Archived Posts from Vegetables

My dad and I were discussing how this little product is actually quite expensive. The vacuum itself isn’t really that expensive, I paid $7.00 for mine. They have been running $2.00 coupons in the paper and our local grocery store had the product on sale for $9.00. The problem isn’t the vacuum but the cost of the bags. I bought a box of gallon bags, 9 bags to be exact. This cost me an additional $3.29 or roughly $.37 per bag. Ouch! You better have some really great things to freeze.

I was attracted to the idea because I freeze a lot of the vegetables out of our garden. Unfortunately, I might as well just buy the vegetables from the grocery for that price. Well, I did have another idea. (Read the rest of this entry »)

Cooking, Family, Opinions, Tips

We have been trying to eat a little better lately. To that end we have tried quite a few new recipes. Some of them have been quite nice and others not so much. Deb tends to be much more excited about a few well cooked veggies then meat any day of the week. I bought a book last year, The Culinary Institute of America, Vegetables. To date we haven’t had anything out of the cook book that we didn’t like. One of our favorites was their version of Vegetable Burgers. Unfortunately, as is my thing, I have changed it a little here and there. It is very close to the original recipe but I think my version is a little “meatier”. Enough with this, here it is. Enjoy.

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Cooking, Family