Cheapo Recipe: Apricot-Cranberry Relish

This is a treasured recipe that has been in my family for years. We make this sparkling ruby delight for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners — and it’s always a big hit. Once you’ve tried this lip-smacking relish, you’ll never go back to an ordinary cranberry sauce (or, eek, cranberry jelly from a can) again.

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Cheapo Recipe: "Plumble" (Plum Crumble)

This is a recipe for a DELICIOUS plum crumble dessert, adapted from another recipe by tweaking it just a little. After finding a variety of locally grown plums at a farmers’ market, I searched for a way to serve them, other than simply eating them up. The finished product was one of the richest, most [...]

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Cheapo Recipe: Scrumptious Sourdough Bread

Now that you’ve read our post with instructions for making your own sourdough starter – a.k.a. the Mother Sponge – you’re ready to make the bread. The process is made infinitely easier with a KitchenAid stand mixer, but if you don’t have one, make the arm-tiring labor more endurable by putting yourself into the mindset [...]

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Cheapo Recipe: San Francisco Sourdough Starter

My aunt from Oklahoma called today and we had a pleasant chat about her desire to make homemade French onion soup. She’d been looking at recipes in a cookbook that I’d bought for her in Paris. Then she sighed, complaining that she wouldn’t be able to make the proper crusty bread accompaniment, “because you can’t [...]

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Frugal Football Finger Foods

Shannon loves to watch college football on Saturdays, while I would rather whip up an improvisational snack in the kitchen. We put our heads together and devised some frugal football finger foods: snacks that keep the tradition of cheesy nachos and hot wings alive, yet are healthier and cheaper deals for Saturday afternoon noshing.

Not coincidentally, [...]

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