I like to roast a chicken on the weekend. It makes for an easy, delicious, and somewhat fancy family dinner. It also provides me with bones to make chicken broth and leftover meat to use in recipes through out the week. I rarely just reheat leftovers, instead I use them as a base to speedRead More
Chicken and Artichoke Pizza with Mushrooms and Olives
For those of you who have picky children, take heart! Most of the ingredients, including the mushrooms and olives, were suggested by formerly picky eaters. I’m talking seriously picky eaters! So picky, I could count the foods they would eat on my hands. So picky that I packed a cooler of food they would eatRead More
Is it Important for Your Kids to Believe in the Easter Bunny, Santa and Fairy Friends?
The Easter after my daughter’s second birthday, I mindlessly followed all of the same rituals as my parents and grandparents. We made sugar cookies, sent cards, and of course decorated eggs. Shortly after returning from Church on Easter morning, we took her on an egg hunt in the backyard. After collecting the eggs and locatingRead More
Broiled Catfish with Artichokes and Tomatoes
It has taken me a while to appreciate fish, but I have come to love mild fish like Catfish and Mahi Mahi and I’m learning to enjoy more flavorful fish like Salmon. There is one thing I have always liked about fish: You can cook it in under 10 minutes in the broiler. Fish isRead More
Menu Plan – Week of April 2nd
I will be using leftover spaghetti sauce to make this Spaghetti Squash Pie. Monday -Spaghetti with Easy Homemade spaghetti Sauce and Garden Salad Tuesday – Herbed Pork Roast, Roast Carrots with Fennel, Savory Mashed Potatoes with Cauliflower and Celeriac Wednesday –Cream of Caramelized Onion and Cauliflower Soup and Garden Salad Thursday -Use leftover spaghettiRead More
How a Year of Buying Nothing New Changed my Perspective on Electronics
In 2010 my family joined The Compact and did not buy anything new for a year. In many ways it was not as hard as I expected. We were not big consumers to begin with and didn’t mind buying the items we needed used. There were only two items that were particularly hard to goRead More
Frugal Tip: How to Save Money on Sesame Seeds
Most people look for and buy sesame seeds on the spice aisle, where a 2.4 ounce jar sells for over $5.00. However, you can find organic sesame seeds on the bulk food aisle for under $4.00 a pound. If you do the math, you will find that buying sesame seeds from the bulk food aisle isRead More
Recipes Using Alfredo Sauce
Today I am sharing my Pasta Alfredo Casserole recipe at $5 Dinners. My daughter requested that I create this casserole because it would be eaier to transport in her lunches and eat at school than my other recipes with Alfredo sauce. Here are a few other delicious recipes that use alfredo sauce: Chicken Alfredo Pizza withRead More
Black Bean Salad with Tomatoes and Avocado
This is my fast and easy “oops I forgot to start dinner and now my starving family is looking at me expectantly” recipe. This salad comes together in under 10 minutes. The combination of beans and avocado make it quite filling despite the fact that it is a meatless dish. It is also a very flexibleRead More
How to Save Money on Groceries
These tips on how to save money on groceries will help you slash your groceries expenses. It started with a tube of toothpaste….saving money that is. I went to the store one day, used a Colgate coupon and walked out making money on that tube of toothpaste. I knew from then on I was goingRead More
Spaghetti Squash Pie
This dish was inspired by a recipe in one of my favorite “kitchen” books, Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfeld. I wanted to take a gluten free twist on her original dish. My first attempt to substitute actual spaghetti with a spaghetti squash, I ended up with a pie plate full of soup. After a coupleRead More
How to Make Homemade Baby Food
Sarah from Spoon Fed Baby is sharing tips for making homemade baby food: I am so honored that Alea is allowing me to invade her blogosphere space and do a little guest posting! How awesome is she? Spreading the love for sure (smile). Confession: I have decided that I am an “Alea wanna-be”; gardening organically,Read More
Gallery of Favorite – St. Patrick’s Day Edition
April of The 21st Century Housewife and I would like to welcome you to our weekend blog hop: Gallery of Favorites! This week we are featuring St. Patrick’s Day related posts from the last 2 weeks of Gallery participants: St. Patrick’s Day Bling – Including lovely machine embroidered linens from ceo a’s draiocht. Corned BeefRead More
Mixed Berry Pie with Granola Crust
We have a few math geeks living at our house. And when I say math geeks, I mean serious math geeks. So geeky that one member of my household does math proofs…for fun. So Pi Day is always celebrated. Usually with a pie in our pi plate. Though some years it has been celebrated withRead More
Frugal Reading Nook for a 5 Year Old
Normally, I wouldn’t share something so mundane. However, in this new world of technology where we are exposed to so many clever ideas, I think there is more pressure on us to take a simple concept and make it more involved than it needs to be. Don’t get me wrong, I like pretty things andRead More
Corned Beef and Cabbage Casserole
Corned Beef and Cabbage Casserole with Mashed Potato Crust Every year, I make Corned Beef, Potatoes, and Cabbage for my husband. And every year, I am left with some leftover corned beef. I usually just make corned beef sandwiches for my husband, but this year I was inspired by Aunt B on a Budget toRead More
Frugal Diced Tomatoes without the Can
Roma tomatoes go on sale here periodically. In fact the last couple of weeks, they have been on sale for 99 cents a pound. When they are on sale, I buy them in bulk. Once home, I wash them and dice them. There really is no reason to remove the skin or worry about theRead More
Menu Plan – Week of March 11
I had one of those weeks, last weeks. The ones where everything breaks. My computer, my phone, the heater, and the oven. Except for the heater, everything is pretty essential and hard to live without. 🙂 I had to revise my menu, which had included a lot of oven baked dishes because it is aRead More
Lemon Basil Catfish
After last week’s success with Pecan Crusted Ruffy, I was excited to try another fish recipe experiment on my family. I decided to try a “sweet” marinade, while sticking to some of the traditional fish flavors.They were completely not expecting a sweet note with fish, so I caught them all by surprise. However, they allRead More
Frugal Tip: Enjoy Artickoke Hearts for Less
When my sister and I were discussing our current food obsessions, she shared this money saving tip with me. She buys frozen artichoke hearts instead of bottled artichoke hearts. Next time I went shopping, I began searching for frozen artichokes. I found a 12 oz. pound bag of frozen artichoke hearts at my Trader Joe’sRead More
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