Fall somehow always takes me by surprise. At first there’s a few leaves here and there, then come the rains and before you know it the cruddy days outnumber the nice ones and summer is officially gone.
Does this happen every year?
Yes it’s a little sad, but the season of cool and wet, (I live in [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Cheap Eats’
October 28, 2009
Your Favorite Fall Recipes
October 14, 2009
Cheap Eats — “Hakuna Frittata”
I’ve had some rather unpalatable experiences with frittatas in the past. Dry and oniony with a texture akin to a tire rubber was not a dish I aspired to recreate. But my Scrabble friend Glenn encouraged me to give frittatas another try.
The arrival of an extra half-dozen eggs in addition to the 18-pack in the [...]
August 17, 2009
Cheap Eats — Substitution Solutions
The following is a reprint of a previously published post. Enjoy!
Do you have a favorite recipe, but only serve it on special occasions because of pricey ingredients? With a bit of clever substitutions, you can enjoy these meals year round.
I first realized this technique years ago when I swapped out the prosciutto and wild mushrooms [...]
July 31, 2009
Cheap Eats — Pesto
The following is a reprint of a previously published post. Enjoy!
I may be in a time warp, because I am freshly in love with pesto. I know that the rest of the world went pesto-crazy 10+ years ago. But here I am in 2009 trying to figure out how to work this magical green paste into everything [...]
June 12, 2009
Cheap, Cheap French Bread — A Guest Post by The Frugal Girl
The following is a guest post by Kristen over at The Frugal Girl. I have made this recipe twice now, and it has surpassed my expectations on both occasions. The first time I accidently let it over-rise, but the consistency was like a fancy-schmancy artisan loaf. I have doubled the recipe both times and been [...]
April 26, 2009
Click here to read a fantastic article about one woman’s quest to spend as little on her food budget as possible. Her take on incorporating leftovers into subsequent meals is inspired. (I think I may steal her term of flexipe!)
I’m feeling pretty good about how tonight’s dinner will be burritos made with leftover pressure cooked [...]
March 12, 2009
The Grocery Game Loser — An Update
I had written last week about how I was trying out The Grocery Game website as a way to lower my family’s food expenditures. (This site matches up sales and coupons specific to your area in exchange for a small fee.)
I am now in my second week following this program and it’s working.
Kind of.
I am [...]
January 30, 2009
Cheap Eats — Katy’s Black Bean Burgers
The following is a reprint of a previously printed blog. Enjoy! (All the formatting bits and pieces are suddenly missing on the wordpress site, so I’m unable to do a regular blog.)
Even if you are bound and determined to spend as little money as possible, you still have to eat. Sure, there are a number [...]
December 26, 2008
Cheap Eats — One Hour Bread
I ventured out in the snow and ice on Christmas Eve to buy the fixings for a lovely Christmas dinner. I was thinking salmon with a nice big salad. (My husband drives our only snow-worthy vehicle to work, and I have to wait until he gets home to do any driving.)
Unfortunately, both the grocery stores [...]
