You guys are in for SUCH a treat today!  It may surprise you to find a recipe for King Crab on a blog all about cheap cooking, but it is possible to enjoy such a decadent ingredient on a tight budget.  I’ve mentioned several times that one of my favorite tips to save money on food is stretching your more expensive ingredients like meat and seafood.  If you buy just one or two King Crab legs, you can stretch them with other more affordable ingredients to make an incredible dish that’s perfect for a special occasion. Read more

The pilot series of the Healthy Cooking on a Tight Budget Program has been completed!  One purpose of the classes was to provide recipes using ingredients that are commonly turned down at the Food Bank because people don’t know how to use them.  The first item on that list was dried beans.  On my first day at the food bank the director handed me a couple bags of dried beans and I stared at them with a similar apprehension.  I know how to use them in soups and comforting winter time recipes, but what about in the summer?  Fortunately my friend Elise had the perfect recipe to try. Read more

Yesterday I promised you my first poached egg recipe, and today I deliver!  I could not get the idea of poached eggs and asparagus out of my head.  I don’t think I’ve ever had the two together before, but after the massive success of the asparagus frittata, I knew eggs and asparagus are definitely a happy pairing.  So it just made sense to try using poached eggs, one of my favorite ways to eat an egg. Read more

Have you heard of Good Bite?  It’s a fun food site full of videos and great recipes, with some of my favorite people to boot!  I’d been trying to recreate a Chinese friend’s recipe for hoisin wings but couldn’t quite get it like I remembered it.  Then my friend Jaden put her hoisin wings recipe up on GoodBite and I realized that what I was missing was honey!  I’d been making them with brown sugar and though they were good, they weren’t like I remembered. Read more

This is a difficult post to write, but the topic of racism has been weighing heavily on my mind lately.  I’ve been volunteering in the Cultural Diversity Department for the City of Auburn for almost a year now, and through that position receive enough information and current events about diversity and racism to overwhelm even the most avid learner.  Now don’t get me wrong, I love learning, and I know it’s important to at least have an awareness of the happenings of your community, country, and world. Read more