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Last week, we celebrated our 5 year engagement anniversary. For those critical readers out there – no, it’s not really a standard occasion to celebrate. Really, we just had a [...]
Holy Toledo! 58,000 visitors last year! Wanted to share our site stats with you from last year - better late than never! Thanks for reading -2ff Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 [...]
We, and especially Mary Katherine, have really enjoyed spaghetti squash recently. We’ve played with several fun applications of it – using it as a base [...]
Every year before we head home to see our families for Christmas, we always take time to make a nicer dinner just for us. We open a nice bottle of [...]
Wait. I thought this was a blog about cooking and carefully crafted food… Ramen is frugal, I guess, but it doesn’t seem like it belongs with some of the other [...]
Reblogged from Eatocracy: At 5:31 p.m. Eastern, exactly 79 years will have elapsed since the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, officially ending 13 years of Prohibition and re-legalizing [...]
In years past, we’ve posted about Thanksgiving a few days after, which just isn’t helpful. It’s a key problem with the blogging platform (and just life in general) – we [...]
We found a great recipe recently that really focuses on onions (with an interesting spice blend of tumeric and saffron) that we want to recommend. It’s another Saveur recipe (I [...]
Ok ok ok… I resisted for a long time (this is Gardner, by the way), but Twitter is really great. It’s an incredible social media platform that allows you to [...]
If we were looking for the best buzz words on the internet, we probably wouldn’t have chosen this recipe. When I first read this issue of Saveur about a year [...]
One of our new strategies for the ‘New & Improved’ (or just ‘New’) 2frugalfoodies will be trying to keep up with what we cook on a more regular basis. We [...]
posted by Gardner Hello out there! You may have noticed our brief sabbatical from blog writing over the past couple of months. Sure – life has been busy. We have [...]
posted by Mary Katherine We’ve been out of town a lot lately, but when we’re in town, it seems like we just sit around and say, “Gosh, we love our house!” We have had a blast making it our own. … Continue reading →
We celebrated Julia Child’s 100th Birthday in style. Our friends brought the first course and dessert, and we made the main course. We drank plenty of red wine (yes, it was from France), and listened to Charles Trenet radio on … Continue reading →
posted by Mary Katherine I’m sure most everyone knows this by now, but today would have been Julia Child’s 100th birthday. Tonight, to celebrate, we are hosting a dinner party with some close friends. All of the dishes that we’ll … Continue reading →
posted by Mary Katherine Gardner posted a month ago about Frugal June, which we implemented for a number of reasons. He didn’t tell you the MAIN reason we’re saving every penny we find these days, though. On July 2, 2012, … Continue reading →
For various reasons, we’ve officially declared this month to be Frugal June. While some of these reasons are, of course, financial, we have other motivations that are more fun. We realized recently that we’re cooking a lot less than we … Continue reading →
All last week, from Saturday to Saturday, we were on vacation to Elbow Cay, in the Abaco Islands (part of the Bahamas): For three of the days, we had a boat: And we stayed in a cottage at Firefly (yes, … Continue reading →
posted by Gardner Yesterday afternoon, I got home from work, took a long walk with Chance, and sat on the screened-in porch. With a good glass of bourbon in one hand and the Steve Jobs biography in the other, I … Continue reading →
Because if not, we need to. Admittedly, we’ve been fairly silent this month on 2frugalfoodies. We’ve been eating great food this month, but the problem is, we haven’t cooked most of it. The highlights of our restaurant-binge-spree have been trips … Continue reading →
Posted by Gardner We don’t have extensive pickling experience. It wasn’t part of childhood traditions to pickle fresh food at the end of the summer and then rely on it all winter. Though we have become acquainted with mason jars … Continue reading →
posted by Gardner When you think of Eric Ripert, chef of Le Bernardin in NYC, host of Avec Eric and friend to Anthony Bourdain, fried rice probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Another thing that probably doesn’t … Continue reading →
Spring is in full swing in Atlanta. We’ve had wonderful weather lately – the kind that makes you want to sit outside with a book in the sun…OR roll up your sleeves and get to work in the yard. We … Continue reading →
We love Bon Appetit‘s magazine. Each month when it comes we devour every page and mark the recipes we find most interesting. Last month, Gardner flagged this recipe – it’s basically a recipe stewed in vanilla broth, which I thought … Continue reading →
posted by Mary Katherine We did it… and then we took a 10 day vacation from blogging. We’re sorry that after we completed what seemed like a monumental feat (blogging everyday for 29 days), we’ve taken quite a break! We’ve … Continue reading →
You didn’t even know what we were trying to do – post every single day in February – but now you can celebrate with us, because we did it!! We challenged ourselves to post every day because we are usually … Continue reading →
Today was a long day. Gardner and I both stumbled in the front door (and were greeted by a lonely puppy) from work at about 8:30pm. We were hungry, tired, and had headaches. Normally when this happens, we look at … Continue reading →
Gardner’s go-to drink is a glass of scotch on the rocks. I’ve long been searching for a lady-like version of this simple drink, and I’m certainly not hardcore enough to drink scotch by itself. I like the taste of scotch, … Continue reading →
This weekend it was eggs benedict (or a loose variation thereof) again. We didn’t do the Top Chef challenge that we did last weekend, and we didn’t tweet about it to Tom. So, sadly, this week’s eggs benedict did not … Continue reading →
Last Saturday morning, after a lazy Friday night filled with Top Chef reruns, I decided it’d be fun to challenge Gardner to play Top Chef. If you’re not familiar with the show, contestants are asked to cook certain things with … Continue reading →
The last time we posted something about breakfast, it was back in September. We really don’t mean to slight breakfast, but it’s hard to focus on something that we only put effort into 1-2 days a week, if that. In … Continue reading →
When we went to Boston in the fall, we had a great meal at Craigie on Main, complete with cocktails, appetizers, wine, main dishes, desserts, and even after-dinner drinks. It was a fun, foodie experience and definitely a dinner we’ll … Continue reading →
Some foods just seem festive and fun. There are dinners that we’ve found we frequently order out, but rarely make at home. But why not? Few things that restaurants do are beyond the reach of home cooks, (unless you’re frequently … Continue reading →
Of course the day after we post about eating healthy and making salad happens to be Fat Tuesday. Well, we’re sure as heck not posting a healthy recipe on Fat Tuesday…it just wouldn’t be right. With our family’s New Orleans … Continue reading →
Sometimes you eat too much. It’s a fact of life. Sometimes you eat too much for 246 days in a row. That’s sort of where we are. And whenever we feel like big, lazy lumps, we usually don’t crave salad. … Continue reading →
You know we love good mashed potatoes. You also know we recently complained about our pants being a little snug and that we blamed mashed potatoes. Even though the white bed of fluffy goodness in the picture below looks a lot … Continue reading →
It still hasn’t gotten terribly cold here in Atlanta. Our usual repertoire of hearty, warming winter favorites has been replaced by seared tuna and spinach salads. Granted, part of this is healthy eating, but part of this is also due to … Continue reading →
If we’re friends on Facebook, you’re probably sick of this news… but, today there was a “Crock-Off” at work – a cooking competition requiring the use of a crock-pot. There were 6 different categories: Appetizer, Soup, Chili, Side, Main Dish … Continue reading →
You’ve seen us use this same recipe with tilapia, but skate takes it to a whole new level of deliciousness. Skate really freaked me out at first – not only does it look funny, it’s the wing of a stingray… and that’s … Continue reading →
We’ve mentioned our enjoyment of Fernet before on this blog. It’s incredibly bitter, but incredibly delicious, and it’s a great illustration of how a great cocktail works. It’s an ingredient that I enjoy (only occasionally) on the rocks, but an … Continue reading →
Gardner is on his way back from a business trip tonight, so we won’t be making a Valentine’s Day feast like we’ve done before. Instead, we’ll go out to a casual dinner (maybe tacos?) and catch up and just enjoy … Continue reading →
It’s Monday, and it’s quittin’ time. You ought to mix up a new concoction – preferably this one – and put your feet up. I’m embarrassed to admit that before stumbling upon this recipe, we really only used our coffee … Continue reading →
When I think mushroom risotto, I think heavy, luxurious, decadent food. I think hanger steak and red wine. Or maybe I think about sausage and red peppers, and good old fashioned comfort food. I definitely don’t think about our January … Continue reading →
Our introduction to great cocktails started with the best of the best. Last fall, we were in New York, where Mary Katherine was for a work conference, and where I spent the week exploring (and eating!). One night, we met … Continue reading →
From October to December we ate a LOT of mashed potatoes…which, come to think of it, is probably why are pants are a little tight. But, seriously, we couldn’t stop eating them. I found every single excuse I possibly could … Continue reading →
Milk Punch is the lighter, eggless version of eggnog…or, eggnog’s skinny but fun cousin. Kate’s family always has milk punch around the holidays, so she made a batch for our family this Christmas…and we’re hooked. We sat around and sipped … Continue reading →
Just a few weeks ago, we were proposing a toast to eating healthier. Now that it’s February, we’re posting things like Teres Major and now, Bacon meatballs. What gives with just a few weeks? The good news is that we do … Continue reading →
In the spirit of our Fondue post from the other day, we decided to take a look at some of our other favorite foods from 2frugalfoodies’ past. Some of you may have seen the 2011 stats we published in January – and … Continue reading →
It’s Monday… and we think you deserve an after-work drink. This drink recipe comes straight from the Domaine de Canton website to your belly. It is phenomenal. Domaine de Canton is a ginger liquor, and it makes almost everything taste … Continue reading →
We were craving something fun and out of the ordinary for dinner recently, so we whipped out the ol’ Fondue pot, looked up our Fondue recipe on the blog, and then GASPED. We’ve come a looong way. Look at this … Continue reading →
