Delicious and Easy Sweet Cheese Pancakes Recipe
This recipe is very different from most recipes I post. First of all, I never tasted this. Secondly, it isn’t particularly frugal or particularly healthy. Nor is it gluten free, dairy free, or egg free (it’s all those, basically). But I made it yesterday for my kids for lunch and they devoured it, and told […]
Easy and Delicious Gluten Free Vegan Spaghetti with Meat Sauce Recipe from the Pantry- Allergy Friendly
Fortunately I have quite a lot of food in my house, enough to last a while, with the stock built up over a long period of time, mostly things purchased when they were on sale, so that I could shop from my pantry instead of paying full price for things from the grocery store. Though […]
Asian Style Pomelo Lettuce Salad Recipe — Gluten Free, Vegan, Easy
Sometimes, a salad is really amazing. And sometimes, it just doesn’t cut it for you. The other day I made myself a salad, and I couldn’t bring myself to eat it. I just didn’t enjoy it. I thought maybe my body was telling me to eat something other than salad, but I looked at the […]
Easy Gluten Free Vegan Carrot Cake Cookies Recipe, Allergy Friendly and Cheap
I got a bunch of free carrots that were oddly shaped, and I wanted to figure out something tasty to do with them. I also needed to make a dessert. I first thought of carrot cake, but then I wanted cookies. Then it hit me, why not carrot cake cookies? Does such a thing even […]
Easy Congee Recipe Using Leftovers, Chinese Savory Rice Porridge
Unfortunately my daughter has a stomach bug. (We’ve been dealing with so many sick days this past winter, first one kid then another, so many fevers, but this seems to be the first stomach bug.) I wanted to make some food to help my daughter feel better, something that would be soothing on the stomach, […]
A Very Easy Enjoyable Frugal Birthday Party for My Daughter
Ok, so all of you who have been reading my blog regularly know that I’m a single mom. And all those who’ve been around for a while know that I generally make a birthday party for my kids, and try to go all out with a theme, while still keeping the budget pretty low. However, […]
Easy Dairy Free Vanilla Cake Recipe, With No Expensive Ingredients or Equipment
Today I made a birthday party for my daughter, more on that in another post, and for the party cake I wanted something quick and easy. Though I have a terrific gluten free vanilla cake recipe that I’ve made in the past, this time I wanted to try a cake with gluten, because I wasn’t […]
Gluten Free Vegan Char Chai Tow Kway, Singaporean and Malaysian Stir Fried Carrot Cake Recipe with Daikon Radish, and Homemade Chye Poh, Chinese Dried Daikon Radish
First time I heard about Cantonese turnip cakes, lo bak go, made with daikon radish, I was a little hesitant, because it sounded strange, but it is such a popular dish that I said I’d give it a go, and I was very pleasantly surprised, to put it mildly. They were such delightful little dim […]
How to Make Yee Sang Recipe, Chinese New Year Prosperity Tossed Salad, Lo Hei, Gluten Free and Vegan Option
When I finally figured out how to make my own homemade gluten free vegan hoisin sauce, my friend Juli of Pandemonium Noshery suggested that I use it to make Yee Sang, a Cantonese salad, sometimes pronounced yusheng, also known as Lo Hei, served as part of the Chinese New Year celebrations, because each of the […]
Ginataang Tilapia Recipe, Filipino Fish with Coconut Milk and Greens, Paleo, Delicious, and Easy
I love recipes from around the world, but haven’t had the fortune to taste too many different Filipino recipes. One of them, pancit bihon, is a stir fry that my friend Juli taught me, but beyond that, I wasn’t really familiar with their dishes. However, on a quest to learn more about dishes from around […]
