CheapCooking
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Everyday cooking
I actually sat down and planned the week’s menus on Sunday morning, perusing the grocery ads for the loss leaders and planning around them. I knew I had a heavy work load this week, plus a few other “life” interruptions, like getting the fostered puppies neutered, taking delivery of the new washer and dryer (I…
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Meal Building Blocks in the Freezer
I know a lot of people like to cook ahead and have a stash of prepared meals in their freezers. I prefer to have building blocks of meals, giving me the ultimate flexibility. I might boil or brown a few pounds of hamburger at a time, then freeze in 2 cup portions. I can then…
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Baked Apples
I remember my mom making these in the winter for dessert. They would bake while we ate dinner and you could smell the aroma as it filled the house.
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Cinnamon Oranges
I have an orange tree, totally full of delicious oranges right now, so we eat them several times a day. We juice them. We cut them in half and freeze for a treat later (eat them still frozen with a spoon). We make candied orange peels. We add them to fruit smoothies. We eat them…
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Dining to Donate in San Francisco
Juliette Rossant has compiled some events where chefs and restaurants in the SF Bay Area are raising funds for the tsunami victims. Read her superchefblog: Tsunami Update 8: Dining to Donate in San Francisco for details.