Welcome to the August 16, 2015 edition of Sunday Scratchups — your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery store sales and affordable ingredients. Or, say, garden bounty when it's in season! This week’s mystery recipe ingredient is again: TOMATOES, just in case your garden is also exploding with fresh tomato goodness. Make it or buy …
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Welcome back to Midweek Meal Planning for the week of 8/13/15! It’s more traditional to meal plan on the weekend, but since our Chicago grocery deals mostly flip midweek, and since Wednesday hump day is when many of us start running out of steam, we buck the trend here and go with Wednesdays. Or Thursdays. …
I try to limit my thrift store trips to once every month or two, and also try not to come home with anything like a STEREODEON! I looked this up online and it's actually a radio + turntable in the shape of a full-sized piano. Goodwill had it for $99.99, and I passed -- I …
Hey, this was pretty good and pretty easy -- recommended! Tonight I made this Avocado Mozzarella Chicken recipe from Iowa Girl Eats. She used pre-made bruschetta sauce in hers, but instead I roasted up 3 cups of cherry tomatoes from the garden, halved, with some minced garlic, olive oil, salt, pepper, and a little fresh …
Welcome back to Midweek Meal Planning for the week of 8/5/15! It’s more traditional to meal plan on the weekend, but since our Chicago grocery deals mostly flip midweek, and since Wednesday hump day is when many of us start running out of steam, we buck the trend here and go with Wednesdays. Let's get …