Archive for March, 2011

Google’s New Recipe Search

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Google loves to change things up!

They’ve a new feature that has to do with recipes. If you type something into the search bar that looks like a recipe, then the ‘recipe’ search becomes active on the left side bar.

Sounds great.

BUT,

If you were to do a search for say my Olive Garden Style Gnocchi Soup recipe on Google, I come up 2nd. Whoo hoo! BUT, perform that same search on the ‘recipe’ section and I’m nowhere to be found.

The google results are geared more towards the big recipe sites and not individual bloggers like me.

It seems the big recipe sites use code that Google reads. Thank God that I have a great webguy to help me with that for future recipes.

Tags: code, google, google recipes, recipe search, snippets
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Happy Purse

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

I’ve been bad.

OK, maybe ‘bad’ isn’t the right word.

I’ve been tired! There! Tired that’s it. I seriously thought that I’d have more time to do EVERYTHING on my list after the holidays but that didn’t happen.

My life just keeps getting busier and busier.

I actually cooked a meal from a box yesterday. The day before Chili-man cooked ‘breakfast’ for dinner. The night before, it was frozen lasagna.

What’s become of the real cook in the house?

Well, it’s time to prioritize. Time to delegate laundry, and dishes, and get back to the basics.

Time to load up those grocery store coupons, and make an actual list from a planned menu and stick to it. Time to make a true habit of looking for bargains in every aspect of shopping.

Clip those coupons from the Sunday paper, and look online for not just grocery coupons but online coupons for all the time saving online shopping that I do.

I have a place or two that are routine for me to look for online discounts and I have a new place too. I look for deals at Savings.com too!

Saving money always puts a smile on my face and makes my purse sing! Whether it’s a free shipping discount code, or an upgrade of shipping, or even a percent off coupon, all those add up to big savings!

In short, don’t buy anything without looking for a coupon! It’ll make your purse happy too!

smiley-purse

Tags: coupon savings
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Navy Bean Soup with Cabbage

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

with cabbage? I like to try different recipes for beans and saw this one for that included cabbage. Cabbage is cheap in March, so I went for it.

1 lb soaked navy beans
1 hot pepper
1 carrot sliced/diced
salt/pepper
4 c water
ham pieces
1 onion sliced
2 garlic cloves minced
1 bell pepper diced
2 cups shredded cabbage

Drain beans and place in a crockpot with all the other ingredients except the bell pepper and the cabbage. Cook on low for 7 hours. Turn to high and add the bell pepper and cabbage. Cook 2 hours more or until vegetables are tender.

beans with cabbage

This was good, but….

next time I’ll leave out the cabbage. Guess I’m just not a cabbage girl.

Tags: cabbage navy bean soup
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