Archive for the 'Recipes' Category
Frugalizing a recipe
I know…that’s not a word. But it’s a more interesting title than “Making a recipe frugal”.
On Tuesday, I was making a Shrimp Taco Salad, and was reminded that very often, I make frugal modifications to recipes. I suppose one could argue that when you’re making a salad that includes shrimp, the most [...]
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Easy, frugal homemade brownies
NOTE: I have moved my blog to my own server. I’m now blogging at www.thefrugalgirl.com. All the old posts have been moved there, and so the brownice recipe is there too.
I always am hesitant to make a chocolate recipe that calls for bars of unsweetened chocolate(and many brownie recipes do). [...]
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or with your store-bought yogurt, for that matter!
Yogurt smoothies are by far the most common thing we do with our yogurt. A strawberry-banana one is pictured above. To make these, I put about half a quart of yogurt in my blender. I then top it with frozen fruit(most often frozen bananas and [...]
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How to make homemade yogurt
NOTE: I have moved my blog to my own server. I’m now blogging at www.thefrugalgirl.com. All the old posts have been moved there, and so the yogurt recipe is there too.
Yogurt is a really inexpensive food to eat if it’s homemade. A quart of non-organic yogurt costs $2-$3 in my area, but [...]
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Tags: saving money on groceries
Hibachi Chicken and Shrimp
NOTE: I have moved my blog to my own server. I’m now blogging at www.thefrugalgirl.com. All the old posts have been moved there, and so the hibachi recipe is there too.
I’m reposting this recipe that was originally on my food-wasting blog, as it’s been probably the most popular thing I [...]
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So, I’ve done two out of three things on my frugal to-do list. Amazing. I should make a list like that more often, apparently, seeing as I’ve now gotten two things done that I’ve been meaning to do for a year or two now. The granola was quite tasty…so far we’ve eaten it plain, as [...]
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Tags: cheap breakfast
The Crouton Recipe.
The basic recipe that I followed is from Cook’s Illustrated, although most crouton recipes seem to be pretty similar.
I doubled the recipe, because it seems silly to go through the effort of making these only to end up with a few croutons. I tried the recipe once with real garlic and another time with powdered [...]
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Tags: avoiding food wastage
