Category Archives: pasta & pizza

Shredded Beef Pizza

Sometimes it’s just a simple little twist that comes up with something different.  And for Cheap Bastid that something different is usually a new flavor—OK a new, cheap flavor. That’s what happened last night.  It was pizza night.  I didn’t … Continue reading

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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

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Homemade Lasagna

Everybody’s got a recipe for lasagna I would imagine.  For years I just did the recipe on the back of the box.  Now I pretty much do it out of my head.  I don’t try to get fancy.  And this … Continue reading

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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

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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

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