Tag Archives: Budget

Soup and Sandwich

After cooking for guests both Friday and Saturday night, our kitchen is stocked with the makings for some pretty stellar leftover meals. Tonight we had a simple soup and sandwich dinner: Pumpkin soup and grilled cheese on homemade sweet potato challah with arugula and pickled red onions (those onions are making it into EVERYTHING [...]
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Sustainable Snacking: Granola Balls

Last week we were fully sustainable, meaning that everything we ate for 7 days straight was made from scratch in our kitchen.  No ordering in dinner, no buying breakfast on the way to the subway, and no grabbing a mid-afternoon snack at work…and we think that if everyone knew how easy it actually is to [...]
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Invest a little time, make a lot of dough

Making bread and pizza at home is all about planning. Once you’ve got the timing right, it requires very little active work.  I hadn’t made bread at home in over a month since we had been out of town, and well ya know,  summer… but when I saw artisanal multigrain loaves in the store selling [...]
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Slow Cooked Veggie Chili Doctored Up for Dinner

Sunday night (while I slept!) I made a batch of slow cooker veggie chili (recipe at bottom of post), which we then had for lunch Monday. Tonight, I wanted to doctor up the standard chili into something special for dinner. The result?
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Pantry Staples + Cheese + Scallions = Another Mexican Casserole from Matthew

Thursday Night. Got home late from work and I knew Alexa wasn’t going to be around, so I stopped at my grocer to pick up tortilla chips with which to better enjoy a Mexican layered polenta casserole. My sister taught me this one a decade ago. What makes it such a winner is it can be [...]
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