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In Italy, la cucina povera is a term that embraces the idea of cooking with basic farm-fresh ingredients, but the original concept more or less assumed that you

This is my most recent experimental collaboration with my ice cream maker. The recipe makes about 2 pints of gelato. [caption id="attachment_1217" align="alignleft" width="165" caption="Blackberry Lavender Gelato with Bittersweet

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." - Mohandas K. Gandhi For mother's day, my husband and son built

You can Google “frugal,” but that won’t necessarily lead you to these newsletters (or their companion sites). Here’s to finding frugality in some unexpected places!

[caption id="attachment_667" align="alignright" width="333" caption="3 Prosecco Cocktails (+ a cordial glass of strawberry mint syrup)"][/caption] It’s easy to be a frugal foodie in Italy. Food, for the most part,

My greatest expense is food, and in the past, the money I spent on food was predominantly spent in restaurants. In an effort to reduce this expense, as

[caption id="attachment_296" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Molasses, Brown Sugar & Cinnamon Scones"][/caption] In spring and summer, brunch is practically a team sport for many New Yorkers – one requiring endurance, stamina,

Cabbage is a vegetable for hard times. Think of bubble and squeak, the quick Welsh dish of fried cabbage and potato; Cabbage Patch Kids with their patched up