The frugal gourmet

[Ursy]

Originally Posted by Chancie

I made delicious pasta tonight. I cooked a pound of spagetti, al dente, and added one pint of cherry tomatoes, roasted with olive oil and pepper, one package of pre washed spinach, and garlic sauteed in olive oil. I threw in a little jar of capers that I think I bought at Aldo's when I was there with drvnsnow and some shredded parmigian cheese.

I so love roasted vegies - really brings out the flavour.
I never really liked sweet potato until I tried it roasted with sour cream on top. That's the best way to have it, if you ask me!

Anyway Chancie, your pasta sounds yum!

Wow Cath, $1.39 a pound is a pretty amazing price. I don't think we'd ever find a special like that here in Australia. The best I've seen is about $4.00 a kilo (now the online converter says 1 kilogram = 2.20462262 pounds, but I don't want to think that hard so let's just say $2.00 a pound) but that's a very rare find. That was for a pork roast.

Meat is getting more and more expensive. The cheapest meat here is turkey mince (something like $2.50 a pound). I imagine it's because turkey meat must be relatively cheap to produce, but I wonder why? Chicken mince and beef mince is more like $5.00 - $6.00 a pound, on average. It would be interesting to do a comparison.

Oh, yeah... but that was Australian dollars... too many variables - I give up!