Aguadito Con Cerdo {Cilantro Pepper Pork Stew}
Aguadito is a Peruvian style soup (or stew) that is a great use for leftovers in the kitchen. In fact, it tastes better when you use leftovers. We usually make it with the turkey carcass after Thanksgiving, but you can also make an amazing…
Super Easy Four Ingredient Spaghetti and Meatballs
First off, let me just say this is one of my kids’ favorite meals, and since it’s also a very easy meal to make it’s one of my favorites too! Plus they end up eating a lot of spinach without mentioning anything about yucky…
Bacalao a la Vizcaina – Good Friday Salt Cod Stew {recipe}
I hope you all had a happy Easter! Wow, the weather was absolutely unbeatable this spring weekend here in the Pacific Northwest and we really got a chance to enjoy it. We kicked off the holiday weekend on Friday, dyeing Easter eggs and…
Cook The Collection {New Feature}
I’m a cookbook junkie. I love to look through them, I love to get them for gifts, and I can’t pass a thrift store or yard sale without checking out their cookbook selection. I’ve got a bookcase overflowing with books. What I don’t seem…
Salchipapas
Every Friday night is Movie Night at our house. We rotate who’s turn it is to pick the movie and the rules are that the person choosing the movie gets to choose dinner too. Right now that means that we’re eating french fries at…
Spaghetti With Vegetables and Meatballs
As part of my ongoing effort to save money on groceries plus feed my family good real food, we ate spaghetti with vegetables and meatballs for dinner. The vegetables were again courtesy of my grocery-gleaning neighbor, the pasta was from the pantry and the…
Pasta with Kielbasa and Peppers
In the same spirit of frugal dinners and using up things in the pantry before grocery shopping, dinner last night was pasta with smoked kielbasa, green peppers, zucchini and tomatoes. It was super yummy and easy – I just sauteed some smoked kielbasa (from…
Savory Spinach and Feta Strata
One of my New Year’s resolutions this year is to get our grocery budget under control. We spend much more than we should on groceries, so I’m using a four part plan to try and keep the cost down this year: 1) use a…
Happy New Year!
As I like to do on most New Year’s Days, I’ve made black eyed peas and collard greens for dinner. Folklore says that eating black eyed peas on New Year’s Day brings good luck in the coming year, and eating collard greens brings money…
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