Seasoning your supper with only salt and pepper when you’re craving a kick just won’t cut it. But there are ways to add lots of flavor to your food with spending a bundle. To get the mouth party started, here are a few inexpensive ideas to turn your meals up a notch. via Cheap...
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This dessert is budget friendly and simple to make but will taste as if you put your heart and sole along with your dollars into it. The surprise is the lemon sauce you find underneath the sponge topping. via Lemon Sponge Surprise | Hillbilly Housewife.
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This recipe was served as part of a retro dinner. via Food & wine | Recipe: Grape Jelly/Chili Sauce Meatballs | Seattle Times Newspaper.
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Whether it’s dingy, limp vegetables, limp salad, lumpy gravy, or gummy rice, even the best of us can succumb to simple, common cooking mistakes because we’re not paying attention, using crappy ingredients, or just don’t know any better. Thankfully this list from the folks at Cooking Light magazine walks us through over 40 common...
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Having recently fallen in love with the nutty flavor of red quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wah), I’ve been looking for ways to use the ancient grain. via Food & wine | Recipe: Red Quinoa with Dried Fruit and Yogurt | Seattle Times Newspaper.
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Meat, especially steaks, can be expensive budget busters. To save money, buy cheaper larger beef portions such as a boneless chuck roast and ask the butcher to slice the roast into steaks. The most tender part of the boneless chuck roast is the chuck eye steak, which normally sells for double the cost per...
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Peppery, stir-fried shrimp served over a bed of lemony rice and peas makes a quick Chinese dinner. via Food & wine | Recipe: Wok-Flashed Salt and Pepper Shrimp and Lemony Rice and Peas | Seattle Times Newspaper.
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Keeping this pre-mix on hand will always ensure that you can whip up a delicious batch of biscuits in no time flat! via Buttermilk Biscuit Pre-mix | Hillbilly Housewife.
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Can’t you just smell this bread baking already? Cinnamon raisin toast is a great way to start your morning. Most bread machines have a beeping signal to let you know when it’s time to add ingredients such as raisins. Don’t add them before or your raisins will become hard. Also you might be tempted...
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These make great appetizers or snacks for little ones. They are very easy to make and require very little time in the kitchen. via Cheesy Twisted Breadsticks | Hillbilly Housewife.
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