Same Road, Different Destination
There’s a lot of writing yet to be done by the Minimalist Cook, and more ebooks, but I’m moving the operation over to the Mothership, The Minimalist Woman. The mailing list will be maintained, and all the posts will be archived. This is to simplify my writing life and also to reflect reality, where food [...]
Quick and Easy Wheat-Free and Sugar-Free Breakfast Oat Cakes
Lots of us are trying to moderate our carbohydrate intake, particularly flour and sugar. Oatmeal/porridge is highly recommended for breakfast, but my problem is eating it without adding loads of sweetener, usually brown sugar. I’ve seen baked oatmeal recipes which looked intriguing, but those, too usually have sugar as well as flour and fat. Here’s [...]
Living With an Uncluttered Kitchen
It’s been a few months since my major kitchen uncluttering project, and I thought I’d take the opportunity to reflect on how well it’s worked out. The clean simple countertop in the photo above looked like this more often than not before the cleanout. It did not take long to learn the new habits of cleaning [...]
Getting to the Bottom of Leftover Condiments
Just about every refrigerator has them: narrow-necked bottles of ketchup, mustard, mayo, etc. with too much left in them to justify throwing away, but next to impossible to shake out. I’ve tried storing them upside down so that gravity will do some of the work, but oftentimes that just leads to more messes like leaky [...]
A Simple One-Day Thanksgiving Dinner Cooking Timeline
Let me begin by saying Minimalism and the traditional Thanksgiving dinner are mutually exclusive. It’s probably the American cook’s single most stressful meal of the year. The menu is loaded with traditional dishes made by generations that have gone before us, and adding to the fun it always comes on a Thursday, smack dab in [...]
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