Posts Tagged ‘ frugality ’

Clear Stock: With Thanks to Michael Ruhlman

By cmf
January 29, 2010
Clear Stock: With Thanks to Michael Ruhlman

We’ve been cleaning out the freezers to make room for some incoming elk and lamb, and we found several packages of  “soup bones.” They were far too meaty for the dogs, so I made a batch of stock. First I roasted them all off in a hot oven with three or four onions cut in...
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Half a cow and ten chickens

By cmf
January 20, 2010

Here’s an interesting article about buying meat in bulk, including practical tips for those of you who might be interested but don’t know where to start. The Seminal » Food Sunday: I’ll take half a cow and ten chickens please. We’re lucky here in Montana — not only is it pretty easy to find a rancher...
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Reduce, reuse, recycle

By cmf
January 19, 2010

What one Montana shipping company did with an abandoned load of tropical plants. Hanser’s donates cargo from crashed truck to Rescue Mission.
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Deadline Week: Potato Soup

By cmf
October 13, 2009

I’ve got a deadline this week, so blogging will probably be light, and since the temperature hasn’t gone above thirty since Friday, I thought perhaps a recpie for potato soup might be in order. There’s just about nothing cheaper, it’s dead simple, and infinitely variable. The basic recipe is, of course, Julia Child’s: 1 lb....
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Frugal Recipe of the Week: Buffalo Meatballs

By cmf
October 8, 2009

I made a batch of meatballs the other day which were delicious, but interestingly enough, also stretched just under two pounds of meat into at least four meals if not six. I’m looking at a lot of cookbooks right now for BookSlut, and this recipe is very loosely adapted from the one in the...
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