From the category archives:

Grill

Chicken Wraps with Balsam-melized Red Onions

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on September 1, 2010

Caramelizing Red Onions in Balsamic Vinegar…gives these ordinary chicken wraps an amazing flavor!!!

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Spicy Onion Burgers

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on August 20, 2010

Looking for a spicy new topping for your favorite burger?! How about some onions with a lotta zing?!

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Stuffed Tomatoes – Grow. Eat. $ave.

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on August 14, 2010

To-may-toes, To-mah-toes…
It’s what we’re talking about this week on Grow. Eat. $ave! Stuffed Tomatoes to be exact…

Got an over abundance of tomatoes?!? Looking for a cool, light and refreshing side…or even a main dish dinner?!? Well, stuffed tomatoes are THE way to go!
Stuffed Tomatoes with Spicy Avocado Salad
4 large tomatoes
1 avocado, diced
About 1/2 [...]

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Mediterranean Chicken Quinoa

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on August 11, 2010

(Please pardon the iPhone photo. Dead camera battery.)
I went out yesterday morning to survey the garden…and to make sure it survived our weekend away. I was pleasantly surprised to find lots of red grape-roma tomatoes, and a meal’s worth of green beans!  I picked some basil, parsley and oregano and then got to work.
So we’re [...]

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Beef and Mushroom Kebabs – $5 Dinner Challenge

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on July 26, 2010

I made these the other night…I made an extra trip to the store to get the ingredients needed for this morning’s news segment…and spotted some $.99 whole mushrooms.  I see them often for $.99 in the mark down basket in the produce section. I found more this morning…sliced this time. I don’t typically buy extra [...]

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Chicken and Bacon Florentine Pasta

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on July 22, 2010

Every had one of those super productive days…only to forget one very important thing on your to-do list.
That thing: Make dinner.
Eeps!  That’s what happened to me tonight.  I scurried around all day, catching up on Mt. Washmore (yes, we have been home for 10 days and I still haven’t caught up on laundry from the [...]

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Grilled Green Tomato Slices

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on July 21, 2010

Green Tomatoes.
Always make me think of the grocery store parking lot scene from Fried Green Tomatoes…when Kathy Bates goes ballistic on the fiery young girls…’member that scene?!
So that totally almost happened to me in the grocery store parking lot.  Except, not really.
I was pulling out of a prime time parking space (front and center!) when [...]

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Grilled Honey Mustard Chicken

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on July 20, 2010

Ingredients
2 lbs drumsticks ($2.03) $.99/lb sale
1/4 cup dijon mustard ($.25)
1 tsp cider or white vinegar ($.01)
1/4 cup honey ($.50)
1 large yellow squash ($.50) Farmer’s market
1 Tbsp olive oil ($.10)
Salt and pepper to taste
Rolls from the freezer ($1.19) Manager’s Special!

Directions
1. Set drumsticks into a dish for marinating.
2. Prepare the honey mustard dressing.

Add the dijon [...]

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Grilled Red Potato Salad – $5 Dinner Challenge

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on July 19, 2010

A grilled spin-off of the Roasted Red Potato Salad that I made this past winter.

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Grilled Red Potatoes

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on July 15, 2010

For our 4th of July party, my MIL said she would be bring steaks. (Yes, please.)
Steaks rarely fit into the $5 Dinners budget, so I was ecstatic that she would be bringing some to grill.  I thought I’d grill some red potatoes to go with the steaks…but I was concerned with how long it would [...]

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