This one’s a concoction of my own fevered imagination and a desire to get more fresh veggies into our diet. All ingredients given here are suggestions, make up your own mix based on what you have available/like! All times and temperatures are estimated, you know your stove better than I do.
Last month I had very little after bills. This month, I have even less. Combine the $570 oil bill, the $320 electric bill, the quarterly $120 water bill, the quarterly $156 sewer bill, and then add in all the other usual bills and I have to say we’re pretty much bust. These things definitely weren’t…
On friday, I started sneezing at 8am. I didn’t slow down until 8pm. Despite working from home and generally avoiding sick people, there was one inlet for infection that I forgot: I pick up medications at my local pharmacy. I often have to wait in line at the pharmacy counter, surrounded by red-nosed, snuffling, coughing…
I’ve tried lots of different ways of organizing my recipes. purchased cookbook notebooks and index cards (which had to be rewritten by hand from the original sources), a 3-ring binder (printing or ripping or writing recipes onto paper), various online recipe savers/collectors (where you have to enter in all the ingredients from a database), a…
When you grow lots of tomatoes in the garden, you need to figure out what to do with them. While my garden harvest this year wasn’t as large as years past, I still feel a thrill in using stuff from my own garden to make dinner. I used about 1 lb of roma tomatoes from…
I will admit a great fondness for hydrogenated icing from plastic tubs, as I have mentioned previously. It’s a terrible habit I’d love to kick. However I’ve tried making real buttercream icing in several different recipes, but I really didn’t like them. Either they tasted like sugar water paste, or biting into a stick of…
The original experiment Back in February I posted about the beginning of my experiment on making my own vanilla extract. In my experiment, I created vanilla extract by soaking the beans in three different alcohols for 12 weeks. I used one cup jars of Skyy Vodka, Bacardi Rum, and Black Maple Hill Kentucky Straight Bourbon. …
Instructions on making your own powdered laundry detergent.
ok, so maybe not foolproof, and maybe not original but certainly the way I‘ve found to make it well without burning or undercooking. When I first started trying to eat healthier, I was told white rice has too many simple carbs and I should use brown rice instead. “OK”, I thought, “sounds easy enough let…
While I love to cook, I’m like most people where I don’t like to cook every night. Leftovers, in general, are not a great option. Enter “divided cooking”. Divided cooking is a term I use to describe making a dish to a point where there’s not much left to do, and dividing it into separate containers to freeze and finish at a later date…