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 [...]
I arrived home from the gym around 7:45 to find hubby feeding the kids homemade toast and jam. Normally I make several loaves of either Amish white bread or Honey whole wheat, but if I forget or run low I throw in this recipe and let the bread maker do its magic.
Lunch consisted of grilled cheese. [...]
Better late than never! I apologize to Naomi and our readers for forgetting to post this sooner!
What better way to start a Saturday?
Can of refrigerated biscuits (regular ole’ buttermilk variety) and a fry daddy!
Take each biscuit and stamp out a small “hole” to make a donut shape. Fry until light brown on both sides and [...]
We are going to make applesauce today! (along with start the freezer cooking)
We recently visited Costco and got their amazing bag of apples … set to peeling and now just need to wash out the crockpot.
Again, I defer to Steph at A Year of Crockpotting for her tried and true recipes.
We are using about 20 [...]
I had a great plan for this final post about freezer cooking.
I was going to use the Three Week Plan that I talked about in my last post and I was going to snap photos along the way, while I shopped, cooked, bagged and froze! Wouldn’t that be great to have photos showing the process?
Just [...]
This is the second of three guest posts by Naomi, who blogs about her personal life at Donuts and Graham Crackers.
Hello again! It’s been a fun week of reading your comments and is exciting to know that so many of you want to take a stab at freezer cooking! I have coined this way of [...]
We are halfway through the End 08 Great challenge. Only 3 months left until 2009! So far we have challenged everyone (including ourselves) to Conquer the Clutter, spend some extra Face Time with the Kids, and Fix Our Finances.
The focus of the October challenge is Fall Into Cooking. We will be focusing on ways [...]
My name is Naomi and I live in Northeast Ohio, somewhere between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. I have three children (8th grade, kindergarten and just turned two) and a husband who works incredibly hard for our family, so that I can stay at home! I blog about our personal life at Donuts and Graham [...]
I have never been a big fan of plain old sloppy joes - ground beef in a seasoned sauce on buns. However, my family just loves sloppy joes. I’ve found that when I play around with the sloppy joe base and either add other ingredients to it or use it in other dishes, I like [...]
Welcome to Day 2 in Jennifer’s kitchen. We are all very excited to see and share her week. Jennifer feeds her family very healthy and frugal meals. Her willingness to try new things is inspirational. We hope you enjoy spending this week with Jennifer.
Welcome to my kitchen day 3. For breakfast today we had the chocolate chip bread that I made last [...]
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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