On Friday I talked about several ways to beat the heat while cooking, both saving on electricity (which is always frugal) and just plain keeping cool during the summer. While researching some of the information on using your grill to cook with, I found some neat and unusual ways to use your grill. Fiesta Grill… Keep Reading
Homemade Cherry Sauce
Photo from StockXchange Yankee Bill’s favorite dessert in the whole entire world is cherry pie-made of course with sour “pie” cherries, not that overly sweet goop that they sell in the can. So every once in a while on a special occasion we buy a couple of jars of Montmorency cherries in syrup and whip… Keep Reading
Homemade Frosting / Icing Recipe
This recipe is quick and easy to make-requiring only a few ingredients that any frugal family should have in the pantry. It doesn’t require any cooking (which always scares me when I look at frosting/icing recipes). It is stiff enough to pipe out of an icing bag, tastes yummy, and can be kept in the… Keep Reading
Make a Barbie Cake Part I-Making the Cake without a Mold
For Princess’s 5th birthday party, I made her a homemade “Barbie” cake. It might not have looked like a professional made it, but I thought it was pretty good-and more to the point Princess was THRILLED with it. So thrilled in fact that she insisted on having one again this year. As you can see… Keep Reading
Making Banana Pancakes
Photo from Flickr by ChotdaCreative Commons Copyright Some rights reserved. I don’t know if I knew this and forgot it, or if today was one of those “blinding flash of the obvious” moments. If you have bananas that are going spotty and brown, besides using them in smoothies, freezing them for banana bread and sticking… Keep Reading
Homemade Lemonade
Even though it is gray and dreary here today, here in Upstate NY we are finally into true spring. (Although that’s what we thought two weeks ago and then we got 11 inches of snow. No, no, we must think positive. It is after all the end of April.) My thoughts are turned to warm… Keep Reading
Bulk Pie Crust Recipe
I am pie crust challenged. Really. They never come out quite the way I had hoped. With fruit season *hopefully* approaching (please, strawberries, please), the urge to make an occasional pie will be upon me. Also Quiche is a lovely spring/summer meal-you can make it ahead (think baking the night before when the house is… Keep Reading
Favorite Frugal Meals-Please Add On!
This weekend I had a phone call from my sister, Victoria (you may have seen her posting recently) also known affectionately by the kiddos as Aunt “Bick“. She is the one person in the family who I have fully converted to my frugal ways! (not that anyone is a spendthrift-she is just my “little grasshopper”)… Keep Reading
Nice Cooking Site for Beginners, with Videos!
One of the best ways to start saving money on your food bill is to cook from scratch, or at the very least cook at home rather than eat out-even if you use some convenience foods to do so. For me this isn’t much of a challenge-I grew up in a household with a mother… Keep Reading
Personal Potluck Favorite-Spicy Thai Noodles
Yankee Bill had a potluck style luncheon at work yesterday and specifically requested that I make up a big batch of my “Spicy Thai Noodles” to send in. This is an Asian inspired favorite that my sister (SportyRN) brought back from Kwajelein the first time she lived out there and introduced our entire family to…. Keep Reading
