I love shopping at Whole Foods, I really do. But, it can be expensive. So here are my five tricks for saving money while grocery shopping at Whole Foods: Stick to the perimeter Buy in season and on sale Look for in-store coupons Avoid processed foods Buy in bulk When I go into my [...]
Last week I was up to my elbows in honey, as I prepared my hive for its new residents, arriving sometime the second week of April. My first batch of bees arrived last April, and blogging about their installation was one of my first posts on this blog. Unfortunately, my bees up and left sometime [...]
With all the honey around my house, I thought a cookie with honey as a main ingredient would be a good choice. Fortunately, I was able to turn to my trusty Pooh Cook Book, by Virginia Ellison (1969), because as everyone knows, Winnie-the-Pooh is the king of honey! I think this cookbook was my very [...]
Ultimate Blog Party 2009At BlogHer 2008, I met Janice, one of the sisters behind the successful 5Minutes for Mom, a site devoted to connecting mom through an online community. And all this week, they have been hosting the Ultimate Blog Party, the perfect way to meet new bloggers and expand your own community. And they [...]
Lisa’s slow cooker is too hot. Jane’s slow cooker is too cold. My slow cooker seems to be just right, but it is about 20 years old, so it could conk out at anytime. Since Kitchen Gadget Girl operates on a shoe string budget (!), rather than test a bunch of slow cookers, I thought [...]
Way back, when my daughter was born, my sister Erica brought this meal to us on our first night home from the hospital. She was able to find baby beets and turnips, and the dinner was so delightful, not only because I had been eating hospital food for two days, but because my incredibly busy [...]
Way back, last month, eons ago, I went to a blogger meetup sponsored by Uptake and GoHawaii.com. In addition to chowing on tasty Hawaiian food from Hukilau in San Francisco, I was able to meet some of my fellow Uptake bloggers, as well as several special guests. And you know me, I like to ask [...]
Reading the Mercury News on Tuesday, I ran across a an article in the Action Line column in which a reader asked for the recipe for the World’s Best Cookie, apparently first published in the Mercury News in 1986. And naturally, I was curious. I mean, that is a big claim. After last week’s cookie [...]
Every time I went out last week, I came across many signs of spring – eventually, I started taking my camera with me and captured some fun shots. My package of bees comes next month, but if they had been here now, they would have had all of this to feast on (see, food analogy!):
corned-beefWith St Patrick’s Day around the corner (ok, tomorrow, if you want to be specific) Corned Beef and Cabbage was on the menu this weekend. Remember my menu plan from last week? We were out all day yesterday and needed to have dinner ready when we walked in the door, so I set up my [...]
Wanted to be a little lower for a different angle, but loads of construction going on. (Taken with instagram)
