Wow! Anna the Red was asked to make a Google Chrome icon bento, and to videotape the process. I knew she was really creative and had mad bento skilz, but after watching the work that goes into making one bento, I think she’s a little nuts(in a good way).
Greening of Gavin has a really interesting post on how to make cheese at home. I tried this once with disastrous results, but he looks like he knows what he’s doing.
We love enchiladas and you can make a batch with about 10 minutes of labor time - really fast food! It’s one of the few dishes that I’ll use prepared sauce in, even though the sauce is the most expensive part; we really like Hatch brand. I need to look around and find a good [...]
I’m a big fan of pickled things - cucumber pickles, sure, but also the stranger stuff like beets and herring. Just Bento recently blogged about “instant” pickled radishes - she used a combination of vinegar/salt/sweet that sounded really interesting with the heat of the radish, and it sounded so good I needed to try it. [...]
Tim sent me a link to these YouTube videos of Clara - she’s in her 90s, and shares cooking and stories from the Great Depression era. . She has her own website, and is selling a DVD and has a cookbook in the works. She’s a great reminder that, even though a lot of us [...]
We’ve still had some pretty cool weather here in Seattle - it’s still a bit too cold to plant tender veggies in the garden, but the trees are leafing out and everything looks very lush and green. (The picture above is of one of my tomato plants, spending its fourth night outside - it’s rainy [...]
Here’s a small round-up of some of my favorite frugal food blogs I’ve run across recently.
Things Your Grandmother Knew - not just food, but lots of vintage thrifty ideas, too.
30 Bucks a Week is a blog by a Brooklyn vegetarian couple about their efforts to eat on $30 a week. There are some cool, adventurous [...]
We had part of a container of strawberries that I knew we weren’t going to eat before they went bad, so I made a tiny batch of jam. It’s really easy, and homemade jam is WAY better than storebought. And seriously, do not be intimidated by the jam-making process - you don’t have to make [...]
I grew up in that era of frozen cardboard boxes of vegetables, iceberg lettuce salads, marshmallows suspended in Jell-o, and fluffy, weightless white bread. Somehow, I was still really curious about real cooking, real foods, how things were made. As a teenager, I baked bread and cookies, and experimented with making wine from concentrated grape [...]
