Feed your family. Feed your soul.
Earlier this month Meg’s discussed entertaining at home rather than going out as a budgeting tip during her early married life. Expenditure on home entertaining can get out of control without some forethought. How many times a week can you realistically “share” the cooking? Who is responsible for …read more
Meg carefully dissected Steve’s curated spending note books from his college days last week (click here to read if you missed it) which leads us to this months theme – recipes designed with a $20 budget in mind to suit college students and families cooking for friends.
Having just emerged from the 4 day Windy City Gift Show in Chicago, we’re keeping things short, sweet and simple this week.
“Recently there has been something of a vegetable boom. It started in the fifties with Elizabeth David, who championed vegetables in their own right, not just as adjuncts to meat.” I concur with Jane Grigson’s sentiments in the introduction to the first edition of her Vegetable …read more
The spotlight this week is on my store cupboard hero, garlic. Garlic’s health benefits come in many guises from preventative and treatment of heart disease and the common cold to regulating cholesterol levels while reducing high blood pressure and strengthening the immune system.
What do you do when you have an abundance of something? Give it away, swap it for something else, or keep it in the hope it will get used sometime in the future.
