We hit the growers market this weekend and picked up some beautiful chard. As a cook, I am not so familiar with chard, so I looked up some recipes for ideas. I found a recipe for chard pizza and I adapted it with ingredients we had. This pizza had chard, caramelized onions, mozzarella cheese, some [...]
Breakfast is one of the most inexpensive meals to make. This past Sunday I made us apple walnut pancakes, turkey bacon and fresh whipped cream. Remember that I said most of the meals we make cost about $1.25 per serving or $5 for the entire meal? Here’s a cost breakdown of this meal. pancakes (2 [...]
When I buy new things, I generally run a quick cost per use analysis. All this means is that I figure out how many times I will use the object and how much it will cost each time I use it. (Is that crazy? I don’t think so, but…) Anyway, I had thought I would [...]
We finally took the expensive leap and had a professional come in and trim our large Chinese Elm trees. Generally, we try to do our own home repair and yard work, but at 25 feet tall, it was going to cost us more in time and money to get the proper instruments than to call [...]
We planted the garden in mid-May and it is looking good! The seeds have all turned into little plants and the plants we purchased are growing quickly. One of the big upgrades to the garden is the drip irrigation system. Last year when we went out of town, we set up a timer and a [...]
Miss Petrie’s school needed pavers for a small walkway and we had some. They are concrete and heavy! I moved about 100 of them this morning so a school employee could take them. They’ve been sitting in our front yard for a couple of years, so it works well for Miss Petrie’s school to get [...]