Today I want to give you some of my favorite easy pasta recipes for dinner. Pasta has always been a bit of a comfort food in our house. When you want something super filling that will give you leftovers a good pasta dish can do that for you. Pasta is also super cheap and easy […]
There is nothing quite like homemade bread with dinner. Today I am sharing my favorite bread recipes for dinner. We don’t always have time to make homemade bread with our dinners but with some careful planning you can serve homemade bread a couple nights a week with whatever meal you want. Breads often need rise
The YouTube rabbit hole struck again. Last time I talked about the YouTube rabbit hole it was in cleaning motivation videos that I watch pretty frequently. This time I’m talking about extreme grocery budget videos. An extreme grocery budget is when you are shopping on an extremely small amount of money each week, say $35
Carbonara, it’s one of Italy’s most famous and delicious dishes. Carbonara features guanciale (pork jowl) or pancetta, spaghetti, grated Pecorino (an italian cheese) and ground black pepper. Unfortunately, your average grocery store away from major cities doesn’t always feature these products or have them at decent prices when they do. So I had to sub
When Fall hits I start craving all sorts of baked goods, but there is one baked good in particular that I absolutely love. That’s my husband’s Oatmeal Apple Crisp. One of our first dates included this crisp and let me just say, the way to my heart is through Apple Crisp evidently. There is only
I have never visited Spain but oh, it is on my list of must go places in the future. A lot of this is simply because of the food. Jamon – a dry cured ham, Paella, Patatas Bravas, the cuisine is truly mouth watering. Then I came across a dish that immediately had me excited because
This Chicken and Penne with Butternut Squash Sauce was simple to put together and the perfect cozy dinner for Fall. It’s filling, tasty, and can be easily altered to fit anyone’s tastes. I do not like spending a lot of time cooking unless it’s something super special like bread or a fancy dessert. I’m often
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These days we are all feeling a bit busier than usual, probably because we are doing a bit more at home. When people are in the house all day the house gets messy faster, we have more dishes to do, and we are eating every single meal at home. The need for quick and easy
I started experimenting with creating homemade Chinese food about 4 years ago and there is one sauce recipe I keep turning back to. This recipe is a slight variation on this sauce, it gives you a more salty instead of sweet taste which is perfect for pork dishes. As a notice, and I’ll mention this
I’m a sucker for iced coffee drinks. For the longest time I would grab my Venti Iced Caramel Macchiato every morning before work. It became like clockwork, summer or winter. Then one day I went through the math of it all. Five iced coffee drinks a week for a year straight was about $312 a
When it comes to delicious budget meals I’m a pro. During the bad financial periods in my life I had to learn how to cook cheap meals. That’s where this Easy Cream Tomato And Spinach Pasta came from. It’s super easy to prepare and cheap. It’s one of those meals where no matter what I
For years now I have worked to become a grocery shopping expert. I’ve learned all the tricks to saving money and stretching food. At least until we moved to Pittsburgh and opted to get rid of our car. I knew I would need to start paying for grocery delivery. What I didn’t know was that
