Mardi gras recipes with 600 or more calories costing less than $2.5 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.

Canned Apple Pie Filling/ Apple Crisp

Apples are a very versatile fruit. Apples are used in many pastries, pies and salads. I think apples are used…

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…

Strawberry-Blueberry Shortcake

This red, white and blue shortcake is perfect for July 4th!

Cajun Bread Pudding with Praline Sauce

The Praline Sauce is a stand-alone that will add depth and excitement to any cake or pudding, but it marries…

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…

Fried Chicken Coating

Here's a recipe for down-home fried chicken you can rely on. The well seasoned, made in minutes, flour coating makes enough to keep on hand in your…

Italian Monkey Bread

Serious sports fan friends of ours are making pasta for the big game. They’re calling it the “Spaghetti Bowl”. Sorry I couldn’t get the sauce…

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