Hey welcome back to Survival Preparedness for Beginners and today we're going to be doing a quick dish and we're just going to be doing up some potatoes, a can of roast beef, some mushrooms, a couple of seasonings, and a little bit of gravy. We're going to put it all together and make a wonderful meal for you and your family with your preps and we're going to start putting this together and you're going to see how this all looks. So get your cast iron frying pan out and let's get cooking. All right we're back folks. Now we took and re-rest our potatoes, we opened up our meat, we strained off our mushrooms and stuff. So now it is time to get cooking. So as I said in my last video last week if you have a long lighter here, lighting this is a lot easier and a lot safer. So let's turn the gas on and voila. See how easy that was? Now we want to turn that heat down. Two tablespoons of oil or a little bit more. You're cooking potatoes and stuff. You want to get enough to coat the whole bottom of the pan. All right. Now I trick to this dish is control the heat. I want to control the heat. We'll let that heat up for just a second. All right so everybody should have like your spices, right? Mint's onion. Either if you buy it, pre-stried, dehydrated, you do it yourself, whatever. For having mint's onion and garlic powder and all that kind of stuff is going to be a really great benefit in a gridded down emergency type situation. So let's get our potatoes going. All right the sound we're all wanting here. All right now we want to get some mint's onion in there. Now it's all on how much you like. You can add as much as you want. It's a secret tasty. A little bit of garlic powder just to give it a nice little kick. All right like I said before folks just because an emergency situation doesn't mean that whatever you're cooking has to be bad. All right a little salt for those potatoes and now we're just going to let these cook for a few minutes and we'll get going on the rest of this stage in. Now while our potatoes are over here cooking there's a few things that I want to bring to your attention that everybody should really realize. Cast iron. Cast iron is the best thing to have. You can buy these cool little things right here. I knew I had one had to find it. You can slide that right over the end there, open the handle and now you don't have to worry about if you grab the handle, burn it in your cell or anything like that. But having cast iron is a great addition to any preppers survival kit because cast iron is known to last for ages. This particular frying pan that I'm cooking in right here is older than me. This frying pan is anywhere between 65 and 75 years old and has been cooked over open flames, on stoves, the whole nine yards you name it, it's been through it and it still works great. It's a well seasoned cooking utensil that you need to have in your press. Now as our potatoes have been cooking here now for a few minutes and stuff, let's add some mushrooms. Now one thing to remember folks, when you're cooking with your cast iron don't walk away, don't leave it and let's you're doing like soup or stews or something like that. Make sure that you are here, tending it and you keep stirring it, especially when you're cooking like potatoes and stuff because they will start to stick to the bottom. And then they'll start to burn and now you got a big, huge clean up mess and everything else. So we got our mushrooms in there. All right, let's go ahead and throw in our shredded roast beef that we did. As you can see, it's all kind of shredded. So it's very easy to incorporate this into your meal. Now we're going to stir this up again. Now when you're using cast iron, you want to make sure you have a good solid spatula. All right, you're drilling stuff that works great, having a good solid metal so you can scrape right down to the bottom and get all that goodness right off the bottom. It's going to go a long ways and make a near life a lot easier. Yes, plastic wood work in a pinch. We're in a pinch. It's an emergency situation. So now we're going to add the star ingredient. Grated beef gravy. And you guys choose to buy and store for long term the packets of different types of gravy and stuff. Just remember, all you got to do is vacuum seal those suckers in a vacuum sealed bag and those things are going to last for quite a while. All right, I would highly suggest store in those type of things for long term in a very cool, dry place. Maybe you didn't even have room in your refrigerator if you want to put them in there, but as long as you can store them somewhere cool and dry. But today we're cheating and I'm just using a can out of my work in pantry, a jar of Hines, savory beef. We're going to pour that in there. And what we're going to do is reduce the heat. You want to get it to almost a simmer. So if you look, you can see that that is barely going. All right, now we're going to stir this up. Now, there's a few different things that you could do with this dish at this point in time. You could add in any type of vegetables that you want to do. You could put corn in here, you could put green beans, you could carrots, you can almost make it like a stew. But you don't have to, if you don't have those things and you just have these few ingredients, even if you just had to meet and to potato this and you can, you could do this and there you go. We're just going to let this simmer for about two or three minutes. All right, folks, it's been about two or three minutes. Turn the heat off. She's done. She's ready to plate and serve. All right, what we're going to do is we're going to pour some of this into this lovely bowl right here. Now, if you use a spatula, you could take a scrape what loves a good business in that frying pan out. All right, now I want to take a little bit, spoon it in here for a little taste test. It smells delicious, folks. I mean, you just can't go wrong. I mean, it's very simple for you to do. Let's give it a taste test. Caution. Contents may be hot. Just for good, I better say that since everybody else, when you buy something, they have to tell you that nowadays, to buy in a hot-copy copy. You know, hey, it's going to be hot. Mmm. That is so delicious. So easy for you to do, for you and your family. And what did it take? Hardly any time at all. A few ingredients. You can go a long way. So like I said, you could add to this dish and make it even more nutritious. If you wanted to, you could put in your own green beans, corn, carrots, whatever kind of invisible you do like. You could throw it in there, but in a quick emergency type situation. This is a great meal for you and your family. So once again, I'm so glad I hope you're preparing this for beginners. Thank you for joining me on this video today. I hope everybody's safe. If you keep prepping, we're going to learn how to use our preps and how to make quick, easy meals for you and your family. Till next time, catch you all on the flip side. You