Rainy Day Foods

With the cold winter mornings upon us, I like to send my family on their way with a hot breakfast.  One of their favorites is a hot bowl of germade.  What is germade?  Germade is made from wheat that has had its bran and germ removed.  Then, the endosperm that is left is coarsely ground and packaged.  You may know...

  unbaked cookies UNBAKED COOKIES As you may know, we are already into February, which means Valentine’s Day is coming up fast! (Unless you go into some of the stores, then you would think St. Patrick’s Day and Easter is here, too) If you plan on baking something special for your loved ones, but haven’t decided what to do yet...

Super bowl with dehydrated brownies! Let’s say it’s a half hour before kickoff, and you’re looking at your Game Day Display of foods—at one end of the dinner table, you’ve got your freshly smoked ham steaming next to your bowl of baked beans. You’ve got your perfectly cheesy scalloped potatoes freshly out of the hot oven and placed perfectly...

Honey is the world’s oldest sweetener, one of the few foods that will never spoil.  In its liquid form, honey is used to enhance all kinds of sweet and savory foods.  As you know, it is made by bees using nectar from flowers.  In ancient Egypt, honey was used to sweeten baked goods as it is today and also to...

Food Storage. We all think about it. We all know deep down that this is something good that we can do for ourselves and our family. Yet many households today, if they were to face a crisis of any kind whether it be natural or man-made, would not be prepared. So how does one go about doing it? The answer...

I recently got to try the muffin mixes that Rainy Day Foods sells.  Besides the Basic Muffin Mix, they have added three flavored ones:  Lemon Poppy Seed, Bran, and Banana.  They were so easy to make!  You just measure out the desired amount of mix, add water and bake.  I like this because even my kids could make them.  For...

Spelt is probably the most delicious grain you’ve never heard of.  Spelt (Triticum spelta) is an ancient grain which should not be confused with common bread wheat.  It was one of the first grains to be used to make bread and can be traced back to about 6000 B.C.  It is even mentioned in the Bible. Known for its slightly...

I figure I can’t possibly be the only person who doesn’t know anything about the many varieties of wheat that are available. I am going to blog on a few of these in the next few weeks as I learn more about them.  The first one is KAMUT. KAMUT, pronounced Ku-Moot, is a brand name for an ancient, recently revived...

I tried something new for breakfast today.  I knew nothing about 9 Grain Cereal so I wasn’t sure what to expect.  What is 9 Grain Cereal?  It is a special blend of 9 cracked grains:  hard red wheat, soft white wheat, oat groats, flax, rye, millet, corn and buckwheat.  With so many grains altogether in one, you get loads of...

Our cold fall weather once again made me turn to soup to feed my family.  This time I decided to try Rainy Day Foods Tomato Basil Soup.  Rainy Day Foods has an assortment of quick and easy meals and the Tomato Basil Soup is one of them.  Because it is so easy (all you have to do is add water...