Gourmet Food on a Budget
Breads, biscuits, pizza dough, scones, basically anything that isn’t batter.
Goat cheese and sun-dried tomato pizza with basil chiffonade is a party for your mouth. It might sound long and complicated, but it’s not. This happens to be my absolute favorite pizza. Once you make pizza at home, you won’t want to order it out again.
If you are looking for an easy and tasty crust, this whole wheat sourdough crust can’t be beaten. It is now our favorite crust and this topping goes very well with it.
These Almond Paste Filled Crescents are made with frozen puff pastry. They are so easy to make, you can have them ready in about an hour. I’ve also got a video showing you how to melt the chocolate for them.
This recipe for food processor blueberry muffins takes an old recipe and uses a new method. These turned out light and fluffy because the butter was incorporated perfectly through the use of a food processor.
Steamed Molasses Brown Bread is easy to make, low fat, and does not require yeast. You don’t even need a loaf pan or an oven. It’s made in a coffee can on top of the stove!
Old Bay biscuits go very well with chowders and other seafood. We had them with homemade Clam Chowder. I cut them into hearts because it was close to Valentine’s Day when I made them. You know, sometimes, you just get tired of round and want something else.
Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits are so nice in the morning with honey and a cup of coffee. They are very easy to prepare with the help of a good food processor. Tired to flat, hard, hockey puck biscuits? Read on.
Sometimes, you wake up in the morning, and you want something really tasty. These Chocolate Praline Scones look like they took a while to make, but they come together in a jiffy. You can have them for breakfast, and if you don’t eat them all, have them for dessert with a little ice cream.
These crackers are made from Josephine’s discard. Who is Josephine? Why she’s the sourdough starter that lives in my fridge. Every time I feed her, I have to discard some of her. This recipe uses that sourdough discard.
I’ll let you know right now. These Sourdough Cheese Herb Crackers are addictive. But, that’s okay because they are a breeze to make. They go very nicely with Pimento Cheese, hummus or just out of hand.
You will be absolutely amazed at how easy it is to have fresh butter just using your food processor. If you have a Braun food processor, even better because it has a variable speed that makes the job even easier. All you need is a food processor and cream – that’s it! For your troubles, you get butter and buttermilk that you can use for scones or biscuits, pancakes, Red Velvet Cake, or other recipes that require buttermilk. This is real buttermilk with little bits of butter in it – not the stuff they sell at the supermarket – this is real buttermilk.