My kids and I love breakfast for dinner. When my husband has to travel, I always make scrambled eggs the first evening he is gone. The kids and I feel like wild rule breakers eating breakfast for dinner. When he is deployed, I make scrambled eggs once a week for dinner – we never getRead More
How to Make Rice in a Pressure Cooker – Real Food, Real Fast
The pressure cooker is the great equalizer! It allows you to make real food in the same amount of time, or less, than it takes to heat up convenience items. You can cook rice in a fraction of the time it would normally take when you use a pressure cooker. The first time I madeRead More
Wild Rice Stuffing and How to Make Croutons
Like many other people, I will be sharing Thanksgiving with people with varying dietary needs. Sitting at my Thanksgiving table will be 3 people who are gluten intolerant, 1 vegetarian, 1 person who is lactose intolerant, and 2 people with high cholesterol. Since I create a Thanksgiving buffet, I can easily make several dishes thatRead More
Mashed Potato Tips
Today I shared my recipe for Pierogi Casserole at $5 Dinners, which is a delicious way to use leftover mashed potatoes. Since I have potatoes on my mind, I thought I would share a few more mashed potato tips. The easiest way I have discovered to make perfectly smooth, lump-free mashed potatoes is to use aRead 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
Alternative to Oil Cooking Spray
Ounce for ounce oil from spray cans is more expensive than much higher quality oils. I prefer to splash a little oil in a pan and then use a basting brush to thoroughly coat the dish with oil: It only takes a second. I have found that silicone basting brushes are easier to clean upRead More
Powdered Cocoa Substitute
I wonder how many of my posts are inspired by my need to compensate for a silly cooking mistake? This evening after I started making a Cola Cake, I realized that I did not have enough cocoa powder to frost the cake. You can’t just slap any frosting on a cola cake! Cola cake demandsRead More
Roasted Potatoes and Dry Onion Soup Mix Substitute
I love, love, love roasted potatoes made with onion soup mix. The problem is store bought onion soup mix contains gluten. I had to give up my beloved roasted potatoes until I started exploring the possibilities of making substitutes for some of my favorite items from scratch. I actually have come to enjoy making myRead More
How to Frost a Cake, Not the Cake Plate
Put several pieces of wax paper underneath the cake before you begin frosting. (I have made my pieces wider than necessary, because I plan on using them to wrap up leftover pieces of cake). When you are done frosting the cake, pull the wax paper out, and serve!
Baking Tip: How to Make a Level Cake
Actually this is less of a baking tip and more of a cutting tip. To create a level layer cake, use a bread knife to cut the rounded top off and using the cake pan as the guide: I saw the knife in a bit, then slowly spin the pan while cutting. (Feed the topRead More
Sweetened Condensed Milk Substitute
Just because we are living out of the pantry does not mean we (and when I say we, I mean my husband) can do without essentials like French Vanilla Creamer. My creamer recipe calls for sweetened condensed milk, which I do not have on hand. There are some great suggestions for making your own creamer inRead More
Freezer Tip for Prepping Soup in Advance
I have shared my Minestrone Soup before. I love it because it is naturally vegetarian, low fat, dairy free and can easily be made gluten free, so just about any house guest can safely eat this soup. And it is so good that I could eat it every day for lunch and never get tired of it! IRead More
How to Cook Swiss Steak in a Pressure Cooker
Swiss Steak is one of my fall back recipes. It uses items that I usually have in the pantry, refrigerator, and/or freezer. And when I cook it in my pressure cooker, I don’t have to plan too far in advance. The recipe is fairly flexible; adapt the ingredients to use what you have on hand. The pressureRead More
How to Make Applesauce in a Pressure Cooker
Use these directions on how to make applesauce in a pressure cooker to make a large batch of applesauce without added sugar. We have 2 apple trees so I have a lot of apples to process each fall and not a lot of time to do it. To speed up the process of making homemadeRead More
Kitchen Tip: Make-Do Food Processor
We lived in Southern California during the Northridge Earthquake. We were very fortunate and only had one item break! The glass blender attachment for my food processor was our only loss. (Disaster Tip: Instead of earthquake proofing your house, toddler proof it! My in-laws who were even closer to the epicenter than we were sustainedRead More
GF/DF Peanut Butter Cookies & DF Butter Substitutes
To make this recipe dairy free substitute vegetable shortening for the butter. Here is a conversion chart: 1/4 cup butter = 1/4 cup vegetable shortening + 1 1/2 t water1/3 cup butter = 1/3 cup vegetable shortening + 2 t water1/2 cup butter = 1/2 cup vegetable shortening + 3 t water2/3 cup butter = 2/3 cup vegetableRead More
Kitchen Tips for Cooking in the Summer
I keep forgetting to prep the corn on the cob, so that my husband can grill it when he is grilling the meat. I am determined to remember this Saturday, but in case I forget again this is how I cook it using a minimum amount of heat: Put the cleaned corn in a largeRead More
Baking With a Limited Number of Cookie Sheets
Most of my cookie recipes make several dozen cookies, which is a good thing since I live with several cookie monsters. The problem lies with the fact that I only own 2 cookie sheets. After removing freshly baked cookies to a cooling rack, I wash the cookie sheets in cold water and thoroughly dry itRead More
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