North american dinner party recipes with 600 or more calories costing less than $2.0 per serving

Fish Batter

This homemade batter is light and fluffy and perfect to coat your favourite fish fillets. Tastes like the crispy fish usually found in good fish…

Banana Split Cake

Tasty desert reminiscent of a banana split but much easier to serve.

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…

Chocolate Rum Pecan Pound Cake

Let us celebrate holiday baking with this incredible chocolate pound cake. It’s great for holiday entertaining since it makes such a striking…

Applesauce Cake Made From Scratch

This cake has become a family tradition during the holidays. I look forward to Christmas just to eat this…

Cajun Chicken Linguine Alfredo

A bit spicy, a bit creamy, this decadent pasta brings a classic Chicken Alfredo to a whole new level. It’s bursting with flavor and spice thanks to…

Roasted Spring Chicken

Roasted Spring Chicken

Lemon Cheesecake

What do you do when a friend gives you a bunch of lemons from her yard and you have cream cheese in the fridge that needs to be used up? Make a…

Ruby's Creole Bread Pudding & Butter Rum Sauce

NEVER throw stale bread away! You have the base for an absolutely delicious Creole bread pudding that will…

Basic Easy Pie Crust

For my grandmother, Eva Koehler, this was what passed for "easy." For me, easy means opening the box and removing the sleeve, cutting the end and…

Twice Baked Potatoes with Bacon and Cheese

Learned this from my western friends. This is how they showed me; just the easiest way to do it and it tasted…

Potluck Cheeseburger Mac

We were invited to a potluck at our community center and asked what we should bring. The resounding vote was: meat! Spending the afternoon with our…

Chocolate Boston Cream Cake

Coconut Layer Cake with Fluffy Coconut Icing

A light and moist yellow coconut layer cake with a hint of apricot preserves under fluffy white boiled icing…

Cinnamon Pita Chips