This morning I whipped myself up some baking spice mix. It probably took 5 minutes, tops. You see, for about the last 6 months, whenever I bake a quick bread, anything that calls for cinnamon, or anything that just sounds like cinnamon would be good in it-well, I throw some Pumpkin Pie Spice in instead~and… Keep Reading
Creamy Squash Soup Link
Again, for my convenience! I saw this recipe for Creamy Squash Soup over at The Common Room and don’t want to lose it or forget about it. I just love winter squash and this sounds yummy! Another good addition to winter squash is curry powder. Yum!
Honey Hearts Recipe at The Common Room
I admit it, I am posting this link here merely for my own convenience. I want to be able to find it later, #1, because it looks yummy, and #2 because the recipe uses honey as the base for the cookie instead of white sugar! Honey Hearts Then again, if you enjoy it as well-GREAT!
Best Of-Refrigerator Bread
Here is the Refrigerator Bread to go with the “Stone Soup“. This really is awesome stuff, even if I haven’t made it recently. I think I am inspiring myself to whip up a batch this weekend. My biggest problem is that fresh baked bread just keeps calling my name! What I like best about this… Keep Reading
Best of-“Stone Soup and Refrigerator Bread”
The posting yesterday about how to use up your veggies rather than throw them out made me remember this post I wrote last year around this time. I sort of got out of the habit of keeping a “stone soup” baggie in the fridge over the summer, because soup just isn’t as appealing in the… Keep Reading
Pizza Day at Princess’ School and General Food Rambling
So no Lunchbox Report. She took more canned pears and some pink milk in for breakfast snack though. Yesterday afternoon Buddy and I were a frenzy of frugal lunchbox cooking though. We made: Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (cooled, prepacked 1/2 the batch into zipped baggies, placed into a gallon zip baggie in the freezer for easy… Keep Reading
Jello Jigglers Recipe–Fun Frugal Almost Junk Food.
Well, Buddy has snack today at preschool, a fact that I totally forgot (despite having written it on our nice new calendar-as Yankee Bill says, writing it down only helps if you look at it) until our very helpful preschool teacher called and reminded me yesterday. (Thanks Laurie!) I looked around the house to decided… Keep Reading
Save Money on Easy Bake Oven Mixes-Make Your Own!!!
***NOTE***edited to add this important info on 2-6-07****There has been a recall on the most recent version of the Easy Bake Oven. Please check out this link for info: CNN Money Article and Easy Bake Website. There is a free retrofit kit to fix the problem. Well, Princess wanted an Easy Bake Oven for Christmas…. Keep Reading
Oreo Cookie “Truffles” Recipe
Ok, I’m taking a break from the Christmas Traditions on the Cheap series for a minute. Yesterday I decided to try making some Oreo Cookie “Truffles” that I had tasted a few years back. They were supposed to be for folks to eat at the community Christmas concert yesterday evening (in which I was supposed… Keep Reading
Best of-Pizza Night
****Hope you enjoy this favorite**** Friday night is pizza night at our house-mostly because I love pizza and it is a great excuse to eat it once a week!Now this could be quite an expensive proposition if you ordered out, but being the frugalite I am, I make my own pizza. Being somewhat lazy, I… Keep Reading
