Category Archives: Comfort Food

Mexican Noodle Soup

Cheap Bastid is always looking for recipes that promise to be tasty, easy and inexpensive.  Recently I stumbled across a soup which made my mouth water from reading the recipe—and that was good enough to make me save the recipe, … Continue reading

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Hand Pies

I was watching “The Chew” a week or so ago and saw a piece on “Hand Pies”.  Now, to channel my inner George Carlin, a hand pie is a pie that you eat with your hand—“Thank you Captain Obvious!” It’s … Continue reading

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Chicken Breast and Waffle Sandwiches

You let your mind wander over all the different kinds of food and tastes, searching for a flavor that you can cook, for a type of food you can adapt.  Your mouth starts to water and you get an idea:  … Continue reading

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Homemade Refrigerator Cucumber Pickles

It’s been just flat out hot here in the San Diego area for the last couple of weeks.  So hot that we just don’t want to cook and heat up the kitchen.  So hot, we don’t look at the weather … Continue reading

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Shredded Pork Sammiches

I got home last evening, the first in nearly a week, in time to cook something for dinner.  It’s doubtful in the good old U.S. of A. that there’s any occupation that’s as degrading and unrewarding (both personally and financially) … Continue reading

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