Main Dishes

Easy Frugal Cooking | Cilantro Chicken Pasta Salad

June 24, 2010

When I put this dish on my menu a few weeks back, a lot of you commented or emailed and asked for the recipe. Since I was making this for the very first time and wasn’t sure the recipe would be a winner, I didn’t take pictures along the way. So, the only picture I [...]

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How to make panini sandwiches

May 26, 2010

I know…today is Wednesday, and I’m supposed to be talking about baking. I had grand intentions of showing how to make this: But I must have switched camera bodies/memory cards in the midst of things, and I cannot for the life of me find the card that has the prep pictures on it. I will [...]

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Easy Frugal Cooking | Aussie Chicken

April 27, 2010

When I last posted this meal in my weekly menu plan, someone asked me why exactly this is called Aussie Chicken (it’s not because it’s made with vegemite!). As far as I can tell, this is a knock-off recipe of a dish that used to be served at Outback Steakhouse, and that’s how it got [...]

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Easy Frugal Cooking | Tropical Island Chicken

April 6, 2010

This recipe is so simple and easy, I almost feel silly sharing it with you…I could just link to the recipe on the Taste of Home site and be done with it, really. But, in case you are the sort of person who really needs a good nudge in the form of pictures before giving [...]

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Easy Frugal Cooking | Beef au Jus Sandwiches

March 16, 2010

Today’s recipe isn’t a particularly quick one but since it doesn’t require much in the way of hands-on effort, I think it still qualifies as easy. I got it from Taste of Home and modified a couple of things. The original recipe calls for a rump or bottom round roast, and while those do go [...]

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Easy, Frugal Cooking | Chicken Tacos

March 11, 2010

A couple of months ago, I decided that I wanted to learn how to make Chicken Tacos. I poked through Cook’s Illustrated’s website and found nothing (only a steak taco recipe), so I decided to search some other online cooking sites. The wealth of chicken taco recipes was overwhelming, and I had no idea which [...]