Today I'm talking with Christi at Tee’s Kitchen. A Tiny Homestead Podcast is sponsored by Homegrowncollective.org. Muck Boots Calendars.Com If you'd like to support me in growing this podcast, like, share, subscribe or leave a comment. Or just buy me a coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/lewismaryes 00:00 You're listening to A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters, and topics adjacent. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. A Tiny Homestead podcast is sponsored by Homegrown Collective, a free to use farm to table platform, emphasizing local connections with ability to sell online, buy, sell, trade in local garden groups, and help us grow a new food system. You can find them at homegrowncollective.org. Today I'm talking with Christi. 00:27 at Tee's Kitchen in Louisiana. And Christi was a guest on my podcast back, I think, in March. And it was cold and snowy and gross, and we're rolling into summer. So Christi and I are going to talk about some less hot, cooler summer dishes that we can maybe introduce people to so they can make their electric bill go down. Good morning, Christi. How are you? Good morning. I'm great. I'm so excited to be back on. I had so much fun. had 00:56 Such a great conversation the last time. We did and I listened to it this morning because I was like, what exactly did we talk about? And I was like, oh my God, I still love this lady. She's fantastic. Oh, I feel the same way about you. Thank you. Good. I just I make so many new friends who I probably will never meet through the podcast. And my husband says, so what new friend did you make today? love that. I'm like, oh, well, do you really want to know? And he's like, 01:25 Kind of? And I give him the short version. He's like, I'm so glad that you have people that you get to talk with all over the place. He said, because you need that. I'm like, I do. I really do need that. So it's wonderful. you're in Louisiana. We're rolling into summer. We're not quite there yet, according to the calendar, but it's literally a week or so away. And we've had some really hot days so far here this spring in Minnesota. I'm guessing Louisiana hasn't been any different. 01:55 Louisiana has been really, really hot. We're approaching 100 degrees here and it's just, the humidity is insane. So it's pretty hot here. So it's summer here as far as I'm concerned. Okay. So how do you combat that when it comes to feeding your family? I have lots of ideas, but I want to hear yours first. Well, we, you know, we, we try to grill outside, but then again, it's very hot. We always have to have a fan going. 02:25 Um, so I try to do meals that I don't have to use my oven as much, or if I have to use my oven, it's like a shorter period of time. Um, because it just, it gets really, really hot in my house. We do a lot of like, uh, rice cooker meals. do, uh, one pan sheet pan meals. Sometimes I use my air fryer, but I don't like to use it for, it's not big enough for the whole family. Um, yeah, we grill just simple quick meals, I would say. 02:55 Okay, well, let's back up just a titch. The first thing I would tell anybody right now in the climate that we're all living in, meaning weather and government, is if you don't know how to cook, it's a really good idea to start learning how to cook. It's also a really good idea to start maybe learning how to grow something, even if it's just herbs in a pot beside your doorstep, because 03:24 I am, I don't want to talk politics, I do not, but we're in a kind of iffy, bouncy, chaotic world right now. And one of the things that makes me sane is that I know how to cook and I have a garden. So cooking is not hard. I swear to God, people, it's not. It's time and intention. And you don't have to start out making a gourmet meal. can. 03:50 You can make a grilled cheese sandwich with two slices of bread, some butter and some cheese you love. And it's super easy. And then once you get that accomplished, you can make scrambled eggs and you can boil eggs for egg salad sandwiches. There are really simple things that you can do to start the steps to learning to cook. And I don't, I don't want to like force this down people's throats, but 04:17 but cooking is such a vital skill for everybody to learn. Secondly, one of the things that we do around here is we do a lot of salads, like just lettuce, sweet peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, know, that kind of stuff, because it's cold food on a hot day. And you can throw some shredded chicken or some ham that's been sliced up or 04:47 If you're into steak, you can take steak that you've already cooked from dinner the night before, slice it really thin and put that on your salad if you want meat in your salad. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, we try to do a lot of that to my husband. I will be honest, gardening is not one of my strong suits, but I can ...
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