The holidays are coming up and one my favorite items to make is a cheese ball. I have so many variations of cheese ball recipes I can never decide which to make. We have a ton of cream cheese stocked up from a killer sale that I hit where the cream cheese was on sale for $1.48 a block and I had $1/2 coupons! {If you hit a killer sale on cream ...
Recipes
Black Bean Burger Recipe
Black Bean Burger Recipe If you love black bean burgers and looking for something other than the frozen kind, check out this easy black bean burger recipe. My husband (Bob) is a vegetarian and is always looking for a substitute for when we grill burgers when we cook for friends. While some of the frozen vegetarian burgers are okay, he prefers a ...
Corn Dip Recipe – Tasty & Cheap!
Corn Dip Recipe Some people call this Corn Dip Recipe by other names such as Corn Relish, Texas Caviar or Mexican Corn Dip. I call it DELISH! In our local coupon group, we were discussing the how to price match produce at stores that allow it and different recipes were tossed around so I thought I would share my corn dip recipe with you that I ...
Tzatziki Recipe – One of Our Family Favorites
Tzatziki Recipe This is one of our family favorites! My son can sit down with a bag of pita bread and a container of dip and it will be gone in a matter of minutes. I learned to love Tzatziki during our years in the Middle East. In Turkey, it is called Cacik (pronounced Jaw-Jeek) and as in Greece, you will find it served everywhere. ...
Ranger Cookies | Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe… EVER!
Ranger Cookies I will often go to restaurants and taste something I really love and then try to replicate it at home experimenting with the perfect recipe. Or, I will take several recipes I find in magazines or cookbooks and tweak them to my liking to make them "my own." When I first stumbled across this ranger cookie recipe, I know I had found ...
Slutty Brownie Recipe {aka My Slutty Valentine Brownies}
There are so many ways to make slutty brownies - combinations of tasty ingredients seem endless. Today my girlfriend and I played in the kitchen to come up with something a little different than the norm. The results were not exactly what I wanted, but MAN did they turn out tasty! {In my mind I wanted DISTINCT layers of Valentine's Day colors ...
Turkish Red Lentil Soup Recipe (Mercimek Corbasi)
Turkish Red Lentil Soup When we lived in Turkey one of my favorite things to do was to go to our favorite restaurant and order mercimek corbasi aka Turkish Red Lentil Soup. It is so simple to make, the ingredients are cheap {and I make it cheaper!} and the final outcome is extremely tasty. How did I save on this recipe? Bought the red ...
Tomato Basil Soup Recipe
Tomato Basil Soup After cooking all morning for "football snacks" for lunch we decided to hit the kitchen again to make Tomato Basil Soup. Normally, we make a tomato bisque but tonight we played around with ingredients and tried something different. How did I get the ingredients for this awesome dish cheap? Keep reading... The herbs I ...
Green Beans and Mushrooms with Balsamic Glaze
I love experimenting in the kitchen as failure is good as we learn from it and keep improving our dishes until they are perfected. We use a lot of unique ingredients sometimes that can be pricey but with smart shopping, you can make gourmet recipes at a fraction of the price. Below is a rundown of how I made this recipe cheaper than ...
Greek Vinaigrette Recipe | Versatile for Salads, Vegetables & More
Greek Vinaigrette Recipe Use this Greek Vinaigrette recipe with your salad, sprinkle over vegetables and roast in the over, mix with pasta or orzo... the combinations are many. I use this for our "Greek night" when we make a Greek salad and then any that is left over I will use the next day to roast veggies with. Lots of awesome Greek food to ...
Çoban Salatası (Turkish Shepard Salad Recipe)
Çoban Salatası (Turkish Shepard Salad Recipe) One of our favorite cheap dishes we learned how to make when we lived in Turkey is the Çoban Salatası (Turkish Shepard Salad Recipe) I bought the following ingredients for less than $1 {not counting the lemon - paid full price for that}. 1 pound of red onion $.50 instead of $.84 1.27 ...
Grilled Corn With Chili Lime Butter
I’ve tried to grill corn many different ways; in the husk, out of the husk, husks dry, husks soaked, corn soaked, different soaking methods – sweet or salty and in the end, the results weren’t all that different than normal boiling. Often, the results were bad – either dried out, not cooked or charred too much. Being a big grilling fan, I ...