Here's your nondairy Sunday Scratchups for the week! While I was putting together a Caprese Salad for MashupDad and myself with some sale mozzarella and tomatoes this week, I kept thinking, well, how can I make a dairy free version of this for Junior High Guy to enjoy? Looking for regular mozzarella based Caprese Salad? …
So MashupDad recently got it into his head to build a chicken coop in the back corner of our old detached garage. Yesterday he brought home our three new additions, which the boys have named Nuggets, Fingers, and... Mabel. Mabel is the big one and the boss -- and Mabel had darn well better not …
Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe source around store sales and/or garden abundance. I don't know about your garden, but with all this rainy weather, mine is currently going nuts producing both basil and spinach. This easy and flavor-packed recipe makes liberal use of both, and substitutes cashews for pricy pine nuts. (I …
The other day I scratched up some Cashew Spinach Basil Pesto using fresh basil and spinach from the garden. As your double bonus Sunday Scratchup recipe today, let me present the Dairy Free Cashew Spinach Basil Pesto variation for those of you with dairy allergies. This dairy free pesto substitutes Kalamata olives for the Parmesan …
As far as I am aware, no one? Very few people? have ever successfully claimed reimbursement from Commonweath Edison for damages (spoiled food, etc.) from a power outage caused by storms. Artie is wondering if that has changed given some 2013 articles such as this NBC Chicago report stating that ComEd could be held liable …
I've gradually been trying to get better about label reading and the food I'm buying. Last month, for instance, I clipped Musselman's applesauce coupons with the intention of stocking up during a sale at Pete's Market. Every kind they carried listed HFCS as the second ingredient. (And if that wasn't enough corn syrupy goodness for …