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Rigatoni with Italian Sausage and Red Peppers

September 8, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 13 Comments

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 sausage, … [Read more...]

Summer Squash Quesadillas

June 19, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 20 Comments

***These would make a great appetizer for your July 4th BBQ!*** Just sayin'. (Okay, just had to get that out of the way.) So for the second time, I've had to pick up the veggies from the market to make my meal for Grow. Eat. $ave. I remember looking through last year's garden posts, and by this time in June 2009 my squash plants were producing a new squash every … [Read more...]

Red Pepper Guacamole

June 10, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 12 Comments

This makes me want to move to Spain. Or Mexico. Anywhere Spanish speaking would work! (I miss saying Hola and Buen Dia all the time.) Ever since playing "Twitter translator" (where I would send Twitter DMs with common Dominican phrases to my friends who were in the Dominican Republic), I've been itching to speak Spanish. I find myself talking to the boys in Spanish and … [Read more...]

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