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: Italian
Cheap and Easy Calzone
We love to kick back on the sofa on Friday nights, paper plates of pizza on our laps, feet up on the edge of the coffee table to watch some TV and relax—enjoying one another’s company and feasting on some … Continue reading
Posted in baking, Comfort Food, family meals, Italian, kids meals, pasta & pizza
Tagged calzone recipe, calzones, calzones recipe, cheap and easy calzone recipe, cheap and easy calzones recipe, cheap calzone recipe, cheap calzones recipe, easy calzone recipe, easy calzones recipe, homemade calzone recipe, homemade calzones recipe, italian calzone recipe, italian food recipe
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Saucy Meatballs and Grits
“Comfort food always has something gloppy in it” was Mrs. CB’s definition this morning when we got to talking about the dinner I made last night. Saucy Meatballs and Grits is definitely comfort food and I think Mrs. CB hit … Continue reading
Posted in Comfort Food, family meals, Italian, Southern Cooking
Tagged cheap meatball recipe, cheap meatballs and grits recipe, cheap meatloaf and polenta recipe, cheap polenta recipe, cheesy grits recipe, easy grits recipe, easy meatball and polenta recipe, easy meatball recipe, easy meatballs and grits recipe, easy polenta recipe, grits recipe, italian grits recipe, italian meatball recipe, meatball recipe, meatballs and grits recipe, meatballs and polenta recipe, meatloaf and polenta with sauce recipe, polenta recipe, saucy meatloaf and polenta recipe
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Homemade Stromboli
We love our weekly homemade pizza that is totally from scratch. I make 2 “balls” of crust dough and freeze one so I don’t have to make dough every week. It comes out of the freezer the day before I … Continue reading
Posted in baking, family meals, Italian, party and entertaining food, pasta & pizza
Tagged appetizer recipe, authentic strombili recipe, cheap stromboli recipe, easy stromboli recipe, entertaining recipe, homemade appetizer recipe, homemade Stromboli recipe, italian appetizer recipe, italian party food recipe, italian stromboli recipe, party food recipe, Stromboli recipe
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Italian Sausage, Pasta and 10-Minute Sauce
I don’t know if I’ve written about this before—and in case I have, this will just be another version or a “re-run”—but sometimes I like making up a really quick pasta supper that leaves out the “red sauce” but still … Continue reading
Posted in family meals, Italian
Tagged easy spaghetti dinner recipe, Italian Sausage and pasta recipe, italian sausage dinner recipe, italian sausage recipe, Italian sausage with pasta and 10 minute sauce recipe, light pasta recipe, light pasta sauce recipe, light spaghetti recipe, quick spaghetti dinner recipe
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A Back to School Favorite! Pizza Chicken
You know, it’s totally possible to have a family meal together every night. There’s no need to call Chili’s for carry-out or troop over to Quiznos. With just a bit of planning you can have a meal ready to go … Continue reading
Posted in Comfort Food, family meals, Italian, turkey & chicken
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