About Me
My wife started to call me Cheap Bastid a while back because I enjoyed coming up with dinners that cost next to nothing--and making them taste good. I'm just a home cook who grew up in a home where cooking was from scratch and was a little bit Midwest and a little bit country. I love to cook and I love to cook good food cheap. And I write about my cooking and my recipes so that I can share them with you.
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Category Archives: Beef Recipes
“Meatloaf, Smeatloaf, Double Beatloaf”
OK, time for one of my favorites that I just have to have every few months. Homemade old-fashioned meatloaf. Beaver Cleaver used to complain about it. So did Richie Cunningham. But they both ate it—begrudgingly. Their perfect Moms made imperfect … Continue reading
Posted in Beef Recipes, Comfort Food, family meals, Southern Cooking
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Old Fashioned Patty Melt on Rye
Sometimes regular old hamburgers seem so humdrum that you’d just like something a little different. There’s cheeseburgers and sliders, double burgers and imitation “Big Macs” but what else is there? Have you ever been in a café scanning the menu, … Continue reading
Posted in Beef Recipes, Comfort Food, family meals, grilling, sandwiches
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Family Sketti Night in a Half Hour
Yeah I know, it’s been done to death in the “blogosphere” and in cookbooks and by your Mom and your Grandma. But, when you’re hungry or have hungry kids and you want a quick “sit-down” dinner that’s filling and good, … Continue reading
Posted in Beef Recipes, Comfort Food, family meals, pasta & pizza
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Homemade Beef and Bean Tostadas
As a teenager in the 1960’s I was never exposed to Mexican food—at least until we moved my junior year of high school and a lot of my friends from high school liked to go to “Casa Mora” in Grand … Continue reading
Posted in Beef Recipes, family meals, kids meals, Mexican
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Homemade Reuben Sandwiches
The other day I wrote about grilled Corned beef and how easy and tasty it is. So, what do you do with the leftovers? That’s really easy—make a homemade Reuben sandwich that is as tasty as anything you’ll get at … Continue reading
Posted in Beef Recipes, left overs, sandwiches
Tagged cheap homemade corned beef recipe, corned beef, corned beef leftovers, deli corned beef reuben sandwiches, easy homemade reuben sandwich recipe, grilled corned beef, homemade reuben sandwich recipe, leftover corned beef reuben sandwich recipe, sauerkraut
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