How I feed my family with $100 a month - gardening, frugal living, recipes - with fun along the way!
Peas are one of those cool weather crops that both enrich your soil and thrive in weather that other plants, like tomatoes and squash just can’t. I’m not going to lie, watching them trail up a trellis and create the first wall of green in my garden always gives me the calmest feeling of self-satisfaction. Read More >>
It doesn’t really matter what I do or what recipe I throw them in or how I season them, I can never make peas an exciting dish. I mean they’re fine, but fine is all they really ever are. Until now. When I saw this pea recipe, the addition of lime and cilantro threw me Read More >>
Yesterday I was thinking about canning all those peas I picked. But after reading everyone’s recipe suggestions I quickly bailed on that crazy idea, and decided to take reader Elena’s advise and adapt her recipe for peas and prosciutto. I didn’t have any prosciutto on hand, but I did have some bacon. So with the Read More >>
