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Frugality

Bread As A Quiche Base

June 13, 2012 by Darren

Quiche is a quick and easy meal, and a great way to use up leftover food. Using bread as the base makes it even quicker and easier!

Posted in: Frugality, Preparing Food, Recipes Tagged: cheese, eggs, leftovers, pasta recipe

Free Firewood

May 22, 2012 by Darren

You can save a lot of money by heating your home with wood, especially if you can get the wood for free. Here’s where I get mine – where do you get yours?

Posted in: Frugality, Gleaning, Household Tagged: Electricity, firewood, FreeCycle, frugal living, trees

Head Cheese Recipe

April 19, 2012 by Darren

It’s a boiled pig’s head, meat removed and diced, then set in a terrine mould with jelly made from the cooking broth. What’s not to like?!

Posted in: Frugality, Keeping Animals, Preparing Food, Recipes Tagged: herbs, meat, offal, pigs, pork, recipe, River Cottage

Pig Trotters In Sweet Vinegar

February 9, 2012 by Darren

We’re getting towards the end of the pigs we raised for meat – literally! I’ve never cooked trotters before, so this was an interesting meal.

Posted in: Frugality, Keeping Animals, Recipes Tagged: eggs, health, meat, offal, pigs, pork, recipe

Digging Up Potatoes

December 12, 2011 by Darren

Whenever we have potatoes sprout in the cupboard, we plant them out in a spare garden bed. It costs nothing, and you typically get back about 5-10 times as many potatoes as you plant! Potatoes are also amazing for establishing new garden beds. They break up the ground, attract lots of worms, and leave a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Frugality, Growing Food Tagged: garden beds, gardening, mulch, potatoes, seed potatoes

Illawarra Freecycle

September 29, 2011 by Darren

FreeCycle is a great way to give a new life to stuff you no longer want, and to divert still-useful waste from landfill tips. Here are some of the useful things I’ve picked up…

Posted in: Frugality, Household, Illawarra Organisations, Waste Tagged: bloggers, firewood, FreeCycle, illawarra, recycling, Waste

How To Store Pumpkins (Winter Squash)

June 25, 2011 by Darren

With proper storage and a little care, many varieties of pumpkins can be kept for 6-12 months without refrigeration. In fact, they get sweeter and tastier the longer you store them!

Posted in: Frugality, Growing Food Tagged: gardening, Peter Cundall, pumpkin, squash

Why Grow Your Own Pumpkins?

June 20, 2011 by Darren

Why would you bother to grow your own pumpkins when they’re so cheap from the supermarket?

Posted in: Frugality, Growing Food Tagged: compost, herbs, potatoes, pumpkin, rhubarb, squash, tomato, vegies

Mulch Delivery

June 17, 2011 by Darren

We had 9 cubic metres (4.6 tons) of mulch delivered – and I have to move it all by wheelbarrow!

Posted in: Frugality, Growing Food, Permaculture, Waste, Water Tagged: compost, garden beds, gardening, mulch, swales

Duck Egg Yolk Pasta With Pesto

May 4, 2011 by Darren

It sounds really fancy, but it’s actually just a practical way to use up duck egg yolks after making lots of meringues with the whites! Home made pesto is quick and delicious accompaniment that does the pasta justice.

Posted in: Frugality, Growing Food, Preparing Food, Recipes Tagged: duck eggs, egg yolk, egg yolks, eggs, fettucine, herbs, home made, Jamberoo Community Growers, meringue, pasta machine, pasta maker, pavlova, recipe
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