For grilling, I usually throw the chicken in a gallon size zipper bag with my marinade of choice the night before cooking. When smoking a chicken, I use a variety of spice blends. For this chicken I used sea salt, coarse black pepper, dill, and garlic.

This handy kitchen tip shares a surefire way to save fruits and vegetables that are going bad.

How to Keep Lettuce Longer
Food storage questions are common, especially since certain foods are difficult to keep fresh.  We frequently receive similar questions and concerns from homemakers about the same subject: how do you keep lettuce fresh?, how to keep lettuce longer, how to keep lettuce from turning brown, and how to keep your green [...]

Kitchen Tip: Make Ready-to-Use Frozen Pie Fillings From Scratch
Today’s kitchen tip will show you how to make fruit pie fillings from scratch that are frozen, space-saving, and ready to be used as needed.
If you’ve ever found a really good sale in the produce section, you know how tempting it can be to stock up.  Apples, [...]

Many times, the only choices for bananas at your grocery store are bright green, hard bananas that were clearly not ripe yet when they were picked.  There is an easy way to fix this! We’ll teach you how to ripen green bananas that takes minimal effort and you don’t have to spend any money on [...]

With all the ready-made tubes of colored decorating icing and gel available in the grocery store’s birthday cakes section, you’d think it would be fast and easy to decorate a birthday cake yourself.  But what happens if you can’t draw?
It may be a great intention to make a frugal birthday or baby shower cake [...]

Kitchen Tip: Remove Fat From Roasts, Stews and Other Crockpot Meals
We frugal chefs love a good pot roast, and for more reasons than just the low price.  It’s true that roast meat is cheap and easy on the grocery budget, but crockpot cooking is also hassle-free, time saving, and almost no work!  The first time [...]

Keep Rolls Warm with a Basket Liner and Lid
Serving hot biscuits or rolls at your holiday dinner?  Wish they stayed warm longer? Here’s a tip that will help!
Presenting homemade rolls or bread in a festive basket with a cloth napkin is a nice way to make them look appealing and evoke cozy Christmas meal memories.  [...]

Use Popcorn to Save on Shipping and Save the Planet

The holidays are fast approaching and many of us will be packing up boxes of presents to mail out to loved ones.  Shipping materials can be expensive to purchase and usually are made of plastics that aren’t the friendliest on the environment.  There are many fillers [...]

Valuable energy (and dollars spent on utilities) can be wasted by using your oven improperly.  Even energy efficient models of appliances are designed to be efficient only when used correctly.
Kitchen Tip:  Use Your Oven’s Peep Hole!
Exterior doors on homes and apartments have peep holes for a very good reason – so you can see what’s [...]