Recession Recipes

Chicken and Chickpea Tagine is a pretty easy weeknight meal that makes tons of leftovers that you can eat for lunch for the next couple of days. You just brown the chicken, throw everything into a dutch oven, and let it braise for an hour. The recipe is outrageously inexpensive to make and is full [...]

These delicious Lemon-Raspberry Cupcakes are the perfect springtime treat, especially with Easter coming up in a couple of weeks. The tartness of the fresh lemon and the sweetness of the raspberry jam combined with moist batter = cupcake perfection.
This cupcake recipe makes 12 cupcakes at 35 cents per serving (that is if you can limit [...]

If I had to plan my perfect Saturday morning, it would include a long run around Town Lake in Austin followed by a Tex-Mex breakfast at Magnolia Cafe (because you know that calories don’t really count after running 10 miles ).
Unfortunately, we now live in Las Vegas, but I can still capture that [...]

Thai Beef Salad is the perfect lunch for a gorgeous spring day with the nice contrast of the tangy chili and lime dressing, and the freshness of the different herbs in the salad mix.
This recipe makes 4 large servings at a cost of $2.88 per person.

Carlo grilled the skirt steak on the bbq with just [...]

This is the last recipe in our Thai red curry paste series of recipes, and I’m proud to say that we finished the jar of curry paste last night!
I found this recipe for Red Curry Salmon in this month’s issue of Women’s Health and it fit the bill perfectly for our red curry experiment and [...]

This is the second of three recipes using Thai red curry paste. When buying specialty ingredients, using them only one time can drastically increase the per-serving cost of a recipe; finding ways to reuse them knocks it down, but it also gets you into the habit of thinking more than one meal at a time, [...]

I find that there is nothing more annoying than buying some esoteric ingredient for a particular recipe and then never using it again (hello, pomegranate molasses still in my fridge!).
With that in mind, we are going to have a Curry Three For All to showcase three different recipes (one vegetarian, one chicken, and one fish) [...]

When I was at Vons last week, I found some 93% lean ground beef on sale for $2.57 so I decided to make some spaghetti. I turned to a Jamie Oliver recipe that I have been using for the last 5 years or so, which tastes like an updated version of the Spaghetti Bolognaise that [...]

When we were doing the shopping at Fresh & Easy last week, I saw they had mangoes as part of their weekly 98-cent produce pack specials. We’d had a hankering for some fish, and seeing the mangoes reminded me of this Spicy Fish Tacos recipe I got from Men’s Health magazine a long while back, [...]

After going to the Farmer’s Market last week and purchasing some beautiful Russian Kale, I needed to find a recipe in which this vegetable could star. Carlo suggested that I try this Kale, Sausage and Mushroom Stew recipe from the New York Times blog of Mark Bittman, who has written numerous cookbooks and of course, [...]