August 31, 2010 by KerryAnn Foster.

This cobbler has proven to be popular among Menu Mailer users, as it is egg free. I originally used it as a Menu Mailer dessert recipe, but I occasionally use it for breakfast when we have an over-abundance of fruit.  The topping becomes completely firm while baking, even though it’s liquid when you add it.

Fruit Cobbler

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August 5, 2010 by KerryAnn Foster.

This is a big hit here, and is my go-to recipe for a filling snack without a lot of carbs.  This recipe is from my Menu Mailer. These need to stay refrigerated or frozen, but they do great on the go or in a lunch box with an ice pack or in winter.   Kids like the mini cups best as they don’t melt before they can eat it all. I did both mini and regular sized cups and kept the layers fairly thin. A regular muffin cup-size makes a great size for an adult’s afternoon snack. These are only slightly sweet, if your family likes sweet things you’ll need to increase the honey or stevia or combine the two.

Nut Butter Cups

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March 11, 2010 by KerryAnn Foster.

I am often appalled at the price of hot cereals, especially gluten-free hot cereals.  If you have a blender or a grain mill, you can make them for a fraction of the cost of the commercially produced products and they will be fresher.  Rice farina is the perfect example of this.  Bob’s Red Mill sells it for $17.72 for 7 pounds, which comes out to $2.53 a pound.  You can get whole rice for the normal price of 40 cents a pound around here, probably less if you go to an ethnic market, and then do about 3 minute’s worth of work yourself to save the $2.13 difference.  I have also done this with sorghum and had excellent results.

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March 7, 2010 by KerryAnn Foster.

I normally try to have enough leftovers from dinner to have lunch the next day, but sometimes that doesn’t work out.  So on those days where I have to cook lunch, I normally turn to vegetarian meals with plenty of veggies.  I like this one because it’s very quick to throw together.  Since we normally eat meat at every dinner and we use a lot of stock, I don’t worry about an occasionally meatless lunch.

Lentil Dahl-  from the Menu Mailer Volume 2 Week 7

Total cost for the meal $2.49, 63 cents per serving, not including the rice or $2.90 for the meal, 73 cents per serving including the rice. Read the rest of this entry »

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February 10, 2010 by KerryAnn Foster.

Finally, a post about food!

We’re having nasty weather yet again.  The sky is spitting snow, there’s a blizzard advisory and we’re on the border of it but I’m really hoping we won’t get anything.  They keep on telling us yet more snow is coming and making the forecast for the coming days worse then change it all the next hour.  Thanks to having taken multiple classes on weather, I understand the constant flip-flops but I really wish they wouldn’t do it.  I wish someone had strangled that groundhog, cause I’m sick of snow!  God is laughing at me because I wanted to move to Asheville in part because it rarely got snow. Supposedly.

Today was proving to be a busy day thanks to doing taxes and writing the mailer.  I am behind on menu planning for this coming week and I do my shopping at the end of the week, so I drug out the crock-pot and threw this together from what I had on hand with the big London broil in my fridge, in between conversations about how I understand what the cat is saying when he meows and the proper way to write a “W.”  I often have clients complain when I don’t give exact measurements, but the fact is that I most often measure many things in the palm of my hand or not at all. The only thing I typically measure is when I bake so I don’t turn out little brick loaves.  Otherwise I go on intuition and proportion since I usually cook in a hurry and have at least one of two short folk giving me a stream of consciousness in monologue or diatribe form while I work statuesque with the old-man cat wrapped around my feet.  Thanks to the motorized, heat-seeking Croc accessory, I rarely move while cooking once I plant my feet well enough for him to adhere to me.  I’m really good at leaning and reaching.

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