Fat Girl Shrinking posted this little tidbit for making a single serving egg in the microwave in the comments section of the “Frugal Food Series-Eggs“. ********************************** I also make a microwave egg quiche type dish. I scramble one egg in a ramekin, add cheese (you can also add turkey, ham, sausage, or leftovers), and microwave…. Keep Reading
Readers Recipes: Bread Pudding
Starcrossed Lady posted this recipe in the comment section of “Frugal Food Series-Eggs“ ********************************** I’m suprised no one’s mentioned bread pudding yet! Not only does it use eggs, but it also helps use up stale bread that the kids won’t touch. Here’s mine for applesauce bread pudding. 10 slices bread (it seems white bread is… Keep Reading
Menu Plan-June 9th
Busy week! So busy that the menu plan didn’t happen yesterday. For some reason my entire menu plan got all shifted around last week. So I thought I’d do a little review of what actually happened. On Monday we did have the trout, and I flaked off the extra and put it in the fridge…. Keep Reading
Best Of-Let’s Quiche!
Quiche is classy, tasty and economical. It can be eaten warm or at room temp, and it freezes very well either as an entire quiche or in individual serving sizes. And you can make it with pretty much whatever you have in your fridge. So what are you waiting for? Let’s Quiche! I use the… Keep Reading
Frugal Food-Part One: EGGS!
Photo by MadelineTosh via Flickr.com Today we are kicking off the frugal food series. Each week I will highlight a frugal food, and then invite readers to post their own recipes and link back here. Hopefully this will provide us all with a nice repertoire of recipes to use during these lean times! We are… Keep Reading
Recipe: Mock Alfredo Sauce
This mock (or cheater’s) Alfredo sauce is not exactly bargain basement frugality, neither is it a low calorie option. However besides being quick and easy it is also much less expensive and less caloric than full fledged Alfredo-which call for a lot more butter, heavy cream, and real fresh Parmesan cheese. Preparing a more luxurious… Keep Reading
This and That Curry
Curry is one of my favorite “use it all up” dinners. Here is how I make it-with a little bit of “this” and “that” in it. Here you can see I browned some ground beef (sometimes I use leftover chicken, ham, steak, whatever. I’ve even been know to throw a cut up hotodog in), some… Keep Reading
What’s in a Name
It’s funny. Buddy won’t touch anything that he thinks is a Pea with a 10 foot pole, but he happily slurps down “Shrek Swamp Slime Soup”. Photo by Donut via Flickr.com Yum. I can’t exactly give you a recipe for the soup, as I just chunk stuff in the pot without measuring (split peas, broth,… Keep Reading
Potatoes Au Gratin – Classy and Frugal Side Dish
Potatoes Au Gratin is one of those dishes that seems very difficult to make, but is really basic and easy. The ingredients are simple and pretty cheap; potatoes, milk, flour, cheese* and salt & pepper. It can be “fancied” up with the addition of an onion. Buddy likes them made that way and calls them… Keep Reading
Basic Bread Recipe (for Bread Machine and/or Oven)
Yesterday I posted about making bread with the kids and letting them use it as “dough” to make edible sculptures. Sharon asked about the recipe. I use the basic White Bread recipe out of my bread machine cookbook, but with a few minor adjustments for the use of part whole wheat flour, and to be… Keep Reading
