My grandmother who lived through the Depression taught me to keep every morsel of food and turn it into something. You know, nothing goes to waste. So at Thanksgiving, I keep the turkey carcass to turn it into soup. While we’re putting away all the food after the Thanksgiving dinner, we pick as much meat [...]
If you don’t mind knowing where your meat comes from, we have some interesting videos from our friends at Penn State University: Did you know Pennsylvania is one of the top turkey producing states? The trend today is toward antibiotic free and organic birds and they’re white. Yes, we know most turkeys are brown in [...]
I always said my husband Ronnie has just three passions: baseball, beagles and dahlias. No, this isn’t the marriage counseling column. He really does care about other things, like me for example. But dahlias are a huge focus for him. When we went to the mountains of North Carolina in September, he wasn’t impressed with [...]
It’s no secret that my husband and I don’t always agree on everything. But we do agree on saving money. We just don’t always agree on the best methods. The latest: How to dry laundry in the clothes dryer. We both agree that hanging out clothes on a nice day is the best, but [...]
