Recently Home Ec 101 started a series called “Kitchen Bravery”. Their first article was indeed very brave. It tells how to make chicken stock from, you guessed it, chickens feet. You can see the details here complete with photos of … Continue reading →
I’ve written about The Simple Dollar several times. Trent Hamm, the author of the site, gave us the recipe for our fab breakfast burritos. (We need to make some more of those. They tasted great and went fast!) We still … Continue reading →
The other day my pal Tracy was telling me about a recipe she saw on TV. It was an easy recipe for a chocolate cake. The cool thing about it was that you mixed it in the baking pan. That … Continue reading →
For the last month or so The Man of the House and I have been on the hunt for Tillamook sharp cheddar cheese. We usually pick up a month’s supply at Costco. For the last two months we’ve come up … Continue reading →
Slate recently featured a cost effectiveness study on homemade pantry staples. (Thanks to Tracy for sending me the link!) Take a look at what the author discovered when she analyzed the cost effectiveness of homemade bagels, cream cheese, yogurt, jam, … Continue reading →
I don’t mean to be a crabapple, but wasn’t it just last month that the postage rates went up? Sigh! The purpose of this post isn’t to complain about rising prices, but to remind you that postage rates are going … Continue reading →
This weekend The Man of the House and I worked on putting together a drip irrigation system. We’ve got all the supplies. The next step is to prep the plants and then we’re ready to go.
Continue reading →With swine flu to the south of us, in California, and to the north of us, in Canada, I suppose it was inevitable. As of this writing there are 16 suspected cases of swine flu in Washington state. Nine of … Continue reading →
It was a long, cold winter. It was pretty . . . but it was very, very cold. According to the Seattle Times, Prepare for what could become the coldest spell in nearly two decades, according to the National Weather … Continue reading →
This week I found some great cooking links! Cream of Soup Recipe – There are other items in this post from Simple Dollar but what caught my eye is the cream of soup recipe. Have you checked out the ingredients … Continue reading →
