Budget
Budget recipes draw on inexpensive ingredients and familiar staples. Omelettes, zucchini pancakes, and other preparations offer starting points when keeping ingredient expense low is part of choosing a meal.
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Onion Flowers
Ingredients 6 medium red onions or sweet onions (such as Walla Walla), skin on, roots intact 6 tablespoons olive oil, divided Salt (smoked is delicious here) Herbs-either a…

Steve’s Tomato Sauce
Ingredients 2 14.5-ounce cans Diced Tomatoes with Green Peppers, Celery & Onions 5 Tablespoons butter 1 Tablespoon Thai Fish Sauce Preparation Combine the tomatoes, their juices, the butter…

Pineapple, Basil, and Cucumber Salad
Grill pineapple to give it a charred touch before tossing it with basil and cucumber. Ingredients 1/2 cored pineapple, cut into 1/3-inch-thick half- or quarter-moons 1 small cucumber,…

Summer Squash Soup
Nourishing, comforting and cool, this soup will settle you down and warm your soul. With the last days of summer quickly drifting by, you can capture this season’s…

Okra Patties
Ingredients 1 lb fresh okra or 1 (18 ounce) bag frozen cut okra 1/2 cup onion (chopped) 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1 large egg 1/2 cup…
Buffalo Wild Wings Garlic Parmesan
Ingredients 6 cloves garlic, peeled 2 Tablespoons olive oil 1/2 cup mayonnaise or plain yogurt 1 Tablespoon corn syrup 2 Tablespoons parmesan cheese 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1…

Basic White Sauce – A Vitamix Version
This is the launching pad for many recipes, and for many of additional experiments. Everyone should know how to make a Basic White Sauce. The Vitamix just makes…

English Bread Sauce
Ingredients 1 onion, peeled but left whole 4 whole cloves 200ml milk 2 bay leaves fresh white breadcrumbs salt and crushed black pepper 50g butter Procedure Stud the…

Madras Potatoes
Madras Potatoes comes from the Southern part of India in a town called Madras. In 1996 Madras became Chennai and has a population of around 4 million people.…

Dulce de Leche – Sous Vide Version
Ingredients 6 half-pint jars and lids, sterilized in boiling water for 15 minutes 3 (14-ounce) cans sweetened condensed milk Preparation Set the Anova Sous Vide Precision Cooker to…
