a lot of um spaghetti sauce
  136. 4:32this is basically a spaghetti sauce
  137. 4:34powder it's all seasoned it's all ready
  138. 4:35to go it's complete you just add water
  139. 4:38and it thickens into a beautiful sauce
  140. 4:40I've seen powdered mixes that you add to
  141. 4:43your own can of tomato sauce or tomato
  142. 4:45paste but I've never seen a complete
  143. 4:47product like this just a couple other
  144. 4:49reasons why I love this product it is a
  145. 4:51good space saver for me in my pepper
  146. 4:52Pantry it comes in a can like this which
  147. 4:54is a quart size can and the entire can
  148. 4:57fits in this little canister so it's
  149. 4:59really about the size of one jar of
  150. 5:01spaghetti sauce but this is going to
  151. 5:03take the place of several jars of
  152. 5:04spaghetti sauce with what you get out of
  153. 5:06it there are 51 servings in of spaghetti
  154. 5:10sauce in this can so I love that it
  155. 5:12saves space and the other thing I love
  156. 5:14is that I can make up as much as little
  157. 5:16as I want so like if you're a single
  158. 5:17person or you're a small family or like
  159. 5:19me maybe you have kids and teenagers who
  160. 5:22like to make themselves some pasta for a
  161. 5:24snack and open up a whole jar of sauce
  162. 5:26use a little bit out of it put it back
  163. 5:28in the fridge and then never touch it
  164. 5:30again and you end up finding a jar of
  165. 5:323/4 full with moldy sauce this is a
  166. 5:35great option because you can mix up just
  167. 5:37one serving at a time or two servings or
  168. 5:39four or eight or however many you want
  169. 5:41so you can use exactly the amount that
  170. 5:43you want and once it's opened the the
  171. 5:46contents of the can will stay good for
  172. 5:47about a year so you have quite a while
  173. 5:49to use it up and then other than those
  174. 5:51ingredients I've just got some
  175. 5:52seasonings over here I've got some
  176. 5:53Italian seasoning just basic Italian
  177. 5:55seasoning and I've got some sausage
  178. 5:58seasoning these are meant for for like
  179. 6:00people who are making their own sausage
  180. 6:02but I use them a lot to add more of a
  181. 6:05sausage flavor see freeze-dried sausages
  182. 6:07are pretty mild in flavor and they're
  183. 6:10kind of neither here nor there they're
  184. 6:11so um they can appeal to everyone and so
  185. 6:13they could be used for any type of meal
  186. 6:15breakfast meal dinner meal Italian meal
  187. 6:17any kind of sausage you need so I like
  188. 6:19to add a little bit more flavor that's
  189. 6:21specific to the type of sausage that I
  190. 6:23want to be using so I would be using an
  191. 6:25Italian sausage in a dish like this so I
  192. 6:27use an Italian sausage seasoning I'm
  193. 6:29just going to use one of these I have
  194. 6:30sweet Italian sausage and mild Italian
  195. 6:32sausage they're very similar I'm not
  196. 6:34even really sure what the difference is
  197. 6:36between these two there's also a hot
  198. 6:38italian sausage seasoning which I have
  199. 6:39used in the past sometimes so you can
  200. 6:41choose whatever one you like I will have
  201. 6:43links to these on Amazon because it's
  202. 6:45not something I've ever found in a local
  203. 6:47grocery
  204. 6:48store and then of course I've got some
  205. 6:50Johnny's garlic this is a really tasty
  206. 6:53seasoning and it adds a really good kind
  207. 6:55of garlicky touch now if you can't find
  208. 6:57the mafala pasta like I said I link to
  209. 7:00this but it's a little spendy where I've
  210. 7:01been getting it it's more than I
  211. 7:02typically pay for pasta but I do really
  212. 7:04like to have this shape if I'm making
  213. 7:06something like this like a lasagna
  214. 7:08Skillet or lasagna soup I just like to
  215. 7:10have this shape of noodle I've also
  216. 7:13found this one it's called something
  217. 7:15else it's called reginetti but I think
  218. 7:17that's just another name for
  219. 7:19mafalda you can see right
  220. 7:21there and this one is a whole grain so
  221. 7:24this was not any less expensive but it
  222. 7:26is whole grain so if you like um using
  223. 7:28whole grains like we like like to do a
  224. 7:30lot this is an option this is also from
  225. 7:32Amazon you could also use something like
  226. 7:37radiatore or bow ties any of these pasta
  227. 7:40shapes would work pretty well for a dish
  228. 7:41like this you could use sometimes you
  229. 7:44can find really wide wavy egg noodle
  230. 7:47ribbons I can't really find those um
  231. 7:48close to me I just have regular egg
  232. 7:50noodles and I prefer something a little
  233. 7:52bit wider and wavier but but these two
  234. 7:54shapes I think would be nice in this
  235. 7:56lasagna Skillet you could also use
  236. 7:58something like this shap shap I think
  237. 7:59these are called campanell they're um
  238. 8:01like a trumpet shaped pasta I think that
  239. 8:03would work really well in a lasagna
  240. 8:05Skillet and all of these last three
  241. 8:07options that I showed you I have found
  242. 8:08at my local grocery store so you could
  243. 8:10probably find them at your local grocery
  244. 8:12store because clearly we don't have much
  245. 8:13in our area the only caveat to that is
  246. 8:16if you do use a different pasta shape
  247. 8:18you might have to adjust your cooking
  248. 8:19time and you also might need to adjust
  249. 8:21the amount of water just slightly you
  250. 8:23might need a little bit more water for
  251. 8:24some of the bulkier pasta types and you
  252. 8:26might need a little longer cooking time
  253. 8:28but that's pretty easy to figure out
  254. 8:29to put together this meal we're going to
  255. 8:31need a quart size mason jar there's not
  256. 8:33a whole lot of special equipment needed
  257. 8:35for this which is one of the great
  258. 8:36things about it you don't need a
  259. 8:37pressure can or anything like that this
  260. 8:39is a Widemouth quart size mason jar this
  261. 8:42is going to make it easier when it comes
  262. 8:43time to get your meal out of the jar
  263. 8:45trust me you want the wide mouth you
  264. 8:47want to have a sealing lid and ring to
  265. 8:49go with your jar if you're putting this
  266. 8:51meal away for the long term you're going
  267. 8:53to want to use an oxygen absorber some
  268. 8:55people do vacuum seal them personally I
  269. 8:57think they last longer with an oxygen
  270. 8:59absorber but people have had some pretty
  271. 9:01decent luck with their vacuum sealers as
  272. 9:02well we're going to be using some basic
  273. 9:04measuring utensils cups and spoons and
  274. 9:07then the final thing we're going to want
  275. 9:09is a uh canning funnel to help us get
  276. 9:11the ingredients into the jar now let's
  277. 9:13get started I'm going to start with my
  278. 9:17pasta and I'm going to be adding two
  279. 9:19cups of my pasta you can be a little bit
  280. 9:21generous on these cups there's going to
  281. 9:23be plenty of room in the jar and if at
  282. 9:25the end you have extra space you could
  283. 9:27always add some more pasta if you want
  284. 9:28just keep in mind if you increase the
  285. 9:30amount of pasta you might need to
  286. 9:31increase the amount of water just to tab
  287. 9:34one cup and two
  288. 9:39cups next I'm going to add my sausage
  289. 9:42now I'm only using a half a cup of
  290. 9:43sausage that's um a little bit less than
  291. 9:45I typically put in a jar meal typically
  292. 9:47it's 3/4 cup to a cup that I would use
  293. 9:50in a jar meal but a great way to cut
  294. 9:52down the cost of any meal and this
  295. 9:53includes meals that you make with fresh
  296. 9:55ingredients is to cut down the amount of
  297. 9:56meat in the meal because that's usually
  298. 9:58the most expensive portion of the meal
  299. 10:00so you can see these are just little
  300. 10:01pieces of freeze-dried sausage these are
  301. 10:03delicious I actually love to eat them
  302. 10:05just dry um right out of the can right
  303. 10:07out of the canister if you eat keto or
  304. 10:09low carb these are a great low carb
  305. 10:11snack sometimes I'll just eat them plain
  306. 10:13sometimes I make a little snack mix with
  307. 10:15the sausage and some freeze-dried
  308. 10:16shredded cheese it's delicious so I'm
  309. 10:19doing a/2 cup of the
  310. 10:20sausage and next I'm going to add the
  311. 10:22tomato sauce I'm also doing a half a cup
  312. 10:25of the tomato sauce powder and you can
  313. 10:27see that that is seasoned it's got all
  314. 10:29the seasonings that it needs everything
  315. 10:31is in this it's complete so half a cup
  316. 10:34and the thing with powdered ingredients
  317. 10:36is if you work them a little bit you can
  318. 10:37get them to go down deeper into the jar
  319. 10:40and filter in amongst the other
  320. 10:41ingredients and take up less space in
  321. 10:43the jar so you can really fit more than
  322. 10:44four cups worth of ingredients in these
  323. 10:46jars if you layer them just right and
  324. 10:48make things kind of fit together into
  325. 10:50the same layer next I'm going to add my
  326. 10:52sausage seasoning remember you can use
  327. 10:55sweet mild or hot Italian whichever you
  328. 10:57like if you don't have the seasoning you
  329. 10:59don't want to purchase it it's actually
  330. 11:00pretty inexpensive but if you don't want
  331. 11:03to purchase it you could just use some
  332. 11:05extra of the other seasonings that we're
  333. 11:06using but I like that this gives it a a
  334. 11:09sausage flavor and part of a big part of
  335. 11:11the sausage flavor comes from fennel
  336. 11:13there's a big Taste of fennel in most
  337. 11:15Italian sausages so if you didn't have
  338. 11:17this you could use some fennel either
  339. 11:19fennel seed or crushed fennel or ground
  340. 11:21fennel this also has salt in it these
  341. 11:23sausage seasonings so if you need to
  342. 11:25avoid salt you could substitute with
  343. 11:27some fennel and Italian seasonings and
  344. 11:28things to cut the salt out I am using a
  345. 11:31teaspoon of the sausage
  346. 11:33seasoning I'm using a half a teaspoon of
  347. 11:35this Johnny's
  348. 11:37garlic and I'm also using a half a
  349. 11:39teaspoon of Italian seasoning this
  350. 11:41dispenses a/4 teaspoon with each click
  351. 11:43of this dial so I'm just going to do
  352. 11:45that instead of measuring I don't know
  353. 11:47why I haven't put these other seasonings
  354. 11:48into um dispensers like this I just
  355. 11:50haven't yet I actually have some empty
  356. 11:52ones on a brand new Carousel that I
  357. 11:54could be filling up so I need to get
  358. 11:56doing that cuz I really prefer this it's
  359. 11:58a lot easier and it doesn't um dirty up
  360. 12:00extra measuring
  361. 12:04utensils all right so that's our
  362. 12:06seasonings and now all we have left to
  363. 12:08add is the mozzarella cheese I am
  364. 12:10dividing this mozzarella cheese because
  365. 12:11I want some to be in the actual lasagna
  366. 12:14mixture and then I want some that I'm
  367. 12:16going to reserve to um refresh and
  368. 12:18sprinkle on top to have that melty
  369. 12:20cheese on the
  370. 12:22top so what I'm putting in the jar with
  371. 12:25the rest of the mixture is going to be a
  372. 12:27half a cup
  373. 12:30and then I'm also going to put in an
  374. 12:31additional half a cup and I'm going to
  375. 12:33put it in a baggie and just put it right
  376. 12:36inside the top of the jar here so that I
  377. 12:38can remove it when I go to prepare this
  378. 12:40and just keep it separate I am using one
  379. 12:42of these fold top sandwich baggies that
  380. 12:44does not have The Zipper um zipper
  381. 12:46section and part of the reason there's
  382. 12:48two reasons why I'm doing that number
  383. 12:50one when it has that zipper portion
  384. 12:51that's kind of stiff it makes it harder
  385. 12:53to fit the bag into the jar it can be
  386. 12:55done usually if you have enough space we
  387. 12:57have plenty of space here but it's just
  388. 12:59kind of a pain but the other reason is
  389. 13:01if I were to be putting this away for
  390. 13:02long term and adding an oxygen absorber
  391. 13:04that oxygen absorber is going to um
  392. 13:06react with the oxygen in the jar to
  393. 13:08basically eat it up and get rid of it so
  394. 13:11if I were to put my cheese in here and
  395. 13:13seal it with a zipper there would be
  396. 13:15some oxygen sealed in with the cheese in
  397. 13:17the baggie so this way the oxygen will
  398. 13:20be I mean I'll just kind of twist it
  399. 13:22shut and so it's not going to be sealed
  400. 13:23real tight and so everything would be
  401. 13:25able to be affected by the oxygen
  402. 13:27absorber all right so I'm just just
  403. 13:29going to put my half a cup an additional
  404. 13:30half a cup of mozzarella cheese into
  405. 13:33this
  406. 13:34baggie and like I said I'm just going to
  407. 13:36keep it Loosely closed and just tuck it
  408. 13:39into the top here and then if I were
  409. 13:42putting this away for the long term I
  410. 13:43would add my oxygen absorber and go
  411. 13:46ahead and put my lid on
  412. 13:48tightly and that would seal my jar up
  413. 13:51but instead of putting this one away I'm
  414. 13:53actually going to be fixing it up so you
  415. 13:54can see how it turns out but first
  416. 13:56because this is a very simple meal I
  417. 13:58want wanted to give you guys a little
  418. 14:00bit of something extra so I'm going to
  419. 14:02do a couple of other jars of things that
  420. 14:04you could serve alongside this meal
  421. 14:05especially because this meal doesn't
  422. 14:07have any vegetables in it to speak of
  423. 14:09really other than obviously the tomatoes
  424. 14:11and the tomato sauce which does count
  425. 14:13but usually that's one of the things
  426. 14:15that I really love about meals in a jar
  427. 14:16is that I can add the veggies right in
  428. 14:18so you can have everything you need for
  429. 14:20your meal right in the jar including the
  430. 14:21veggies or fruit your protein everything
  431. 14:24else in this case I decided against
  432. 14:26adding veggies just because I just
  433. 14:28thought I would keep it really simple if
  434. 14:30people were just starting out this has
  435. 14:31few ingredients to purchase if you have
  436. 14:34kids that don't like some of the veggies
  437. 14:35you know there's just it's very simple
  438. 14:37if you wanted to add veggies to this you
  439. 14:39absolutely could you could add some
  440. 14:40freeze-dried chopped spinach you could
  441. 14:42add some sliced mushrooms bell peppers
  442. 14:44whatever you like in your lasagna you
  443. 14:46can go ahead and add I just didn't
  444. 14:48personally so I'm going to make a side
  445. 14:50dish a vegetable side dish to go along
  446. 14:52in a jar I'm going to do a seasoned
  447. 14:54green beans for the seasoned green beans
  448. 14:57side dish these are the ingredients I'm
  449. 14:58going to be be using I'm using some
  450. 15:00freeze-dried onion slices of course
  451. 15:02freeze-dried green beans I'm using some
  452. 15:05butter powder and this is the seasoning
  453. 15:07I'm going to be using this is Kinder's
  454. 15:09the blend salt pepper and garlic and we
  455. 15:11really really like this it's really
  456. 15:12tasty and it goes great with the green
  457. 15:15beans now if you are new to freeze-dried
  458. 15:17food and you're wondering what the fuss
  459. 15:19is all about part of the reason that
  460. 15:21Preppers love it so much and why it's
  461. 15:22great for meals in a jars because
  462. 15:23freeze-dried food typically has about a
  463. 15:2525e shelf life it has a very long shelf
  464. 15:28life despite that the freeze drying
  465. 15:30process is so gentle that it maintains
  466. 15:34Almost 100% of the nutrients in the food
  467. 15:3695 to 98% of the nutrients in the fresh
  468. 15:38food are maintained in the freeze-dried
  469. 15:41product so it's a very very healthy
  470. 15:43option the ones that we get have no GMOs
  471. 15:46um in their products at all they have
  472. 15:48very high quality standards so they're
  473. 15:49just a great product and then once you
  474. 15:51open up a freeze-dried product the 25e
  475. 15:53shelf life is um sealed in the can when
  476. 15:56you get them and then once you open them
  477. 15:58you've usually typic got about a year to
  478. 16:00use them up that can vary some depending
  479. 16:02on things like the humidity where you
  480. 16:03live and the conditions that you store
  481. 16:05them in but typically about a year is
  482. 16:08what people get out of them after
  483. 16:10they're opened and then of course if you
  484. 16:11seal them back up in a jar with an
  485. 16:13oxygen absorber you are going to
  486. 16:15maintain that long shelf life maybe not
  487. 16:17quite as long as they were in the
  488. 16:19original can but most people tend to get
  489. 16:21at least between 5 to 8 years out of a
  490. 16:24jar meal minimum depending on the
  491. 16:26ingredients they put in them and how
  492. 16:27they store them and for this side dish
  493. 16:30I'm going to be using a pint siiz jar we
  494. 16:32don't need a whole quart for a side dish
  495. 16:34to go along with our meal I'm going to
  496. 16:36use a pint once again I'm going to be
  497. 16:37using a wide mouth pint and all of the
  498. 16:40other equipment is going to be basically
  499. 16:41the same as our other jar meal so let's
  500. 16:43get started the first thing I'm going to
  501. 16:45add to my jar is going to be the onion
  502. 16:47slices these are just onions uh freeze
  503. 16:50red onions that are a little bit larger
  504. 16:52than the chopped onions that you can get
  505. 16:54which are much smaller little bits but I
  506. 16:56wanted some larger pieces in this dish
  507. 16:58I'm just going to add 1/4 cup of the
  508. 17:00onion slices right into the bottom of
  509. 17:02the jar and then I'm going to be adding
  510. 17:04my butter powder I'm using a tablespoon
  511. 17:06of the butter
  512. 17:08powder my seasoning next I'm going to be
  513. 17:10using a teaspoon of
  514. 17:13this and then I'm just going to go ahead
  515. 17:15and pack the rest of the jar with the
  516. 17:16green beans I'm not even going to
  517. 17:18measure this I really just need the jar
  518. 17:21filled up to the top with the green
  519. 17:24beans you can tap these down get more to
  520. 17:27fit
  521. 17:29then of course just leave a room to put
  522. 17:30an oxygen absorber on the top once again
  523. 17:32if you're going to seal this up I
  524. 17:35usually use 200 C's in my quart jars so
  525. 17:39I would think this would need about 100
  526. 17:43cc's and here is our seasoned green bean
  527. 17:46side dish all ready to go with our
  528. 17:48lasagna
  529. 17:50Skillet I am going to give you one more
  530. 17:52thing to serve alongside the lasagna
  531. 17:54Skillet and that's going to be a super
  532. 17:55simple mini French bread loaf this is
  533. 17:58such a simple recipe you can see here
  534. 17:59there's only three ingredients I've got
  535. 18:01bread flour I've got salt and I've got
  536. 18:03instant yeast the only thing about this
  537. 18:06recipe that you need a lot of is time
  538. 18:08because it does need some time for
  539. 18:09rising and some time for resting but
  540. 18:12it's very simple and it makes a great
  541. 18:13thing to serve alongside our lasagna
  542. 18:15Skillet let's get started I am going to
  543. 18:17be making this spread mix in a pint siiz
  544. 18:19jar and I'm using a wide mouth pint
  545. 18:22because all of the ingredients that go
  546. 18:23into this are powdered it could
  547. 18:25certainly fit into a regular mouth pint
  548. 18:27jar but just because I want all these
  549. 18:28elements to go together and I did the
  550. 18:31green beans in the wide mouth I thought
  551. 18:32it would look good if it was uniform so
  552. 18:34I'm going to be using a wide mouth pint
  553. 18:36jar this
  554. 18:38time and my trusty funnel and I'm going
  555. 18:41to start with the bread flour now bread
  556. 18:43flour really makes your bread have a
  557. 18:45better texture it's just got extra
  558. 18:47gluten in it I believe but I have made
  559. 18:50bread with regular all-purpose flour
  560. 18:52before I haven't tried this recipe with
  561. 18:54regular flour but if that's all you have
  562. 18:55it would probably work still pretty well
  563. 18:57we're going to be adding 1 and 3/4 cups
  564. 18:59of flour but I am going to put it in in
  565. 19:01two parts I'm going to put in the one
  566. 19:03cup first and then I'm going to add my
  567. 19:06salt and then the rest of the flour and
  568. 19:08then I'm going to add my yeast on top
  569. 19:09because we want to keep the salt and the
  570. 19:10yeast separate in this jar we don't want
  571. 19:12them to be touching each other and when
  572. 19:14I pour it out into the bowl to get it
  573. 19:16mixed and Blended I want them to start
  574. 19:19off separate so that's why I'm putting
  575. 19:21um the salt in the middle and not in the
  576. 19:24bottom of the jar because when I pour it
  577. 19:25in the bowl I usually do a circular
  578. 19:27motion so the beginning of what I pour
  579. 19:29and the end of what I pour would be in
  580. 19:31the same place if that makes any sense
  581. 19:34now the best way to measure your flour
  582. 19:35especially when you're baking bread is
  583. 19:37to weigh it and I actually got my pantry
  584. 19:40Chic machine recently you've probably
  585. 19:42seen that it's a special machine with
  586. 19:44special canisters and you put the
  587. 19:45canister right on top of the machine and
  588. 19:47it measures out your ingredients and it
  589. 19:49measures them by weight and it's
  590. 19:50specifically made for that cuz when I
  591. 19:52first learned that it was best to
  592. 19:54measure your flower by weight and I
  593. 19:55started doing that I was doing it on a
  594. 19:57simple kitchen scale which is you know a
  595. 19:59very inexpensive simple way to do it but
  596. 20:02I found I always had to look up what
  597. 20:04weight I was going for if I wanted a cup
  598. 20:06of flour because I wasn't usually
  599. 20:07following recipes that were written by
  600. 20:08weight so I was always having to look it
  601. 20:11up on the internet before I got started
  602. 20:13and I just found that I just gave up
  603. 20:15doing it because it was such a pain so
  604. 20:17when I saw that there was actually a
  605. 20:18machine that was meant for measuring
  606. 20:20your ingredients like that by weight I
  607. 20:23was all over it but I haven't gotten a
  608. 20:24canister yet for my bread flour I have a
  609. 20:26canister for my all Corpus flour and I
  610. 20:29have a canister for my semolina flow I
  611. 20:31don't have a canister for the pantry
  612. 20:33Chic for the bread flour so for now I'm
  613. 20:35just measuring this by hand but the
  614. 20:37reason it's so important to measure your
  615. 20:39flour by weight is because depending on
  616. 20:41how you measure it in your cup you could
  617. 20:43have vastly different amounts of flour
  618. 20:45in the same cup if you were to scoop it
  619. 20:47like this it packs it in and there could
  620. 20:50be a lot more flour actually you'd be
  621. 20:52surpris at how different the measurement
  622. 20:54could be than if you had spooned it in
  623. 20:55lightly so the best way to measure flour
  624. 20:57if you're not measuring it by weight is
  625. 21:00to kind of fluff it up and just spoon it
  626. 21:01lightly into the
  627. 21:03cup like this and then level it off
  628. 21:06rather than scooping your cup through
  629. 21:08the flour and packing it
  630. 21:10in if you know that your flour is is
  631. 21:14kind of packed already in the container
  632. 21:15maybe you filled your container up and
  633. 21:16just had to smush the lid on or it's
  634. 21:18been sitting a while you can even run it
  635. 21:20through a sifter or just pass it through
  636. 21:23a wire mesh strainer to kind of fluff it
  637. 21:25up before you get started so here's my
  638. 21:27first one cup I'm going to put that in
  639. 21:29my jar and now I'm going to go ahead and
  640. 21:31add my salt and incidentally this is my
  641. 21:34canister for my pantry Chic so I could
  642. 21:36put this on the pantry Chic and it could
  643. 21:37measure the salt for me but I'm not
  644. 21:39going to do that just because I'm not
  645. 21:40getting it out for the flour so I'm not
  646. 21:42going to get it out just for the salt I
  647. 21:44am adding one teaspoon of salt right
  648. 21:46there in the middle and then I'm going
  649. 21:49to go ahead and add the rest of my flour
  650. 21:51which is going to be 3/4 of a
  651. 21:53cup so there's a half a cup covering up
  652. 21:57that
  653. 22:00salt and then our last4 cup and you can
  654. 22:04see that fills it up pretty full we've
  655. 22:06still got a little bit of space the
  656. 22:09final ingredient for our bread is the
  657. 22:10instant yeast now I store this in the
  658. 22:12freezer now this is the one part I'm not
  659. 22:15100% certain about because I haven't
  660. 22:16been doing Breads in a jar like this
  661. 22:18long enough to have a lot of experience
  662. 22:20with how long the yeast will stay good
  663. 22:22but it does help yeast to have an oxygen
  664. 22:24absorber it'll help all of these
  665. 22:26ingredients so if anybody out there has
  666. 22:28has more experience than me with this um
  667. 22:31let us know your experience down in the
  668. 22:32comments of how long you have had your
  669. 22:35yeast last in a jar like this the other
  670. 22:37thing you could do is you could include
  671. 22:40um your yeast in a packet you could
  672. 22:41include a packet of yeast so that you
  673. 22:43could um test it you know before you
  674. 22:47before you made the bread and then you
  675. 22:48could put fresh yeast in it if you had
  676. 22:50yeast and you needed to but hopefully
  677. 22:52this will last at least a year on the
  678. 22:54Shelf I know a lot of people rotate
  679. 22:56through their meals and use these
  680. 22:57regularly around the house and so you
  681. 22:59know theoretically if you if this would
  682. 23:00last a year say you were going to make
  683. 23:02two of these a month you could store 24
  684. 23:06jars of them and you would be using them
  685. 23:07up in a year and as long as you're
  686. 23:08replacing them on the other end you
  687. 23:10would maintain about a year's supply of
  688. 23:12bread here is my half a teaspoon of
  689. 23:15yeast instant yeast make sure it's
  690. 23:17instant yeast and then the one last
  691. 23:19thing that I am going to include in this
  692. 23:21jar is I have got a couple about a
  693. 23:23couple tablespoons of flour in another
  694. 23:25baggie and the reason I'm doing this is
  695. 23:27for two reasons number one you do need a
  696. 23:29little bit of flour to sprinkle over the
  697. 23:31top of the loaf before you bake it and
  698. 23:33I'm probably going to sprinkle some on
  699. 23:34the bottom cuz it's you're supposed to
  700. 23:36have like cornmeal coarse cornmeal or
  701. 23:39something but I'm just going to use a
  702. 23:40little bit of flour and the other thing
  703. 23:42is if you are adding your liquid and you
  704. 23:44add a little bit too much you might need
  705. 23:46a little bit of extra flour to kind of
  706. 23:48bring your dough back together just in
  707. 23:49case so it can't hurt to have this
  708. 23:52little packet of extra flour in there
  709. 23:55once again if you were going to be
  710. 23:56storing this long term you would use
  711. 23:58your oxygen
  712. 24:00absorber and seal it up and our bread
  713. 24:03mix is ready to go and then of course
  714. 24:05we're going to want some garlic butter
  715. 24:07spread to go along with our bread now
  716. 24:09there's two options here this is another
  717. 24:10really simple recipe there's only two
  718. 24:12ingredients butter powder and the
  719. 24:14Johnny's garlic now you can fit all of
  720. 24:16the ingredients into this small quarter
  721. 24:19pint jar it just barely fits but it does
  722. 24:22fit but I prefer to do it in this wide
  723. 24:25mouth half pint jar and it won't fill
  724. 24:27the jar but then when you go to use it
  725. 24:29or whoever you give this to um you can
  726. 24:31mix it right up in this jar cuz there's
  727. 24:33enough room to add the water and mix and
  728. 24:35it can be served out of this jar and
  729. 24:37stored in this jar if you have extra so
  730. 24:39those are your two options if you do it
  731. 24:41in this jar it will fit and then you
  732. 24:42would just um put it into a separate
  733. 24:45dish to mix it up I'm going to do it in
  734. 24:47this wide mouth half pint today like I
  735. 24:50mentioned it is super simple there's
  736. 24:52only two ingredients I'm going to start
  737. 24:54with my butter powder and I'm going to
  738. 24:56be using a half a cup of the butter
  739. 25:00powder and then I'm going to be adding
  740. 25:02the Johnny's garlic now this I'm going
  741. 25:04to be putting a tablespoon in here which
  742. 25:06is what the package calls for for a half
  743. 25:08a cup of butter and we like it like this
  744. 25:12but it's pretty um strongly garlicky so
  745. 25:15if you are not into garlic quite as much
  746. 25:18you don't like things quite as strong
  747. 25:21you might want to start out with maybe a
  748. 25:23half a tablespoon or two teaspoons at
  749. 25:26first and test that out and see how you
  750. 25:27like it um and then decide if you like
  751. 25:29it with that much or if you want more
  752. 25:31garlic before you make up a bunch of
  753. 25:35these and there we go the bread does
  754. 25:39take the longest to prepare because of
  755. 25:41the rising and resting time so I'm going
  756. 25:42to go ahead and get started on that
  757. 25:44first to make my little loaf of French
  758. 25:46bread I am going to be using my food
  759. 25:48processor today this is my new food
  760. 25:50processor that I just got and it does
  761. 25:53have a dough hook or a dough blade
  762. 25:55actually this is called the dough blade
  763. 25:57but the recipe that I adapted this from
  764. 25:59she did it in a food processor with the
  765. 26:01regular steel blade so if you don't have
  766. 26:03a dough blade for your food processor
  767. 26:05you could use your regular steel blade
  768. 26:07now obviously if you're doing this in a
  769. 26:09situation when you don't have
  770. 26:10electricity a power outage of some sort
  771. 26:12you are probably not going to be using a
  772. 26:13food processor and you will have to do
  773. 26:15the mixing and kneading by hand it's
  774. 26:17super quick in the food processor it
  775. 26:19only takes about 45 seconds and when I
  776. 26:21got this food processor I noticed it has
  777. 26:24it does a little countdown here or it
  778. 26:25counts the seconds and I never really
  779. 26:27thought about what that would be for
  780. 26:30until I was making the spread the other
  781. 26:31day and I said oh that's really handy to
  782. 26:34have the seconds counting down so I
  783. 26:36guess that's what it's for all right so
  784. 26:38I'm going to get ready to put my bread
  785. 26:39mix into the mixer now remember I was
  786. 26:40careful to keep the salt and the yeast
  787. 26:42separated and so I'm going to try to do
  788. 26:44the same when I add it to the Bowl here
  789. 26:46so I'm going to put it in a circular
  790. 26:48motion around here I do have my water
  791. 26:50ready this is just slightly warm tap
  792. 26:53water and I've got 3/4 of a cup ready to
  793. 26:56go can just barely feel that it's it's
  794. 26:58warm I also have some extra water set
  795. 27:00aside just in case I need it I'm going
  796. 27:03to add most of what I have in the 3/4
  797. 27:05cup and if the dough doesn't look um
  798. 27:08moist enough or like there's still some
  799. 27:09dry flour left in the bottom then I'll
  800. 27:11add a little bit more right so I'll
  801. 27:12definitely remove the oxygen absorber
  802. 27:14and I'm going to remove our little bag
  803. 27:16of flour that's just in there um for the
  804. 27:19extra flour that we need so I'm going to
  805. 27:21go ahead and pour this in
  806. 27:29the lid on my
  807. 27:30processor I do have um my smallest
  808. 27:33Pusher out that's where I'm going to add
  809. 27:35my water and you can see here here where
  810. 27:37it does the countdown so I'm going to
  811. 27:39start this mixing and I'm just going to
  812. 27:41start slowly adding my
  813. 27:44water stop and take a look at
  814. 27:49that still have a little bit of flour
  815. 27:52going so
  816. 27:58just going to use this to scrape down
  817. 27:59the side a little bit because I'm doing
  818. 28:01such a small a batch a small loaf um
  819. 28:05this machine is probably a little bit
  820. 28:06big for it
  821. 28:10but right I'm going let this
  822. 28:12go 45 seconds is what we
  823. 28:15[Music]
  824. 28:23want that's just a little bit wetter
  825. 28:25than the last time I made it but I think
  826. 28:27it's going to work just just fine so now
  827. 28:29I'm going to go ahead and get this dough
  828. 28:30out into a dry Bowl I just have a small
  829. 28:33plastic Bowl here because it's a small
  830. 28:35loaf and I'm going to put it in a warm
  831. 28:37place for 2 hours now for me my warm
  832. 28:39place is going to be my oven my oven
  833. 28:41light's been on some today so the oven
  834. 28:44is warmer than the room temperature so I
  835. 28:46haven't had my oven on at all it's just
  836. 28:48a little bit warm from the light so I'm
  837. 28:49going to go ahead and get this dough
  838. 28:51into the bowl and put it in there for 2
  839. 28:53hours all right so I've got my dough
  840. 28:56here and I have a piece of plastic wrap
  841. 28:58I'm just going to cover this lightly
  842. 28:59with a piece of plastic wrap and put it
  843. 29:01in my warm oven like I said the oven has
  844. 29:03not been on it's slightly warm from the
  845. 29:05light running I'm going to put it in
  846. 29:07there for 2 hours and then I'll see you
  847. 29:09right back here all right now that our
  848. 29:11dough has been in the warm oven for 2
  849. 29:13hours you can see that it actually Rose
  850. 29:15quite a bit if it doesn't rise that much
  851. 29:17for you that's okay it doesn't have to
  852. 29:19double or anything like that now it
  853. 29:21calls for the dough to be turned out
  854. 29:23onto a flowered surface I am just going
  855. 29:25to use the same pan that I'm going to
  856. 29:27bake it on for everything else from here
  857. 29:30on out so remember our little baggie of
  858. 29:32flour now this is part of what it is for
  859. 29:34so for the flowed surface I'm just going
  860. 29:36to
  861. 29:36put some flour in here and flour our
  862. 29:42surface so let's get this dough out of
  863. 29:44the bowl and I am just going to kind of
  864. 29:46make this into a bun shape a round shape
  865. 29:50just so that it can sit on the sheet for
  866. 29:54a little bit longer and rest
  867. 29:58all right so now that I've got the bread
  868. 29:59dough on here I'm just going to cover it
  869. 30:01again with this piece of plastic wrap
  870. 30:04now you could use a kitchen towel for
  871. 30:06this um if that's what you have whatever
  872. 30:08you have will work and now this is going
  873. 30:11to rest for 20 minutes all right so now
  874. 30:13it has been 20 minutes for this
  875. 30:17and I'm going to just form it into a
  876. 30:21loaf
  877. 30:22shape I am going to dust some more of
  878. 30:24this flour over the top to make it
  879. 30:26easier to work with the other thing I
  880. 30:28sometimes do is put oil on my hands so
  881. 30:30if oil is something that you have on
  882. 30:32hand all the time which for me it is
  883. 30:34something that I have on hand all the
  884. 30:37time but you also can get olive oil
  885. 30:40packets small olive oil packets from
  886. 30:42Amazon and you could
  887. 30:43put um an oil packet in the jar with the
  888. 30:47bread mix if you wanted to be able
  889. 30:51to have a little bit to oil your
  890. 30:56hands now I'm just doing this really
  891. 31:01really roughly I am not doing anything
  892. 31:04fancy
  893. 31:06here I do want this to be a little bit
  894. 31:09more short and stout and not a really
  895. 31:12long and skinny loaf but I'm going to
  896. 31:14call that good so this is going to get
  897. 31:16dusted with a little more flour over the
  898. 31:18top so now that this is shaped I am
  899. 31:21going to cover this again and it's going
  900. 31:23to sit for 40 more minutes before it
  901. 31:25bakes and then the last thing I'm going
  902. 31:27to do is is when it's close to the time
  903. 31:29that this is going to go in the oven I
  904. 31:30am going to heat it to 400 I'm going to
  905. 31:33take a baking pan and put it on the
  906. 31:34bottom rack of the oven and I'm going to
  907. 31:38um have my tea kettle ready with some
  908. 31:39boiling water because we're going to be
  909. 31:41having a pan of boiling water in the
  910. 31:43bottom of the oven with the bread and
  911. 31:44that's going to help it develop more of
  912. 31:46a crustiness but this is going to set
  913. 31:47for 40 minutes and I'll see you back
  914. 31:49when that's up all right so my oven is
  915. 31:51set to 400 I've got a pan on the bottom
  916. 31:53rack and I'm just going to fill it with
  917. 31:55some boiling water
  918. 31:57well I don't need to fill it that will
  919. 31:59be just fine right now I'm just going to
  920. 32:01uncover this for the last time and I'm
  921. 32:04going to make three
  922. 32:06slashes in the dough and then this is
  923. 32:09going to go in the oven for 20 to 25
  924. 32:11minutes at
  925. 32:14400 and now the hardest part is that we
  926. 32:16have to let this beautiful loaf of bread
  927. 32:18cool down before we cut into it and
  928. 32:20during the cooling process we can
  929. 32:22prepare the rest of the meal to prepare
  930. 32:24the lasagna Skillet and the side dish to
  931. 32:26go with it I'm going to use my butan
  932. 32:28emergency burner but the very first
  933. 32:29thing I'm going to do is I'm going to
  934. 32:31open this meal up and I'm going to get
  935. 32:33out this little baggie of cheese because
  936. 32:35I'm going to get this refreshing first
  937. 32:39this was a half a cup of cheese so it's
  938. 32:40only going to take about a tablespoon
  939. 32:42and a half of water and about 15 minutes
  940. 32:45to refresh this into fresh cheese I
  941. 32:47usually have a little bit of water left
  942. 32:48over so I want to do this first even
  943. 32:51though that we're not going to use the
  944. 32:52cheese till the very end to sprinkle
  945. 32:54over the top of the dish because if
  946. 32:56there's any water left um you know left
  947. 32:59over after refreshing the cheese it's
  948. 33:01going to be kind of a um a Milky water
  949. 33:04and it'll be a really good addition to
  950. 33:05the water that we need for our recipe so
  951. 33:07that's why I'm going to start this
  952. 33:09first to refresh the cheese like I said
  953. 33:12I only want about a tablespoon and a
  954. 33:13half of water and we want cold water we
  955. 33:16definitely want to use cold water for
  956. 33:17the cheese or else we'll end up with a
  957. 33:19goopy mess so I'm just going to do it
  958. 33:21right in this bag it can be done in a
  959. 33:24bag in a bowl it's good in a like a
  960. 33:26small container with a lid because then
  961. 33:28you can kind of tumble it around but I
  962. 33:30can do it in this bag just as easily and
  963. 33:32we won't be wasting an extra dish which
  964. 33:33in an emergency would be a really
  965. 33:35important factor just drizzling this
  966. 33:38water over it trying to do it evenly but
  967. 33:41it doesn't matter too much cuz we're
  968. 33:43going to toss it around in the bag okay
  969. 33:45now I'm just going to set this aside and
  970. 33:47let this um set and refresh for a few
  971. 33:49minutes 15 minutes is about what it
  972. 33:52takes all right so the cheese has been
  973. 33:54setting and actually looks like I don't
  974. 33:56really have any
  975. 33:58um extra water in here sometimes you do
  976. 34:00sometimes you don't likewise if you if
  977. 34:02it doesn't seem like it's going to be
  978. 34:04getting refreshed all the way through
  979. 34:05you can always add a little drizzle of
  980. 34:07extra water and if you do have any water
  981. 34:09left over after it's refreshed just add
  982. 34:12it into your dish I have three cups of
  983. 34:14water that's what we're going to be
  984. 34:15using for our meal and just a regular
  985. 34:18Skillet I'd say this is probably a 12in
  986. 34:20skillet I believe so I'm going to go
  987. 34:22ahead and open up my
  988. 34:25meal and just pour it right on in here
  989. 34:31and I'm going to add in my three cups of
  990. 34:32water this is cold
  991. 34:35water I'm going to give this a stir to
  992. 34:37moisten all the ingredients and then I'm
  993. 34:39just going to let it set for about 5 or
  994. 34:4210 minutes before I get it started and
  995. 34:43that's just going to basically let the
  996. 34:45cheese that's in here start to refresh
  997. 34:48as well because it melts better when
  998. 34:50it's refreshed and it doesn't uh refresh
  999. 34:54well in hot water really so it's going
  1000. 34:56to be incorporated into the dish better
  1001. 34:59if I let it set in the cold water for a
  1002. 35:01little bit before I turn the burner on
  1003. 35:03all right so just getting everything
  1004. 35:04Incorporated and then everything
  1005. 35:07submerged in the
  1006. 35:09liquid and I'm going to let this set for
  1007. 35:1110 minutes okay now that this is set
  1008. 35:14just a little bit it's going to be time
  1009. 35:15to get the burner
  1010. 35:18going got this on a medium high heat and
  1011. 35:21I'm just going to bring this up to a
  1012. 35:22simmer and then I'm going to cover it
  1013. 35:25and simmer it on low it's not going to
  1014. 35:27take very along with this kind of pasta
  1015. 35:28I think it's usually about 8 to 10
  1016. 35:31minutes probably like I mentioned if you
  1017. 35:33switch out the pasta type you might need
  1018. 35:35to adjust your cooking time and you
  1019. 35:37might need to adjust your water amount
  1020. 35:39slightly all right you can see this is
  1021. 35:41starting to Bubble here so I am just
  1022. 35:43going to give it another quick stir I'm
  1023. 35:45going to turn it down and I'm going to
  1024. 35:47put the lid on and let it simmer for a
  1025. 35:49little
  1026. 35:51bit you definitely want to stir this
  1027. 35:54occasionally to make sure that it
  1028. 35:55doesn't stick onto the bottom
  1029. 35:58the hardest part with these butane
  1030. 35:59burners is actually keeping the flame
  1031. 36:01low enough because they're pretty
  1032. 36:06powerful all right it's been 8 minutes
  1033. 36:09this is starting to look pretty done I'm
  1034. 36:10just going to test one of these pastas
  1035. 36:12that's basically what you're looking for
  1036. 36:15is for the pasta to be done to your
  1037. 36:17likeness and you can check the meat too
  1038. 36:19but it should be done um you know it
  1039. 36:22should be refreshed all the way through
  1040. 36:23by the time the noodles are
  1041. 36:26done yeah that is pretty much done it is
  1042. 36:29going to thicken up a little bit more as
  1043. 36:30it um sets I'm going to turn the burner
  1044. 36:33off and then we need to sprinkle on our
  1045. 36:35cheese this is the cheese that we added
  1046. 36:38the water to at the beginning to get it
  1047. 36:40refreshing all right now that I've got
  1048. 36:42all the cheese on there I'm going to get
  1049. 36:43this lid on so that it can start
  1050. 36:48melting there you
  1051. 36:51go look at how beautiful that melted
  1052. 36:54just like real cheese because guess what
  1053. 36:57it is real cheese it just had all the
  1054. 37:00water removed to make it shelf stable
  1055. 37:02and then we just put the water back and
  1056. 37:04voila we had real mozzarella cheese
  1057. 37:06again so this Skillet is ready to serve
  1058. 37:09I'm going to put it aside it can cool a
  1059. 37:10little bit it's only going to take me a
  1060. 37:12couple of minutes to whip up the
  1061. 37:13seasoned green beans to go with it all
  1062. 37:16right so for the seasoned green beans
  1063. 37:18I'm using a skillet that's just ever so
  1064. 37:20slightly smaller than the one that I
  1065. 37:21used before so I'm going to open up my
  1066. 37:24green
  1067. 37:25beans and I'm just going to dump the
  1068. 37:28contents of the jar into the pan and
  1069. 37:30I've got one cup of water here one cup
  1070. 37:32of cold water and a trick I like to
  1071. 37:34sometimes use with meals in a jar if
  1072. 37:35there's any powder or seasoning or
  1073. 37:37anything left in the jar I just use the
  1074. 37:41jar uh the Water to rinse it out just so
  1075. 37:43that we don't waste anything and if you
  1076. 37:45keep in mind if you're in an emergency
  1077. 37:47situation and you're low on you know
  1078. 37:49things to cook with and measure with
  1079. 37:51usually mason jars are ma are uh marked
  1080. 37:54on the side with measurements for water
  1081. 37:56so now that I've put the water in here
  1082. 37:58I'm just going to give this a stir try
  1083. 38:00to kind of moisten everything and get
  1084. 38:02the butter powder mixed in with the
  1085. 38:03water as best I can it's not going to
  1086. 38:06completely mix while it's cold but once
  1087. 38:08we put the heat to it it will all right
  1088. 38:11that's good enough I'm going to put the
  1089. 38:12heat on what I want to do is bring this
  1090. 38:14up to um a boil basically a simmer a
  1091. 38:18strong simmer and then I'm going to
  1092. 38:19cover it to lock in the Steam and I'm
  1093. 38:22going to let it go just for 1 minute
  1094. 38:24just to make sure that everything gets
  1095. 38:25kind of steamed through these green
  1096. 38:26beans take no time to cook because
  1097. 38:28they're freeze-dried um they really just
  1098. 38:30need to to refresh and get the water
  1099. 38:33back into them you could even just soak
  1100. 38:34them in cold water and they would be
  1101. 38:36ready so I'm going to have them go for 1
  1102. 38:38minute with the lid on for the Steam and
  1103. 38:40then I'm going to take that lid off and
  1104. 38:41we're just going to evaporate the rest
  1105. 38:42of the water until they just sauté in
  1106. 38:45the remaining butter powder and
  1107. 38:46seasoning and then they'll be done all
  1108. 38:48right you can see this is coming up to a
  1109. 38:50boil I'm going to cover it for 1 minute
  1110. 38:53just to get those veggies steamed
  1111. 38:55through all right there's 1 minute now
  1112. 38:57I'm going to uncover this and I am just
  1113. 39:00going to toss
  1114. 39:03these like I said the water is going to
  1115. 39:06evaporate it's not going to take but a
  1116. 39:08minute or two and then these will just
  1117. 39:11be like sauteed green beans just keep
  1118. 39:15tossing them to make sure they all get
  1119. 39:18evenly even amounts of
  1120. 39:20moisture all right so now that the water
  1121. 39:22is dried up that's really all we need
  1122. 39:24I'm going to go ahead and turn this off
  1123. 39:27need to toss them in the hot pan for
  1124. 39:29just a minute all right so that is ready
  1125. 39:31to serve along with our lasagna Skillet
  1126. 39:34got our green
  1127. 39:35beans and our lasagna Skillet and the
  1128. 39:39bread will be done shortly and then
  1129. 39:41we'll have our complete meal the final
  1130. 39:43thing that we need to do while the bread
  1131. 39:45is finishing cooling is mix up the
  1132. 39:47garlic butter spread now like I
  1133. 39:48mentioned you can put this into a
  1134. 39:50separate bowl and use a whisk if you'd
  1135. 39:52like I have done that and that works
  1136. 39:54really well but it I find it works just
  1137. 39:57as well to mix it up with the knife or
  1138. 39:59spreader that you're going to use or a
  1139. 40:00spoon right in this jar and just keep it
  1140. 40:05all in this jar from start to finish
  1141. 40:07we're going to be using about 2 to 3
  1142. 40:09tablespoons of cold water so I've got
  1143. 40:11some cold water here and I'm going to
  1144. 40:12start with two
  1145. 40:14tablespoons and just start mixing that
  1146. 40:17and see if we need to add some more
  1147. 40:19which I think I probably will with this
  1148. 40:21spread but all right am going to go
  1149. 40:23ahead and add a little bit more I'm not
  1150. 40:25going to add a whole tablespoon at once
  1151. 40:28I probably will need it but you can't go
  1152. 40:30back but you can always go a little
  1153. 40:32further I do think I'll add the rest of
  1154. 40:35that thir tablespoon and that should be
  1155. 40:37good but you can mix this up to whatever
  1156. 40:40you consider a good spreading
  1157. 40:42consistency just go slowly little by
  1158. 40:45little all right so there is our garlic
  1159. 40:48butter all ready to go on our bread now
  1160. 40:50I did let the bread cool um pretty much
  1161. 40:53completely I think that's I love slicing
  1162. 40:55into a warm Loa of bread fresh out of
  1163. 40:58the oven but it's really not that great
  1164. 41:00for the bread when we cut into it when
  1165. 41:01it's super hot so I did let this um cool
  1166. 41:05down you can see where my slashes didn't
  1167. 41:07really work out too well but it still
  1168. 41:08feels like a nice loaf of bread I think
  1169. 41:10this is a pretty forgiving
  1170. 41:13[Music]
  1171. 41:19recipe and there is our rustic French
  1172. 41:22bread this is a very simple loaf of
  1173. 41:24bread but in an emergency that's pretty
  1174. 41:26much what we're going to want is
  1175. 41:28something very simple now you can just
  1176. 41:31spread the garlic butter spread on the
  1177. 41:33bread or you could always put it um give
  1178. 41:35it a flash in the pan or put it in the
  1179. 41:38oven for a little bit whatever you want
  1180. 41:40if you wanted to um Brown it up more
  1181. 41:42like an actual garlic bread or garlic
  1182. 41:44toast but it's also very good just with
  1183. 41:47this garlic butter like I mentioned I
  1184. 41:49did mix this up pretty strong with the
  1185. 41:51garlic so if you're not a big garlic fan
  1186. 41:54you might want to cut this down a little
  1187. 41:55bit the garlic spread that you put in
  1188. 41:57into the mix and try it out and if you
  1189. 42:00think you could take a little bit more
  1190. 42:01you can always adjust
  1191. 42:03[Music]
  1192. 42:22it all right now all we have to do is
  1193. 42:24add a slice of bread to our lovely meal
  1194. 42:27and this is all ready to serve look at
  1195. 42:30that what a beautiful meal the beautiful
  1196. 42:32thing about this is this can be you can
  1197. 42:34mix and match this we've got our our
  1198. 42:36main dish here we've got our veggie side
  1199. 42:38we've got our bread but you could use
  1200. 42:40this side with other meals you could use
  1201. 42:43different seasonings in the side you
  1202. 42:45could season this differently you could
  1203. 42:46use different seasonings in your butter
  1204. 42:48spread you could have a honey butter if
  1205. 42:50you check out my cornbread um just add
  1206. 42:53water mix in a Jar video I have a honey
  1207. 42:55butter spread done similar to this you
  1208. 42:57could add cinnamon to that you could do
  1209. 43:00a lot with this basic bread dough this
  1210. 43:02is such a basic bread dough you could
  1211. 43:04have sandwiches with this you could do
  1212. 43:06anything you wanted there's a lot of
  1213. 43:08different options for all the parts of
  1214. 43:10this meal
  1215. 43:12enjoy this meal was delicious and really
  1216. 43:15easy to put together the bread does take
  1217. 43:17some time but as long as you plan ahead
  1218. 43:19it's really very simple to prepare
  1219. 43:21granted in a grid down emergency you
  1220. 43:23would probably have to adjust how you go
  1221. 43:25about preparing the bread but it's a
  1222. 43:27very basic bread recipe and a great item
  1223. 43:30to have in your Arsenal my best advice
  1224. 43:32for meals in a jar is to pick out a
  1225. 43:34recipe that you want to try and then
  1226. 43:35make one jar prepare that one jar and
  1227. 43:38try it out feed it to your family make
  1228. 43:41sure you like it everyone has different
  1229. 43:43tastes and what one person loves might
  1230. 43:45just not be another person's cup of tea
  1231. 43:48try the recipe and hopefully you love it
  1232. 43:50as is or maybe there's a few things that
  1233. 43:52you want to tweak with the seasonings
  1234. 43:54swap out a veggie ingredient for
  1235. 43:56something else maybe you need to adjust
  1236. 43:58something with the water amount or the
  1237. 43:59cook time especially if you live in an
  1238. 44:01area with different humidity levels if
  1239. 44:04you make changes note them down on your
  1240. 44:06recipe so that you remember and then
  1241. 44:08once you're happy with the recipe then
  1242. 44:10you can make it up in bulk and really
  1243. 44:11stock your shelves it doesn't take much
  1244. 44:14more time to make up six 10 or 12 jars
  1245. 44:17than it does to make one when you line
  1246. 44:19it up assembly line style then you can
  1247. 44:21take advantage of sales and buying in
  1248. 44:23bulk to save some money you can get even
  1249. 44:26more savings if get together with a
  1250. 44:28group of friends and have a meal and a
  1251. 44:29Jar party buy things by the case and
  1252. 44:31split the cost and you'll have fun and
  1253. 44:34catch up while you do it it depends on a
  1254. 44:37lot of factors but I typically get three
  1255. 44:39to four servings out of a quarts siiz
  1256. 44:41jar meal if you're typically only
  1257. 44:43feeding one or two people you can divide
  1258. 44:45these recipes in half and make quart
  1259. 44:47recipes in a pint pint recipes in a half
  1260. 44:50pint and so on and so forth when you do
  1261. 44:52make my meal in a jar recipes I would
  1262. 44:53love it if you would come back to the
  1263. 44:55video and leave a comment on it or go to
  1264. 44:57my meal in a jar Facebook group and post
  1265. 44:59about it I would love to see pictures of
  1266. 45:01your jars pictures of the prepared dish
  1267. 45:04I'd love to hear about any changes you
  1268. 45:05made and how you liked it I love hearing
  1269. 45:08from you all in all these dishes I
  1270. 45:10showed you today are three very simple
  1271. 45:12dishes with relatively few ingredients
  1272. 45:15and if you happen to be seeing this when
  1273. 45:16it comes out in July 2024 pretty much
  1274. 45:19everything I use today is on sale this
  1275. 45:21month so it's a great time to fill your
  1276. 45:23shelves with these jars to keep up with
  1277. 45:25what's on sale every month and get
  1278. 45:27access to coupons and Flash sales when
  1279. 45:29they come out text sale to my number I'm
  1280. 45:31going to put it down on the screen here
  1281. 45:33and in the video description and I'll
  1282. 45:35put you on my text alert list I'll also
  1283. 45:37tell you how to save 15% on non-sale
  1284. 45:40items every single day if you're
  1285. 45:42interested in learning more about
  1286. 45:43freeze-dried food and why so many people
  1287. 45:46are so crazy about it we actually have
  1288. 45:48two events coming up in September that
  1289. 45:50we're going to be at and we would love
  1290. 45:52to meet you there these events are
  1291. 45:54completely free and they even feed you
  1292. 45:56lunch for free
  1293. 45:57and you spend the morning learning all
  1294. 45:59about freeze-dried food all of its
  1295. 46:00benefits how to use it how to cook with
  1296. 46:02it and you even get to try a few things
  1297. 46:05and on top of that they even have
  1298. 46:06giveaways during the event so you could
  1299. 46:08even win some free items that's a lot of
  1300. 46:11free and we all know that's my favorite
  1301. 46:13word the two events coming up are in
  1302. 46:15American Fork Utah on September 14th and
  1303. 46:18in Philadelphia Pennsylvania on
  1304. 46:19September 21st so if you live anywhere
  1305. 46:22near those places or if you're going to
  1306. 46:23be traveling near those places in
  1307. 46:25September we would love to see you there
  1308. 46:27text the word Philly or the word Utah to
  1309. 46:30my number that same number that I told
  1310. 46:32you before and we will keep you updated
  1311. 46:34with more info as we get it don't forget
  1312. 46:36to check out our meal in a jar playlist
  1313. 46:38if you want to see some more amazing
  1314. 46:40meals that you can get from a mason jar
  1315. 46:42and come on over and join my meal and a
  1316. 46:44jar group on Facebook if you're not
  1317. 46:46already a member there if you made it
  1318. 46:48all the way to the end of the video
  1319. 46:49leave me an Italian flag Emoji down in
  1320. 46:51the comments and check out this video
  1321. 46:54next for some more meals you can make
  1322. 46:56with a lot of the same ingredients that
  1323. 46:57I used today I'm Jal with Wicked
  1324. 47:00prepared survive today Thrive tomorrow
  1325. 47:02we'll see you next time
  1326. 47:03[Music]

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