Monthly Archives: February 2011
Sunday Mornings: Pumpkin Coffee Cake
We are still working our way through the pumpkin puree we made from the volunteer pumpkins that came up in our garden last year. I’ve made pumpkin bars this week, we’ll be having pumpkin pancakes (again) soon, but I had … Continue reading
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Time For a Change
I’ve been making a menu and then a shopping list from it for as long as I can remember, long before I ever knew it was frugal or financially prudent to do so. But I’ve been having a harder and … Continue reading
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Ultimate Dollar Bag Score!
I’ve written before that our local produce market often has $1.00 bags of produce available, usually made up of culled produce or things that are going to spoil soon. You have to get there fairly early in the morning to … Continue reading
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Food Waste Friday: Another Good Week
We had another week with no food waste here at Casa Losing It! Yeah us! It helped that yesterday was a snow day with the girls at home all day and hungry – all day. Every last bit of something … Continue reading
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A Home Tour
In order to celebrate the acquisition of a new camera (FINALLY!), I thought I would give you a semi-tour of Chez Losing It. (Oh, I can hear the excitement now!). Actually, I am an unabashed house voyeur and love looking … Continue reading
Filed under Miscellaneous
Frugal Recipe of the Week: Chicken Adobo with Bok Choy
Real Simple magazine has been hitting some home runs lately with their recipes, and this chicken adobo made in a slow cooker is one that’s a new family favorite for us. It’s everything I love in a recipe: it’s inexpensive … Continue reading
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Guest Posting Today
My blogging friend Alea, who writes Premeditated Leftovers, is taking some time off right now due to a death in the family, and honored me by asking if I would provide a guest post. You can read “Ethnic Markets: Fascinating … Continue reading
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Sunday Mornings: Perfect Pancakes
In his magnificent cookbook How To Cook Everything, Mark Bittman writes that “Americans must have been sadly alienated from the kitchen for pancake mixes to ever have gained a foothold in the market, for these are ridiculously easy to make.” Ridiculously … Continue reading
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