Living green and eating well on a budget
To continue my Stuffed Pepper journey this week, I signed up to make a great stuffed pepper recipe for Fun with Food Friday hosted by Mama Chocolate. The addition of shrimp to this recipe was ingenious! It adds just enough flare to set it apart from every other stuffed pepper I have ever made. This [Read On]
I love stuffed peppers. I always make extra and freeze for a quick meal in the future. They are so versatile. You could just as easily make Italian stuffed peppers by substituting chick peas for the black beans and pasta sauce for the salsa, or Greek stuffed peppers again substituting chick peas and pasta sauce [Read On]
I love asparagus. It is easy to cook and there are so many different ways to use it. I also love it because a half-cup serving of asparagus has only 20 calories, no fat, and is rich in vitamins K, A, C, folate, and even contains some protein! I found a version of this recipe [Read On]
This week’s recipe was sent by Christyn Mckenna Print Honey Orange Carrots Ingredients8-10 Carrots peeled and cut up 1/3 cups honey 1/2 cup butter salt and pepper zest of one orangeInstructionsMix all ingredients and then bake for 30-40 min at 350 degrees Google Recipe View Microformatting by ZipList Recipe Plugin1.4http://copingwithfrugality.com/2012/01/fun-with-food-friday-honey-orange-carrots.html My mom is currently on a [Read On]
When we harvested the last of the vegetables from our garden this year Monkey Girl kept picking the green tomatoes. I had never cooked with green tomatoes before, but I wasn’t about to tell her that she couldn’t pick them. I decided to try fried green tomatoes for the first time and they were a [Read On]
I have been trying to eat healthier lately and cut out a lot of the needless carbohydrates that used to be in my diet. You might be asking, how can you talk about eating healthy when there is bacon in the recipe title. Everything in moderation! If you give up on all of your guilty [Read On]
We have a huge garden this year and have been blessed with a very bountiful harvest However, right now my kitchen is overflowing with cucumbers. Please share your cucumber recipes with me! I don’t know of any effective way to freeze cucumbers so I need ways to use them now. Thank you in advance for [Read On]
Dug this out of the garden yesterday. Have you ever seen a potato so crazy?!
I recently got the opportunity to review (and giveaway) coconut oil from Tropical Traditions. I had heard such amazing things about the stuff, but had never used it. I have been experimenting with it over the last week or so and am hooked! This salad has a great island flavor and is wonderful with fish [Read On]
It is that time of year when we have so many vegetables from our garden that we just can’t eat them fast enough! I admit, in the past I have resorted to leaving zucchini on the neighbors porch, ringing the doorbell, and running! However, we have recently moved and I have decided that “zucchini ding-dong-ditch” [Read On]
