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Slow Cooker Basics Part 2

If you want yummy, perfectly cooked slow cooker or crockpot recipes that cost pennies per serving, then keep reading. With a little knowledge, your slow cooker meals will help you reduce your food bill while keeping your family happy. This post is part two of Slow Cooker Basics. If you missed the first post, you can find it here: Slow Cooker Basics. Now, let us add to your knowledge about how to make delicious slow cooker or crockpot meals. Some Food Cooks Faster than Others Vegetables usually take longer to cook than meat does. Don’t worry, you can still cook … Continue reading →

Freezing Holiday Food: Potatoes

Your freezer can be one of your best friends when it comes to preparing holiday food. You can make and freeze dishes and deserts ahead of time to cut down on the hectic holiday food preparation and cooking. You can also freeze leftovers in order to reduce waste. Finally, you can prepare extra meals that will be easy to eat during the holiday rush. Some foods do freeze better than others, and there are some other considerations to make when freezing foods, such as whether or not to freeze them cooked or uncooked, whether to alter your spices, when par-baking … Continue reading →

Crockpot Mashed Potatoes

If you want an extra creamy version of mashed potatoes that is easy to fix, you might want to consider this recipe. Rich and hearty, this mashed potatoes recipe yields a dish that is decadent like a rich savory dish instead of fluffy. For a long time, this was the only mashed potato recipe I prepared during the holidays, because it was requested so often, and it was easily portable. Make sure to stir the edges of your pot at least once, to avoid browning. You can prepare these mashed potatoes in advance, but you’ll get best results when you … Continue reading →

Basic Mashed Potatoes

What are the holidays without mashed potatoes? I personally think that mashed potatoes are the ultimate comfort food. Done right, you may find yourself tasting just a few too many times as you are mashing them, because they are so delicious. Start with a basic mashed potato recipe, and then make it your own. This recipe makes five pounds of mashed potatoes, which should be plenty for a family holiday gathering. This recipe also freezes well, so feel free to store half away for a hectic holiday season weekday. I like to freeze leftovers in muffin cups and then once … Continue reading →

Mashed Potatoes – The basics

A holiday just isn’t the same without creamy mashed potatoes. But not everyone knows how to make this delicious side dish correctly. Have you ever gone to someone’s house and eagerly awaited mashed potatoes, only to be greeted with lumpy, bland tasting potatoes, or runny potatoes you need a spoon to eat? If you’re admittedly the one who served those potatoes, fret not. Help is here! Once you get the hang of mashed potatoes, they’re a cinch to make. **This recipe calls for a food mill. If you don’t have one, you can find one at your local cookery or … Continue reading →

The Power of Comfort Food

On Friday, when my children arrived home, safely, it was all that I could do to not to gather them all up and never let them go. After recent events, I know I am not the only parent out there that felt that way. We’ve all been shaken up. Anyone who has ever loved a child, a sister or a friend has had to face this harsh new reality. There was no way, that night, that I was going to deny my children most anything. It is a good thing that no one asked for a pony. Instead, they asked … Continue reading →

The Easy Way to Cook from Scratch

Cooking from scratch is a great way to reduce your overall food bill. Eating out can cost three or four times as much as cooking at home, on average. Faced with the reality of the savings, why don’t we all cook more and eat out less? Well, one of the main reasons is that the idea of cooking every meal at home when our lives are so busy can seem daunting. Guess what, though? Eating at home can actually be less time consuming than going out in many cases. Plus, if you follow the following advice, you will see that … Continue reading →

Save $3.00 On Dinner At HomeTown Buffet

Buffets are wonderful, especially if you have a large family to feed, and all of them happen to want something different for dinner tonight. HomeTown Buffet, (also called Country Buffet, or Old Country Buffet, depending on where you live), has a way for you to save money when you go to dinner at their buffet. You can get a coupon that will save you $3.00 on dinner at HomeTown Buffet. HomeTown Buffet is one of the buffets that has something for everyone, no matter how picky an eater they happen to be. They basically serve what I think of as … Continue reading →

Freezer Cooking Three Ways

Freezer cooking can be intimidating when you first start to contemplate it. There are many good books out there to help you with your freezer cooking, but often they leave you with more confusion than they help. For example, what do you do if a once a month plan includes meals that you know your family won’t eat? Do you make them anyway? Can you substitute and still make use of the ingredient list? What many people don’t realize is that you don’t have to follow one way of freezer cooking. There are actually three main ways you can take … Continue reading →

Why Are Comfort Foods So Comforting?

I’ve finally recovered from my virus (I think!), four days of fever haze and comfort foods. And now that I’m thinking clearly again, I’m wondering why comfort foods are so dang comforting? The general consensus seems to be that comfort foods bring up good, safe, happy childhood memories. They’re generally not fancy, not gourmet… they’re familiar, comfortable, and filling. My own comfort foods? Well, as soon as I started feeling sick, I asked my roommate to go to the store for ginger ale and orange juice. They’re my go-to sick drinks… almost definitely because that’s what Mom always gave me … Continue reading →