Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

What are you doing with your leftovers?

Homemade Ginger-ale

This has helped soothe my stomach for the past couple of days and is certainly cheaper than store bought.  Wish I could say the same for crackers, but I didn’t want to deal with making homemade crackers.  Phil gave a very good general idea for how to make the ginger ale (as well as soothing [...]

Tummy Troubles

Tina has been struck down with some sort of stomach bug for the last couple of days, which has somewhat limited our cooking options. However, it has given us reason to produce a lot of stomach-soothing homemade herbal beverages, largely focused around ginger.
Boiling up a pot of water with just a handful of peeled, [...]

Noodle Frittata

The other day we made some pasta with vegetables and tempeh for dinner.  We ended up making a lot more than expected and I decided to create a pasta “frittata” for brunch.

This came out surprisingly well and was a welcome addition to our weekend brunch repertoire.
Noodle Frittata
Ingredients:

a bunch of leftover pasta
olive oil
4 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1/4 [...]

Home Sick

Saltines cost $3.54!!  Crazy.  This is why we don’t buy prepared food!
Also bought a bag of onions for $1.50 and couple of rolls ($1).
Total so far this week: $6.04

This Week’s Receipt

We had $1.47 leftover from last week, so the Liz Lovely Cookie was an indulgence.  Combined with the $1 we spent last night on some bread and the $1.77 we spent on Monday night, our total this week is: $12.91.  We have $18.56 left.

 

Spaghetti Squash: Seeds and All

Our receipt from Tuesday night’s shop needs to be put up on the site, but one of the items we got was a spaghetti squash.  This dish came together pretty quickly with some items we had in the fridge and the cupboard.  The protein powerhouse here was a pound of (dried) garbanzo beans that I [...]

Pears Rombola

Our good friends, the sisters Rombola, came down from Boston last weekend (we’ve filed 30/w field reports with them before) and brought the fixins for this terrific dessert. Here’s how they did it:
[The pears] were peeled halved and cored, then thrown in a container with some farm-fresh apple cider, brown sugar and the scraped [...]

*Addendum: Butternut Squash Casserole

Not expecting much, I made this the other night and it exceeded my expectations.  Really good as a dinner with a salad on the side or equally delicious for breakfast the next day.  It was hard to decide whether the leftovers should be breakfast or lunch.
I got the original recipe from the NY Times and [...]

Shredded Carrot Salad

Made this guy out of odds and ends the other night to serve alongside a pseudo-tagine of couscous, veggies, chickpeas, dates and nuts.
The salad is made from a couple of shredded carrots, a little diced red onion, a handful of raisins, and a handful of chopped parsley. The dressing is just olive oil, rice [...]