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Recipes with olive oil

Cheap Dinner*: Homemade Late Summer Pizza

September 21, 2009

Cheap Dinner*: Homemade Late Summer Pizza

The standout here is the homemade pizza crust. If you have never done this before, don’t be scared. It’s really easy. The hardest part is waiting for the dough to rise for ~2 hours.

Quick and Cheap Dinner: Broccoli and Rice Confetti Salad

September 20, 2009

Quick and Cheap Dinner: Broccoli and Rice Confetti Salad

This is a lovely salad that I modified from a recipe in Quick Vegetarian Pleasures. The rice will take 45-60 minute to cook depending on how you go about it. I like to cook rice in a steamer so it takes me closer to an hour. Most of that time is hands off because the rest of the recipe comes together quickly.

Quick and Cheap Dinner: No-Cook Couscous and Heirloom Tomato Salad

August 8, 2009

Quick and Cheap Dinner: No-Cook Couscous and Heirloom Tomato Salad

I’m all about no-cook recipes right now. It’s been brutally hot and humid here and the last thing I want is to apply more heat by cranking up the stove. I found this recipe on Real Simple and adapted it below.

Quick and Cheap Dinner: Hippie Salad with Chicken

August 3, 2009

Quick and Cheap Dinner: Hippie Salad with Chicken

No, there aren’t two kinds of meat in this salad! Hippie meat tends to be a bit gamey for my taste, yuk yuk yuk. I call this Hippie Salad because it contains two grains that hippies love: bulgur and quinoa.

Quick and Cheap Dinner: Yes, It IS That Easy Tomato Sauce

June 25, 2009

Homemade tomato sauce is one of life’s simple pleasures. Unfortunately, most folks rarely get to indulge because tomato sauce has a reputation for being labor intensive. I have one thing to say about that: PSSSHHH!

Quick and Cheap Dinner: Double Boil Pasta Madness

June 15, 2009

This is a weekend meal for me, mostly because it takes about 30 minutes to prepare. I realized when planning for this dinner that I was gonna dirty up quite a few pots, so I made one pot do double boil duty.

Quick and Cheap Dinner: Omelet on a Pita and Tomato Soup

May 18, 2009

I call this thing I just made up Omelet on a Pita because it’s basically the same ingredients I would whip together for a Sunday morning omelet, except they’re not actually IN an omelet. Just read on and I’ll explain myself.