A look at this month's Eat Well, Spend Less series on Thanksgiving food and entertaining.Keep the focus on family and being thankful this week. Holiday meals and entertaining can be expensive, and when you're supposed to be giving thanks for all that you have, the last thing … [Read more...] about Eat Well, Spend Less this Thanksgiving
Hey, Babycakes! A Weekend Giveaway.
Enter to win a Babycakes Cupcake Maker and cookbook that makes more than just cupcakes. It can make your entire meal in minutes. My kids are generally pretty excited in the kitchen, especially that pink-apron-wearing one up there. If I so much as walk towards the kitchen she … [Read more...] about Hey, Babycakes! A Weekend Giveaway.
Eat Well, Spend Less: Frugal Holiday Desserts
This month in the Eat Well, Spend Less series we're taking a look at the holiday season and keeping the budget under control. Here you'll find advice for stocking your dessert table. Have you ever noticed that desserts are often expensive? Let's take cheesecake, for instance, … [Read more...] about Eat Well, Spend Less: Frugal Holiday Desserts
Buttermilk Custard Pear Pie
Pie dough for one 9" crust 1 egg + 1 tablespoon water, beaten, optional (for the crust) 5 cups peeled and thinly sliced just-ripe pears (4-5 medium) 1/2 cup sugar 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 1 large vanilla bean, scraped 1/4 teaspoon salt 4 eggs, lightly beaten 1 cup … [Read more...] about Buttermilk Custard Pear Pie
Buttermilk Custard Pear Pie and Pie Crust Crimping
A creamy vanilla and buttermilk custard envelopes a pile of perfectly plump pears, all baked off in an all-butter pie crust. Yesterday my husband and I packed up our car. Not the family car that fits all the kids securely in their car seats, us in the front, but the small … [Read more...] about Buttermilk Custard Pear Pie and Pie Crust Crimping
