Recession Recipes

We both really like middle eastern food, and one of our favorite cookbooks is from the restaurant Moro in London, which melds together Middle Eastern, Spanish and Moroccan food wonderfully. As we’ve been trying to eat more vegetables lately, I searched through it for some good, moreish veggie recipes, and found one for Turlu Turlu, [...]

I officially banned myself from going to the Farmers’ Market for the last couple of weeks. The stands are suffering from that in-between season lull, and it seems like the only thing that has been looking good lately is zucchini, and I think I might have zucchini-ed us out this summer!
I found this Zucchini and [...]

Last Friday, I spent the day waiting in doctors’ offices while Carlo got tested for an array of ailments, put on oxygen and an IV drip, and had a CAT scan of his abdomen. It was really scary, and even though we don’t definitively know what was wrong with him, Carlo is thankfully doing much [...]

Today I got up early and headed to our local Albertsons, where they were roasting Hatch green chiles for the weekend. Thank god I got up early because they only had 250 sacks direct from Gillis Farm in Hatch, New Mexico and they had already sold 230 on Saturday. It turns out that I got [...]

Carlo sometimes makes fun of me for using strange English words that he has never heard of before and which he thinks I make up. For example, he never believed that there was such a word as impetigo until Amy Winehouse got blasted for being all scabby.
Another word he thinks that I made up is [...]

Okay, this Crab, Avocado, and Asparagus Salad isn’t the most budget friendly recipe we have posted on Recession Recipes, but it was pretty damn awesome, even if it cost $4.90 per serving to feed 4 people.
While that might be quite pricey for some home cooking, think about how much crab salads go for in fancy [...]

These days we eat eggs pretty much every day for breakfast. Back when I had a job, my breakfast usually consisted of some Kashi hot cereal eaten at my desk because I never had time to eat at home before heading to the office, late as usual. So now that I have unhurried mornings where [...]

Carlo and I both love to eat eggs, so it is no surprise that we enjoy a good egg salad every now and again. If you want to kick up your egg salad a notch, be sure to use homemade mayo which really showcases the taste and texture of the hardboiled eggs. This egg salad [...]

Often times when you order Carbonara at a restaurant, you get a stodgy white sauce that is as thick as it is unappetizing. Real Carbonara sauce is light and silky on your taste buds, and doesn’t leave a lead weight feeling in your stomach.
This Orrechiette Carbonara recipe fits the bill for a light pasta dinner, [...]

There is nothing better than waking up on the weekend and making yourself a delicious breakfast to start the day. We used to go out all the time for breakfast, but to cut back, we have been cooking our own breakfasts at home more often.
I’ve been surprised to find that I like breakfast at home [...]