Category Archives: Cooking

Pantry Challenge: Week Two

Posted on January 9, 2011 by jenn

I think I did pretty well last week with my pantry challenge. I went to the Co-op for eggs, milk, butter, and bananas (Danny adores bananas), but didn’t go to Woodman’s at all. I have quite a list for Woodman’s, … Continue reading →

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Apple Crumble

Posted on January 5, 2011 by jenn

Dessert last night was going to be apple crumble with custard. Since I found a small bag of apples and a half bag of cranberries it became apple cranberry crumble. Either way, it was tasty, relatively healthy, and used up … Continue reading →

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Pantry Challenge: Day 3

Posted on January 4, 2011 by jenn

I started a Pantry Challenge inspired by Life As Mom this week. On Sunday I inventoried the pantry, both freezers (chest freezer & kitchen one), and the fridge. I still need to inventory the root cellar, which is a plastic … Continue reading →

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Pantry Challenge

Posted on January 2, 2011 by jenn

I do my best to stick to a grocery budget of $50/week to feed 2 adults and 1 nursing toddler. Still there’s quite a bit of food lurking in my pantry, freezer, and root cellar. So for the next few … Continue reading →

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Ginger Beer

Posted on December 30, 2010 by jenn

A few years ago I acquired my grandfather’s recipe for ginger beer. We’ve kept a 5 gallon keg of it in the house ever since. It doesn’t taste like ginger ale, our ginger beer is lemony as well as gingery, … Continue reading →

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Cocoa revisited

Posted on December 12, 2010 by jenn

We’ve got 10 inches of new snow today, so after we came inside it was time for cocoa! I used the recipe I posted in October and tried a couple of different flavors. For my cocoa I used 1/4 tsp … Continue reading →

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Lentil Loaf

Posted on November 29, 2010 by jenn

We don’t eat a whole lot of meat around here. We like meat, don’t get me wrong, but we prefer meat that has been raised humanely and organically, and that means it’s pricey. So we eat a lot of beans, … Continue reading →

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Turkey, The Easiest Way I Know

Posted on November 23, 2010 by jenn

I cooked my first Thanksgiving turkey in 1998. I wrote home to Mum as I had so many times before and asked how to cook a turkey. Mum’s answer was simple and resulted in a turkey so tender and moist … Continue reading →

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The Pleasures of Basic Cooking

Posted on November 18, 2010 by jenn

This week my husband has been working late on a paper deadline and my toddler has a stomach bug. This has left me cooking dinner for one. It is very tempting to eat bachelor food, but in fact I’ve cooked … Continue reading →

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Chicken Pot Pie

Posted on November 10, 2010 by jenn

I love roast chicken, but once I’ve accounted for buying a humanely raised bird I don’t love the price. So I do my best to stretch a roast chicken as far as I possibly can. Chicken pot pie helps me … Continue reading →

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