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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Junk Yard Salad
Junk Yard Salad is a really sweet salad recipe with sweetened condensed milk, pineapple, and cherry pie filling. Have this salad in your recipe box ready, when you only…
Chilled Radish Buttermilk Soup
This cool cucumber and radish soup gets its richness and tangy flavor from a carton of buttermilk. Serve on a hot and humid day, with paper-thin slices of…
Classic Corn Fritters
Whip up a batch of corn fritters for breakfast, lunch or dinner, they’re super speedy and simple to prep. Or pair them with a bacon and radish salad for…
Salt and Pepper Tater Tots
Ingredients 1 bag (about 32-oz.) of tater tots 1 diced Thai red chile (or Serrano pepper) 2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon white pepper 1/2 teaspoon Chinese…
Instant Pot Greens
Before adding the greens, you can build flavor by browning onions/garlic and/or bacon or ham using Instant Pot’s Saute Function. Or the greens can simply be batch-cooked alone…
Okonomiyaki (Japanese Cabbage Pancake)
This cabbage pancake is a popular dish throughout Japan and is easily adapted to one’s preferences. While the fillings and toppings can vary, from pork and fried eggs…
Dolly Parton’s Coleslaw
Crisp cabbage, carrot, onion, and bell pepper come together in a creamy dressing with sweet pickle juice and a little vinegar. This sweet-and-tangy coleslaw is an easy companion…
Turmeric Rice
A warm bowl of fragrant and gorgeous turmeric rice is the kind of side dish that immediately elevates any meal. It also just happens to be incredibly easy…
Perfect Instant Pot Jasmine Rice
Make Perfect Instant Pot Rice (Pressure Cooker Rice) with this easy Foolproof method. Fragrant and fluffy white rice ready in 15 minutes. Set it and forget it, no…
Air Fried Okra
Air Fried Okra is breaded in a seasoned flour and cornmeal mixture, then spritzed lightly with oil and air fried to crispy golden brown perfection in minutes. A quick…
