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Frugal and Easy Thanksgiving Recipes
Here it is — that time of year when everyone’s thoughts turn to food! I’m thankful that at our house, we have plenty of food, but sometimes I am not so grateful that I am the one who usually gets to cook it!
So I am always on the lookout for simple, tasty recipes that are also easy on the budget. Here are a few of my family’s favorites:
Corn-Rice Casserole
- 1 1/2 cups minute rice (uncooked)
- 2 cans cream-style corn
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 medium green pepper, chopped
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine
- 8 oz. jar Cheez Whiz
Melt butter in large saucepan and add onion and green pepper. Cook until tender. Add other ingredients and cook on low for about 5 minutes, stirring often.
Pour into greased 2-quart baking dish and bake at 350 degrees until bubbly.
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Sweet Potato Casserole
- 2 16-oz. cans sweet potatoes
- 1/4 cup butter
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 tsp. vanilla
Topping:
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup butter
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/4 cup flour
Drain sweet potatoes and mash. Add other ingredients and mix well. Pour into ungreased 9″ square baking pan. Mix all topping ingredients till crumbly. Spread on yams then bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.
Tip: You can make this the day before. Just refrigerate till you are ready to bake.
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This one is perfect for supper the night before Thanksgiving.
Harvest Time Soup
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1 cup cubed potatoes
- 1/2 cup chopped carrots
- 1/2 cup chopped celery
- 3/4 lb. process cheese spread, cubed
- 1 cup ham, cubed
Bring water, potatoes, carrots and celery to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer till vegetables are tender.
Add cheese and ham; cook, stirring till cheese is melted.
This makes about 4 servings, but it could easily be cut in half or doubled.
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Samuel Adams, father of the American Revolution:
“It is therefore recommended … to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor …“November 1, 1777
(adopted by the 13 states as the first official Thanksgiving Proclamation)
About The Author
Cyndi Roberts is the editor of the “1 Frugal Friend 2 Another” bi-weekly newsletter and founder of the website of the same name.
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Fish Recipes
These recipes are wonderful and they are old family recpies.
Armenian Baked Fish
3 lbs. whitefish-in the white fleshed bland fish may be substituted
3 fresh tomatoes or one small canned tomatoes
1 cloves garlic mashed
1 tbsp. flour
1 c. water
4 tbsp. minced parsley
1/2 cup olive oil
juice of 1 lemon
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
fillet and rinse fish. Spread the fillets skin side down in a buttered baking pan. Cover fish with tomatoes garlic and the flour mixed with water. Spread with parsley. Seasoned with salt and pepper. Pour oil and lemon juice all around fish. Bake at 325 after 420 to 40 minutes depending on the thickness of the fish. Spoon pan juices over the fish several times while baking. May be served hot or cold. Garnish with sliced lemon. Serves six.
Pine smoked trout
Use a wire holder to get a smoky flavor when cooking trout. The idea is to be able to turn the meat over like the type made to hold hot dogs or hamburgers.
Cut server pine boughs and place them on your campfire. Lay the holder with your trout directly on top. Light the pine boughs, then the fire will sear, cook, and smoke your trout in about a minute before burning out. Just turn the holder over to sear the other side repeat the process. A couple of boughs and less than a minute for each side is perfect for a half-pound trout.
Pickled Bluegills
Use only a stainless steel pan for good taste.
Cut fish into small pieces you will need about 5 cups of fish. Soak in a quart of water and one cup of salt for 2 days. Rinse fish in cold water and drain. Then pour two cups of white vinegar over the fish and put it in the fridge for another 2 days. Pour it off.
Next, cook the following mix for five minutes and let cool
2 cups white vinegar
1 cups sugar
1 tsp. mustard seed
1 tsp. whole black pepper
1 tsp. whole allspice
1 tsp. whole cloves
4 bay leaves
After it cools pour it over the fish, and place slices of lemon and onions on top. Refrigerate for 5 days, then remove the spices and pack into jars. It makes three pints.
Sunfish
Once you have skinned and filleted the Sunfish, try this recipe.
Youll need:
1 lb. sunfish fillets
2 scallionis sliced thin
1 green pepper sliced thin
1 small jar of spaghetti sauce
1 chopped tomato
cup water
cup white wine
Pinch salt
Combine scallions, pepper and sauce. Cover and simmer for r10 minutes. Add fish, salt, tomato nad wine. Simmer, covered, for six minutes. Ladle over rice and rim with parsley.
When you are all done skimming and filleting your sunfish, plant the carcasses deep in your tomato patch or rose bed. They make excellent fertilizer.
Fish Loaf
After you fillet your fish, dont throw away the bones. There is still meat attached to them, and you can make a tasty dish with the leftovers. Begin by either baking the backbone scrapings in a 350 degree Fahrenheit oven or steaming them over boiling water until they are cooked. While the fish is cooking, gather the following ingredients:
1 cup toasted break cubes
1 small onion, diced
2 stalks celery, diced
1 tsp. salt
1 egg, beaten
cup tomato sauce
cup grated cheddar cheese
Paprika
1 cups cooked, flaked fish (from the scrapings)
Mix all ingredients except paprika and one-quarter cup of the grated cheese in a large bowl. Work in the flaked fish until a uniform texture is attained. Spoon the mixture into a 9X5-inch bread pan and shape it into a loaf. Spread the remaining grated cheese over the loaf and sprinkle paprika on top. Bake the loaf at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for one hour. Let it cool five to 10 minutes before cutting.
Add chili peppers or hot pepper sauce as desired.
Baked Ciscoes
10 ciscoes, filleted
1 tbsps. Lemon juice
2 cups heavy cream
1 cup light cream
1 tsps. Flour
1 tbsp. butter
Salt and pepper
Buttered toast
Quarter the fiillets. Place fish pieces in a buttered flat baking dish. Sprinkle with the lemon juice. Heat butter and flour in saucepan. Add the two cups heavy cream and the cup of light cream slowly. Bring to boiling point, stirring constantly. Pour sauce over fish and sp rinkle with salt and pepper. Bake at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for about one hour. Serve fish and sauce on (or with) buttered toast.
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Kool Kid Loving Sandwich Art
Mark Northeast is a UK-based food artist who creates sandwiches in the forms of unique images, such as caterpillars and cartoon characters, to encourage kids to eat a varied diet. He hopes to soon come out with a photobook of his work.
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Ten Creative and High-Tech Cups and Mugs Concepts
Emotional attachment with worldly goods in not healthy! Look at me; I’m a wreck coz I broke my favorite coffee mug. Curse the moment when it slipped outta my fingers and crashed into pieces. I know I can easily get a replacement, but a fav mug is a favorite mug! Ok, enuf of ranting now, I’m in the market for something new and exciting, so join me in a journey that brings out Ten Creative and Evolved Cups/Mugs, coz apparently some of em now host speakers and a comp!
10) Tea Bag Coffin by Jonas Trampedach
Writer Chris has an interesting anecdote to his tea–dinking ventures, sadly I have none coz I don’t drink tea. But I greatly appreciate this design for offering a clever solution for placing a wet dripping tea bag.
9) Link Mugs by Jonathan Aspinall
Announcing a trip to the café at work usually results in requests for “me-too wants another cup of coffee”. Link 6 together and carry them without a spill. No trays required!
8 ) Drip With Song Concept by Jongmin Kim
Say “design me a cup” to an Asian designer and you can expect the most unusual outcome. You’ll understand more when you scroll down a bit. Take this CD player cup for instance…It’s a cup alrite, but you can play a CD from it.
7) Folding Cup by Jaehyung Hong
Picky about your cup? Over-possessive maybe? Alrite patent it with unique markings of letters, numbers or symbols, this ways you’ll always know which cup is yours. Always!
6) Balance — Cup for Everybody by Pamela Lindgren
Dotted with Braille markings on its side, so that you can get a better grip. Alas! Better Grip in the first place would have ensured that my coffee mug never slipped! No place for butter fingers. Boo Hoo!
5) Message Of Love Cup by Sunman Kwon
For the love of your brew, or simply coz you adore quirky styles; this one’s ideal for hinting sweet nothings. And as Anthony puts it, a slow strip tease of affection!
4) The Cup by Hyuh-Jin Lee & Hyeroung Choen
Like I said earlier, technology has hit cup design as well. Get you daily dose of info via “The Cup”. My cup runneth over with pics from YD!
3) The Yuno PC Cup by Jason Farsai
If your your caffeine and net addiction had sex then their love child would be this coffee mug! It shows important morning alerts such as weather, time, traffic, stocks etc. on the outside display, while holding your beverage inside!
2) Ceramix For Mix by Florian Dussopt, Jérémie Reneau & Julie Girard
How can I forget the stiff-upper-lip variety? After all Tea-drinking is ceremonial in many places and to add a dash of high-end glam to the event, you will need something as complex yet stunning as the Ceramix For Mix!
1) iPod Ghetto Accessory by Dmitry Zagga
Four single-serving paper cups, two tooth picks (for holding cups together) + iPod with classic earbuds. The increase in volume, of course, is ridiculous, but hey, you get stylish iPod accessory out of nothing!
I rest my case!
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Creepiest. Coffee Commercial. Ever.
Every satisfactory “ahhh” in this commercial is the creepiest/most awesome thing I’ve ever seen or heard on the internet. It’s that easy!
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Cheap Booze — 8 Ways to Get Tipsy on a Budget
We’ve already offered tips on how to survive your inevitable layoff, but what’s the best way to keep yourself happy and boozy when that income dries up? We did some intoxicatingly in-depth research on the subject, as well as getting first-hand advice from free-drinks guru Seva Granik of Myopenbar.com and economical bartendress Jessica Chrustic of Brooklyn’s Public Assembly.
8. B.I.Y. (Brew It Yourself)
OK, so distilling your own vodka at home sounds about as tempting (and safe) as cooking up crystal meth in a Motel 6. Making beer in the living room is a simpler proposition, even if the equipment can be clunky.
7. Follow the Tax
Beer drinkers should flock to Missouri and Wyoming, where the tax on their drink of choice is a piddling 6 cents a gallon. Vodka and spirit drinkers will want to stick to Maryland, where the tax is only $1.50 a gallon. Cheap boozers need to beware Alaska: the land of moose, oil, and Sarah Palin loves their liquor taxes. $1.07 per gallon of beer and $12.80 per gallon of spirits? That’s cold, Alaska, cold.
6. The Power of 40s
Our younger siblings once regaled us of a college drinking game making the rounds. Dubbed “Edward Fortyhands,” it involves duct-taping a 40-ounce beer to each hand; the player can’t remove them until they’re drained. This seems like one of the most efficient ways to get completely tanked for the cost of two Colt 45s (around $4.)
If you really want some bang for your buck, throw ‘em in the freezer first — all that alcohol will settle in the top of the bottle, and it’ll hit you like a delicious brick to the head. (EDITOR’S NOTE: We are not responsible for any lifelong regrets or communicable diseases that result from performing these activities.)
5. Why Didn’t You Flask?
Just because you’re drinking lukewarm rotgut on the sly doesn’t mean you have to look like a hobo while doing it. Invest in a classy number from the highbrow Brits at Aspinal of London. Then head to your favorite watering hole and order cheap (or free) sodas and tonics all night long. A little top off from the flask in a shadowy corner, and you’re on your way to budget drunk heaven!
Just don’t be obvious, as bartender Jessica Chrustic concurs: “I don’t kill people who flask it. I don’t want to be a hypocrite — I know times get can get rough. If they aren’t douches, I tell them I didn’t see anything but warn them if I do again, they’re out. I figure it embarrasses them and sends a clear message.”
If you’re feeling technical, you can always adapt a sports product (like the Camelbak) for some athletic drinking. A source tell us: “In a college town it’s pretty normal to see backpacks at the bar; in Iowa City I knew someone who had a backpack specifically designated for the bladder of a box of Franzia.” Classy!
4. Cheap Doesn’t Mean Vulgar
Our friends over at AOL Foods rounded up seven bottles of wine clocking in at under $5.99. (Wash that down with this fascinating look at the “Two-Buck Chuck” movement.) For low-cost beer, most bars stock cheap-ass cans of the hipster-approved swill Pabst Blue Ribbon, and it’s not as bad as you think. “A beer-and-a-shot combo always wins, and most bars will have something of the sort on special,” notes Myopenbar’s Granik — though it’s those “bargains” that often end up in a 24-hour hangover.
Certain low-cost spirits are to be avoided. There’s a reason single malts are so expensive. Whiskey is a refined drink — just ask Ron White — and the craptastic versions are an insult to that tradition. We’ve already warned you of the perils of discount ‘mixto’ tequila. Chrustic cautions against Midori in any of its incarnations (“After my first open bar with Midori, I will forever be scarred”) as well as anything cheap and sweet (“It has lots of sugar, you look like a pansy and will pay for it the next day.”).
Stick to the bottom-barrel vodkas instead. A brand like Svedka manages to be both affordable and award-winning, but drop down to Nikolai or Laird’s if you’re really skint. If your stomach ends up unable to handle the budget vodka, don’t throw it away — you can clean your razors or kill bees with it.
3. Become a Media Whore
Writers, journalists and other media types have an inside track to free boozing. Why not splurge on some fancy business cards making yourself the Editor in Chief of an imaginary magazine with a name like LuxLife or Rich Bitch Quarterly? Get in the loop with publicists, and before you know it you’ll be invited to the inner sanctum of free martinis and fancy hors d’oeuvres. (For a hint as to what this rarified world looks like — or looked like, before the economic crash — read Toby Young’s “How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.”)
2. Stay At Home
Everyone knows that the liquor mark-up at bars is substantial, but we try not to think about it too hard, lest we end up weeping into our watered-down drinks. But let’s ponder the actual math for a moment. A source in the wholesale distribution business broke it down for us: A domestic keg costs a bar about $50 — that generates around 120 pints. Priced at an economical $4 per pint, that still brings in a whopping $430 of pure profit. A bar might pay roughly $12 for a bottle of Smirnoff’s, which would be good for around 17 mixed drinks. If those mixed drinks are priced at $5 — a helluva bargain –that’s still $73 profit. Lesson learned? Drink for cheap in your living room … and use all the money you save to open your own damned bar.
1. Detox Your Bank Account
No matter how many corners you cut, the drinking life is still going to drain your finances — so why not rebrand yourself as a teetotaler? Sober doesn’t have to equal boring. We’ve heard that quit-everything guru Alan Carr’s books have an almost mesmerizing potential. With all the money you’ll save over the course of a year you might just be able to afford to start drinking again … at least until you need to repeat the cycle.
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whiten your teeth the natural way
The secret to this inexpensive home whitening method is malic acid, which acts as an astringent to remove surface discoloration. Combined with baking soda, strawberries become a natural tooth-cleanser, buffing away stains from coffee, red wine, and dark sodas. While it’s no replacement for a bleaching treatment at your dentist’s office, “this is a fast, cheap way to brighten your smile,” says Adina Carrel, DMD, a dentist in private practice at Manhattan Dental Arts in New York. “Be careful not to use this too often, though, as the acid could damage the enamel on your teeth.”
You need:
1 ripe strawberry
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Directions: Crush the strawberry to a pulp, then mix with the baking soda until blended. Use a soft toothbrush to spread the mixture onto your teeth. Leave on for 5 minutes, then brush thoroughly with toothpaste to remove the berry–baking soda mix. Rinse. (A little floss will help get rid of any strawberry seeds.) Carrel says you can apply once a week.
By Karina Timmel
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homemade chocolate syrup
I love it when I can easily make something at home and it turns out to be just as good or better than the more expensive store-bought kind. I’ve been wanting to try some homemade chocolate syrup.
The basic recipe is very simple, but there are a few variations of it, so the other day I decided to experiment with them and have a chocolate syrup taste test. Not a shabby way to spend the afternoon!
The one I liked the best was from Amy Dacyczyn’s The Complete Tightwad Gazette.
½ cup cocoa powder
1 cup water
2 cups sugar
⅛ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon vanilla
Mix the cocoa and the water in a saucepan. Heat and stir to dissolve the cocoa. Add the sugar, and stir to dissolve. Boil for 3 minutes over medium heat. Add the salt and the vanilla. Let cool. Pour into a sterile glass jar, and store in the refrigerator. Keeps for several months. Yields two cups.
The result is very rich, so I only use a teaspoon for a glass of chocolate milk.
I poured the chocolate into a flip-top glass bottle and added a label. These would make cute hostess gifts or party favors!
I’ve been gradually learning how to replace some of the foods we used to buy. My next cooking project is to figure out how to make gluten-free fish sticks. I’m thinking of fish coated with cereal crumbs? They need to look like they came out of a frozen-foods box, but not be so expensive that I fall over. Any suggestions?
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red bull ingredients
Part of a promotional campaign for Red Bull, this package contains all 17 of the natural ingredients in Red Bull.
Pretty classy move from the world’s most insufferably low-brow drink.
Ed Cotton points us to a beautiful package design for a Red Bull Cola promotional piece. Using a sturdy wood box, and real samples of the 17 natural ingredients of the cola, Design Friendship created a striking presentation of the unseen raw material that goes into the drink. And in our increasingly virtualized-digitized world. the display is a great testament to the commanding presence of physical objects.
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