Finally Friday

It's Friday and the end of a very stressful week. Yeah! One of the ways you can lower your food bills is to gussy up regular inexpensive food. It makes dinner special, and Nobody knows that it's cheap foods.

French toasted cheese sandwiches

1 tablespoon butter
1/2 cup chopped mushrooms
1/4 cup chopped onion
Pepper

8 slices white bread
6 slices assorted cheeses

2 eggs
3 t milk

1) cook onions and mushrooms. Drain off any liquid.

2) layer cheese, vegetable mixture, cheese and bread.

3) beat eggs and milk.

4) dip both sides of sandwich n egg mixture.

5) spray skillet with cooking spray. Brown sandwiches on both sides until cheese is melted.


Clams are on sale for a buck this week.

Clam cakes

2 egg whites, beaten
2/3 cup bread crumbs
2 T chopped olives
2 tsp Dijon mustard
1 tsp w sauce
2 cans clams, drained
1 T butter

In bowl, combine egg whites, 1/3 cup bread crumbs, mustard and w sauce. Stir in clams. Cover and chill 20 minutes. Toss 1 t melted butter with remaining bread crumbs.

Shape clam cakes using about 1/3 cup mixture for each. Coat each on bread crumb mixture. Place on greased baking sheet. Bake in a 450 degree oven for 10-12 minutes.

Notes: one of the most expensive thongs in the store is bread crumbs ounce per ounce. Save the heels of your bread. The leftover baguettes. I dry them by placing them in a cold oven. When they are dry I process them in the food processor. Before I had one, I grated them on a sheet pan outside. ( so that the birds ate the mess. Why pay for someone else's garbage??..

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Jane