Recession Recipes

We have been slowly eating more and more vegetables instead of meat over the last six months or so, but my goal for 2010 is to eat even more vegetables. A few months ago, I read Mark Bittman’s book Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating, which discusses all of the health and environmental impacts [...]

It has been a long week since we last posted with the website getting hacked and my computer getting a nasty handful of viruses that had Carlo pulling out what is left of his hair. Plus we had some friends in town, which meant we ate out and drank a lot this past weekend. So [...]

This tasty Tyler Florence recipe for Roasted Hatch Green Chile, Black Bean, and Chicken Enchiladas takes an ordinary roasted deli chicken from the supermarket and turns it into a spectacular Mexican treat. Everything else in the rest of the recipe is made from scratch, aside from the tortillas, so not having to worry about roasting [...]

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 [...]

As I said last week, one of the new cookbooks I recently picked up was a new one from Argentine chef Francis Mallmann. He’s a big proponent of open-flame cooking, and I think he deserves special recognition for including a recipe that lists “one cow, butterflied (about 1400 pounds)” as an ingredient in his book. [...]

A few years ago, Carlo and I did the South Beach Diet when that was all the rage. Most of the recipes included in their cookbook were fairly nasty, which anyone who has been pranked at the dinner table by their Surprise “Mashed Potatoes” recipe definitely knows! However, one of our favourite recipes in the [...]

It’s Memorial Day weekend, which means lots of you will gather around a grill over the next few days, so we wanted to get together a full menu for your barbecue this weekend. I dithered a bit in choosing what to throw on the grill (as I usually do), but we settled on these choices [...]

Saturday evening was spent sitting outside with Carlo on our patio  pouring over all the new food magazines that had arrived in the mail that day while drinking Bulleit Lemonades and smelling these Beef Skewers Marinated in Harissa and Yogurt on the grill. It was perhaps the perfect way to spend a lazy Saturday evening [...]

Last Monday was my last night in Austin, and I decided to celebrate an incredible trip catching up with friends with a Recession Recipes Dinner Party for some of my favourite girls: Ashley G, Ashley M, Becca, Emily, and a new friend Meera. The challenge was to throw a killer dinner party at Ashley G’s [...]

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 [...]