Thrift at Home

I keep my kitchen plastic bags in a fabric cylinder with elastic ends.  What is this thing called?  No idea.  But it sure is useful!   ...

I was at a school meeting where a meal was served on styrofoam plates with bottled water and plasticware.  One of the dads casually whipped ...

I have eaten lettuce as a side dish for lunch for 6 days straight now since I read about this in the newspaper last week.  I regretfully can...

The plastic silverware holder that came with my dish drainer was too flimsy for our loads of dishes.  I was eyeing a stainless steel one on ...

Previous to Smitten Kitchen's post , I thought of fried rice as just the Asian kind with Asian flavors like soy sauce, ginger, snow peas...

These are rice + toppings meals that I carried out recently to families with new babies (we have a raft of new babies at church - fun!).  I ...

There are these lacy cloth things that I've seen in old-fashioned kitchen that are used as lids.  Sometimes they even have beads danglin...

Pride goeth before a fall.  Yes. My sister proposed a joint birthday party for herself and Phoebe and I jumped at the chance to make whate...

I've been making mayo for years in the food processor, but when I blogged about it two summers ago , several of you suggested that I try...

We have an odd collection of little toddler forks and spoons for Phoebe.  I really can't recall where they all came from.  Some of them ...

I've learned to stretch ground beef a bit with no complaints from my family.  I sub in cooked brown lentils for part of the ground beef ...

I mentioned kale stem pesto when I wrote about Linda Ly's book . So I recently had collard greens and I decided to see if I could use th...

I typically look forward to the new season, but this solstice caught me still loving my summer and eating summer food.  So, yes, I was peeli...

Here I am, talking to my friend Danene as we eat rhubarb pie after making numerous batches of strawberry jam together this morning.  This ...

I have never liked Velveeta cheese and American cheese and all that processed cheese; it was too bland with an odd plastic taste.  I liked C...