Cooking For One Or Two

Added on: Sep 27, 2005
Location: Canada, Guelph
Language: English
Categories: Food/drink
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Site Description: Tips for saving on your food budget, including inexpensive recipes and occasional posts on easy gardening and money-saving kitchen gadgets.

Cooking For One Or Two Recent Blog Posts

This Blog Is Moving - Last Time :D
on Oct 21, 2005I've finally launched my new cooking multiblog, Curry Elvis Cooks, which is a combination of my 4 older cooking blogs, as well as several new food, drink, and gardening categories. The homepage is not up yet, and the new blog's template will be chang...



Tidbits - Easy Kicked-Up Canned Soup
on Oct 14, 2005Okay, you don't have time to make your own soup right now, and you're tired of canned soup. But you've got a stock-pile of cans that you bought on sale. What do you do? Easy. Add a bit of pizzaz to your soup. I regularly add salt, black pepper, crush...



Easy Salsa/Relish Recipe - Middle Eastern/ East Indian Salad
on Oct 13, 2005This isn't exactly a salad, it's more of a salsa/relish - but is sometimes referred to as Middle Eastern or East Indian salad. It's very easy to make, refreshing, and it works great as a garnish for curries, soups, and stews. The salt and parsley/cil...



Saving Money On Party Snacks - Savoury Grated Zuchinni Potato Mozarella Veggie Comfort Burgers
on Sep 27, 2005I was watching Chef Emeril yesterday, pancake day, and he made fascinating looking Goat Cheese-Stuffed Zuchinni Pancakes. But while I don't mind goat cheese once in a while, I prefer the heavenly gooey chewiness of melted bocconcinni mozarella. So he...



Saving Money On Party Snacks: Shiitake Onion Pakora/Tempura
on Sep 26, 2005When I've got a craving for a snack with a high mouth feel and belly satisfaction level, I like to have either Japanese-style tempura fritters or East Indian-style pakora fritters. But being the kind of foodie that I am, I always have to be different...



Saving Money For Next Year's Vegetable Garden: Collecting Rain Water in Barrels
on Sep 24, 2005In the Northern Hemisphere, we're in the rainy season right now. (The suggestions in this post apply to the Southern Hemisphere, too.) If you've decided to have a little garden for your vegetables, it's probably a little late this year. But if you've...