This week's Frugal Homemade features Cream Cheese Butter Cookies with Lime Buttercream Frosting. My daughter had these a few months ago and has been raving about them -- and she requested them last week, so I finally got around to making a batch. Cream Cheese Butter Cookies are based on this Secret Cream Cheese cookies recipe she found online, …
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 …
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 to the August 2nd, 2015 edition of Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch (or in this case, semi-scratch) around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week’s mystery sale ingredients: Peanut butter and brownie mix! So you know how a lot of my Sunday Scratchups recipes are healthier and/or allergy friendly? Well... This ain't …
Onion Flowers are an easy & beautiful side dish option -- so pretty when you make them with red onions, and only five ingredients! Welcome to the July 26th edition of Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales & affordable ingredients. This week's mystery sale ingredient is: Red onions! In today's Onion …
This week's Frugal Homemade features a quick & easy make ahead breakfast idea: Apple-Cinnamon Oatmeal, made with steel cut oats in the slow cooker. It doesn't get much easier than this! My daughter leaves for work every morning at 6AM (earlier than school was!) and loves to eat oatmeal on the fly, so I thought …