We’re baaack – this week’s receipt

After an intense 3-day, 275 mile (or so), bike ride in the rain with a fabulous cast of characters, Phil and I are back and ready to eat some real food. Chowing down on steamed vegetables and some sort of pasta every night was not ideal. To see some of our photos from [...]

No Brainer Bread

This is the bread I have been making consistently since starting the $30/Week challenge. I did a google search to find a quick rise/yeast bread recipe and found a few. The best is one from the comments section from Serious Eats. I’ve tweaked it a bit and it is really a no [...]

Or Else You Can’t Have Any Dessert

Go-to example for the vegetable phobic, the brussels sprout is much maligned. This recipe is for the brussels sprout skeptic (Jon, we’re lookin’ at you). This recipe has one huge advantage over most other ways to cook the sprouts and that is this: they don’t end up tasting like pee. This recipe [...]

Back to Basics

Since me and Phil are leaving for our Braking the Cycle bike adventure on Thursday, this week’s trip to the Coop was for the basics.  See below for all of the exciting purchases.

Chapatis

Tina picked up some flour at the coop yesterday so that we could have some bread over the weekend, but having gone out to for drinks at Franklin Park last night (good thing we’re not counting drinks out toward our grocery total – I don’t think our 30 cents would have gotten us very far), [...]

Update: $0.30 Left

I went to the Coop early this morning and got whole wheat flour, cornmeal and 4 packets of Emergen-C as I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather and need all the vitamin C I can get.
The grand total? $3.20

Orzo with Mushrooms, Hazelnuts, Parsley, and Tofu

This was a recipe that I wanted to make on Friday with white beans, but after coming home a bit late from work, I decided my original Thursday night recipe (including brown rice) would take too long. Adaptation! I decided to toast the orzo a bit and then cook it in loads of [...]

Update: $3.50 left for the week

I bought 4 challah rolls yesterday for $1 for the “turkey” burgers. Which means $3.50 left for the week…what to do? Eggs or flour? I might have people over for dinner on Sunday too. Yipes. In terms of vegetables, all is well, but I’m glad that we’ll be out of [...]

Veggie Turkey Burgers

Last night we had “turkey” burgers for dinner. I just kind of threw things together and hoped for the best and damn! they were awesome. The problem with a lot of veggie burgers (with mock meat or otherwise) is that they tend to fall apart. Precooking them in the oven helps out [...]

Homemade Yogurt

Making your own yogurt really isn’t that difficult.  There has been a lot of posts out in the food blog world about making your own and, of course, Mark Bittman has a great bit in his How to Cook Everything Vegetarian. I used the basics from 101 Cookbooks and have been making my own for [...]