Category Archives: How-To

Poor Girl Gourmet Pointers: The Frugal Lunch

Poor Girl Gourmet Pointers: The Frugal Lunch

There’s an odd thing going on in my world lately, and it’s called “working off-site”. As it happens, working off-site means getting back to packing a lunch each day, a practice I had always undertaken when I worked off-site in the past. Even, in fact, when I was consistently getting paid. So it wasn’t anContinue Reading

Poor Girl Gourmet Pointers: Peeling Sugar Pumpkin

Poor Girl Gourmet Pointers: Peeling Sugar Pumpkin

Seeing as I – as well as many other food bloggers – are pumpkin-obsessed at this time of year, I thought that on this All Hallows’ Eve, I’d share some helpful hints for peeling sugar pumpkin. It’s particularly helpful as we exit the Jack o’ Lantern – and therefore, decorative – phase of our autumn,Continue Reading

Poor Girl Gourmet Pointers: A concise feature, for a change

Poor Girl Gourmet Pointers: A concise feature, for a change

A writer friend of mine has been suggesting that I set up an “Ask Amy” section of the blog, an idea that I like, but that I feel should be its own separate space here, and as my dance card only just cleared out yesterday (I delivered the copy edited PGG cookbook manuscript back toContinue Reading

Rose hip jelly

Rose hip jelly

Lately, I’ve been scavenging for food. Or so it seems. In an effort to keep our food bill down, I’m being sure to use up everything I can collect or, um, harvest I believe is the more appropriate term, in the garden, and, it is that time of year again when my farmer neighbors’ honor-systemContinue Reading

Luck be a Lentil

Luck be a Lentil

I know that when “they” say “luck be a lady”, “they” mean for luck to be kind, genteel, and/or ladylike, but for the sake of a lovely alliteration (gotcha!) for today’s title, please grant me this folly of luck being a lentil. In Italian tradition, lentils are eaten at the New Year to help fosterContinue Reading