I told you in my previous post that we almost never do “supper in a bag,” as my mother-in-law calls it. Today, though, we did picnic lunch in a bag. We went to KFC. Yep, you read that right. Neither my husband nor I had had KFC in years (I think it was still Kentucky [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Supper in a bag: a follow up on fast food and fake food
Posted in Food, health, tagged culture, editorial, family, Food, life, marketing on July 31, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Supper from a bag? not here: home cooking for the twenty-first century
Posted in Arkansas, comfort food, Cooking And Baking, dinner, dinner, family, Food, frugal living, Southern food, tagged economy, family, Food, history, recipes on July 30, 2010 | 20 Comments »
My 83-year-old mother-in-law is visiting this week, and it’s been a real lesson in how folks used to do things versus how they do today. She has talked a lot about what it was like growing up in rural Arkansas as tenant farmers in the 20s, 30s, and early 1940s. Some of her brothers and [...]
Grand Canyon Rafting Adventure 3: meet our companions and see the river from the rim
Posted in camping, Colorado River, Food, Grand Canyon, travel, whitewater, tagged camping, Food, photography, travel, whitewater rafting on July 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »
This is the third in a series of what will be more than a dozen posts on rafting the Grand Canyon: 19 days, 280 miles of adventure. When you go rafting in the Grand Canyon, you have lots of options for getting through it, most of them involving outfitters and even motors. That’s not the [...]
The Whole Chicken = frugal living + bonus recipe: chicken tortilla soup
Posted in chicken, chile, cilantro, corn, dinner, dinner, Food, frugal living, herbs, onions, organic food, peppers, peppers, recipes, soup, tomato, tagged dinner, Diy, economy, Food, recipe, recipes, soup on July 29, 2010 | 13 Comments »
If you’re trying to live frugally, try buying a whole chicken. A whole chicken has not only meat but the makings of wonderful stock, and the sum of its parts and the stock are worth much, much more than you’ll pay for the whole bird. This is one of the ways that we afford to [...]
Quick Garden Fix: zucchini lasagna, zucchini parmesan, and zucchini fettucine
Posted in bread, cheese, Community Supported Agriculture, CSA, eggplant, Food, frugal living, gardening, pasta, recipes, summer squash, zucchini, tagged cooking, dinner, Food, gardening, low carb, recipes, summer, zucchini on July 28, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Did your neighbor just surreptitiously drop a bag of zucchini on your doorstep and run? Did you just uncover a zucchini club in your own garden that somehow escaped your notice for the past few days while it was growing into a gargantuan green nightmare? Did your otherwise lovable CSA bury you in summer squash? [...]
Grape Jam: abundance from an abandoned vine
Posted in canning, frugal living, fruit, organic food, organic gardening, wine, tagged canning, Food, gardening, health, recipes, wine on July 27, 2010 | 8 Comments »
When we moved to this place almost five years ago, the whizened but still productive apple trees in the back yard really appealed to us. It took another year for us to discover the old grapevine, long since whacked back by lawnmowers that had no idea what they were hitting. Then my husband coaxed it [...]
Shiitake, Tomato, and Smoked Gouda Frittata, for a summer breakfast or supper
Posted in breakfast, dinner, dinner, eggs, mushrooms, tomato, vegetarian, tagged breakfast, dinner, Food, recipes, vegetarian on July 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
We’ve been fortunate to find a couple of local shiitake mushroom sources, and I find that I want to use them as often as I can. A few days ago I made a small frittata with fresh fruit for breakfast, although with salad, this frittata could make a tasty Meatless Monday dinner. (Frittatas are traditionally [...]
Starting (or re-starting) a Garden in July
Posted in acorn squash, Arkansas, beans, butternut squash, cucumber, Food, frugal living, gardening, okra, organic food, organic gardening, watermelon, winter squash on July 25, 2010 | 8 Comments »
As regular readers know, our Grand Canyon adventure resulted in a lot of dead garden at our house. I could sit and weep among the remains of spring’s hopeful planting, or I can re-plant. I prefer re-planting. That means calculating days and figuring out what can germinate, grow, and be harvested before frost. One of [...]
Shrimp Boats: shrimp salad in cucumber boats to beat the summer heat
Posted in celery, cucumber, Food, frugal living, onions, peas, salad, seafood, shrimp, tagged cooking, dinner, Food, gardening, recipe, recipes, summer on July 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s hot, but my kitchen is not. Dinner is cool. Today’s dinner starts with gazpacho, a chilled tomato-vegetable soup, accompanied by shrimp salad in cucumber boats and beets. I’ll post the gazpacho recipe separately. Now I’ll share the shrimp boats basics. I like these shrimp boats because they are chocked full of raw vegetables, and [...]
Sage-butter scrambled eggs
Posted in breakfast, eggs, herbs, organic food, tagged breakfast, Food, recipes on July 23, 2010 | 6 Comments »
One of the things I like best about gardening is being able to harvest fresh vegetables and herbs for our meals as we eat them. This morning I made one of our simple favorites, sage-butter scrambled eggs. We like sage derby cheese in eggs, but we just don’t need that much cheese. These eggs get [...]
