by Melodie on January 29th, 2010

Welcome to Foodie Fridays!
From the book My Bombay Kitchen by Niloufer Ichaporia King:
“Italian eggs are as Italian as the French dressing you buy in supermarkets in France.”
So basically, these don’t actually capture the taste of what you might expect an Italian egg to taste like. That is, if you even had an expectation in the [...]

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by Melodie on January 15th, 2010

My husband says he could live off Japanese food. I made this for him the other day after he said he wanted to do something with a few packages of Udon noodles he found at the grocery store. They were cheap – less than $1 per package,, making this a pretty frugal soup when all [...]

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by Melodie on December 4th, 2009

Once in awhile I enjoy making my own veggie burgers from scratch. Every time I do I think I should do it more often, for no store bought variety ever tastes as good. Here is the first recipe I ever used to make my own veggie burgers when I was a teenager. Packed with protein [...]

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by on November 6th, 2009

Even as a teenager I loved going to restaurants and trying new foods. While my peers were hanging out at the mall eating fast food burgers and spending their minimum wage job pay cheques on clothes and make-up, I was downtown trying out the menus at our local cafés. I used to think I could [...]

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by on October 23rd, 2009

Fall is the season for soup. Don’t you all agree? The kids go outside to play in the piles of leaves you spent an hour raking, or go around stomping on all the newly sprung up mushrooms, flattening them to mush, all over your lawn, and after tiring themselves out of this play, which by [...]

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by on October 8th, 2009

A good soup is always a frugal standby in my house. Now that the weather is getting colder and the winter squashes are a plenty, it’s time for some of that hot, comforting spiced goodness.
In addition to the fact that they make a yummy soup, winter squashes have many health benefits. Did you know they [...]

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by on July 16th, 2009

It’s time for another Pennywise Platters Carnival from The Nourishing Gourmet. Welcome to my new readers!
Making space in the fridge is a frugal, nutritious and time saving thing to do. Especially if you often wind up with lots of leftovers like we do. And not only is saving time and eating nutritious foods a good [...]

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