Columbus discovers corn and peppers
This year I'm celebrating with a Pepper Polenta Pizza. Sweet corn. Sweet and hot peppers. I think Columbus would have liked this. More than 500 years later, it's still just two dollars for a great meal.
Collard Greens: Smoky Two Ways
If the incredibly cheap and healthful collard green hasn't been part of your life, you just haven't been smoking the right stuff. Here's how to light up this dark, leafy green. Two delicious, aromatic ways: one vegan, one with bacon.
Ripe Now: Striped Beet Salad
A delicious and beautiful vegetable course. Takes: less than ten minutes and two dollars. Gives: two huge portions or four smaller side portions; a lot of vitamins B and C and dietary fiber.
Velvet Butter Sage Sauce
Delicious. Takes about three minutes. The ingredients: water, butter, sage (or any other fresh herb). Grow your own herbs, don't use too much butter - it's Cheap. It's Better than any melted butter thing you've ever done.
Apple-a-Day: Apple-Cheddar Pizza Pie
I got a huge bag of apples in my CSA farm share this week, so I'm making an Apple-Cheddar Pizza. Apples are everywhere now - at the seasonal peak flavors and seasonal low prices. Hit the Farmers Market, get some apples and try this for brunch. Or breakfast. Or lunch. Or dinner.
The Island of Potato Marco Canora’s Gnocchi
It's the ultimate Better Cheaper Slower food. Two really Cheap ingredients: flour and potato. Better than any pasta or potato dish I've ever had. When you make it yourself, when you really get it right, you'll be so amazed by every bite you'll eat very Slowly.
Ripe and tasty: squash in soffrito
Squash is everywhere and really cheap right now. Acorn squash, butternut squash, Hubbards, pumpkins. All very cool looking. Especially the Delicata, and it's easy to peel. Even easier to cook if you made a batch of soffrito.
Apple-A-Day: Maple Syrup & Bacon
I don't know about you, but I'm eating a lot of great apples these days. Usually I just pick one up and take a bite. But sometimes I want it to be more like a meal, a real dish. Yesterday, a maple syrup-baked apple with bacon did the trick. Great for breakfast, brunch or lunch.
Flash Roasted Kale Chips
So quick and easy there's no recipe. So tasty they're addictive. So cheap you can afford to eat them until you just can't eat any more. Near zero calories. They look really cool: dark green with ruffled golden brown edges. They're what kale always wanted to be.