I’m not sure about where everyone else lives, but it has been hot here this week!  I love batch cooking: it saves me time and money in the long run.  I had laid out my September batch cooking plan on Monday and got to work.
After shopping, getting elbow deep in food stuffs, and recognizing that it [...]

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Over the summer I’ve fallen off my batch cooking wagon and my meal planning habits. Now, it is time to get back into shape in the kitchen and get back into shape myself! In order to get myself in better shape and to keep HandyMan and Gbaby’s hollow legs full, some meal planning [...]

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On Friday, I mentioned The Weekend I have coming up.  I am a planner by nature, added to time spent hanging around in the kitchen at a summer camp, I’ve come to rely on detailed lists.  In the camp kitchen, the whiteboard was THE plan for the day for every detail that needed to be [...]

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This was my weekend to cook after joining up with the Freezer Cooking day efforts over at MoneySavingMom.com.  I generally do a big grocery run once a month and freezer cooking works in very well for my cooking habits.
I think I did pretty well this month. My plans to get marinated meat to the [...]

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That’s right folks, Freezer Friday is back!  I’ve been on hiatus from this discipline the last couple months as I’ve been working on using up the stockpiled meals and produce that is in the freezer.  I’ve done pretty well.  Now, the garden is producing and summer menus are right around the corner!
First up – we [...]

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Just as I sat down to put some recipes together to post, GBaby woke up from her nap. So that will have to wait. For now though, I want to share a great link for menu planning tools. Money Saving Mom has put up a set of eleven different menu planning templates.  [...]

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As I wrapped up February with a family vacation I took a little bit of time to go back to my 2010 Goals and found that I’m actually doing quite well!  I did well with my February Kitchen Goals as well. Watch for an upcoming blog on how to incorporate whole grain flours in your [...]

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After completing the Eat from the Pantry Challenge in January, reminded me that I am a very goal oriented creature.  In most areas of my life, having something to work towards is a motivator and I love being able to see the progress as I go.  So, for February, I’m setting some kitchen goals to [...]

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On Thursday afternoon I realized that I had planned on stretching my monthly menu meals a little too thinly this week.  It was a crazy week and I had planned on surfing through the nutty weekend on leftovers, but I hadn’t quite planned enough meals to make that work.  Oops, monthly menu fail!
Looking to remedy [...]

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With the Eat from the Pantry [and Freezer] challenge underway, I’ve done baking this, but not much cooking.  I had grocery shopping and meetings on Monday, my monthly work day at Made in Chenango on Wednesday and heading to my brother’s today, my freezer meals made this week much easier!  We had Shepherd’s Pie with [...]

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