Your Best Dirt Cheap Dinner.

#1 Sausage and Kale Dinner Tart 



Here's how you impress dinner guests without chipping away at your bank account. A flaky pastry base and judicious amounts of ricotta, white wine, and fresh basil go a long way in dressing up the rustic kale and sausage filling. With this beauty, you've got yourself a dinner party--all that's left is a big green salad and plenty of wine. 

See the second entry after the jump.

#2 World's Easiest Falafel and Tzatziki



We'd never made falafel from scratch before and were astonished at how easy--and fun--it could be. One bite into a pita stuffed with freshly crisped falafel, doused in your perfect tzatziki and a few shakes of hot sauce, and ordering take-out will seem like too much trouble.

So what say you?