I don’t watch cooking shows very often, but these black bean burgers on Sandra Lee’s Money Saving Recipes were intrigued me. My parents came down on Wednesday to stay with us so my mom and I could start on Thanksgiving preparations. I knew they are always willing to try new foods and enjoy low fat…
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Beef Tostada Recipe with all the Fixings
My youngest has a new friend spending the night and asked for tostados for dinner, a perfect request since we had a perfect ripe avocado. I pulled some ground turkey from the freezer and cooked it up with some taco seasonings. A while back I bought a container of taco seasoning but I actually prefer…
Oh So Simple White Bean and Ham Soup Recipe
This is from The Supper Book: 10th Anniversary Edition by Marion Cunningham. Kind of funny–you can buy a hardcover of this on Amazon (used) for $3 (plus shipping) but the paperback version, that I have is $8 (still a deal!). This is so simple, but so delicious. Certainly frugal, let’s see $1 for the beans,…
Sausage, Red Beans and Rice Recipe
I had a kielbasa sausage that need using up the other night and was also in the mood for beans and rice. This was a pre-cooked kielbasa sausage, just fyi. First I started the rice in my rice cooker, then I went on to the rest. I would have used a green pepper if I’d…
Ground Beef and Bean Burritos
Tonight’s dinner was a total throw-together based on a request for “something Mexican” and what I had in my freezer and refrigerator. I thought of past burrito recipes and modified several. You could easily turn this into a Mexican burrito casserole kinda dish if you wanted to cook up the beef, bean and salsa mix,…