Category: Using Up Leftovers

  • Leftover Granola Muffins

    If you stock homemade granola in your kitchen, and you have small children with incredibly variable appetites, you are likely to have come across the leftover granola issue. After the cost of the high quality ingredients, and the time of mixing and baking each batch, to throw away even just a half cup of it…

  • Leftover Easter Eggs to Savory Breakfast Pockets!

    I know you have a glut of crudely dyed eggs in your fridge. I know you’re wondering how you are going to get them all eaten before they go bad. Here’s one idea. I did this with the ones that got cracked during the dying process. Considering we have a 4yo and a 2yo, there…

  • Dinner Every Night: Pasta with Lentils

    I never get too far away from this subject in my mind, apparently: the challenge of putting good food on the table day after day, after day, after day. Though I have waxed poetic in the past, today’s revisit is purely practical. Pasta. With lentils. Damn is that some fine food! Every time I eat…

  • Not So Goaty Enchiladas

    I go to the farmer’s market every week, mostly for milk and meat. Because I like to make outings efficient, we often go somewhere else after the market, so I have a giant insulated cooler bag that I put all my groceries in to keep things cool for the few hours until we get home.…

  • CJ’s Punk Housewife Tip #1: Homemade Grape Nuts

    Am I a punk? Hell no, not by any punk standard anyway. No tattoos, no piercings, I change my clothes almost every week, and I live in a house with just one family. My life looks purty damn square to the punk eye. But, by housewife standards, I like to think I can edge into…