Recipes
Spooky Food for Halloween
Spider Web Cookies Ingredients: ½ cup sugar ¾ cup all purpose flour ¼ cup milk ¼ cup olive oil 2 large eggs ½ teaspoon vanilla Powdered sugar Method: Combine eggs, milk, sugar, flour, vanilla and olive oil in a mixing bowl and beat until the batter is smooth Pour batter into a clean squeeze bottle, [...]
Have a Real Aussie Barbeque!
Forget about the Vegemite – what Aussies really crave when they are away from home is a real Aussie backyard barbeque. There’s nothing to compare with good friends, cold beer and the smell of snags cooking on a hot plate. What are `snags’, you say? Snags are sausages, the mainstay of any Aussie cook-up. Hardly [...]
Hearty Soups for Winter
A bowl of hearty, homemade soup is the perfect companion for long winter evenings. Soups which are filled with the goodness of seasonal vegetables and are a complete meal by themselves. Cuddle up with these piping hot, bowls of soul-satisfying meals on a cold winter evening. Hearty Turnip Onion Soup Ingredients: 4 medium white turnips, [...]
Easy Pasta Suppers
Dinner time is almost here. You’re in need of groceries but can’t purchase them until you get your paycheck. You’ve looked everywhere but are convinced there is nothing. Look again. Chances are you already have the ingredients to make a healthy and inexpensive pasta meal. A good pasta dish has three components: the pasta, some [...]
Easy Inexpensive Meals Made With Hamburger
Moms these days get so busy it is hard to cook nutritious meals for their families everyday. Unfortunately fast food is usually the answer to busy schedules. Eating out can get expensive and it is not always in the budget. Hamburger is inexpensive, easy to find and most kids like it; brown some hamburger and [...]
Use Spices To Cook Like A Connoisseur On A Paupers Budget!
Don’t have the money to make delectable dishes? Or just don’t know the secrets of flavoring with spices and herbs, and making food stretch? The former is not right no matter what your income is. If you have the income to buy enough food to at least feed your family then your income is large [...]
How to Preserve Chicken
When growing up in a rural area, I often helped my grandmother can chicken meat. The advantage of having chicken meat on the pantry shelf is that you can prepare a meal quickly and efficiently with very little fuss. Chicken meat can be used in a wide variety of dishes, such as casseroles, chicken and [...]
Christmas Candy Recipes
Reindeer Poop Ingredients: ½ cup margarine or butter 2 cups white sugar ½ cup milk 3 cups Quaker Oats (oatmeal.) ½ cup smooth or crunchy peanut butter, whichever you prefer. ½ cup of nuts of your choice. (If you use crunchy peanut butter, you will not need the nuts. 2 rounded teaspoons cocoa. Method: Mix [...]
Chocolate Chip Candy Cookies
Just about everyone loves the taste of cookies, and candy lovers are in prevalent supply as well. If you’ve always wanted to combine these two great tastes, then this recipe is for you. Ingredient List ¾ cup of unsalted butter 1 cup of sugar ½ cup of light brown sugar 1 whole egg 1 egg [...]
2 Soup Recipes
With the winter months upon us, nothing hits the spot quite like relaxing with a hot bowl of soup. So here are two of my all-time favorites, both of which are extremely inexpensive and easy to make. These can be served as a side dish or as a whole meal. 15 Minute Soup Ingredients: One [...]