Black bean soup is the sneakiest meal ever; it's basically like a ninja. It's super frugal and ridiculously easy. There's no main meat feature. There's not a plethora of fancy ingredients to be deemed gourmet. One might think that it shouldn't even taste very good with that … [Read more...] about Easy Crockpot Black Bean Soup
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How to Use (and Fall in Love With) Cast-Iron Cookware
I may have a tendency to become slightly dramatic about the things I love. Example: My family. Words cannot even tell you the throbbing my soul endures for them. This Brown Butter Fudge: it’s sexy and I wanna marry it. You see? It just comes naturally, what can I say? So, … [Read more...] about How to Use (and Fall in Love With) Cast-Iron Cookware
How to Stretch Your Real Maple Syrup and Save a Bunch of Money (Without Resorting to the Fake Stuff)
This is pretty well heresy for me. I mean, I have amazing memories from my childhood of tromping through the snow to gather sap buckets from trees in the woods with my grandfather, hauling them in our toboggan. Whole days spent at up at the maple sugar camp with just an old hay barn, … [Read more...] about How to Stretch Your Real Maple Syrup and Save a Bunch of Money (Without Resorting to the Fake Stuff)
