My stomach is full and my wallet is too.
I love to talk about how the principles for eating on a budget and eating healthy are so closely aligned. Fill up on whole grains, trade in some of your meat for beans, legumes, and vegetables, and stay away from packaged convenience foods! While they do run parallel, it's no secret that I also tend to rely on inexpensive pasta and ...
I'm not done with cabbage yet! Hahah, okay, I really am sorry about all this cabbage lately, but I still had half a head in my fridge and a thoughtful reader emailed me a recipe with a new cabbage technique that I wanted to try. Yes, "cabbage technique" is a thing. :D Anyway, this new technique for preparing cabbage really did make this ...
I really like having pre-cooked chicken in the fridge that I can use to quickly whip up a sandwich or wrap, or add protein to a bowl of pasta, salad, or one of my "leftovers" bowls. While I often use a rotisserie chicken for this purpose, they are sometimes just too salty and we have a hard time going through a whole chicken between the ...
I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm a bit obsessed with cabbage lately. It's inexpensive, healthy, and lasts a long time in the fridge. Because I always seem to have some in my produce drawer, it seemed like a perfect time to finally make colcannon, a recipe I've wanted to try for YEARS. ...
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas yesterday! I decided to take advantage of this "holiday hangover" day to compile my very favorite recipes of 2016. I've been making these year-end recipe round ups since my very first year of blogging and every year the list seems to get longer. As I sat down last night to review the recipes from ...
I was craving a stir fry with those delicate little rice noodles and a salty, spicy, curry based sauce this week, so I revisited my original recipe for Singapore Noodles, increased the curry powder (because I wanted FLA-VOR), threw in some crispy pan fried tofu, and a bag of Slaw mix. <--- That's me being too exhausted from holiday ...
Sweets are not my strong suit, so when another blogger offers to let me publish one of their cookie recipes, I'm all about it. Because I know you guys like cookies, right? These Chocolate Glazed Orange Macaroons (OMG YUM) come to you today courtesy of Sally McKenney from Sallysbakingaddiction.com. She's one of my favorite dessert bloggers ...
Happy Friday! In my on going quest to help ease new cooks into the kitchen, I've created a new category at Budget Bytes called Extra Bytes. This is a place where I will share kitchen tips, helpful food information, recipe roundups, product reviews, and more. You can find all the posts in the Extra Bytes category through the link in the ...
Last week I saw an amazing photo for some Slow Cooker French Dip Sandwiches from Carlsbadcravings.com and I couldn't stop thinking about them. I wanted those sandwiches and I wanted them bad. But then I thought, "What if I tried to make vegetarian French dip sandwiches?" and then I was on a mission. The recipe turned out really amazing on ...
Last week I had the honor of attending Morton Salt's Next Door Chef pop up restaurant event here in New Orleans. This event, which has taken place in two other cities across the country, paired an acclaimed chef with a local resident to create an extraordinary meal using sea salt and Kosher salt to elevate flavors and textures. And ...
