Make a simple roasted chicken work overtime by buying one store-bought, shredding it to make multiple meals, then using the bones to make a chicken stop for soups and cooking.
Category Archives: Fast and Frugal
Creating Meals from Scratch – Fridge and Pantry Cooking
We have a share in a local farm. This is a lovely thing.
Come summer, we get a huge bin of vegetables every week. While I sometimes know what is coming, often I don’t know what it tastes like until the produce gets to the fridge. Then I have a mass of arugula, mizuna, and summer squash. What to do?
How to Cook Dried Beans
Many housewives in this time of financial crunch are looking for cheap ways to prepare healthy meals for their families. And what could be cheaper than a large bag of dried pinto beans? But for many of us, cooking with dried beans is a novelty and not something we’ve ever done before. Here are tips and recipes for using dried beans for delicious, money-saving meals!
Christmas Chicken Recipe – Quick and Easy Preparation
As a housewife, you sometimes need a meal that looks great, is tasty, and comes together quickly. For those days you feel like eating out, but can’t afford to. Or when a friend from church gets sick and you want to take a meal to them that doesn’t take all day to make.
