You Cook Some, You Eat Some. This is my view this week. Thanks to a generous grant and the support and encouragement of those who love me, I am spending a week at the Collegeville Institute learning, writing and living amongst some amazing women who also write. In those weeks, Thursday becomes celebration time, and I often want to plan a special dinner for the .

Cook Something! A blog dedicated to Elise Bauer and her Simply Recipes blog. This blog tracks my adventures in cooking. Sunday, September 17, 2006. We were sitting around watching the Crisco Pie Bake Off on the Food Network and the rest is history. We needed pie and we needed it badly. Don and I love coconut cream pie and I had an open package of coconut in the fridge just waiting for some toasting in the oven. I have a soft spot in my belly for coconut-bas.

Quick, easy inexpensive meals for hungry children and adults. Great crowdpleasing recipes and MORE! Tuesday, August 24, 2010. 3 sheets frozen Puff pastry. Salt and pepper to taste. 3 tablespoons parmesan, finely grated. Monday, July 26, 2010.

OK so times are tight and using every part of your food supply is important in saving money, time and not wasting what you have. Why not be creative in the kitchen and spend a bit of time using every part of what you have leftover from a meal. What I do is make soup! 1 leftover Chicken Carcass.

Saturday, April 30, 2011. 10 ounces of frozen Corn Kernels. 2 Tablespoons all purpose flour. Thursday, April 28, 2011. Want your water to boil faster? Well light a candle; the fumes .