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Pasta with Eggplant and Tomato

eggplant tomato pasta piled in a bowl and topped with cheese and basil

This recipe is from Good and Cheap.

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I’m away this week on vacation, but I wanted to keep bringing you some tasty summer meal ideas. Here’s one of my favorite, super simple summer pasta dishes from Good and Cheap: Pasta with eggplant and tomato. It’s mid summer so you should be able to get eggplants for a relatively low cost, and you can either grab a can of tomatoes, or make this with fresh tomatoes if you can afford them. Tomatoes are so sweet and delicious right now! The sauce for this pasta cooks in the time it takes to boil the water and cook the pasta. I made it recently and doubled the recipe and it kept very well in the fridge. Keep reading

Spicy, Crunchy, Creamy Polenta

This recipe is from Good and Cheap.

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Good and Cheap is a gorgeous cookbook for people with limited income, particularly on a $4/day food stamps budget. The PDF is free (ahora en Español!) and has been downloaded more than 15,000,000 times. I have more cookbooks, too!

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Three elements make up this lovely, versatile dish. Creamy polenta, silky, sautéd greens and a crispy fried egg. The greens can be whatever you wish, and with all the spring greens out, why not try something new? Almost any green is wonderful sautéd with garlic, a little chili and salty anchovies. If you want more crunch you can cook the greens on a higher heat and blacken the edges a bit.  Keep reading

Broccoli and Cheddar Empanadas

cross section of an empanada filled with broccoli and cheddar

Hot, fresh, flaky, gooey empanadas are one of my favorite late-night exhaustion dinners. We have a great empanada place in the ‘hood so it’s taken me a while to bother trying to make them at home.

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