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    Budget Recipes, Meal Plans, Freezer Meals and Cooking Tutorials for the Busy Home Chef

    Vegetable Lasagna with Spinach “Noodles”

    July 6, 2011 by Alea 6 Comments

    Vegetable Lasagna with Spinach Noodles | 5DollarDinners.com

    Summer finally arrived and all of my cool weather crops reacted to the heat by bolting. One nice thing about spinach when it bolts is that the leaves along the flower stalk are flat making them a great substitute for noodles in lasagna: I overlap the spinach leaves to create a layer. If you only have curled spinach leaves you can flatten them out a bit by making small … [Read more...]

    Spinach and Tomato Stuffed Chicken Breasts

    January 19, 2011 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 32 Comments

    Spinach and Tomato Stuffed Chicken is an easy weeknight dinner for your family! Oh please. Please. Please, for all that is good and right in this world. Please, make these. When I asked for spinach recipes last week, I had this one in the back of my mind to try as I asked. Last summer when on vacation with my family, I made for them a similar recipe that used sun dried … [Read more...]

    Spinach Meatballs with Spaghetti

    October 22, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 28 Comments

    Look at these green babies simmering in homemade spaghetti sauce. After rummaging through the freezer and pantry last week, I discovered that I had everything on hand for these Spinach Meatballs.  A reader mentioned them on Facebook recently, and I had to make them. I was really worried that the boys wouldn't eat the meatballs because they had "green stuff" in them, but it … [Read more...]

    Spinach Tomato Saute

    September 10, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 5 Comments

    spinach tomato saute

    Picked a bunch of cherry-type tomatoes from the garden...opened the fridge to figure out what to do with them...and the $2 box of spinach practically fell of the shelf. When that kind of thing happens, I take it as a sign... And here's the result...   Heat olive oil in a skillet. Add fresh crushed garlic and let it sizzle for about 3o seconds. Add the … [Read more...]

    Chicken and Bacon Florentine Pasta

    July 22, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 10 Comments

    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 Savvy Blogging Summit!), helping the boys with a new puzzle … [Read more...]

    Grilled Mushroom Burgers

    May 18, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 6 Comments

    Grilled Mushrooms and Onions atop a Grilled Burger. Yes, please! Drizzle a little steak sauce over the top. Scrumdidily-umptious! Prep the mushrooms and onions. Toss onions and mushrooms with the marsala cooking wine.  Grill alongside the burgers, or saute in a skillet while the burgers are cooking. Once cooked, season with salt and pepper to … [Read more...]

    Grilled Salsa Chicken

    May 11, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 17 Comments

    Alrighty friends...here is the Grilled Salsa Chicken that I intended on posting last night. But my day just didn't play out as I thought it would and I did not get a chance in the early evening to get it all together! A big thanks to Steve for photographing some of the pictures below. You might notice that 2 hands are in the photographs, and I don't quite trust Ryan with my … [Read more...]

    Grilled Chicken Spinach Pesto Pasta

    April 13, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 18 Comments

    I've been waiting. And waiting. And waiting...to try this pasta! A l-o-n-g time ago, I made some Spinach Pesto from the garden. And it's been patiently waiting in the freezer for me. To eat it! *I wish I had not waited until now!* The reason I've been waiting...I didn't think the boys would go for "green pasta" for dinner. They like green foods. Broccoli, peas, green … [Read more...]

    Spinach Spaghetti

    April 2, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 10 Comments

    Sneaky chef concept here. In a not-so-sneaky way! This has become my "go to meal" lately...for those days when a curve ball gets thrown at me...and my brain can't seem to form a coherent thought...much less a plan for dinner. This meal is a one pot meal. Starch, protein, veggies. All in one pot. Easy to make, easy to clean up. Even if it's not so sneaky. It's … [Read more...]

    Ginger Beef and Rice Noodles

    March 29, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 9 Comments

    Tonight's $5 Dinner Challenge Recipe comes from Cari, the Chief Recipe Wrangler at Can I Get the Recipe! Ingredients 1 (8 ounce) package rice thin noodles (dry) 2 tsp grape seed or vegetable oil 1 pound flank steak, cut into thin strips* 1 small red bell pepper, cut into thin strips 1 small yellow bell pepper, cut into thin strips 2 tsp grated ginger 4 garlic … [Read more...]

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