Once a month cooking, or “oamc” is a wonderful tool you can use and modify to suit your needs. It is a simple idea, really, of cooking ahead and then preserving your food using a variety of strategies: freezing, canning, drying, refrigerating. The most important tool in oamc is your freezer, whether you have a…
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Recipe Review: Compound Butters
Say it with me now, in your best Jersey mobster accent: “It’s like buttah!” Because, hey, you gotta love “buttah!” Especially compound butters! What the heck is compound butter? It’s butter mixed with anything you like- something sweet, savory, salty or spicy. It’s a great way to liven up your cooking as well as baked…
Cookies & Cream Smoothie
Who doesn’t love cookies? Especially for breakfast! Though I wouldn’t recommend it every day, this smoothie is healthy enough to eat occasionally for breakfast, and decadent enough for a snack or a dessert any time! I created this one for my friends at CenterCutCook.com. You can get the recipe by clicking here. Enjoy!
Chocolate Covered Cherry Smoothie
Fresh cherries, frozen bananas and dab of chocolate make these smoothies delicious while still being healthy! You can use whatever milk (or yogurt) you like. Almond milk would be delicous, but you could also do coconut or soy. I used whole milk, and it was wonderful! And I can’t think of a better way to celebrate!…
Fresh Homemade Salsa
Drowning in tomatoes? Then this delicious, fresh salsa is the answer! It goes from garden to table in a flash and is gone just as fast. It’s even better after a day or two in the fridge- if it lasts that long. It’s versatile too. You can make this with canned tomatoes in the dark days…
Birthday Cookie Pie for Baby Foodie’s Birthday
Meet Baby Foodie. He keeps me hopping around here, along with his older brother, Little Foodie. They love to be in the kitchen with me, which means they’re often into everything as I’m cooking. Little Foodie, my four year old, is my constant shadow, and you’ll see him in a lot of the pictures on…
Simple Homemade Hummus
My Simple Homemade Hummus recipe is being featured today on CenterCutCook.com! It’s so easy and so good! I left out the tahini, which I think is kind of bitter and overpriced. But you won’t miss it with all of the fresh lemon and parsely in this recipe! Hummus is a great way to sneak more…
5 Frugal Books Worth Reading (And Re-Reading!)
Whether you’re new to frugality, or an old hand at it, there are certain books that are classics in this niche. They’re worth reading if you haven’t gotten around to it. They’re also worth re-reading, especially if you’re feeling like you’ve lost your frugal “mojo”. Reading just a few pages a day of any of…
In Season: Garlic Scapes
There are many reasons to grow garlic, and garlic scapes are one of them! These are the serpentine-like stems that grow from the tops of hard-neck garlic varieties. Soft neck varieties don’t get them. I had never grown garlic until two years ago, when my Korean mother in law gave me some “Korean garlic”, which…
Shoot for the Moon
Where are we going with Frugal Moms²? We’ve been back up for three months, and lately I feel like I’m bombarding people with recipes and garden stuff. That’s tons of fun, and I want to continue to have some of that. But it’s really not the primary focus here. Am I shooting for the moon, or for…