It's summer, and that means sipping a light, crisp wine on the patio or next to the lake. Sparkling wines, especially the light prosecco...

Though the humidity has backed off a bit, it's still late July in Northern Virginia, which means we're disinclined to turn on the st...

Here in Northern Virginia it is 103 degrees in the shade, with a heat index estimated at about 115 and no relief expected for days to come. ...

First, apologies for the long drought of posts. We were out of town and ran into Internet problems that, like all Internet problems, were bo...

Here in Virginia summer has descended with its usual wallop—scorching temperatures and high humidity without even the occasional thunderstor...

Even if you don't receive a CSA box full of greens every week like we do, you probably either grow them yourself or you find your super...

How versatile is this dish? For one thing, it can be served cold as a salad* or hot as a stew. Room temperature also would work just fine. T...

You never know where you are going to get inspiration for a recipe you love. On our recent visit to South Dakota — not typically a land of c...

Last night we managed to polish off our first half-share box from our CSA. Here's how we did it: Asparagus Risotto Crispy Noodle Ca...

Here's the receipt from a recent trip to the store where we buy our produce. The booty was almost too much to carry, but it will feed us...

Broccoli has its detractors, but we've always liked this year-round vegetable. The worst we could say — and we often did — was that it i...

With the arrival of the weekend one day after our first CSA box of veggies, we decided to open a swell bottle of Zinfandel and a bottle of S...

We finally found a local farm that sponsors a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program — after two years of being without the basket o...

We saw this "sculpture" in a Vietnamese/Chinese restaurant the other day and quickly decided that we were unable to interpret it. ...

As every semi-serious wine drinker knows, the place where the grapes are grown has more to do with the quality of the wine than probably any...

Depending on how seriously you take your omelet-making, it is either fairly easy or really difficult. But there's one thing about omelet...

We think it's probably cheaper to be a vegetarian—depending, of course, on what and where you eat. This s ite lays out one scenario and ...

We are delighted to report that Eat Well, Eat Cheap has been named one of the 50 Best Cheap Eats Blogs by the Culinary Arts Degree website ...

If you see the label pictured next to this write-up, buy it. In fact, buy several. Spanish red wines are a great bargain, and this one stand...

As you know, we're devoted Costco shoppers, to the point that we can't imagine anyone not being a Costco shopper. But often people ...

We cooked adzuki beans for the first time the other day, with no idea what we would do with them. They look like small red beans and have a...

If you are scratching your head for something to make in celebration of Cinco de Mayo, We've got a few suggestions. Viva la Mexico! (B...

We've often said that we've never had a bad wine from the Colchagua Valley of Chile. It might be luck, but we think this little vall...

We love pesto. On pasta, or on pizza. However, there are two potential problems with it. 1. Basil is not available most of the year. 2. If y...

Asparagus is plentiful right now, and although we love this beautiful vegetable roasted , steamed, stir-fried, or merely barely blanched, so...

There are certain bargain wine categories that rarely strike out. Aussie Shiraz. Spanish wines, especially Rioja. Chilean Carmenere, especia...

  The other day we were standing before our open freezer, lamenting the fact that we couldn't squeeze any more food in. Clearly, it was ...

Over the years we've developed a fondness for what we call "porch wines"—unpretentious yet tasty whites that have just enough ...

We're sorry for the long dry spell in blog posts, but unavoidable family business took us out of town. We'll get back on track next ...

A couple of weeks ago we decided, quite on the spur of the moment, to take a four-night trip to Cancún. We've been there many times befo...

There are certain consumer products that are bargains right now. Home repair contractors (because there isn't any work and every builder...

First off, we have to acknowledge that this salad isn't for everyone. Some people (mystifyingly) just don't like Indian food, and ot...

We've written about our beloved mini-whisk , which we use almost every day. A few years ago you could walk into any dollar store and fin...

From left to right, chipotle mayonnaise, teriyaki sauce and wasabi mayonnaise. We mostly grill our fish — unless it is blizzarding outsi...

We've been waiting for a good time to write this post because, let's face it, there are few quicker ways to turn people off than to ...

We've been making Thai coconut-milk curries for years, with mixed results. Sometimes they're too heavy and greasy, sometimes they...

Frankly, we debated whether to write this post, fearing that readers would find it pathologically frugal. But one undeniable fact proved the...

Here at Eat Well, Eat Cheap we're all about eating healthy, so we're always on the lookout for helpful tips that make it easy to buy...