Homemade Alfredo Sauce is so much tastier and so much less expensive than sauce from a jar. It is easy to make and can be made in the time that it takes to cook the pasta. My husband and kids do not like parmesan cheese, so when I make Alfredo Sauce I only use mozzarellaRead More
Menu Plan – Week of October 25th
My garden is slowing down. Tonight we will have our first freeze which will kill off all of the tomatoes, peppers, and squash in the raised beds. I have already moved some of the plants to my container garden, so we can enjoy some home grown veggies all winter, but they will become aRead More
Minimizing Food Waste by Freezing and Frugal Glass Storage
My tomatoes are straggling in from the garden. I wanted to make salsa, but I didn’t have enough ripe tomatoes. So I left some sitting on the counter, along with the peppers, waiting for more tomatoes to ripen. Unfortunately, a couple tomatoes and one pepper went bad before I had enough tomatoes to make salsa.Read More
Lentil and Cauliflower Chili
I know it is weird, but I love cauliflower in my chili. I like how it stays a bit crisp even once cooked, providing a nice crunch to the chili. I also like how it takes on the seasonings of the chili. My first version was Black Bean and Cauliflower Chili and it is stillRead More
How to Make Pear Sauce in a Pressure Cooker
I enjoy “putting up” fruit at the end of the season almost as much as I enjoy growing it. This year we had lots of berries, but our fruit trees did not do well. We only had a few apples and our pear crop was not much larger. The pears were average size, but thereRead More
Keeping Color in Your Garden
You don’t have to put your whole garden to bed for the winter. There are some plants that will continue to flower late into the fall – some all winter long! Snapdragons will survive light frosts and even a light snow (as will the mums): Violas flower all winter long: Pansies are another flower thatRead More
Gluten-Free Pear Bread
I am one of those people that complete strangers talk to. I don’t know why, I am fairly shy and don’t usually initiate conversations in grocery stores, but I must send out a signal that I don’t mind if people talk to me…because they do! They walk up to me and ask me how toRead More
Menu Plan and Jan’s Moroccan Spiced Lentil Soup
We have had the loveliest fall weather. We have not had any snow yet, but even more amazing, we haven’t even had a frost. My garden is still producing the warm weather crops, but the temperatures have been moderate enough for my cool weather crops to thrive. I am enjoying the diversity of homegrown fruitsRead More
Eggplant Rice Bake
My one Hansel Eggplant bush has been a powerhouse performer this year! It has already provided over 30 fruit and it continues to flower and produce more. Since the temperatures have been dropping below 40 degrees at night, I moved it from the raised bed garden and to my container garden. This allows me toRead More
Repurposing Onion Bags
A few days ago my daughter asked for a scouring pad. I asked her why and she said she was going to clean the bathroom. I didn’t have a scouring pad, but I wasn’t about to let that stop my daughter from cleaning! I remembered that I had some mesh onion bags and decided toRead More
It’s Beginning to Look Like Fall
But Just barely! My little pumpkin was thrilled to finally be able to harvest his “baby plumpkins”. He carried them around all day: We are acquiring quite a collection of pumpkins on our porch. The porch is shady and protected from the elements, so I use it to store our pumpkins as they are harvestedRead More
Garlic Pasta with Vegetables
Tonight’s dinner plans were changed at the last minute. I was going to make Pasta Alfredo with Vegetables, but my daughter wanted me to make a Garlic Sauce that she can eat. She used to enjoy “Cheater Garlic Pasta” made with a Knorr’s mix before she had to eliminate gluten from her diet and weRead More
Gluten-Free Bierock Dough
I am a contributing writer on $5 Dinners and share my recipes on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. Most of the recipes I share are naturally gluten-free, because that is how I normally cook. However, the last recipe I posted was not, so I wanted to share the gluten-free substitute I oftenRead More
Menu Plan and Deb’s Lentil Soup
This week the dinner recipes are heavy on poultry because I landed a couple of great deals on free-range chicken and free-range turkey. I always feel bad sharing food deals after the fact (though if you live near a Raley’s, Bel Air, or Nob Hill Foods, you may still be able to find 1 1/4Read More
Gluten-Free Apple Jumble Cookies
These are my youngest son’s favorite cookies. He calls them “Tricia’s cinnamon cookies” because my daughter makes some for him without any chips or nuts. This is the perfect recipe for my daughter who prefers to jumble ingredients together. Despite her tendency to just throw ingredients together in a haphazard manner, she creates wonderful bakedRead More
Using the Internet to Repair Appliances and Vehicles
Last night I watched the premiere of No Ordinary Family on ABC.com and I was reminded of how the internet came through for me when my super powers failed. Two summers ago while my husband was deployed our washing machine broke. Without thinking I tried using my super powers to find a solution. No, IRead More
Gluten-Free Fall Party Mix
I am always trying to come up with party recipes that use items that are naturally gluten-free. Our friends don’t mind eating gluten-free foods, but when I’m throwing a party for 20 – 30 people, it can get expensive if I am baking with lots of organic brown rice flour. I used to serve both normalRead More
Carrots and Turnips with Cinnamon Honey Glaze
Last week, my daughter made Apple Jumble Cookies. My 3 year old really liked them and kept asking for more of “Tricia’s cinnamon cookies”. As I was cooking dinner that night, I thought about how easy it is to get my children to eat anything with cinnamon and decided to experiment with my glazed carrotRead More
Menu Plan – Week of October 4th
Last week was expectantly busy. This week looks to be the same, but at least I have some advance warning and can plan for it. Most of the meals on my menu this week are easy to prepare or can be made simpler by doing some prep work after breakfast. Monday – Parsnip andRead More
Repurposing Banana Peels
I am participating in Food Waste Friday hosted by The Frugal Girl. Monitoring my food waste, and documenting it with a picture, keeps me accountable and motivates me to remain vigilant in my goal to minimize, if not eliminate, food waste in my household. We had a little bit of waste this week. I forgotRead More
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