Granola can be expensive to buy. It’s often stale, or contains cement-hard dried fruit. At very least… the wrong combinations of nuts and dried fruit. When you make your own you can experiment by adding candied ginger, pumpkin seeds, anything you love! I grew up eating granola warm from the oven and sometimes still pour continue reading…
Category: From Frugal to Exotic
Recipes and adventurous food, living frugally
Sereno-Cilantro Miso Soup
Miso is not something that should feel intimidating to make. Miso is a fermented soybean paste (occasionally rice or barley) used to season everything from broth, marinades and salad dressings. You can find miso paste in the refrigerated section of Asian markets or usually in the health food sections. I once got hold of a continue reading…
Egg Foo Young
Egg Foo Young is a quick and easy vegetarian/pescetarian dinner. We sprout our own mung beans and that takes several days, but otherwise, this doesn’t take much planning. I whisk two eggs per person, and add vegetables until it looks like there is the same mount of veggies as eggs. You want one half of continue reading…
Hippie Craft
My son needed to make and decorate a pinata for his Spanish class in homeschool co op. He had a handful of waded up tissue paper that he brought home, but I wanted to find the tissue squares we used to decorate pinatas when I was little. I don’t know if my mom was particularly continue reading…
Jalapenos? Kitten food…
My husband has developed a taste for spice that few peppers can temper. We had a whole garden bed devoted to the fiery little bits. This is a small portion of our harvest, in the back you can see the bell peppers…second class citizens. We’ve dried and pickled serenos, jalapenos, Thai chilies, Tabasco “super chilies” continue reading…