Recipes

How to make chocolate pudding from scratch

September 14, 2011

Though I often tout chocolate pudding as a great way to use up slightly sour milk, and though I’ve posted at length about making homemade pudding pops, I have somehow neglected to post the actual pudding recipe here. We’re going to rectify that today. Homemade chocolate pudding requires only a short list of ingredients, all [...]

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I was a busy girl in the kitchen yesterday.

August 20, 2011

My mom gave me some more tomatoes, so I had another little canning session. It was a lot less nerve-wracking this time since I knew what I was doing. Anyway, I now have seven more quarts of local, organic tomatoes, which makes me happy. While I was in kitchen mode, I did some other cooking [...]

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If you need me, I’ll be in the kitchen, canning tomatoes.

August 10, 2011

I brought home several baskets of tomatoes from my parents’ garden yesterday. And a big ol’ pressure canner. So, my goal for today is to get all the tomatoes packed safely into jars. I haven’t canned tomatoes since 1998, I think, but I am armed with an instruction manual so I think I’ll be ok. [...]

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How to Make Pizza Bagels (aka hot weather pizza)

August 4, 2011

When I posted the pizza bagel picture on my 365 blog, a couple of you were wondering where you could find the recipe. Normally if you’re trying to find a recipe I’ve posted, you can use the search box over there on the right, or poke through the recipes category (I even have a pizza [...]

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Wednesday Not-Baking | Energy Balls

July 27, 2011

I saw this recipe on Money Saving Mom‘s menu plan last week, and decided to give it a try. As I said yesterday, I’m sort of a slacker when it comes to making homemade desserts (especially in the summer when I don’t much feel like turning on the oven), but this looked so easy, I [...]

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Easy Frugal Cooking | Homemade Sloppy Joes

July 19, 2011

When I was growing up, my mom occasionally made sloppy joe sandwiches, but for some reason, I never really got into the habit of making them myself once I left home. I got a Cook’s Illustrated cookbook from the library this past winter, though, and decided to give their version a try. Like most Cook’s [...]