Appetizers & snacks recipes with 600 or more calories costing less than $2.5 per serving added by professional chefs

Cajun Crowder Beans

Also known as Crowder peas, these delicious little fellas can often be found in frozen form at the store. These are fresh picked right here in…

Easy Parmesan Herb Bread

Serve this quick bread with an appetizer dip, butter, hummus, or tzaziki, or slice and toast for sandwiches. It only requires one minute of…

Catalina Dressing

Great marinade for flank steak to be grilled, baked chicken (see links)or as a dressing for mixed green salads. Unfortunately, I just eat it with…

Texas Sweet and Sour Coleslaw

This is a tasty non-mayo coleslaw recipe popular in Texas. It needs to be be refrigerated for several hours before serving.

Sunday Supper Chicken Vesuvio with Gravy

Love this recipe, courtesy of "The Chicago Tribune."

Best Ever Coffee Cake

Best Coffee Cake Ever Adapted from The Pioneer Woman Serves 6-8 Note: this is a half recipe and used a 9-inch square pyrex baking dish

toad in a hole ala nigella lawson

pic doesn't do it justice because when it's done it should look like yorkshire pudding all big and poofy the…

Chicken Spaghetti

Fairly easy to prepare, especially using leftover chicken.

MALAYSIAN FISH BALLS

Bouncy meatballs! My good aunt, Shirley, shared this recipe with me - her secret ingredient is to add the egg (you must stir in in one directions,…

Homemade Self-Rising Flour

Some cookbooks, particularly southern ones, list self-rising flour as an ingredient. Make up a batch of your own and keep it on hand.

New Favorite Chicken and Herb Stuffing Casserole

Found several variations of this on the net, so don't know whom to credit.

Maryland Pot Roast

I made this in my new Roemerkoft, but it will do just as well in a Dutch oven, or crockpot. Secret ingredient: ale.

mother-of-all-cookies

courtesy of http://wearflatstodinner.com/

My New Favorite Meatloaf

Based on Cooks' Illustrated recipe.

Pomegranate Molasses