Spices and Seasonings- For Free, Or Nearly
Terrific, expensive, high quality food doesn’t need much primping to get it to taste good, but frugal, el cheapo food sometimes does need a little spiffing up to make the meal a delicious one. I think one of the most important thing a frugal home needs to have is a well stocked spice cabinet. Spices, in […]
Hearth and Soul Blog Hop
Welcome back to yet another edition of the Hearth and Soul blog hop. This is where you get the chance each week to share your favorite food related posts with the other visitors to the hop, and you get to check out theirs as well. The Hearth and Soul Hop is about food that not […]
Dijon Purslane or String Beans Recipe
Purslane is my favorite plant to forage in the summer, and probably my favorite foraged plant altogether, as its very mild and versatile, can be eaten both raw and cooked, and it also grows very nicely in my window boxes. Though I do need to supplement whats in my window boxes with what’s growing wild, because […]
Vegan Stuffed Eggplant Recipe- Turkish Inspired, Gluten Free
When we first moved to our current apartment, we had a lovely 70 year old French Tunisian woman as our next door neighbor. We’d sit and talk for many hours, and surprisingly, despite having lived through very different times (she shared with me her experience living during World War 2 in Tunisia), we had enough […]
Cooking With Kids- Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies Recipe- Vegan, with Gluten Free Option
Summer vacation. For most, it probably means that the kids are home more than they are usually, but not in my case, as my kids are with me at home year round. But what summer vacation does mean is their friends are home, and it’s a little too hot to play outside in the middle […]
Figuring Out The True Price Of Vegetables
Zucchini with the not so edible parts cut off It all started because of the green beans. And the corn. I know that in the US very often frozen and canned produce is cheaper than fresh, but locally, canned and frozen produce isn’t so cheap. In fact, frozen veggies and canned are so expensive that […]
Kids Are Expensive; Leave Them At Home
One of the things I hear most often when people hear I have all three kids at home with me instead of sending them out to school, playgroup, or a babysitter is ‘How do you manage? Don’t you ever need a break from your kids?’ Its true, I definitely need some tricks up my sleeve […]
Shedding Light on Americans’ Current Financial Situation
This is a guest post by Suzan Bekiroglu. Ms. Bekiroglu is a published author, freelance writer and editorial consultant for secureloanconsolidation.com. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Florida, she faced the mounting obstacle of paying over $24,000 back in student loan debt. Determined to eliminate the debt, she became knowledgeable about […]
Hearth and Soul Blog Hop
Welcome back to yet another edition of the Hearth and Soul blog hop. This is where you get the chance each week to share your favorite food related posts with the other visitors to the hop, and you get to check out theirs as well. The Hearth and Soul Hop is about food that not […]
Foraging Ice Plant Fruit- Hottentot Figs, Sour Figs, Sea Figs
I would call myself a pretty adventurous eater. I mean, I eat banana peels, how can I not be adventurous? I also love foraging, finding new types of wild edibles to pick and eat. So when I heard that the fruit of the ice plant was edible, I knew I had to try it out. Last year […]
