When you can't have pizza on a regular basis, you have to get creative when you get those pizza cravings! I've got some dairy free and soy free mozzarella cheese and I figured there would be no way that I could cover an entire pizza with it, and keep it under $5! I recalled a Sausage bread that I made years ago...it's basically homemade pizza crust dough with sausage and … [Read more...]
Rigatoni with Italian Sausage and Red Peppers
Super Simple Supper! This is a one dish dinner. (That brings up an important question...when you hear one dish dinner, do you think of it being a dinner that is SERVED in one dish, or COOKED in one dish?!) So this is technically a one dish served dinner...as the whole meal is in one bowl. But it was cooked in 2 pots...a pot for the pasta, and a skillet for the … [Read more...]
Green Pepper Chili – $5 Dinner Challenge
Simple. Take your basic chili...and add 2 green peppers. Diced, of course! (I made this on the Dayton Fox News morning show this week! So if you've been looking for the recipe, here it is!) Remember those crazy wicked cheap green peppers I scored!?! That's what inspired the green pepper addition. I think I'll be adding green peppers to everything from now until … [Read more...]
Alea’s Herbed Chicken on Vegetable Confetti
Gardening helps offset my grocery bill, especially since I grow items that can be expensive at the grocery store such as peppers and tomatoes. The one downside to gardening is that supply sometimes exceeds demand, particularly when I grow things like yellow squash and zucchini. My children are now examining all baked goods with a suspicious eye, so I have to step up my game … [Read more...]
Double Bean Stuffed Green Peppers
Thought I'd replace the traditional beef in Stuffed Green Peppers with some black and red kidney beans instead. And I'm glad I did! The "filling" is so delicious and fresh...and it be great rolled up in a tortilla for lunch. (That's what I'll be having for lunch tomorrow.) Double Bean Stuffed Green Peppers Yield - 4 servings Preparation Time - 10 minutes Cooking … [Read more...]
Beef and Mushroom Kebabs – $5 Dinner Challenge
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 $.99 in the mark down basket in the produce section. I found more this morning...sliced this time. I don't typically buy extra food when I'm getting food for news segments, but I couldn't … [Read more...]
How to Cut a Green Pepper {Video}
Or perhaps the wrong way to cut a green pepper?!? I am a total green pepper cutting rebel and do my own thing when it comes to dicing, slicing and cutting green peppers. I am not, however, a rebel without a cause. I definitely cut with a cause. In this case, freezing all these green peppers! In the end, I wound up with the following meal size portions: 6 bags with … [Read more...]
Red Quinoa with Avocado, Black Beans and Corn
For a while now, I've been toying with the idea of putting myself on a Gluten Free diet. No real reason really. Just want to see if I feel any different when eliminating gluten. And here is a recipe that will be on the menu when (if ever) I decide to make that leap. Red Quinoa with Avocado, Black Beans and Corn Yield - 4 servings Preparation Time - 5 minutes Cooking … [Read more...]
Sweet and Sour Chicken
I had every intention of serving this over brown rice. But I got a little distracted by the Balloon Boy story this afternoon (so glad he was found...but boy I wasted a bunch of "what if that was my kid" emotional energy because of the whole ordeal). By the time I realized that the dinner hour was fast approaching, it was too late to get the brown rice going! So white rice it … [Read more...]
Tomato Black Bean Barley Soup
Tomato Black Bean Barley Soup Yield - 4 servings Preparation Time - 10 minutes Cooking Time - 30 minutes Ingredients 1 small yellow onion, chopped ($.20) 2 cloves garlic, crushed ($.10) 1/2 cup Italian salad dressing ($.20) 4 cups water 1 15 oz. can black beans, drained ($.80) 1 15 oz. can diced tomatoes, undrained ($.65) 1/2 cup quick-cooking barley … [Read more...]