Though we continue to buy a quart of raw milk each week and use butter in (many) small doses we have generally been cutting out dairy, like most adults dairy doesn’t always agree as a diet fixture. So we’re exploring delicious dishes with dairy moderation or omission in mind. (Which, incidentally, saves on the [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
a batch of 72 cent fresh pasta, two under-two-dollar sausages and an onion from the store plus beautiful veggies from our family’s garden makes a colorful dinner of nominal cost. These sauteed green beans are a regular dish at family dinners and are super. This was my first attempt and it was pretty fool proof. [...]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
For months I have been bothered by this article on the NY Times blog “Freakenomics”. For the most part I think the authors do a great job of applying economic theory to decipher the randomness and contradictions of modern life, but in this one particular post I think they went a little far. They attempted [...]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
 (note the eggs should actually be beaten before going in, but I took artistic license)
Making pasta, I have now learned is not hard at all. It’s not convenient or fast, but it certainly isn’t hard. But guess what else it is? Cheap! Yes. Homemade pasta from local organic flour and local organic cage free eggs [...]
Some nights the ingredients in the fridge and the harvest of the garden come together so well I can’t help but share.
The salad is a testament to the fact that growing your own food can really help expand personal tastes. As an adult I struggle to move beyond my initial childhood reaction to crunchy things [...]
One way to save money on local, organic, healthy food is to check out who in your community may have excess of something you are in need of. For instance, we learned in the craigslist ‘free’ section that a lovely family had taken in many many chickens to relieve people of finished class projects or [...]
Making my own granola feels like I’ve really stepped into serious hippie stereotype. But we have to have something to eat our delicious raw milk with, and after buying it there isn’t much left for expensive packaged cereal. Even bulk granola is for the hippie elite, and too much sugar for us.
So I went for [...]
Is this too obvious? Apparently not since the smart way to shop for food is to get more for you money. I compare unit prices too and want the best deal. I’ve just decided to incorporate external costs into this calculation. The quick run through is;how was it made, how did the production of this [...]
The Art of Simple Food (by Alice Waters) and Farmer John’s Cookbook; the real dirt of vegetables and my two favorite cookbooks and here’s why.
For the most part the best food for you, whole foods (grains, beans, vegetables etc) are affordable. There is much discussion about this- clearly there are some highly processed, crappy food [...]
Currently in a financial situation I hope to never repeat I have been exploring some of the resources out there for budgeting, saving, cutting costs. Paired with this exploration (which is really more of a necessity to change my spending, improve my income, and really work towards reducing debt and saving what I can) is [...]
