"The Scratch" Free E-Book

Here is a quote from one of my readers,
This is a great little book! Thanks! It is amazing how many people don't know how to make homemade pasta or homemade bread. It doesn't take much time and it saves a bundle. I recently bought a book from Amazon on how to make Artisan bread. It really only takes about 2-1/2 hours from start to finish and hardly any kneading and the bread is amazing. I bought an electric pasta maker at a secondhand store and you are right ...nothing beats the taste of homemade pasta and it costs pennies.

Keep up the great work!

The Scratch is our newest book about feeding a family on a budget. we have made this free book available to help familes like ours get started with three simple dinner meals. These three meals will help you save big dollars when you are ready to start budgeting.

If you would like a copy all you have to do is email me. I understand privacy is a concern for everybody and I promise that I will not share your email with anyone. Everything we do is done manually. I will check my email  a couple times a day and send you a pdf file.

The Book is free and you can share it with anybody you like as long as you do not try to sell it.

Simply put "The Scratch" in your subject line and sent to: rickjhenderson@hotmail.com

How To Make Pancakes Healthier - 8 Tips

We all love big tall stacks of fluffy white pancakes with crispy golden edges.
Not everyone can eat this kind of pancakes.
Here are a couple easy tips to make your next batch healthier while still keeping the flavor and texture.

1) Make them yourself instead of purchasing pancake mix.
2) Use olive oil instead of vegetable oil in your batter.
3) Use butter flavored non-stick spray instead of oil on your griddle.
4) Whole wheat flour instead of enriched, bleached white flour.
5) Add Wheat germ 1/4cup to a batch of batter.
6) Include Quick Oats to your batter, this should be added to wet ingredients.
7) Make your own syrup by boiling fruit (apples, bananas, pears, vanilla) in water then add sugar to sweeten.
8) Use artificial sweetner to make syrup.

Aging A Steak - Make It Taste Like It Was Expensive

You can get your free copy of my mini book "The Scratch" It is three great  meals you can make your family.
Simply send me an email and I will reply back with a PDF. I am doing this manually and I promise not to share your email adddress.
rickjhenderson@hotmail.com

We all enjoy going out to a steak house for a really good steak. The age the steak to give it a nice meaty flavor and cook it just the way you like it every time. The problem is if you are on a budget like we are, yo can not afford to eat at steak houses.
Rather than do without our family will eat at"Chez Henderson's" Steak House. Really it is fancy for eating good steak at home for a fraction of the cost.

Beside meat you do not need all of items to age a steak other than time. Wire rack, plate, paper towel are all you need.

We purchase some low costing sirloin for this one on Monday, wrapped each piece in paper towel, placed on the wire rack stuck it in the fridge for 24 hours.

After 24 hours we removed the paper towel and wrapped with new paper towel and place back in the fridge. If your meat continues to dampen the paper towel you must keep changing it.

Friday we had the day off work and headed down to the BBQ for a nice steak lunch. Asparagus was on sale and the baked potato rounded out the whole meal.