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What is your best accomplishment for 2017? What’s the most fun trip you took? The best food you ate? Most interesting restaurant you went to? Now, name a goal you intend to make in 2018.  In Texas we have less than one hour to 2018, so here’s my last blog post for 2017 – and it includes the beginning of my new Food & Travel section of Kitchen Southern Hospitality. It’s a monthly series beginning with auto road trips, big rig road trips, RV road trips, and Route 66 road trips on Interstate 40 – trips I took in 2017. In this new Food &Read More →

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What would you do with an extra $10, $20, or more weekly?   If your pockets aren’t jingling as much by the end of every month, think about cutting back on your weekly grocery bill. Think you can’t feed your family for less than $100 per week? I challenge you to cut that in half. In fact, you can do even better. Try at least for one month spending only $25 weekly for groceries. Seriously, it can be done. You just need to become resourceful. What Do You Mean “Resourceful”? A little can go a long way if you use your resources. In other words, useRead More →

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How About a Chili Relleno? Make a chili relleno when you grill hamburgers the next time. I did, and my hubby LOVED it! The last time my husband and I had a grilling night, we used our last of the ten-pound log of 95% lean hamburger from the freezer. That beef log saved me from meat shopping for a month. Less than $40, the hamburger provided for meals of hamburgers, meatballs, mini meatloaves, and chili – for up to a month. Grilling those last hamburger patties from the beef log made the perfect meal with roasted chili relleno. I love to eat chili relleno but hadRead More →

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“What?” you ask. “That’s $25 per week for one person, right?” Frugal grocery shopping can help no matter if buying for one or five in a household. One person can take on the challenge of spending no more than $25 per week, but no, there are two of us in my house. The food blogger who challenged me to do the $25 per week grocery haul, Patty Cake from pattycakespantry.com, has a household of five – and she managed to keep her groceries under $25 every week for the most part. My Experience with $25-Per- Week Grocery Shopping I can tell you that after fiveRead More →

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Think you can budget your groceries at $25 weekly for a family of two? It’s manageable but challenging. When I began a $25-per-week food budget with food blogger Patty Cake in July, I didn’t believe it was possible. Now, I know that this food budget can work for my household of two people – just not every week.Read More →

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Southern hospitality… comes in different ways like serving your company a hearty meal and a big glass of iced tea, making chicken soup to take to a friend who is under the weather, or baking a cake or cookies to give to a neighbor. This week, however, southern hospitality is taking on another meaning. It’s helping Southeast Texans who are devastated by Hurricane Harvey and have lost their homes, cars, food, or everything they own. It’s the kind of hospitality that means bringing a boat to rescue people. I grew up in the Gulf Coast city of Port Arthur, Texas and have lived in Houston, Texas andRead More →

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How do you make it for a week of spending only $25 for groceries? It’s not easy, but it can be done. In this post, I’ll be showing you how I did on the third week of a grocery budget challenge. Results of the Third Week’s Grocery Budget The first two weeks were manageable. Actually, the first week was exciting. I was very curious if it was possible for me to spend no more than $25. That week was a success. The second week was a little more difficult – at least I thought it was until I bought groceries this third week. Tallying upRead More →

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A Pressure Cooker Meatloaf Chili Recipe Are you a recipe reader who likes to first read the story about the recipe? Or do you prefer to get the recipe right up front and forget the food culture part of it? For the get-the-recipe-first reader, I’m treating you this evening with my meatball chili recipe first! But before you read it, do take time to see the video I made today after cooking the chili. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mHe59CBUSA Here you go: Easy meatball chili recipe in the pressure cooker How many recipes can you create with ten pounds of ground beef? Grilled hamburger patties, spaghetti and meatballs, meatloaf…thatRead More →