By Milehimama on Aug 31, 2010 in Make It Yourself, Recipe | 9 Comments
Don’t forget to update your feed so you don’t miss any posts! My kids are crazy for ice cream cakes, but they run $25-40 a pop and they are not dye free. So, I made my own. I’ve used two techniques – one called for sandwiching ice cream between two cake layers, and one was [...]
By Milehimama on Jun 15, 2010 in Make It Yourself, Real Food | 4 Comments
Do you have a hard time keeping your kids in popsicles? The all-natural fruit ones are so expensive, but I don’t always have time to make my own. Also, my girls tend to drag off the popsicle mold to all corners of the house. Here’s a quick tip: buy a bag of key limes (here [...]
By Milehimama on Apr 27, 2010 in Home Cooking, Make It Yourself, Recipe, works for me wednesday | 10 Comments
Some nights, no matter how hard you plan, dinner just does not work out. It’s a good idea to have a list of quick and easy meals you can whip together for rough evenings, and Emergency Pantry Pasta Salad is a good recipe to add to the arsenal. It’s basically pasta salad that you make [...]
By Milehimama on Mar 12, 2010 in Make It Yourself, Mama Says Randomness, Real Food | 5 Comments
1. I am absolutely loving the 4 Moms 35 Children posts. Start at the Common Room and work your way through the links to the other ladies. 2. I made some really good short ribs the other day, out of grass fed beef provided by my sister. Basically, I braised them on the stove, then [...]
By Milehimama on Jan 27, 2010 in Make It Yourself | 7 Comments
Non-stick cooking spray is convenient. It’s also expensive and full of propellants; finding one made without genetically modified soybean or canola oil is almost impossible. My solution? Grease the pan with shortening. I buy non-hydrogenated vegetable shortening (it’s a great big tub of palm kernel oil) and use that anywhere I would normally use cooking [...]
By Milehimama on Sep 15, 2009 in Make It Yourself | 4 Comments
I did manage to can some peaches, but before I had the equipment I would often freeze peaches in order to preserve the harvest. Well, not my harvest, because I don’t have a peach tree, but when peaches go on sale for 65 cents a pound I’ll snatch up a bunch and put them away [...]
By Milehimama on May 19, 2009 in Home Cooking, Make It Yourself, works for me wednesday | 12 Comments
Every frugal site worth its salt promotes dried beans as the ultimate in cheap, nutritious meal foundation. Using dried beans takes planning. You’ve got to soak overnight, cook carefully without adding salt or acidic ingredients, then pull it all together in a meal before the beans turn to mush. This means you have to remember [...]
By Milehimama on May 1, 2009 in Make It Yourself | 1 Comment
Moonsand is so easy to make, there’s no reason to spend a fortune for it! The homemade version is also non-toxic. Play sand has been sterilized. You’ll need: 2 cups play sand (I got 50 lbs. from Lowe’s for less than$5.) 1 cup cornstarch 1/2 cup water Mix sand and cornstarch together. Add water. You [...]
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