Cheap Dinner Ideas
Creamy mushroom risotto – with no cream
This creamy mushroom risotto is achieved only if you do it the original way – where you add water bit by bit and reduce till ready based on your taste.
Recipes
Cooking basics
Pie Recipes: savory spinach and feta pie
For me, savory spinach and feta pie is a staple of the summer when the spinach is fresh and your Sundays are bliss. This is a recipe oversimplification.
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.
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.