The Frugal Hostess is very sophisticated and also extra fancy. However, she does enjoy some good, old-fashioned, hand-made vittles. In particular, she likes to try to make things herself that you might ordinarily just purchase. Much to her delight, TFH found a soulmate in one Ms. Karen Solomon, author of the book “Jam It, Pickle [...]
Oops, I didn’t post this yesterday. There were 81 total entries (including five who responded via email to their email subscriptions). And Random.org says … So the winner is … Stephanie! Send me an email with your address so I can send you the book. PS: This has nothing to do with the book, but [...]
I mentioned last week that I’m doing free blog setups. Apparently lots of people want blogs, because the response was overwhelming. But ask those same people, “So what will the name of your blog be?” and suddenly you hear crickets chirping. Okay, not really. But I do have some of the free setups left. I [...]
We wanted to do cream puffs, and I kept finding recipes that said to fill them with vanilla pudding from a box. Yeah, I’d rather just buy them ready-made if I can’t do any better than that. So I went looking for a scratch recipe. Not only did it come out as a great filling, [...]
Earlier this year you may have heard about the “Real Food Challenge.” Jenny at Nourished Kitchen got 900 people to agree to try eating only “real food” for 28 days: no refined oils, white flour, sugar, low- or skimmed-milk products, margarine, processed cheeses, refined salt or dried pastas, and no factory-farmed meat. Yeah, that’s not [...]
