Articles Posted in the Homestyle Category
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Oven Roasted Broccoli Recipe
I think I’ve officially found my favorite way to prepare broccoli. THIS is why I love experimenting with food. By just using your intuition and some basic cooking principles, experimenting in the kitchen empowers you to break from the old, sub-par ways of making something and take your meals to the next level. I made [...]
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Broccoli Soup – $.92
Ever ordered broccoli soup that doesn’t quite taste like broccoli? Like it’s been added with preservatives & frozen for a few months. Make it yourself. It’s so, so, so much better! First, I want to say that on a scale of super healthy (being 10) to super UNhealthy (being 0), I’d say this is maybe [...]
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Blue Collar Baked Chicken – $.75
When you think “Baked Chicken”, do you think dry and overcooked like I do? If you think that way, I guarantee this dish will change your mind. Get ready for an unbelievably moist & delicious meal. This “recipe” is dedicated to a few friends of mine (ahem, bachelors!) who think they are literally unable to [...]
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Caramel Pumpkin Applesauce with Crunchy Topping – $.44
I think I need a section for recipes that aren’t necessarily “healthy” but not as bad as a fried Twinkie. I just had to share this one with you. I got in a little over my head and I bought a big bag of apples. I don’t eat them as quickly as I thought… so [...]
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Baby Bella Mushroom & Couscous Soup – $.93
Ugh, life is so much better when you’re not picky about food! Used to hate mushrooms, now I love them. If you love mushrooms, this soup is for YOU. I also found a great new method to soup-making! Stay tuned.
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The Anti-Depressive Dinner Party
We all get the blues. There’s no way around it. I looked up what the experts have to say about it and they recommend Vitamins. Up your doses of B, C, and D, they say. Buy a natural-light lamp, get some excersize. All of which are good ideas. Some of them may even work, although [...]
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Grilled Pork Chop with Smokey Peach Vegetable Quinoa – $1.40
Three of my favorite things to eat in the summertime are grilled meat, corn and quinoa. Oh, and peaches too. So surprise, surprise, I put them all in one lovely dish that’ll knock your socks off. This is a wee bit of a time consuming dish compared to most of my recipes, but PERFECT for [...]
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Braised Short Ribs over Mashed Red Potatoes – $2.42
I want you to listen to me right now. This is one of the best tasting things I’ve ever cooked. Now, don’t be intimated, and go cook it. This is a dish I always see chefs making and I had never had it before. So here we go!
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Grilled Marinated Venison & Grilled Farmer’s Market Vegetables – $2.39
So instead of being responsible and doing errands this past Saturday, I grilled outside on a beautiful Spring day. This is what I did… BTW, I believe a grill should be a staple for all poor people. You can put just about anything on the grill with no added fat or sauces and it tastes [...]
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Slow Cooker Pot Roast with Roasted Red Potatoes & Corn on the Cob – $2.22
So Cookware.com gave me a crock pot. How nice! Got it just a few days after I ordered it. Say hello. This isn’t your average slow cooker. I represent the old school. My grandmother has one of these and my mom does too. I’ll show you why it’s special throughout this recipe. When I see crock [...]
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Caramelized Onion Stuffed Turkey Burger with Guacamole, Fresh Spinach & Feta – $1.86
If I had a grill, this would’ve been so much better. But it’s all good. I’ve been trying to stay away from bread, hence the bun-less burger, but feel free to make your own with the bun. Start by chopping up 1/2 medium onion or one small onion and putting it in a nonstick pan [...]
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Baked Sweet Potato Fries – $.55
I don’t know about you but most of the time I’m not in the mood to sit down to a huge massive sweet potato without a junk load of butter and brown sugar. Seeing as that pretty much takes away all nutritional benefits, I decided to make a potato into fries so it’s a tad more interesting.
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Quail Egg & Balsamic Glaze over Bacon, Tomato, Chicken & Rice – $1.55
I’ll be honest, when I made this meal I was in the middle of bad day. All I wanted was some comfort food… food I couldn’t really mess up… something that tasted familiar. It’s not a mind blowing meal, or super pretty, or is it the kind of meal you’d want to eat every day [...]
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Balsamic Glazed Mushrooms & Meatballs with Onions & Bacon – $1.21
I’m not sure you can really mess up a dish with mushrooms, onions, bacon and balsamic vinegar. I ended up being so impressed with the flavor, I didn’t actually serve it with any starch at all. It’d be good with pasta if you want, or just serve with bread too. Mmmm…. Start with about 2 [...]
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Creamy Sweet Chili Sauce over BBQ Grilled Chicken and Baked Fries – $1.23
Despite how simple this dish looks, I’ve gotta say this is on my top 10 most enjoyed meals of this site so far. Call me a meat n’ potatoes kind of girl, or a sucker for grilled chicken, but this was delightful. Skip this part if you’ve already got your grill worked out, I just [...]
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Beefy Baby Bella Pasta – $1.39
Ok, don’t get mad at me. When you think “healthy”, you probably don’t think pasta. That’s okay, I’m on the same page. But see… the thing is, sometimes “healthy” is a little…well, relative. Is a bowl of pasta better than a Big Mac, fries and a Coke? Yeah, I think so. Sometimes to me, “healthy” [...]
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Bacon Wrapped Beef Filet over Sauteed Brussel Sprouts – $1.25
When you think brussel sprouts, you probably have some weird childish reaction that resembles a 2-year old scrunching their nose up to food on their plate. If not, great! I had that attitude for so long, until a friend in Slovakia sauteed them in goose fat and salt. I was immediately a fan. I didn’t [...]
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Rosemary & Sea Salt Roasted Mini Red Potatoes – $.38
Yet again, I struck gold at the local farmer’s market by purchasing these lovely mini red potatoes. What’s nice about being able to pick your own potatoes out of a huge mound (instead of paying like 4x as much if someone already picks the mini ones out for you), is that you can choose the [...]
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Red Wine Beef with Onions & Mushrooms over Rice – $1.37
This meal was ridiculous. The flavor was out of this world. It’s like beef stew on crack. It took quite a while to cook so if you’re in a hurry to get in and out of the kitchen, this is not the meal for you. However, perfect for sticking it in the oven before church [...]
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Sauteed Green Beans & Garlic – $.62
Growing up I always disliked beans because we always had canned green beans, which were mushy and not reminiscent of fresh green beans at all. Honestly, I haven’t had much green bean experience until the summer of 2008 when I was introduced to sauteed fresh beans by a wonderful family in my church. We’d get [...]
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Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Sauteed Pork Chops and Apple – $1.15
So the other night I asked one of my roommates, “What kind of pasta can you make without a pasta roller?” since I had like NO food left. I thought, well hey, gnocchi is done by hand but I don’t have any potatoes. Oh yes I do! Sweet potatoes! After asking her, “I wonder if [...]
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Homestyle Chicken & Onion Sauce over Orzo – $.71
Here’s a painfully easy little ditty for those nights you get home from work and just want a nice, simple, homestyle meal without any fancy flavors. Don’t get me wrong, it was super tasty and tasted like something my grandmother would make for me. So cut up about 1/2 small onion and start boiling your [...]
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Pecan Crusted Chicken – $.85
Pecans are kind of a love – hate thing for me. Something happens to the flavor/texture for me when I grind up the pecans in small pieces though, and I suddenly love them. Here’s an interesting way to serve chicken breasts when you have no idea what else to do with them! Real simple… On [...]
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Easy Chicken Marsala – $.99
I said on my Facebook status that I literally had to walk away from this so as to not eat the entire pot. Wow, this was so yummy. I never knew how much I would like these flavors together, and I am a better person now that I love mushrooms. By the way, I don’t [...]
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Savory Apple Stuffed Chicken – $.83
Hmm…so as I look in my fridge I see I have a piece of chicken, an apple, and like one egg left to my name. Ok, this should be interesting. My first thought was to combine the apple with bread to make a sweet and savory stuffing for the inside of the chicken, then breading [...]
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The Easiest French Onion Soup Ever – $.45
This one’s dedicated to all you guys who want to impress your ladies. Two ingredients. You can do this. Chop an onion in half. Lay the 1/2 onion on its’ side and slice it as thin as you can. Put the onions in a heated pan with at least a tablespoon of olive oil. Immediately [...]
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Apple Flax Buckwheat Pancakes – $.11
After dreaming I was an assisting surgical nurse for Jack Shephard from Lost last night, my first thought when I woke up this morning was, “I want some pancakes.” (Welcome to my world.) While searching for recipes, I came across flaxseed pancake recipes. I remembered my Slovak friend had given me a bag of unidentified seeds [...]
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Experimental Black Bean Vegan Burger: Prototype 1 – $.33
Yeah, I’m not gonna’ lie- this is all one big experiment. I plan to improve the recipe by trying again and hopefully hearing some advice from you all who feel like experimenting too! I don’t mind buying veggie burgers, but they still have ingredients that I have no idea where they came from like protein [...]
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Sauteed Garlic Asparagus – $.21
Tonight I debunked my own assumption that asparagus was a bit too expensive for this site. My friends, if you haven’t branched out to cook fresh asparagus, you must! My love for it has been rekindled. And please, for the love of vegetables, do NOT buy canned asparagus even if you’re desperate. What a disgrace. [...]
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Crustless Veggie Quiche – $.24
Would I be correct in assuming that most of us don’t have the time first thing in the morning to make ourselves a huge breakfast? When I work full time, I barely have enough time to brush my teeth in the morning, let alone make breakfast. Last month I wrote about eating fruit for breakfast, which [...]
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The Best (shh, Vegan!) Chili in the World – $.70
I’ll be honest, there are few things out there that I think are better withOUT meat. For me, chilli is one of them. This recipe really doesn’t need meat in my humble opinion. However, if you choose to add some, try adding something more interesting than ground beef. Try kielbasa, chicken, or ground turkey. Watered [...]
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Simple Sauteed Chicken, Red Peppers & Sliced Garlic with Ground Sumac – $1.45
Who says you have carbs in every meal? Who made that rule?! That’s what I want to know. I say if I have nothing but a head of garlic, a piece of semi-freezer burnt chicken and a red pepper in my fridge, I can make a meal out of it! These were taken with my iPhone [...]
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