Yesterday I wrote about Investment cooking and today’s dinner will follow that theme. I have a 2.5 lb pack of ground turkey from Sam’s Club in the refrigerator and tonight we will have tacos – eating half the filling and freezing half for later. I thought I would share my recipe for Taco Seasoning Mix [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Make Your Own Taco Mix in Bulk – cheap and easy
Posted in cooking, dinner, Frugal Living, recipes, tagged cooking, dinner, frugal, recipe on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Investment Cooking – Save time and money
Posted in cooking, dinner, recipes, tagged cooking, dinner, recipe on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have you heard of Investment Cooking? It goes by many names – Freezer Cooking, Once a Month Cooking, Cook once eat twice, etc. If you haven’t heard of it, here are some links I have collected that not only explain the basics but give some appropriate recipes. http://alpha.searchlikeme.com/slmpages/554/ I have long had an interest in [...]
Another Fast Pantry Meal – Chicken and Whatever Soup
Posted in cooking, dinner, recipes, tagged cooking, dinner, recipe on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday’s dinner was very tasty. I compiled a list of Chicken and Rice soup recipes to try, but ended up making my own anyhow. Here is a link to some of the interesting ones I found – I may try them sometime in the future. http://alpha.searchlikeme.com/slmpages/587/ Instead I used my basic quick chicken soup recipe, [...]
Easy Cheesy Garlic Biscuits
Posted in cooking, dinner, recipes, tagged dinner, recipe on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I apologize for not posting yesterday. I was out of town at a funeral. I had hopes of writing a post after I got home, but traffic was horrendous, so I just wanted to put my feet up and relax. Today is a bit of a lazy catch up day. I am planning soup for [...]
Hair today, gone tomorrow…
Posted in Clothes, fashion, haircuts, tagged Clothes, fashion, haircuts on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday’s haircut appointment was a wonderful success. The salon I went to is a spin-off from a salon I have gone to off and on over the years. It’s probably the most expensive place in town, but likely cheap relative to more cosmopolitan places. The last salon I went to was only slightly cheaper and [...]
The Wardrobe Revitalization Project
Posted in Clothes, fashion, tagged Clothes, fashion on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished reading Kendall Farr’s The Pocket Stylist and found it quite interesting and helpful. I only wish she had some pictures! What I learned meshed well with the plan that has been formulating in my head for the reworking of my wardrobe. I preferred her message of dressing to flatter your body type [...]
Attack of the nasty Malware
Posted in Clutter, Computers, tagged Computers, decluttering, malware, virus on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am very sorry for being absent for the last several days. Late Saturday afternoon, I was happily googling the topic of passive homes, when I must have clicked on SOMETHING very, very nasty. The website I was trying to view stopped loading and when I went back to my Google page, everything I clicked [...]
Roast your own coffee – it’s easier than you think!
Posted in coffee, cooking, hobbies, tagged coffee, hobbies, roasting coffee on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Many years ago I somehow stumbled upon instructions for roasting your own coffee beans at home and decided to give it a try. I just checked my logbook (yes, logbook – I am an engineer after all – I keep track of EVERYTHING) and I roasted my first beans in April 2003, so that means [...]
Thunder and lightning and fire trucks and no internet, oh my!
Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nine o’clock this morning – Dog and I were on the front porch, enjoying breakfast and reading the newspaper (me for both – he was just watching the rain) and I was laughing at the weather forecast on the front page which predicted morning sun and some afternoon thunderstorms as I watched the rain come [...]
Artisan Bread in 5 minutes?? Are you kidding? – No
Posted in cooking, Household Chores, recipes, tagged cleaning, recipe on June 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I am going to try something different today and type my post first in MS Word 2007, then copy it over to WordPress. Hopefully it will work. I finally tackled the slow drain in our bathroom tub and after figuring out how to unscrew the drain stopper, I found a mountain of hair and gunk. [...]
