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  • Spring Spaghetti

    Spring Spaghetti

    thetipsyhousewife

    Dressed To Impress, But Won’t Blow Your Food Budget Spring Spaghetti is a perfect pasta for this transitional time of year. Made with crispy bacon, sweet corn, a little bit of Parmesan cheese and some spring greens, this pasta cooks up quickly and tastes great reheated. I made this recipe when my weekly food budget was at an all time low and it immediately became one of my most favorite meals. Sometimes I substitute the bacon for a ham or sausage. I have even added a tiny bit of ready made Alfredo sauce to this dish to make it extra…

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  • Gyro Meatballs

    thetipsyhousewife

    An Easy Low Carb dinner Mr. Tipsy has Crohn’s disease and a couple of times a year he does a health reset and tries as hard as possible to reduce carbs, sugar, and all that other stuff that is supposedly not great for you. We are by no means super…

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  • Cheeseburger & Fries Casserole

    thetipsyhousewife

    A Lower Carb Burger I am a collector of vintage cookbooks and recipe binders. Some of my favorites are the church cookbooks that are a collection of old recipes collected from their members and printed and sold as a fundraiser. One recipe that I kept seeing repeated from these cookbooks…

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  • Crockpot Smoked Kielbasa and Kraut

    thetipsyhousewife

    An Easy Dish Packed with Flavor This is, hands down one of the easiest recipes you will ever make. Even if you cannot cook, you can make this Crockpot Smoked Kielbasa and Kraut recipe. At the same time, it feels like a dish you’d have to shell out a lot…

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  • Grandma’s Polish Hamburgers

    thetipsyhousewife

    The Ultimate Cozy Comfort Food Grandma’s Polish Hamburgers are a family staple. Tender burgers with unique flavors of mushroom, garlic, and dill simmered in a rich gravy creating a savory delight that is best served over your favorite starch like mashed potatoes, steamed bread dumplings, noodles, or rice. This recipe…

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  • Perfect Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs On The Grill

    thetipsyhousewife

    Doggone Good I grew up in a family where we rarely ate out. We love to cook so if we had a craving for something, we made it ourselves at home. Once in a great while, however, an occasion to eat out would come up and we would go to…

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