Budget Cooking - Home-Ec 101

Budget-Friendly Ground Beef Stroganoff Recipe

A roll with poppy seeds on a white plate, a plate of ground beef stroganoff over egg noodles with a dollop of sour cream, roasted carrots, and pan seared green beans with multi-colored grape tomatoes, a water glass and a blue napkin

This budget-friendly recipe for stroganoff made with ground beef, mushrooms simmered in a gravy made with paprika, red wine, beef stock and sour cream is excellent for weeknights!

Ground Beef and Gravy—Comfort Food that Saves a No-Good-Rotten-Day

I think when we look back on it, 2020 is going to be the year of comfort food. I have a friend who has a wonderful website and is an amazing resource for everything low carb and keto. (Transparency – She’s also a client at my day job.) I’ve been helping her recently and we’ve …

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Does anyone remember the movie The Money Pit? I now watch this with an all-too-knowing chuckle. Many of you know that I moved into what I refer to as the “fixer-upper” back in October. As there are some truly awful people out on the interwebz I was not very open about the exact state of …

Heather says: I absolutely love albondigas soup, it’s a family favorite, but sometimes I just don’t have the energy to mess with rolling the meatballs. Sometimes I just can’t bring myself to care that much. So on a whim one evening, when I had planned on making the original albondigas, I looked at it and …

Need a weeknight winner? This one pan ground beef recipe for Simple Philly Skillet fits the bill. Beginner friendly and perfect for teaching yourself or kids to cook

Turkey or Beef Taco Skillet

Taco Skillet? Yep. We’re Home-Ec 101 here, and one of my goals for this year is to go back and share those simple recipes that we assume everyone already knows how to make. This is as close to Hamburger Helper™ as you can get without opening a HH box. Sometimes dinner is just thrown together …

This hearty winter skillet is perfect for cold weather and is a budget-friendly meal that is weeknight-friendly,

Spaghetti Sauce Recipe

My inner twelve-year-old is having a field day as I try to describe this spaghetti sauce recipe without sounding like a pervert. In fact, I give completely up, snicker away. It’s a thick and meaty sauce perfect over spaghetti noodles or sauteed vegetables for the gluten-free and low carb crowd. Personally, I prefer zucchini and …

chicken gumbo and white rice in a pale green bowl on a black background

It’s fall, and it’s finally cool enough to switch from salads back to soups and stews, and I’ve been waiting for months to make this recipe for chicken gumbo. This recipe is a good use for chicken thighs or those cheap leg quarters I mention from time to time. This version of chicken gumbo calls …

Some meals are so simple that I’ve forgotten to include them in the recipe files here on Home Ec 101. This easy recipe for Cheeseburger Macaroni is one of the forgotten go-to meals. This quick dinner is great for busy weeknights. It is as simple as it sounds, but the key difference between cheeseburger macaroni …