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  Are you looking for under ten dollar quality meals to feed your family? You've come to the right place. These five meals cost under ten dollars to make and taste like a million. To get to the recipes, just click on the photos! Costs have been updated since the date of the original posts. CHICKEN PICCATA  - $9.94 This dish is so simple to execute. The capers give the dish a salty and tangy flavor while the lemon cuts through the richness from the butter. White wine balances out all of the flavors so that you get a really tasty mouthful. There's not much wine in the dish and is fine for kids too. This dish is served on so many wedding buffets so you can be sure that it's elegant enough to serve your guests. The chicken piccata was served with rice and zucchini for that easy cheap dinner. PORK CHOPS MARSALA WITH APRICOT SAUCE - $7.89 I really love cooking with marsala wine. It imparts such a nice flavor to any dish. In addition to this pork chop recipe I have added it in chi

  AS AN AMAZON ASSOCIATE I EARN FROM QUALIFYING PURCHASES Best Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes - light, fluffy, full of berries - the best buttermilk blueberry pancakes you and your family will thoroughly enjoy whether it's weekend brunch or weeknight meal time. Who doesn't love pancakes? There are so many ways to make them with all sorts of ingredients added in, but my favorite is blueberry pancakes. I had some blueberries in the refrigerator that needed to be used so making blueberry pancakes made perfect sense. My husband loves them too and he was beyond thrilled when I told him I was making him Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes. The original buttermilk recipe was given to me by a good blogging friend Mary. Her website is Bunny's Warm Oven and she bakes the most delicious treats! I've tweaked the recipe just a tad as I need to watch sugar and sodium intake. I hope you and your family enjoy the Best Clueberry Buttermilk Pancakes! 3 cups all purpose flour 3 cups buttermilk

  AS AN AMAZON ASSOCIATE I EARN FROM QUALIFYING PURCHASES Easy Side Dish: Asparagus Fries goes with seafood, beef, pork or poultry meals. Asparagus are baked with a crunchy coating of Parmesan-Reggiano and panko bread crumbs for a delicious side dish recipe. We are big asparagus fans in our house. I have steamed them, roasted them with olive oil and salt and pepper adding some parmesan or gruyere cheese at the end of the cooking time. My new love are these Asparagus Fries - they are so tasty and so easy to prepare. I love the slight crunch on the outside because of the panko and the flavor from the Parmesan-Reggiano cheese. Luckily Asparagus is readily available year round. You don't have to wait for Spring or early Summer to find them. It's a good thing that we now have the ability to make Asparagus Fries all year long. This easy side dish recipe will become one of your favorites as they bake in 10 minutes and the prep time isn't long either which makes it great for weekni

  AS AN AMAZON ASSOCIATE I EARN FROM QUALIFYING PURCHASES Baked Ham with Orange Glaze is an easy recipe. The glaze is made with orange marmalade, mustard, sherry and orange juice. You are going to love the ease of preparation and mostly the results. This easy baked ham is going to be the standout on your holiday buffet. I absolutely love my collection of Williams Sonoma cookbooks. They give me great inspiration for dinners, side dishes, desserts - just about anything I want to cook. That's where the inspiration came from - their recipe with a spin of my own. This truly is the best method for baking ham. The glaze has a nice tang and zip from the mustard and a mellow sweetness from the marmalade and pineapple juice. Easter is just around the corner. I like to plan ahead and you probably do too. When I think about the protein I always come back to ham as my store generally starts them on sale a few weeks before the actual holiday. Since ham is cryovac it keeps in the refrigerator fo

AS AN AMAZON ASSOCIATE I EARN FROM QUALIFYING PURCHASES Brown Rice Pilaf works well as a side dish, however it can also be a meal all by itself. It's healthy, it's delicious and it is so inexpensive! I've taken a simple box of store bought rice and elevated it into a wonderful side dish. Brown Rice Pilaf has carrots and peas and instead of the sodium laden flavor packet I've used chicken broth and my own dry spices. If you want a vegetarian side dish or meal, simply substitute vegetable broth in place of the chicken broth. A while back I wasn't feeling well and a good friend brought me a goodie basket and the Near East rice was included among the other sweet things she had in the basket. I've been wanting to try the rice but I didn't want all the sodium. The packet is loaded with sodium - so my advice is get rid of that packet and make this simple recipe! I found a nifty and handy product while shopping at my super Walmart grocery store. Delmonte has fully c

  AS AN AMAZON ASSOCIATE I EARN FROM QUALIFYING PURCHASES If you've never cooked a corned beef or even if you have, this informative post is for you! It's taken me a number of years to master the art of cooking corned beef. The two cuts of corned beef come from the brisket which is located above the front leg on the cow. There are two cuts: point cut and flat cut. The point cut is a bit more round than the flat and has more marbling and fat. The flat cut which is also round is leaner and easier to slice.  I've cooked both and both are delicious but I tend to go for the point cut as it is generally less expensive than the flat cut. How much to buy? For the two of us I get a 3 pound or so corned beef. There is a lot of shrinkage when cooking so this is perfect for us - we have a bit left over for sandwiches. For a family of four I would go for 5 pounds when you consider how much they shrink.  Figure 3/4 pound per person as a rule of thumb - 1 pound per person if you want left

AS AN AMAZON ASSOCIATE I EARN FROM QUALIFYING PURCHASES Blueberry Bundt Bread is scrumptious. Studded with fresh blueberries and nuts it's the perfect have your girlfriends over for coffee type of dessert bread. Blueberry Bundt Bread gets a crispy top and the inside is moist and tender. You get the flavor of the bananas, the berries and the crunch of the nuts all in one delicious bite after bite. I'm having my girlfriends over for cards so I decided that I would make this bread to have with a cup of coffee or tea prior to getting down to the card game. Trust me it will be a welcome addition to the table.  This recipe is easy to make and you probably have most all of the ingredients in your pantry. I love making this when I can get my berries or nuts on sale too. If you don't have access to fresh berries for some reason, use frozen. This bakes in a Bundt pan  (found via the link). If you don't have a Bundt pan, you can use a standard bread pan  or a tube pan works well t