The beer bread is truly remarkable for its speed, ease, and tastiness, so it wasn’t exactly begging for improvement, but the addition of some wheat flour did prompt me to post yet again, and consecutively, at that, about beer bread, so useful do I find this recipe. If you’re looking for just a wee bit… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Cooking on a Budget
Beat the Clock Beer Bread
Now, if you’re able to raise your head up from your half-drunk (the beer, not you) pint well enough that you think you can still muster a boiled dinner, you’ll be needin’ some bread to sop up some of that there ale you’ve been a-swillin’. Fear not, for even a well-sauced boozebag can handle this… Continue Reading
Why hadn’t I thought of this sooner? Calzones for all!
When I was a kid, my mother was famous for her calzones. I’m not certain how often we actually had calzones, but it seemed like they were perpetually sitting on the counter awaiting the carving of a slice so small as to not be noticed. Mostly because the slicer was sneaking a serving. With three… Continue Reading
Pancetta and Peas Mac and Cheese
I like a rhyming post title/recipe name every now and again. And here we have one. I made this dish on Sunday because a rainy, 33-degree late-February Sunday requires comfort food. Preferably inexpensive comfort food. So with Ina Garten’s macaroni and cheese from Barefoot Contessa Family Style as my guide, I added my favorite uncured… Continue Reading
Leafy Green Lasagna
I felt I had to share this with you today instead of the wine post I had planned because any meat-free dish – and given, this is no diet meat-free dish – that JR requests to have packed for his lunch and then says, “can’t I have more?” upon reviewing his portion, must be a… Continue Reading