Does the thought of maintaining a sourdough starter seem a little intimidating? Niki assures us it is not. She also includes some recipes ideas for making the most of your starter.
Well tonight is the continuing saga of canning…please try to contain your enthusiasm. Now that we have all the necessary and “not so” necessary tools you are ready to start….what now you say?
I will break down the basics of canning from what works for me and what was a complete disaster. [...]
Niki is helping all think of warmer days ahead by turning our thoughts to canning. Her list will be a great resource for both seasoned and newbie canners.
Join Niki and her family on a super-frugal and fun winter getaway. This trip is the perfect blend of simplicity and frugality.
Join Niki as she wraps up her 3-part series on budgeting from the perspective of a former credit counselor.
Part 2 on creating a budget. Niki’s shares invaluable budgeting tips and skills with her knowledge as a former credit counselor.
Wow, day 7 already. Time flies when you are busy cooking up a storm.
Surprisingly, I remembered to soak some steel cut oats combined with millet to prepare for breakfast this morning. In a matter of minutes the porridge was piping hot topped with rapadura, flax seed and some chopped up strawberries. Normally berries this time of [...]
The frigid weather continued this morning with an all time-low of -40. Low enough that our car would not start. That is enough of an excuse to stay home from the gym and not feel guilty about it.
I quickly got to work prepping breakfast by placing a couple of frozen pumpkin waffles in the [...]
We are officially in a deep freeze. The temperatures are dipping to a low of -30 later this evening with a wind chill of -40C overnight. Seriously, after it hits double digits who cares what the exact temperature is…if your nose freezes shut when you inhale, it’s cold. Period!
By the time I arrived [...]
Niki relies on her years of credit counseling experience to provide us all with tips on setting up a budget.
Like Mother, Like Daughter. We are a family who live in Central Massachusetts. My husband is a Boston Irish Catholic from a big family. His upbringing was smack dab in the middle of respectable Catholic America, not untinged by 60s unrest.
I am about as different from him as you can get: I’m an only child, my parents are divorced, my father was an immigrant from Egypt, I was raised on the cutting edge of the feminist/relativist/sexual self-fulfillment/diversity revolution. My upbringing was smack dab in the middle of 70s hippie snotty know-it-all America, not untinged by anomie.
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