Welcome to the August 21, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week, a rare London Broil sale -- always worth waiting for! We haven't seen it this low in a while, so I picked up two packs and used one to scratch up this savory Chimichurri …

So I'll preface this by saying that this peanut butter is no worse than (with about the same ingredients as) the Jif I last bought, and I did know the ingredients before purchasing and bought it anyway. But... quick: When you hear Simply Ground peanut butter, what's your first assumption? A friend stopped by before I'd put …

If you're like me at all, you can't keep in your head that 3 teaspoon = 1 Tbsp. I don't know why... maybe it's a mental block? So on my fridge, I have a handy kitchen conversions magnet that I refer to all the time when cooking and writing up recipes for you guys. It's …

Welcome to the August 14, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales or generally affordable foods. This week, how about a yummy yet simple One Pan Sriracha Chicken & Veggies recipe? Why? Well, Sriracha and soy sauce were both on sale this week, broccoli & other veggies have been seasonally cheap at the …

I'm back... did you miss me? 😉 It was a crazy afternoon of driving kids hither and yon, culminating in this incredibly adorable "read to the dogs" program at the library. Mr. 9 was in love with Jesse James here, and it's such a cool idea. What's the neatest program you've ever been to at …

Welcome to the August 7, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales, garden produce, and/or generally affordable ingredients. This week I was looking at a pile of shredded cheese I recently picked up on sale for $.99 each... and then I was looking at my overflowing bowl of fresh garden tomatoes. Since …