Food
Yummy lunch!
I’m quite proud of what I cooked today. Appetizers:
Main course:
And dessert:
Our second no-knead bread
Oh, just in case you were wondering about our success (or lack of it) with our October Cooking Resolutions, here you have an update:
Bread Starter - smelly, not “alive”, terrible. We’re not sure about trying it again, and even less after trying no-knead bread with regular baking powder…
No-knead bread - super-success. Here’s our second loaf [...]
Zucchini Soup
As we promised yesterday, here’s our zucchini soup recipe. You may love it, you may hate it, but you can’t deny it doesn’t get easier than this!
Zucchini Soup Gràcia’s mom style
Ingredients
Zucchini, 3 small or 2 big or whatever.
Potatoes, 2 medium
Onion, 1
Chicken Stock cube, 1
Creamy cheese, 2-3 tbsp
Optional: celery, carrots, etc.
Preparation
Peel onion and potatoes, cut them [...]
Zucchini - Potato Fritatta
Hello all, we’re back from Andorra (you’ll see photos later) and we’re back on our frugal mode. Today we read about a Zucchini-Potato Fritatta over at The Kitchn and we thought it would be a nice way to use up the sad little zucchini left from las night’s soup-craziness (yes, we cooked A LOT when we [...]
B R E A D
Latelly we have been reading quite a lot on how to make our own bread and we have found some great recipe. As times are bad it is good to save some money. We have the experiment called No-spend end of the year to see if we can manage with a limited budget and making [...]
NSEOY - Update.
So, as you all know, we’re doing a No-Spend End of the Year and we were doing quite well with it. We were.
We’ve been bad, ladies and gentlemen. Yes we have. We spent over 17€ on Saturday on food for our Sunday guests. We fed them. Oh, how we fed them! This is what our table [...]
Meatballs from scratch
Well, here comes the meatballs from scratch post. As we anticipated in previous posts, we have been trying out my mum’s recipe for meatballs. In our be-frugal frenzy, this seemed like the right way to do it, so we headed down to the grocery store and came back with all we needed. Meat. We already [...]
Updates on our to-do list
Well we started with the starter. Disappointing. 24 hours and no signs of life there. However, it smells funny. Which isn’t necessarily a good thing. And in this case, it isn’t. We should give it a name. It makes me sad that all it is is a smelly disgusting substance in an old ice cream [...]
Recipes in our “To Try” list
We’re going to write a post for this, since we don’t trust our memory (or GTD skills) and we really would like to make them and share with you what comes out.
Recipes to try in October:
Orange-Almond Lace Cookies - We really want to start baking and we thought about this recipe because it looks so [...]
NSEOY (No Spend End of the Year) Update
Well, this is day 5 of our No-Spend End of the Year experiment.
So far, I don’t think we’re doing bad. If you remember, we allowed for 500€ for the 94 days we had left of 2008. That gave us around 5.3€/day, which is 7.3$. During these 5 days, we’ve spent 23.27€, which gives us an [...]
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