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Carne Seca Adovada Soup [Recipe]

March 11, 2024 by Seasoned Citizen Prepper

This was completely an experiment in using only storable items, I’m surprised that it worked out as well as it did.

This is DEFINITELY going to be a lot better if you use homemade, air-dried beef jerky vs. the commercially-made stuff. If you have to use ‘store’ jerky, I’d go for the ‘steak nugget’ style before the flat strips.

Dried Ancho and Pasilla chile peppers are available at every supermarket in areas that have any sort of Latin-American populations, or online. They are very flavorful, but not at all ‘hot’. (Chiles de Arbol can hurt you – not all dried peppers are mild)

They are also pretty cheap flavor-enhancers. If you prep them by breaking off the stem-ends, pouring out the seeds and vacuum-sealing, the 25th Century archeologists who discover your stash will probably say “MMMMM.. tasty…”

This is NOT a quick MRE-type meal. Just like our ancestors, if you’re going to use dried, preserved ingredients, it will take a while, and you may have to plan in advance.

Ingredients:

  • “big handful” (or 2)  of  homemade beef jerky (“Carne Seca” in Spanish – a popular Mexican ingredient)
  • “handful” of dried Ancho and/or Pasilla chiles
  • heaping tbsp. of dried Oregano leaves
  • about a tbsp. of ground cumin seed
  • 1-2 tbsp. dehydrated onion flakes
  • 1 tbsp. granulated garlic
  • water
  • chicken stock or bouillion (optional)
  • salt and pepper to taste.

Directions:

  1. In one container, cover the jerky with boiling water, and let sit 3-4 hours to rehydrate.
  2. In another container, add chiles, oregano, onion and garlic, cover with boiling water and let sit to rehydrate. Refrigerating #’s 1 and 2 overnight (covered) is not  a bad idea, if possible.
  3. Grind up the chile/herb/onion/garlic/water into a thick sauce. “Abuelita” (grandma) probably used a lava-rock mortar and pestle for this. A hand immersion blender, or a food processor or a blender will work faster under ideal circumstances.
  4. Drain the meat (save liquid) and add rehydrated meat to the chile/herb sauce.
  5. Add the meat-rehydrating liquid, if needed, until everything is submerged.
  6. Let the meat marinate, refrigerated, as long as possible. 2 or 3 days is not a bad idea.
  7. When ready, dump the whole batch into a pot, add water (or chicken stock) until everything is covered.
  8. Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer, simmer covered 2-3 hours, checking liquid level – add more if needed (especially if on an open fire)
  9. Let it simmer, uncovered, another 10-15 minutes, to thicken sauce.

This was surprisingly good over rice and black beans with homemade corn tortillas. The meat isn’t ‘fall apart tender’ like a normal pork shoulder Carne Adovada, but much more than just “acceptable” or “MRE” quality.

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Garbage Soup – The King of All Survival Soups [Recipe]

March 11, 2024 by Seasoned Citizen Prepper

Soups have long been the mainstay of any cook who is trying to stretch the larder to feed more people, or the budget to save money.

Soup is the basic survival food. This is part of a series of Survival Soup recipes that you can make from commonly stored foods, your garden in season, foraging wild edibles, or what is seasonally plentiful on the homestead.

Do without further adieu, I give you Garbage Soup. Money-saving, ecologically-sound and delicious.

You Will Need:

  • Frozen (or fresh) veggie-scraps
  • Frozen meat (or dried, canned or fresh), skin and bone scraps

I will admit, NOT the most appetizing name, but it can save you a lot of cash over a year’s time. What do you do with the skins of the onions you use? The carrot and potato peels? Root ends of celery? Chicken bones and skins? Shrimp shells?

They go in the trash, or down the disposal, or (hurray!) in the compost pile, right? Try putting all of the veggie scraps into a big zip bag (yes, even the papery skins from the onions – great color). Put the meat scraps into another, squeeze air out of both and just stick them in your freezer.

Directions:

  1. When the veggie bag is full, dump it into a stockpot, add garlic (I always add garlic) and some black peppercorns
  2. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer about an hour or so.
  3. Strain and press any remaining liquid out of the veg.

You now have some very tasty, and FREE vegetable stock. The stuff in the strainer will break down in your compost pile MUCH faster.

If you want a chicken/meat/seafood stock, sear the bones/fat/skin etc in a skillet and simmer in the veggie stock another hour or so, Strain again and skim off excess fat. DO NOT compost the meat scraps, or you will get bad smells and rats.

You just cannot beat free food :)

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Survival Koshari [Recipe]

March 11, 2024 by Seasoned Citizen Prepper

White rice is a basic survival storage food, and Koshari is an everyday working-person’s meal in most of Egypt. It tastes infinitely better than it sounds.

This is part of a series of Survival Recipes that you can make from commonly stored foods, your garden in season, foraging wild edibles, or what is seasonally plentiful on the homestead.

You Will Need:

  • Caramelized onions (see Best Pizza recipe for details)
  • white rice, uncooked
  • lentils (I like orange dal, because they cook quickly)
  • plain spaghetti pasta
  • yellow onions, diced
  • your favorite tomato sauce (even packaged sauce will work)
  • ground cumin
  • olive oil

Directions:

  1. Add 2 parts white rice 1 part lentils to a pan, and cover with water (1 ‘knuckle’ depth above surface).
  2. Bring to boil, reduce to simmer.
  3. While rice and lentils cook, break up the spaghetti pasta, and lightly brown it in olive oil.
  4. After about 10 minutes, add the browned pasta to the rice/lentil mix and continue simmering, covered, about another 10 minutes. (Do not expect ‘fluffy’ rice – thick and sticky is what you want.)
  5. Saute diced onions in oil, add tomato sauce and a healthy shot of ground cumin. simmer.
  6. When rice/lentils/pasta mix is cooked, place serving in a bowl, cover with caramelized onions and top with the cumin/tomato sauce.

Really delicious, filling and easy. Makes a great, simple camping meal as well. (Thanks to Anthony Bourdain “No Reservations” Cairo episode for the inspiration)

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Chicken Soup of Survival: Grandma’s Penicillin [Recipe]

March 11, 2024 by Seasoned Citizen Prepper

When you are sick, chicken soup really does help. The herbs help too (where do you think they get thymol for cough drops). This is really magical when you’re sick!

You Will Need:

  • whole roaster chicken, remove and keep all bones and skin
  • 3 yellow onions, quartered
  • 2 rough chopped carrots (keep skin on)
  • 2 rough chopped stalks of celery, diced
  • large bunch fresh thyme
  • lots of minced garlic
  • 2 fresh sage leaves
  • olive oil
  • slice of fresh ginger
  • about quarter-sized egg noodles, boiled, very al dente
  • salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

  1. Start by skinning and boning the whole chicken.
  2. Toss all the skin and bones into a stock pot and brown everything.
  3. Cover well with water, adding rough cut veggies and herbs.
  4. Bring to a rolling boil, reduce to a simmer, cover and go away for a couple hours (well, watch it and add more water, if needed).
  5. After a few hours, strain out all the veggies and herbs and discard.
  6. Let stock cool and skim off excess fat.
  7. Saute the diced veggies and add to the stock.
  8. Heat thoroughly. You may want to add more garlic and thyme :)

Now, here’s the secret: Do not add the noodles until you are ready to serve.

Put them in the bowl, cover them with hot soup. Store leftover soup and noodles separately, and combine at meal time – the noodles won’t soak up all the stock and turn into ‘pudding’ that needs to be thinned out again.

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Black Eyed Pea Soup – New Year’s Day Good Luck [Recipe]

March 11, 2024 by Seasoned Citizen Prepper

As many of you know, I’m a “recovering New Yorker”.  One of the first really ‘alien’ things I found when I first moved to Virginia, 40-some years ago,  was that if I saw friends on New Year’s Day, their first question was usually “Did you have your black-eyed peas yet?”. If  I said “no”, I was usually dragged bodily into the kitchen and handed a bowl and spoon and told “It’s good luck”.  (Some were pretty bad, some were delicious.)

I had to do some research to find out why.  It turns out that, before the Civil War, black-eyed peas (beans) were grown, but considered a low-grade animal fodder crop in the South. Both armies involved in the conflict tended to commandeer much of the “people food”.

Animals, green vegetables, fruits, wheat, hay and field corn went to keep the armies fed. Civilians, black and white, rich and poor, were all very short of food. The bottom-line was that it was ‘survival food’, but if you had those dried beans, and maybe some smoked pork hocks to cook on New Year’s Day, you were already starting off the year lucky.

I don’t really believe that things are good or bad luck (except for the really obvious – it’s always bad luck to purposely whack yourself in the hand with a sledgehammer), but, a really tasty century+ – old tradition needs to be remembered and spread beyond its source. Here’s a modern version:

Hoppin’ John, the lazy way (not just for New Year any more…)

You Will Need:

  • 1 lb dry Black-eyed Peas
  • 1 “country style” smoked ham hock
  • 1 yellow onion, quartered
  • about 2 qt chicken stock
  • 1 yellow onion, diced
  • 1 bunch fresh thyme
  • 1 large green pepper, diced
  • boiling water
  • chopped garlic
  • 1/2 lb bacon, diced.
  • stone-ground coarse mustard (optional)

Directions:

  1. Add dry beans to a crockpot, cover by about an inch with boiling water.
  2. Set slow cooker on “Warm” and let is sit overnight to hydrate beans. Add more water if needed.
  3. In morning, drain off water, re-cover beans with chicken broth, add the ham hock, quartered onion, a ‘pinch’ of garlic and cook until tender on “Low” setting.
  4. When beans are tender, remove ham hock, shred and return to slow cooker, saute bacon over medium heat to render fat, until ‘somewhat crispy’ (my personal choice- I don’t like it if it breaks when you bend it).
  5. Remove bacon and excess grease, saute diced onions, peppers and garlic until onions translucent, then add to your beans.
  6. Stir, add fresh thyme bundle, add a little more broth if needed, and cook on “Low” about another half hour. A little mustard doesn’t hurt, but not traditional. Add broth or water as needed, you want some good ‘bean juice’ :)

Serve by itself, over rice, or with cornbread, or both. YUMMMM.

It’s “good luck” to start the year with something delicious. It would be very cool to know that we’re all sharing a meal, even though we’re all geographically separated.

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Survival Soup with Rice and Beans [Recipe]

March 8, 2024 by Seasoned Citizen Prepper

Survival Soup

Soups have long been the mainstay of any cook who is trying to stretch the larder to feed more people, or the budget to save money. Soup is the basic survival food. And for that reason (among many others), it should always have a place on your survival food list.

This is the first in a series of Survival Soup recipes that you can make from commonly stored foods, your garden in season, foraging wild edibles, or what is seasonally plentiful on the homestead.

This recipe comes from a post written by MsKYprepper “Feed a Family of Four for 1 Year for Less Than $300” and can be seen here: https://seasonedcitizenprepper.com//feed-a-family-of-4-for-1-year-for-less-than-300/

Don’t have time to prepare and cook soup? There are some really great dry soup mixes available. Oregon Lakes has 15 different recipes, and is all natural. See all their flavors here.

Recipe #1 Rice & Beans Soup

Measure out:

  • 8 oz (1 cup) of rice
  • 2 oz (1/4 cup) of red kidney beans
  • 2 oz (1/4 cup) of pearl barley
  • 2 oz (1/4 cup of lentils
  • 1 oz (1/8 cup) of split green beans
  • 1 oz (1/8 cup) of chick peas/garbanzo’s

(The chicken bouillon and salt are optional, but highly recommended!)

Put the ingredients into 6 quarts of water, bring to a boil and then simmer for 2 hours. When I cooked this it didn’t thicken up for me in two hours, but once I turned the burner off and let it sit for a while it did thicken up into a very hearty soup!https://survivalusb.com/products/survival-recipe-vault

If you decide to make this soup, I would suggest going to 1/4 to 1/2 of the recipe and adding liberal amounts of salt and chicken bouillon. Think of it as a very hearty chicken and rice soup with beans, etc. adding protein. This is a very basic recipe that you can add nearly any meat, including jerky, too. It will fill your belly and stick to your ribs. MsKYprepper said it is especially good with cornbread.

I bought all of the ingredients (3 lb. bag of rice and 1 lb. bags of the rest) for less than $10 at Walmart. If I purchased it in larger quantities, it would cost far less for the same amount, but I wanted to try it before I committed myself to larger quantities, and I’m glad I did! If necessary, I’m pretty sure it would feed us (2 adults) for at least a week, maybe two! No, it may not have all the calories you need, but it is meant to be a base for your foraging other foodstuffs from your garden or wherever.

I decided to vacuum seal this, with the recipe, as a gift for one of the kids, to start them on emergency food storage.

packaged food

Then, to keep it all together in a package they could stash almost anywhere, I put it in a clear baggy that I got with some sheets I just bought – I love to repurpose things!

packed done

How To Feed a family of 4 for 1 year, for less than $300

This plan is the fastest, cheapest and easiest way to start a food storage program. It has become semi “internet famous”, and is appropriately referred to as “survival soup.”

Think about this:

  • You are done in a weekend.
  • There are no hassles with rotating.  Pack it and forget.
  • It’s space efficient – everything is consolidated into a few 5-gallon buckets.
  • You’ll sleep content, knowing that you have a one-year food supply on hand for your family should you ever need it.

With the exception of dairy and Vitamin B12, this bean soup recipe will fulfill your basic nutritional needs.  It won’t fill all of your wants, but using this as your starting point, you can add the stuff that you want.

All of the food and storing supplies listed below plus 2 55-gallon recycled barrels to be used for rain catchment cost me $296, including taxes.  I purchased rice, bouillon and salt from Sam’s Club.  You can buy small bags of barley at the grocery store, but if you don’t mind waiting a few days, special ordering a bulk bag from Whole Foods was cheaper.

All of the beans I purchased from Kroger’s in 1-lb bags.  Supplies can be purchased online, although it is usually possible to find more opportunistic deals “on the ground.”

Survival Soup

Supplies you need for Survival Soup:

  • 8 – 5-gallon buckets with Gamma lids
  • 8 – large Mylar bags with 2,000 cc oxygen absorbers
  • A handful of bay leaves
  • 90 lbs. of white rice
  • 22 lbs. of kidney beans
  • 22 lbs. of barley
  • 22 lbs. of yellow lentils
  • 5.5 lbs. of split green peas
  • 5.5 lbs. of garbanzo beans
  • 1 lb. of salt
  • A big box of beef bullion and chicken bouillon.
  • A measuring cup

How To Store It

Install the gamma lids on the bucket and insert mylar bags.  Place 2 or 3 bay leaves in the bottom and fill the buckets, adding more bay leaves after each 1/3 to full.  Place an oxygen absorber in the top.  Label buckets with the contents and date. Fill:

  • 3 buckets with rice (shake it down good. Get it all in there!)
  • 1 bucket of kidney beans
  • 1 bucket of barley
  • 1 yellow lentils
  • In 1 bucket, store the split green peas, garbanzo beans, salt, measuring cup and bouillon (I removed the bouillon from the box and vacuum sealed it as bouillon contains a small amount of oil.).
  • Yep, that’s a total of 7 buckets, so far.

I place a broom handle across the bucket and wrap the ends of the mylar bag over the broom handle to give me some support. Then, slowly and smoothly, run a hot iron over the mylar bag to seal all except the last 2 inches. I press out as much air as possible before sealing the remaining 2 inches.

Make sure your mylar is completely sealed from end to end. Now, stuff the bag into the bucket and rotate the gamma lid into place. This will protect your food for roughly 25 years. You’ll have excess mylar bag at the top. Don’t cut it off, that way if you have to cut it open to get into it, you have enough bag remaining to reseal.

Where To Store Your Soup Supplies

It’s pretty easy to find a place for 7 to 8 5-gallon buckets, even in the smallest of apartments. You could:

  • Discard a set of box springs and lay a kid’s mattress on top of the buckets
  • Line the back of a large closet with the buckets
  • Make a couch table by stacking buckets two high between the couch and the wall.  The buckets are about 6” taller than the back of the couch.  Add a shelf and drape and it looks fine; a convenient place for a lamp and books.

Get creative!

Cooking Your Survival Bean Soup

Measure out

  • 8 oz of rice
  • 2 oz of red kidney beans
  • 2 oz of pearl barley
  • 2 oz of lintels
  • 1 oz of split green peas
  • 1 oz of chick peas/garbanzo’s

Add 6-7 quarts of water.  Add bouillon or salt to taste.  Then add any other meats, vegetables, potatoes or seasonings you have on hand. Bring to a boil and then let simmer for two hours.  You should have enough to feed 4 people for two days.  This is thick and hearty.  You will be warm on the inside and full with one large bowl.  Kids usually eat half a bowl.

After The Emergency Is Over

This system allows you to open the Mylar bags, retrieve as much of the ingredients as is needed and then reseal everything after the emergency has passed.  Just be sure to replace the ingredients used so that you always have a one-year supply.

Other Survival Food Items I Would Want (Keep These in The 8th bucket)

This list isn’t included in the $300.  This falls into the “what I want” category.  As money and resources became available, I’d just go crazy adding all of my indulgences, starting with coffee!  You can add what you want, but I’d fill it with:

  • Dry onion.  Let’s face it, what’s bean soup without onion! Sprinkle on the onions just before serving.
  • “Just add water” cornbread mix packets.  I just can’t eat bean soup without cornbread.
  • Beef jerky and Vienna sausages.  Add protein and zest to the bean soup
  • Instant oatmeal.  Do you really want bean soup for breakfast?  Freeze the oatmeal for 3 days before packing to kill any bugs.
  • 10 lbs of jellybeans.  Now, don’t laugh – it’s a bean.  Jellybeans don’t melt like chocolate might.  The high sugar content is quick energy, and a morale booster – with just enough of a high to help you over the really bad days. Easter is about here – stock up!

Before Filling Your Final Bucket

Buy small bags of the ingredients and fix a big pot of bean soup for dinner.  Eat the leftovers the second night, and 3rd night, until it’s all gone.  Find out now – rather than later – what your family might like to add to it.  Anything tastes great the first meal, but quickly becomes boring after the 3rd or 4th repeat.

Don’t wait until the emergency happens to discover what you SHOULD have stored in your 8th bucket. … Maybe some Beano!

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