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Recipe: Zucchini Tomato Casserole
This one's easy, really fast to make (though you'll have to wait for it to get ready, the actual cooking only takes 10 minutes, tops), doesn't need a lot of ingredients, is tasty, healthy and cheap (especially in summer ( Read more... ) -
Kitchen Improv: Chicken, tomatoes, feta
Kitchen improv time! And, despite everyone's tasty suggestions, it doesn't involve mint ( Read more... ) -
Mint recipes needed! Non-alcoholic preferred
My mint plant is getting so big I'm going to start charging it rent and ask it for help with the cable bill. But a girl with a day job can only drink so many mojitos/juleps during the work week.
What have you got for tasty uses for fresh mint? Foods, beverages, cheap, easy and suited for one. -
Vaguely Tex Mex Turkeyburgers
This is from a cookbook called Dinner Tonight that will be VERY hard to find out of the Tri-State area of the US, but if you find a copy, pounce on it! Otherwise, be patient while I work my way through it and post recipes I'm trying ( Read more... ) -
Pasta recipes
There were a couple of really tasty sounding pasta recipes in the magazine I picked up today. The first two serve four, but you could store the extra sauce or cut back the ingredients easily enough. Plus they're all super cheap to make.
( Lemon, Chilli and Garlix Spaghetti ) -
Mango salsa for fish
one very ripe mango or canned/jarred mango in light syrup from Trader Joe's
small red onion or half of a large one
big handful of cilantro, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
Juice of two limes
half of a yellow bell pepper, finely chopped
Minced fresh ginger, to taste
1 small cucumber, finely chopped
Either: Thai chili sauce OR Penzey's ( Read more... ) -
Really tasty...
I needed to come up with an easy, interesting recipe for a student to cook for a solo home ec lesson. I hobbled this together. It makes four big satisfying burgers, and would probably be delicious taken cold in a lunch - by themselves or broken up over a salad - or just, you know, eaten for breakfast, lunch, and dinner fora day and a half ( Read more... ) -
An interesting concept
http://www.serve.com/marbeth/high_heat_turkey_long.html
I realize this isn't quite within the bounds of the community, but I thought it was a neat cooking trick, and someone might get use out of it. -
Crock Pot: Greek Chicken with Feta
Cooker size: 3 Quart ( Read more... ) -
Three Bean and Root Vegetable Soup
I have discovered the joy of dried beans and root vegetables! I find the cheapest dry beans in the Mexican ethnic food area of my grocery store. I just made up this recipe today and it makes roughly 5qts of soup. But based on other soups I've made, this should freeze well.
( Souper! )