Recession Recipes

I went to the farmers’ market by our house today to stock up on our weekly produce and the strawberry guy was back with a stand after being gone for a few months. Yes, it was 70 degrees and sunny today in Las Vegas, but strawberry season at the beginning of March? It just seems [...]

I really enjoy a good salad. Meat is an easy way to bulk up a salad, but another trick is adding roasted butternut squash as a topping. It adds a nice sweetness to your salad, as well as some beautiful colour and perhaps more importantly, another way to squeeze in an extra serving of vegetables.
In [...]

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, [...]

On Friday night, Carlo and I had a quiet night at home with a nice bottle of wine and we spent the evening cooking together. Our original menu included some bbq ribs, but upon defrosting the frozen ribs, they smelt a bit suspect so we quickly defrosted a pork tenderloin to grill instead. The [...]

Today is the first day of fall, so it is only appropriate to post the perfect fall salad today: Spiced Butternut Squash, Lentil, and Goat Cheese Salad. The sweetness of the squash combined with the nuttiness of the French Puy lentils and the creamy tang of the goat cheese equals a hearty welcome to the [...]

On Fridays, chef Tyler Florence hosts Twitterlicious, a cooking lesson conducted over Twitter (@TylerFlorence). Each week, he posts a poll on his website with 5 different recipe choices for the upcoming Twitterlicious. Whatever dish gets the most votes, he “cooks” while tweeting instructions on his progress in the kitchen. A few weeks ago, he made [...]

When we were in LA over the weekend to celebrate our anniversary, we went to the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market on Saturday morning. While the Ferry Plaza Farmers’ Market in San Francisco is still my favourite market, the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market had some incredible looking produce, and a huge variety as well.
Considering it is [...]

A couple of weekends ago, Carlo and I went up to North Las Vegas to check out Gilcrease Orchard, where you can pick your own produce. We didn’t really know what to expect but they had loads of zucchini, squash, cucumbers, eggplant, and apples. They had hundreds of tomato plants too, but unfortunately, we had [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]