CheapCooking
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Crab Cakes
Seasoned with Old Bay Seasoning, these crab cakes make a quick dinner. You can make them with canned crab or fresh (or salmon, too, for that matter). If you don’t have Old Bay around, you can mix up a substitute. I like to serve these with a simple tartar sauce.
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Copycat Old Bay Seasoning
I used my old coffee grinder (after washing it out carefully!) to make this Old Bay seasoning. I had some canned crab and used it to make crab cakes last night. Mmmmm! A treat, for sure, but sometimes you gotta splurge!
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Beef Stew with Red Wine and Garlic
Any Patricia Cornwall suspense fans will enjoy this cookbook, Food To Die For: Secrets From Kay Scarpetta’s Kitchen. Food plays an important theme throughout the Kay Scarpetta novels and it’s obvious that the author enjoys herself in the kitchen. Last night I made the Beef Stew with Red Wine and Garlic. Save
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CheapCooking Tools
Taking a break from recipes to write about one of my all-time favorite appliances. I can do without a food processor. In fact, I prefer to chop and slice and dice everything by hand. It seems to take me less time to do that and clean off my board and knife than assemble, chop, and…
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White Chicken Chili
This white chicken chili goes from kitchen to dinner table in about 30 minutes. Start cooking some rice first and everything will be ready at about the same time. Updated to add: I’ve been making this recipe for 14 years now! I vary the beans sometimes if I don’t have any white ones. I add…