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  • Menu Planning: Make Your Life Simpler

    Menu Planning: Make Your Life Simpler

    When I was cooking for a family, the evening went much smoother when I had at least a bare bones plan of what we’d be eating each night for dinner. I may have planned before or after shopping but I had a plan. Starting dinner at 6pm with no plan made for some late dinners.…

  • Happy New Year! Some Favorite Dishes from 2010

    Happy New Year! Some Favorite Dishes from 2010

    Seems a good habit to sum up a favorite new recipe, one for each month of the past year. So working backwards: December: Fish Tacos and Lime & Cilantro Rice. I’m not a big fish eater but I’m trying to work in more fish and I think I could eat these once a week! November:…

  • Giveaway Over: We Have a Winner!

    I used random.org to pick a random comment and Shari from Indiana was the winner of The Food Nanny Rescues Dinners.  I’ve gotten her snail mail address from her and forwarded to the publisher.  Thanks to everyone who commented.  And thanks for all the nice comments about the CheapCooking site and blog.

  • A Few More Giveaways – not Mine

    AllYou is giving a way a set of skillets here. And Erin, $5 Dinner Mom, is giving away copies of  her new Breakfast and Lunch Cookbook.

  • Fish Tacos and Rice with Lime and Cilantro from The Food Nanny

    Fish Tacos and Rice with Lime and Cilantro from The Food Nanny

    Tonight was another dinner taken from The Food Nanny Rescues Dinner: Easy Family Meals for Every Day of the Week. fish tacos with tilapia and homemade corn tortillas rice with cilantro, cumin and lime juice black beans (from a can, just heated) Homemade Corn Tortillas I used to make tortillas back when the kids were…