In case you don't want to sift through all of the posts, here is a table of contents by topic. I'll try to update this each month.
Coffee:
- Brewing
- Roasting your own coffee beans with a popcorn maker (getting started and videos from other people)
- Home coffee-roasting results (Poor student's experiments with a popcorn pumper)
- Roasting your own coffee (part 3) - Poppery II with Sumatra beans
- Roasting your own coffee - Pumper vs Poppery II (Part 4 - comparison of the two machines)
- Roasting coffee in the winter
Recipes:
- Chili in a frying pan
- Sponge toffee (most popular post)
- Wonton wrapper appetizers
- Fancy Polenta
- Dehydrating fruit (not really a recipe but food prep related)
- Non-dairy Ice cream (with coconut milk or just bananas)
- Baking bread in a toaster oven
- Baking pizza in a toaster oven
- Broiling tuna steaks in a toaster oven
- Cooking pike fish in the toaster oven
- Poor Student's Sandwich
Reviews of snacks/products from Asian markets:
- Thrift store shopping
- BMS Paper Company
- Trader Joe's (random cool products):
- Gluten-free chocolate chip cookies, Mideast Feast, and Falafel Chips
- Mosaic of chocolates, Eggnog Almonds, and Gummy Tummies
- Peanut butter goodies, Dark chocolate PB wafer cookies, dried cherries, and Vegetable root chips
- Other snacks:
Environmentally-friendly vehicles:
Other:
Frugalism - the more effective way to "occupy"
Frugal Living (in general)
Growing your own scallions
Bread Machines