Cooking with sourdough requires new recipes. This one is similar to most pancake recipes, except that you add sourdough with the liquid ingredients and use baking powder instead of soda. I’ve made it for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Continue reading... December 9, 2009
Extreme Frugality: Twenty Memories of My Mother
Wisebread wrote about her parents’ extreme frugality, leading to an interesting discussion on the difference between being poor and frugal. When I was growing up, my parents were able to purchase good quality food, clothes and furniture. But my mother did not believe in wasting resources. Here are twenty ways my mother was frugal: Cooking […]
Continue reading... December 7, 2009
Ten Tips for Cutting the Cost of Running Your Refrigerator
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kygp/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 I could live quite well without a dishwasher, crockpot or oven. But no one wants to go back to the days before refrigerators. Because refrigerators work day and night, they use large amounts of electricity. Here are tips to keep your food fresh and your electric bill low. Avoid leaks. […]
Continue reading... December 4, 2009
Friday Roundup #20 and Guest Posts
It’s been busy here at CookingManager.Com. I’m pleased about two guest posts published recently: In Be Thankful, Not Wasteful at the Wasted Food blog, I posted tips for making a holiday dinner without throwing away leftovers. And at Daily Blog Tips, I wrote Embedding Google Docs into Your Blog Posts. I learned about this from my Cooking Spreadsheet post.
Continue reading... December 2, 2009
Universal Crustless Quiche
I’ve mentioned Marcy Goldman’s Quiche-in-a-Loaf as a good option for fancy entertaining. For everyday meals I often make a crustless quiche. This recipe comes from the Tightwad Gazette. My variation appears underneath.
Ingredients:
Continue reading... November 29, 2009
A Week of Weekday (Vegetarian) Meals
Monday: In the morning, I cooked the beans in the pressure cooker for twenty minutes. I turned off the gas and left the house, releasing the pressure slowly. Later in the day, I spread half the beans in zippered bags on cookie trays in the freezer and refrigerated the rest.
I had asked my husband to buy chili peppers at the shuk. As I live in the Middle East, I always felt I should be using them more but had never worked with them. So I asked for ideas on CookingManager.Com Facebook page, and Tikva recommended Spanish rice and salsa.
Spanish rice: I peeled, chopped and sauteed an onion and garlic in a pan, then added two cups of dried rice. At this point my teen daughter asked what smelled so good.
Continue reading... November 25, 2009
Easy Chocolate Ice Cream
My 13-year-old son spotted an ice-cream recipe in a cookbook we received as a holiday gift. That recipe required several bowls and a mixer. This simple (but rich) recipe, shared by Robin’s husband, came out much better.
Ingredients:
Continue reading... November 22, 2009
Welcome Wasted Food Readers!
Jonathan Bloom of Wasted Food was kind enough to post Be Thankful, Not Wasteful, with suggestions for avoiding Thanksgiving waste. Jonathan writes about news and public policy relating to food disposal. For instance, should children eat lunch before recess or after? They eat more afterward, yet most schools schedule recess after lunch. Or whether colleges […]
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