Early Fall Pizza
This caramelized eggplant & soffrito pizza is a perfect example of Better being Cheaper. Not just a great $2 pizza. A great pizza, period. Seasonal vegetables, 34 cents worth of pizza crust and a beautiful, colorful finish.
Chocolate Mousse. Tastes like Paris.
A luscious, transporting dessert for about $1 per serving. Rich flavor. Light texture. Like injecting fudge sauce with air bubbles. And cream. Unusually low calorie count.
Killer Potato Chips. Good or Evil?
Make a bowl of your own crisp, light, healthy ones for 20 cents. Or buy a bag of the commercial chips more responsible for long-term weight gain than any other food. Weight gain that leads to diabetes, heart disease and some cancers.
Pear & Lemon Olive Oil Cake
Hard to say if it's better for breakfast or dessert. Depends if you want ice cream with it. Very intense lemon flavor makes it vibrant. Seasonal fresh pears give it a mellow sweetness. Olive oil keeps it moist, light and healthy. Ten minutes to prepare.
Onion soup. The very creamy version.
So satisfying and so easy. And cheap. The weather's cooling down and farmers everywhere are pulling their onions. Should be your first soup of the season. Luscious, deep and sweet onion flavor. NOT a calorie bomb.
When size matters
Pickled Cucumber & Yogurt Soup. A very aromatic, very summery, very light but yogurt-rich soup. Five minutes of preparation. A great Way to use the late summer cucumbers. Like the two-pounder I just grew.
Easier than peach pie
Dessert for a lazy, late summer cookout. A no-labor day dessert. As satisfying as a pie right out of the oven. Without making a pie. Hot. Sweet. Just slightly smoky. A little crumbly. Like a great pie once it's in your mouth. Where it counts.
Flame-Roasted Peppers. In your kitchen.
No grill. No fireplace. You do it right on your stovetop. No pan. No pot. Just direct heat. They're succulent. They're sweet from heat. They're smoky from the direct heat. Now all you need's a fork.
A Peck of Picked Peppers. Pizza
When your CSA farmer picks all the peppers before the hurricane blows them into another county, you gotta do your part. You can pickle them, roast them, freeze them or make a Pepper Harvest Pizza.
Good morning
Seems like morning's the good time to exercise. The best time. Now there are some interesting clinical and survey results that explain the benefits. Especially if you exercise to lose weight and, specifically, to burn fat.n