Cheap Dinner Ideas
Pie Recipes: savory tomato pie
The savory tomato pie is overly simplified by using store-bought puff pastry and homemade budget can tomatoes and onions.
Recipes
Cheap Dinner Ideas
Chicken pesto with mashed potatoes & broccoli
Our chicken pesto is not about using pesto as the primary ingredient but as that additional special addition to make this fairly healthy dish amazing.
Dessert
My chocolate chip cookie recipe (and the 72-hour trick worth knowing)
I tested 2-hour, 24-hour, and 72-hour dough rests so you don't have to. Here's the chocolate chip cookie recipe that actually delivers.
Lessons
The most basic homemade margherita pizza
Pizza Corner: the margarita pizza, the pinnacle of pizzas is literally better than the sum of its parts. Here is how you approach it if you are a beginner.
Lessons
No drama homemade marinara sauce
Pizza Corner: Homemade marinara sauce is one of those no-fuss recipes that can be done a thousand different ways but we will just focus on the bare minimum.
Cheap Dinner Ideas
Eggplant parmesan casserole aka the "parmigiana di melanzane"
Layers of eggplant, tomato sauce, mozzarella, and parmesan used sparingly. The parmigiana that's cheaper and less fussy than it looks.
Cheap Dinner Ideas
Salmon pasta recipe cooking basics
Build the sauce around the salmon, not the other way around. The basic salmon pasta with wine, garlic and a splash of milk that works every time.
Cooking basics
Homemade pita bread for your gyros
The homemade pita bread is one of those bread types that are cooked in a hot pan and require no actual baking and go wonderfully on a platter or for gyros.
Cheap Dinner Ideas
Superfoods: Easy lentil soup
Black lentils, soaked properly, simmered with the usual suspects. And a tablespoon of vinegar at the end that makes more difference than it has any right to.
Cheap Dinner Ideas
Zingy broccoli carrot celery potato soup
A zingy twist on the classic vegetable soup — broccoli, carrot, celery, and potato, blended smooth and finished with Tabasco. Under 1 hour in a normal pot, 30 minutes in a pressure cooker.
Cheap Dinner Ideas
Chicken with peppers – a new approach
Chicken with peppers sounds such a weird combination, but this recipe features a tasty chicken with oft peppers on a homemade tomato sauce – so good.
Cooking basics
Cheesy homemade nachos – perfect movie night
The nachos you make at home are better than restaurant nachos because you control the cheese. Arrabbiata sauce, kidney beans, proper melting mozzarella, quick guacamole.