One of the wonderful things about summer is finding fresh fruit and vegetables on sale. The only problem is that there’s no way to eat as much as you’d like to buy! Unlike spaghetti, it’s not something that you can just stock up on unless you do a little processing first. Traditionally, the only way…
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Quick and Delicious: Creativity
Sometimes quick and delicious cooking is a matter of the right recipes or careful planning, but other times it’s more about creativity, combining new things in old ways or using up bits and pieces of what you have on hand–substituting raisins for the cranberries in that recipe or adding the cooked chicken (and the cooked…
Quick and Delicious–Pantry Staples
If you’re disappointed not to find a recipe today, try one from Expendable Edibles, Cheap Healthy Good, The Invisible Cookbook, or The Frugal Girl. For me, one of the secrets to cooking Quick and Delicious is having a good supply of staples on hand. Cooking something up is incredibly less fun when you realize that…
The Meal Record
This inspiration for this idea comes by way of Thrift at Home and her Supper Notebook. I used to plan my meals for the week on ridiculous little scraps of paper. (No recycling compulsion at work here!) 😉 But, honestly, this method wasn’t terribly efficient or effective. And certainly not inspiring. Handy as a reminder…
Dwell Richly 