Novel Eats

Learn how you can save money and only spend $4 a day on your meals.

Cooking dry beans can be an easy and rewarding process, especially if you use a crock pot (a.k.a. slow cooker). In this post, I give you a simple recipe on how to cook dry kidney beans.

Summer conjures up a lot of culinary tastes and images for me, from corn on the cob to peach cobbler to strawberry lemonade. It’s a season of indulgence and surprise as I rediscover loved fruits and vegetables from my childhood, especially since everything is dripping with freshness and none of it is vacuum-packed in plastic. [...]

This is another post in the Frugal Eats series, meant to help you save money in the kitchen. First off, a confession – I am not a big fan of hummus. But more specifically, I am not a fan of bland hummus. It has to have flavor, preferably through the incorporation of lots of fresh [...]

All you need are strawberries, lemons or limes, sweetener, water and ice to make refreshing Strawberry Lemonade.