Sale Meat Special: Rosemary Garlic London Broil

Oh, what you can do with a good sale and some free stuff!  Times are still tough, and I constantly find myself in need of a healthy, delicious, and satisfying meal on the cheap, the real cheap.  But, I honestly have a hard time sacrificing quality for price.  I struggle with it throughout nearly every [...]

Healthified: Pastelillos

A pastelillo is basically the Puerto Rican version of an empanada.  I grew up eating them and definitely consider them a comfort food.  One more plus…DH is practically a slave to them!  The only problem is, they basically consist of deep-fried pastry dough and greasy ground beef:  not exactly figure-friendly.  While I don’t want to [...]

Healthified: Midweek Medley Meatloaf

So, last week, DH actually did all of the grocery shopping because I was tied up at work.  Like a typical guy, he stocked up on ground beef (to give him credit, he also got lots of my faves…lol).  In an attempt to healthify my standard meatloaf, I decided to use vegetables for at least [...]

Dan’s #1 Shephard’s Pie

A few years ago, my husband, who is of mixed race, discovered that he is mostly Irish on one side.  In honor of his heritage, I set out to learn some recipes typical of Irish cuisine.  So along with soda bread, corned beef and cabbage and a few others, I learned to make shephard’s pie, [...]

Spicy Kafta With Yogurt Sauce

Low on groceries and even lower on money, I took out some ground beef to defrost this morning.  I’m all out of potatoes and we already had rice and pasta this week, so I wasn’t sure what I was going to make.  I did have about half a box of whole wheat couscous.  So, I’m [...]

Meatloaf Meatballs

Yesterday, I promised DH that I would make him meatloaf tonight, but this morning, after seeing a chef make meatballs on the Today Show, he decided that he wanted meatballs.  So, this gave me an idea.  Wouldn’t meatballs still work if I used the same ingredients I use for meatloaf?  I proposed this to him, [...]