Food
- Aunt Toby Takes A Cooking Class
taking a cooking class can give you a whole new perspective on your skills in the kitchen.
- Overwhelmed with tomatoes?
what to do when all you see are tomatoes for miles around?
- Garlic Update
Garlic is easy to grow and easy to put away for the winter.
- Royal Burgundy - Beans, that is
- So, You Want a Farmers' Market
- More Brisket BBQ - Asian Pulled Beef
- How to get kids to eat fish
- Pulled BBQ Beef
Nothing like great bbq.
- 8 Eggs, 2 Desserts
Here are two desserts, one which uses egg yolks and one which uses egg whites, so if you ever find yourself with one or the other left over, here are two things you can make.
- Kids Belong in the Kitchen
- You don't have to be Jewish to love Passover
Here's a creative way to find food products that won't have high fructose corn syrup - or even corn syrup at all.
- Snowed In? No Power? Cook With Your Grill!
If you lose all your power, you can still cook for your family using a gas or charcoal grill. Here are two ideas to show you just how versatile a grill can be.
- Light and Good: Eggs
At this point in the year, a little light, quick eating might be right up your family's alley. Here are several ways to prepare eggs that are good for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
- Kitchen Counter Chemistry or, If You Can Mix Salad Dressing, You Can Make Moisturizer
At this time of year, having a good moisturizer is a good thing; here is how to make several for things you probably already have at home.
- Horseradish: From Root to Plate
How to cook, prepare and keep horseradish.
- The Name's Bean -- Black Bean
Add black beans to your cooking - you won't be sorry. Here are a few ideas.
- Winter Picnic
A change of pace for winter dinners: a winter picnic!
- Ya Gotta Ricotta
Recipes for using ricotta cheese.
- I'm a pundit. Who knew?
Shameless Self-promotion -- I'm a pundit and someone else liked my turkey soup recipe.
- Thanksgiving in a small way
Something different for Thanksgiving.
- Cheap and Good: Crepes Three Ways
How to make and use crepes that have nothing to do with French cooking.
- Can't Cook Lamb? Baaaaaa -- Humbug!
How to cook lamb.
- Cheap and Good: Roasted Root Veggies
How to roast winter root veggies.
- Plum-ing the Depths
Things to do with plums.
- Step Away From The Sugar Bowl and No One Gets Hurt
You'd be amazed just how much sugar is in prepared foods.
- Cabbage Family Nutritional Smack-down!
Nutritional information about cabbage family veggies.
- WMD: Zucchini Time
Good things to do with zucchini.
- Awwwwww -- Nuts!
Nuts have a lot going for them; here's an indepth look.
- Cheap and Good: Oatmeal Three Ways
Three great recipes using oats.
- Oh, Snap!! (Peas, that is)
How to 'individually quick freeze' snap peas.
- Loose Ends and Housekeeping
Updates on the chicks, strawberries, et al.
- Last thoughts on a Strawberry Weekend.
Other strawberry recipes, including wine.
- Cheap and Good: Pick Your Own Strawberries
- Strawberry Hot Flash: The End IS the Beginning
Getting started with strawberry preservation.
- Radio STRW: It's an All-Strawberries Weekend!!
Introduction to an all-strawberry weekend: total strawberry immersion.
- Cheap and Good: Buying Local in Season - Strawberries!
Things to do with fresh local strawberries.
- Getting the Best Out of Grass Fed Meats
Grass fed meats require a whole different cooking technique. Here's how.
- More Obscure Vegetables You Can Learn to Love - Chard
Time to widen your veggie experiences. New vegetable: chard.
- The Exploding Pressure Canner and Other Kitchen Myths
Introduction to using a pressure canner
- Introduction to Canning
First experiences with canning.
- Be Prepared! Introduction to Anxiety Reduction, Part One
Getting started in food preservation
- Walk on the Wild Side at the Farmers' Market
How to find a farmers market. Taking advantage of what people have to offer at farmers markets.
- Is cheap, confinement raised meat lighting the fuse on the next flu pandemic?
How confinement raised pork is connected to H1N1.
- Friends of Farmers Markets are Friends of Mine
Shopping at farmers markets.
- Cheap and Good: Hankering for Hummus?
Here's how to make hummus at home.
- Cheap and Fast: Q-D Hot and Sour Soup
Here's how to make a quick, tasty version of Hot and Sour Soup.
- It's 8:00 - do you know what's in your freezer?
Getting your freezer organized and having an inventory will save you money; you will know what you have and what you truly need to buy. Here's how.
- Cheap and Good: Stale bread 4 ways plus a trifling dessert
Don't throw away those left-overs - here are a few ways to use stale bread.
- Cheap and Good: No Excuses Weightlifting
Want to lift weights for health but don't have a set of weights at home? Here are some ideas.
- More things to do with cabbage
More ideas for working with cabbage family veggies.
- Cheap and Good: Cabbage and its cousins
Learn to love cabbage and all of the other members of the same family.
- Get Growing!
how to start seeds
- Cheap and Good: Mashed Potatoes Are Your Friend
Meals to make with left-over mashed potatoes.
- Cheap and Good: Biscuits and Stuff To Put On ‘Em
America's favorite bread is NOT a yeast bread - it's biscuits!!
- Show Some Respect for the Honored Dead — and make Turkey Soup!
Making turkey soup out of the left-over holiday bird. Yum.
- Christmas Fruitcake Fit to Fight For: Dundee Cake
The very best Christmas fruitcake: Dundee Cake!
- Cheap and Good: Christmas Breakfast
A good solid holiday morning breakfast filled with protein, veggies and your favorite Mexican seasonings.
- Cheap and Good: Bread - One Dough, Three Ways
One basic bread dough that you can use to make three vastly different types of bread, from toast to toaster oven bread.
- Cheap and Good: Bread
Basic bread making tips.
- Cheap and Good: Chowder
When is chowder .. chowder? When is chowder...soup? Why is it chowder? Why not stew? All important deep questions to consider.
- Cheap and Good: Chili
Great chili and how to make it.
- Surviving Holiday Entertaining Without A Second Mortgage
Entertaining on the cheap.
- What's It Worth To You?
Are you getting your money's worth in terms of the food you are buying? Here's a way to figure it out.
- Just Do One Thing…and Save Money
It's easy to feel overwhelmed about what is going on with the economy. The answer is to just do one thing.
- Thrift: It’s Not Just For Your Granny Anymore: Another in a Continuing Series of “The Guide to the Economically Depressed”
Getting through this economy means learning new words and new skills. Today's new word: thrifty.
- Urban Gardening, or, How to Survive When You Aren’t a Homeowner and Don’t Have a Lawn to Rip Up
Growing your own, making your shelter more energy efficient - these things are not just for homeowners. Renters can take some control too.
Kitchen Counter Economics is a community where we can share ideas on how to save money, live more sustainably, and gain control over the stuff of daily living for ourselves and our families in the current economic environment. This started as a series of diary postings at the 
