After having tried several donut recipes with our new mini donut maker from Nostalgia Electrics, I was not ecstatic with the results. This is why I decided to try and make up my own donut recipe, which would take into considerations the cake consistency of the previous recipes that I had tried. I based my [...]
Whenever the temperatures start dropping in South Florida, my boys start asking for aebleskiver. Aebleskiver around the holidays is an old family tradition, and the kids love it when I pull out the aebleskiver recipe. Aebleskiver means apple pieces, because in the old days, aebleskiver was made with a piece of apple inside. Aebleskiver are [...]
Many years ago my family visited an aunt on her European farm, and she made a vegetarian moussaka with vegetables from her own garden. This was the first and last time that I ever tasted moussaka, but the memory and the desire to try making my own has remained with me ever since. I have looked at [...]
Getting my kids to eat fish can be a bit of a challenge, so I recently tried making my favorite childhood fish recipe for my boys. It is an extremely simple flounder recipe, and if you get your fish at ALDI the price is quite reasonable as well. I made the kids help make this [...]
My family’s mini George Foreman has been one of the best gifts I have received for the kitchen, so when I discovered the 5 serving George Foreman Removable Plates Grill, it quickly made its way to the top of my wish list. My only issue with my small George Foreman grill is the fact that [...]
After a long day at the park with the kids, I really just felt like getting take out. However, frugal as I am, I ended up making a go at my own favorite take out meal: Falafel in pita with yogurt dressing and onion rings. Amazingly the meal turned out great, and I am especially [...]
Two weeks ago I filled my freezer with chicken, as ALDI had a great deal on ALDI chicken. After cutting up the chicken, and dividing it into seperate bags, I had 15 dinners worth of chicken at a price of $1.36 each. Of course, I cannot feed my family chicken every day, and today I [...]
For the second weekend in a row, the South Florida weather is keeping my family home instead of at the beach, in fact this morning our roof started leaking because of all the rain. This means that I have three very impatient boys, who would much rather be outside playing instead of playing inside. To [...]
Thanks to the great price on carrots at ALDI ($0.69/2 lbs), my family has been eating a lot of carrots lately. This weekend we have been doing a lot of FCAT preparation, so to reward the boys I made them a Good Luck Carrot Cake for dessert. I used this carrot cake recipe from Allrecipes [...]
Red Gold canned tomatoes recently found their way to my family’s dinner table, and I must say that I have enjoyed cooking with these 100 percent natural tomato products. Red Gold began as a family business in 1942, and four generations later, the Reichart family is still very much involved in the business. Red Gold [...]
We had some leftover summer sausage from when my dad was here visiting, and I was trying to figure out what kind of summer sausage recipe I could come up with. Today I finally decided to give it a try, since I needed to come up with a quick meal for after my sons’ swim [...]
I usually take the easy route and buy a birthday cake from Publix for my kids’ birthday, but the price had gone up, and last time the one cake we got was just barely enough. Instead of spending $36+ on a birthday cake from Publix, I therefore decided to make a homemade birthday cake. [...]
My mom was a great baker and cook, and I often wish I had her baking skills. I am not a great baker, but I love to bake and I have three boys, who love to eat the goodies I make. I usually stay within my comfort zone though, but today I tried to make [...]
My family has Indian and Jamaican roots, so we eat a lot of rice every week. After several attempts of switching to brown rice, we always ended back with regular rice, simply because we had a difficult time getting used to the different taste of brown rice. We have already switched to whole wheat bread [...]
