Here's your nondairy Sunday Scratchups for the week! While I was putting together a Caprese Salad for MashupDad and myself with some sale mozzarella and tomatoes this week, I kept thinking, well, how can I make a dairy free version of this for Junior High Guy to enjoy? Looking for regular mozzarella based Caprese Salad? …
Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe source around store sales and/or garden abundance. I don't know about your garden, but with all this rainy weather, mine is currently going nuts producing both basil and spinach. This easy and flavor-packed recipe makes liberal use of both, and substitutes cashews for pricy pine nuts. (I …
The other day I scratched up some Cashew Spinach Basil Pesto using fresh basil and spinach from the garden. As your double bonus Sunday Scratchup recipe today, let me present the Dairy Free Cashew Spinach Basil Pesto variation for those of you with dairy allergies. This dairy free pesto substitutes Kalamata olives for the Parmesan …
I've gradually been trying to get better about label reading and the food I'm buying. Last month, for instance, I clipped Musselman's applesauce coupons with the intention of stocking up during a sale at Pete's Market. Every kind they carried listed HFCS as the second ingredient. (And if that wasn't enough corn syrupy goodness for …
I'm a serious latecomer to the fried pickles craze and only tried them about a month ago: New Year's Eve 2013 at Sweet Baby Ray's (one way to see out the year with a bang, right?!). Alas, I wasn't overly impressed, because theirs were too sweet for my tastes. Double alas, Dairy Free Junior High …
Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. Today we're making roasted chile-lime chicken & potatoes, which is so very spicy and very good! I usually make this recipe with whole chicken but since chicken leg quarters were on sale this week I went ahead and substituted parts, …