for a good while before carving. It was beautiful and perfect. My MILs rolls – they rose just the right amount and the bottoms weren’t burned, even though the oven had been on all day and it’s a cheap POS. Yay!...

There’s a lot of good Polish food in Chicago but it’s not downtown. A fairly close place (the opposite of elegant but famous for its huge cheap home-cooked all-you-can-eat “Polish smorgasbord” is The Red...

" If not for the protectionist policies, many of these people would have been put out of business by cheap imports of, for example, rice. Yes, many consumers would be prepared to pay more for, say, high-quality Japanese rice, but...

Ok, I’m about to be a newly-wed and my future mother in law gave me this amazing recipe that is sooo simple. Everyone always LOVES it...easy and cheap! perfect for a college student. Rueben casserole. one pound deli corned...

I’m housebound at my mother’s for this blizzard, surveying a cupboard full of the canned items of my youth (exactly what exploded me into houndhood when I first got out of the house and realized food could have...

. Including coffee. I’m not paying $2 for coffee, so this dropped off our list. Newman’s was closed for the holiday (Halloween or Nevada Day, take your pick), and the window sign indicated it was a weekday joint....

, Mariachi Loco for great “authentic” Mexican, a neighboring newcomer, “Ribs on the Run” has some good BBQ — its not Daisy May’s and its not Blue Smoke, but its closer than Valhalla’s...

Zabar’s was no good either? Just wondering, if price was a factor? Hey, when we were in ChiTown (great town)in September, the prices were not cheap.

Fried Spam and grits. Stick pudding stirred into grits. Turns the whole thing gray but is delicious. Tuna casserole made with Kraft Dinner, Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup (cheap, if you buy it in packs from Sam’s...

These days “San Marzano” appears on just about every other can of tomatoes. I don’t think you can categorically praise or dismiss San Marzanos any more – the specific brand probably has far more to do with...

wrong with it. Maybe if I got to go there on a weekly basis I would appriciate more. The other thing I noticed that for regular grocery items it was NOT cheap or even competitive with the other chains. It would seem to me that...

hogs, the amount of lard found in a kitchen dropped. Cooking oil was a cheap and easy substitution If you make a french roux, use butter, and only cook the flour for a minute or two. 2 or 3 Tbsp of this roux will thicken the same...

Orly’s is run by really nice people. And it’s cheap. And the portions are large. And the drinks are strong and inexpensive. But the food is pretty humdrum. There was a place downtown near Clark years ago that claimed...

...it was the 2001. I thought...that might be getting a little long in the tooth, there. Asked the proprietor, who said, “I'm really not sure; I don't know much about it.” But it was cheap, nine dollars and tax, so no...

Oh, yeah...one more “sleeper” of a place...NUTRIPAN, has dee-dee-li-cious Colombian baked goods and a steam table featuring cheap and Chowhound-worthy arroz con pollo AND their earthy TRIPE stew. It’s on...