At the Cottage by the Mountains, snow isn’t unusual. It’s a pretty constant companion through January and February. Snow is common off and on from Halloween to Mother’s Day. But snow this deep is pretty rare. (A shot of the path to the chicken coop.) All this snow makes the Damsel crave a cup of [...]
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The Damsel has long sung the sweet song of vinegar as a frugal cleaner. But what if you hate the smell? What if it makes you feel more like this: than like this: [...]
homemade snow cone syrup
Posted in thrifty on Jun 2nd, 2012
It’s really heating up here at the Cottage By The Mountains. Would you rather be too cold or too hot? The Damsel ponders these little mysteries of life at odd moments. If you’re too cold, you can always put on a sweater, right? Or two? [...]
The Damsel has been playing with more kitchen castoffs. This was a stump from a head of romaine. The Damsel just stuck the stump in a dish of water and waited. This is about two weeks old. To be clear, you’ll put the weird, flat, brownish side down, the [...]
The Damsel was so taken with the easiness of regrowing green onions that she reached out to the universe and found out there are other things you can do with produce trimmings besides compost them. (Click here for green onion instructions) You can regrow celery. Amazing. Imagine here a photo of the bottom of a [...]
Class: Please welcome substitute teacher Katheryn Rivas. D.I.Y. Whole Wheat Pancake Mix: An Old-Fashioned Classic for Modern Times One of the warmest memories from childhood is waking up to the smell of pancakes before a long day of school. But gone are the days when moms have the time to make pancakes from scratch on [...]
Green onions! Mmmm! The Damsel loves them. They have that great onion flavor, but somehow fresher tasting, and usually not harsh or bitter. They cook fast. They’re cute. What’s not to love? Well, they don’t store as well as grown-up onions. But what if you could grow your own, easily, quickly, and–free? The Damsel currently [...]
DIY–free, easy, clever
Posted in thrifty, Uncategorized on Aug 4th, 2011
Today’s Old School lesson is a hands-on project: how to install a pour spout on a canning jar–great for dry cooking ingredients like sugar. This is the sort of DIY project Grandma could have really gotten into. It’s free It uses up things that would otherwise be thrown away It’s useful It’s easy and only [...]
The Damsel recently posted a lesson on growing your own sprouts, and would like to offer this additional safety information from the nice people at Mountain Valley Seeds. In light of the recent E. coli outbreak in Germany, we thought we would take this opportunity to remind you of the basics of sprouting. Sprouts [...]
From the archives: What do you do when your jeans have worn through the knees, and summer is right around the corner? Make cut-offs. It’s so easy! The first step is to lay the jeans out so the legs are very flat, next to each other so you can eyeball where to cut. If you’re [...]
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