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Fried Green Tomatoes

Samantha — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:22:25 +0000

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. [...] Related posts:

Pan con Tomate

How to Make Hummus

Samantha — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:54:53 +0000

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 [...] Related posts:

Strawberry Lemonade

Samantha — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:58:30 +0000

This is yet another post in my series of how to save money in the kitchen. I haven't priced out how much this costs this time, because this is more about making do with what you have. If you have these few ingredients on hand or others (like grapes or other berries of some kind), it can be very inexpensive to make. Cheers!

Last weekend was our first official hot weekend of Spring. It was the kind of weekend where the air was sticky and warm, and where we wished that we had gone ahead and put in the air conditioners (no central AC for us). It was also a weekend where we thanked ourselves for having all the right ingredients to create a drink that was exactly what we needed: cool and refreshing. No related posts.

How to make Tortillas

Samantha — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:33:23 +0000

This is the third post in a series focusing on how to save money by making foods that you would normally buy already made. Not only is it cost-effective to make a lot of your own food, it's just so much more satisfying and rewarding.

With Mexican being one of my husband's favorite foods to eat, we nearly always have tortillas or tortilla chips in the house. We've kept saying that we should try to make tortillas instead of buying them since it would probably save us money, but we never have done it. With my recent foray into trying to make more things from scratch, however (like pita bread, for example), I decided to just go ahead and do it. I tried a couple of recipes, but while the first was decent, I found it to be too dry. The second recipe I found is a keeper, though, and I've already made two or three batches of tortillas using this recipe. It's now been weeks since we've purchased tortillas at the store. Related posts:

How to make Pita Bread

How to make Pita Bread

Samantha — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:55:13 +0000

This is another post in a series focused on how to be more frugal in the kitchen. Recession or not, it's a great feeling to know that you can create good homemade food for less. I love pocket pita. I love dipping it in baba ghanoush or hummus, and I love cutting it in half and filling it with avocado and sprouts for a simple, yet delicious sandwich. I usually buy pita at the store, but lately I've decided to start making my own to save money. Not only that, it's actually kind of fun to make pita because of how interesting it looks as it puffs up in the oven. Related posts:

Growing Sprouts

Samantha — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:29:41 +0000

This is the first in a series of posts that I'll be doing that focuses on how to be a bit more frugal in the kitchen. We've all probably felt the pinch in one way or another in this lovely recession, but we don't have to forgo good food to save money. We can have our cake and eat it, too. In this post, we can have our sprouts. :) Stay tuned in the coming days and weeks for other ways you can save money on good homemade food in the kitchen. When I was a kid I remember my mom growing a copious amount of alfalfa sprouts. She'd pack them in my lunches for school, and at lunchtime my classmates would make fun of me for eating worms. I liked the sprouts, though, and so much so that I grew sprouts for a school science fair (I believe I even won something). I showed them at different stages of growth, from humble seed to full grown sprout. No related posts.

Raw Homemade Almond Milk

Samantha — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:09:33 +0000

Back when my husband and I tried the raw food diet for a month we wound up making a lot of food from scratch that we might have normally purchased at a store. One of those things was almond milk. At first making this sort of thing was truly intimidating, but once done we realized how easy it could be. Prep time is minutes, although twiddling your thumbs takes hours. No related posts.