Recipe Dump!

So often, I find it difficult to keep up with updates because I cook many of the same 20 dishes in different combos so often.  Not this week!  After the jump find a slew of recipe sources and interesting things to make this Fall...

Amaranth: Everything Old is New Again

I keep running into people talking about Amaranth like it is some sort of alien grain sent from the heavens to confound the kitchen-bound.  It isn't.  It's awesome!  This grain was cultivated 8,000 years ago and just keeps coming back.  It's gluten-free and incredibly versatile.  Join me after the break for a selection of delightful recipes to get you started using this grain.  It's the next quinoa*, I'm convinced.

Reckoning #5

So...how did the menu plan work out this week?  Let's take a look...

	Breakfast	Lunch (Snacks)	Dinner
Monday	coffee, leftover lasagna	caramel rice cakes, potato chips, apple, banana, peanut butter, carrots, snow peas, tea	Butternut Squash and Pasta w/Sage (Milk to drink)
Tuesday	coffee, leftover Squash/pasta	caramel rice cakes, potato chips, apple, banana, peanut butter, carrots, snow peas, tea	leftover butternut squash pasta, milk
Wednesday	coffee, perfect oatmeal, banana and PB	apple and PB, carrots, peas, leftover lasagna, tea	leftover butternut squash pasta, milk
Thursday	coffee, perfect oatmeal	Leftover Lasagna, apple and PB, carrots, tea	Bacon Chicken, Banana "ice cream" with caramel/PB sauce
Friday	coffee, perfect oatmeal	Leftover Bacon Chicken (+freebie meeting food, took the rest of lunch home)	Dinner out w/a friend!

Recipes and notes for this week after the jump...

Ideas for cooking Frugal Food

I recently read a nice resource post on the Moneyning blog: 12 Super Cheap, Super Nutritious Foods You Should Be Eating

And yes, for people who like eating cheaply but also well, these are great foods.  But too often, we read lists like these and wonder how we should incorporate these dishes.  Wonder no more!  I am posting the 12 super cheap healthy foods and recipes you can use with each in a lovely recipe dump after the fold...


Also -- a challenge to myself.  The next time I go grocery shopping, I will endeavor to find these ingredients and meal plan around them. Updates forthcoming.

Reckoning Week 3

So...how did the menu plan work out this week?  Let's take a look...

	Breakfast	Lunch (Snacks)	Dinner
Monday	6 Leibniz biscuits, an apple, a string cheese, and coffee	Grandma's 15-Minute Soup (peas/carrots/grapes, tea)	Baked Brie, (serve w/chocolate, an apple, crackers, & some wine)*
Tuesday	Slice of Poppyseed Cake, Coffee**	Avocado w/S&P, peas, carrots, grapes (6 biscuits w/tea)	Edamame and Pad Thai**
Wednesday	Scone and Coffee	Treated by a friend!	Sweet/Savory Squash (dessert: a slice of fudge)
Thursday	Hot Rice Cereal and Coffee	15-min. soup, crackers (6 biscuits + tea)	carrots, peas, grapes (not eaten at lunch) + the last of the Leibniz
Friday	I'm stuck in New York this weekend, so today was kind of off...Hot Rice Cereal and Coffee	Plane food + half a turkey/avocado sandwich split w/a friend.	Dinner out in Midtown: Sushiya, not bad.

*This was pretty awesome.  My neighbor, who reads the blog, made the baked brie recipe posted earlier last week.  This became (a rather unhealthy if frugal...read: free!) dinner.  I'm kind of touched...and one step closer to an early death via heart disease.  Yum.

**Drove through a Caribou Coffee while taking care of DMV stuff with my car. :(  Should have woken up earlier...and then went out to dinner w/a friend before going to a (free!) author reading/signing. :(( this was not the most food-budget conscious of days.

Recipes and notes for this week after the jump...