Posted in Homemaking, In the Kitchen on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Back before the new year began (and I was brimming with organizational zeal), I declared January the Month of the Kitchen. Well, somewhere between pulling all the spices out of my cabinet and reorganizing them (which I did) and making not one but two kitchen valances (which I did exactly one-half of), my grasp of this [...]
Posted in In the Kitchen, Kitchen Tip Tuesdays on January 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I really didn’t know if Tammy would host Kitchen Tip Tuesday this week since she has had such an exciting week, but she is on the ball, as usual, so the least I can do is participate! : ) This week I’m simply sharing a recipe. This is one of those recipes that I called [...]
Posted in Frugality, Grocery Expenditures, In the Kitchen on January 24, 2008 | 10 Comments »
For last week’s Super Savings Saturday carnival hosted by Crystal at Money Saving Mom, I asked the questions How does your family work as a team to reduce your expenditures? and How do those of you who are on tight grocery budgets work bargains into your budget? Okie Dokie, who blogs at Saving $$ in Johnson County [...]
Posted in In the Kitchen, Kitchen Tip Tuesdays on January 22, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Today I am sharing one of my favorite kitchen tools. I have been making homemade pizza a lot lately. I started out using Crystal’s recipe, and then when a recent Light ‘n’ Tasty featured pizza recipes, I rediscovered my love for both making and eating them. A current favorite of my family’s is the chicken pesto pizza. [...]
Posted in In the Kitchen, Kitchen Tip Tuesdays on January 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I really can’t take credit for this tip at all because I saw it on the Food Network’s Good Eats with Alton Brown. I don’t watch much television at all, but I do try to watch either television or a movie if I have any scrapbooking time without the girls at home. Last week the [...]
Posted in In the Kitchen, Menu Plan Monday on January 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I usually do not mention the previous week’s menu once I begin planning for a new week, but I simply must mention last week’s chicken pesto pizza. It was DELICIOUS! I loved it so much, I’m putting it on the menu again for this week! Here’s what our week looks like:
Monday: leftover roast beef Italian stew [...]
Posted in Frugality, In the Kitchen on January 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
One thing I’ve been trying to do lately to stretch both our grocery budget and my time is to really plan ahead. One dish that both Steady Eddie and my girls both like is the old Southern standby, pinto beans and cornbread. Because I usually cook too many beans anyway (and I thrive on variety, so [...]
Posted in Homemaking, In the Kitchen, Kitchen Tip Tuesdays on January 8, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Since last week I solicited my readers’ opinions about organizing this cabinet, I thought I’d follow up this week with pictures of our solution. I ended up with this contraption from Lowe’s. Here’s the a before picture just to refresh your memories:
And here’s the after:
Much better, huh? The organizer has slide-out baskets to make it even [...]
Posted in In the Kitchen, Menu Plan Monday on January 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This is the first week since the week before Christmas that our schedule will be almost normal. While I really love vacation time, I also look forward to getting back on a schedule. I missed menu planning last week because I knew the week would be somewhat unpredictable. I really missed it, though, so [...]
Posted in Frugality, Grocery Expenditures, In the Kitchen on January 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I started tracking our grocery expenditures here on my blog at the beginning of December. I fell off the wagon about a week before Christmas. I was attempting to spend no more than $200 for the entire month on groceries; however, for some reason, I never think Christmas is going to cost as much [...]
