Your fave "splurge" recipe

**shoiji** · 02-02-2008, 12:51 PM

The lobster feast reminds me of what I would do with snow crab legs. A chinese buffet would serve them. I would go with someone else and basically we would be waiting for the waiter to fill the tray again with crab legs. It got to the point where the waiter would tell us a new batch of crab was coming out so we could get in line. LOL.

**DixieJ** · 02-06-2008, 03:56 PM

Defintely anything with seafood, pasta, cheese it in. If there's a little heavy cream added even better. Not the kind of stuff I eat very often, but I sure enjoy it when I do. I also like a good tender ribeye steak.

Dixie Jean

**FrugalWitch** · 02-13-2008, 03:22 PM

Snowcrab legs, king crab legs, lobster, shrimp, ribeye steak, and lasagna. I have Cristal champagne tastes and a Budweiser budget.

**cissylu** · 02-25-2008, 07:48 PM

This all sound`s good ! I think the chineese buffet is my favorite.

**Michelle** · 01-17-2009, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by Edna_E

A cake that takes 17 oz of dark chocolate - and I use high quality dark at that - and orange liqueur! It's a sinful dish - financially and wieght-wise!

Originally Posted by Lady_V

Kahlua Truffle Layer Cake

Would you mind sharing your recipes please? TIA

**homesteadmamma** · 01-17-2009, 10:00 PM

It would have to be lasagna.

**walker24** · 01-17-2009, 10:03 PM

Halibut parmesan. I looooove halibut but it's so expensive.

**Elizabeth CM** · 08-07-2009, 01:31 PM

For us, the "splurge" recipes are the ones that are the simplest but demand, like, the highest quality ingredients.

I can make manicotti-stuffed shells that are awesome and no one knows that I replaced half the ricotta with Aldi's cottage cheese

But to make my tomato-basil soup, I have to have a dozen of the most beautiful tomatoes you can find, absolutely fresh bright green basil, and sweet onion. Likewise, I can "cheat" a great quiche but for quiche Lorraine I'll need a $10 hunk of Gruyere!

My husband's favorite "splurge" meal I make in December - slow-cooked New Zealand lamb, boiled potatoes, and a salad with strawberries, tomatoes, spinach, baby greens, green onion, and a ginger vinaigrette. The sauce is thickened with a Knorr packet I order from online, the cake is marzipan from a special bakery in Chicago. If I can, I also order in a special malt drink. The meal blows my entire year's food budget. It's similar to what his mom would make (God rest her) Christmas Sunday when he was growing up in Iceland, and I think he would do without any other gift to have it.

**Elizabeth CM** · 08-07-2009, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by forHISglory

Now I'm kind of little, wasn't built too big at all, but I put away almost 20 lobsters!!!!!! Hubby sat and cracked them for me, and I just kept dipping them in butter. Oh my........ I could barely walk out of there, kept thinking "Just one more, one more"...... Those lobsters kept swimming all night in my tummy, but it was so worth it.

20 LOBSTERS?!?!

I visit my family in Mass. every summer and they are always filling me up with my seafood "fix" for the year and I truly do stuff myself happily - BUT - I am waddling around after ONE Lobster!!! And I am NOT small! Maybe, just maybe, I can stuff in a second tail.

I bow to you!

**frugalfranny** · 08-07-2009, 04:57 PM

Originally Posted by Michelle

Would you mind sharing your recipes please? TIA

Yes, I would like to have both of these please....Edna and LadyV.

**frugalfranny** · 08-07-2009, 05:03 PM

No set 'recipe'.......but a really good quality steak....and at the holidays, prime rib that has been ordered. I JUST LIKE FOOD!!

I love the dessert that I posted on here and it isn't all that cheap to make. I did find out that you could cut it in half and it would be successful too. (made part of it yesterday, finished it today) It makes a really big pan of it from the reg. recipe.

**pop goes the weasel** · 08-07-2009, 05:09 PM

Homemade italian sausage and cheese stuffed ravioli with homemade carrot cake for dessert. Lots and lots and lots of cheese

**pop goes the weasel** · 08-07-2009, 05:22 PM

I love crablegs but they don't like me. I'm allergic to them

**Shelli_wnj** · 08-07-2009, 10:51 PM

I love Braciole. It's expensive to me because it uses steak, and we NEVER buy steak. Except for once a year so I can make braciole. It has become sort of a tradition, the inlaws will come and I make it for everyone.