Remember yesterday when I did a post on homemade Friday Night Pizza? Here’s a link: http://www.cheap-bastid-cooks.com/homemade-pizza/
Well the pizza in that post was from last Friday night. Last night I thawed out the dough ball that I stuck in the freezer last Friday and made another version.
We’ve been trying to get more vegetables into our diets recently so we thought we’d load up with veggies on this week’s pizza. Now I’m a confirmed carnivore so I just had to have some meat on it so this has about 6 ounces of ground beef. But I guarantee you that the next time we make this particular pizza that it will be all vegetables.
Here’s what it looks like:
The toppings on this (in addition to the ground beef and cheese) were red bell pepper, fresh jalapeno pepper, onion, mushroom, zucchini and marinated artichoke hearts—all with a light sprinkle of “Italian Seasoning” from the dollar store. The total for the toppings was about $2.50 and that’s because I used half a small jar of marinated artichoke hearts that cost $1.99.
This was just flat out tasty. Give it a try.
That’s the Cheap Bastid Way: Eat Good. Eat Cheap. Be Grateful!
About Walter Blevins
My wife started to call me Cheap Bastid a while back because I enjoyed coming up with dinners that cost next to nothing--and making them taste good. Yeah, I love to cook. And I love to cook good food cheap.
I'm not a chef and I'm definitely not anything close to a gourmet. I'm just a home cook who grew up in a home where cooking was from scratch and was a little bit Midwest and a little bit country. That's because my Mom was from Michigan and my Dad was from Kentucky.
I started sharing recipes when my daughter called me in 2006 and asked for my recipe for Swiss Steak. That year for Christmas I put together a cookbook for my 2 kids called "Dad's Everyday Cookbook and Kitchen Survival Guide". And I heard back that they both use it regularly. It was full of basic recipes that I had cooked for them when they were growing up.
I work hard at creating recipes that are original and creative and inexpensive. You won't find a foo-foo foodie approach to my recipes and style. I believe that it's OK for food to go up the side of a plate. Food is for eating--it doesn't have to be pretty. And I write about my cooking and my recipes so that I can share them.
I hope you enjoy these posts. Leave me a comment--that you liked something or that you didn't, it doesn't matter. I'd love to hear from you.
Thank you for your comment. I am always motivated by making delicious food on a really tight budget. I am no “gourment” cook, just a home cook with a passion for good, simple food.
Walt