"No more of her expensive recipes from Mars with a gallon of booze".
(The Waldorf-Astoria, Mrs. Fields and Neiman Marcus have all denied any role in the expensive-recipe legend).
Then there's the weak dollar, which has helped support U.S. exports at the expense of making imports here more expensive, a recipe for inflation.
Last Ramadan, the prices of onions were so expensive that recipes had to be altered to do without them.
Once, the ingredients used to make these cakes and sweets were expensive, so a recipe that combined sugar, butter or oils, spices, and refined flours and grains were made infrequently at home unless you were wealthy.
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So is using Valrhona instead of Baker's in your brownie recipe an expensive affectation, or a stroke of genius?
There are good reasons, if you look at lessons from the market in social care, to think that contracting out health services to private companies is a recipe for expensive and poor quality care.
If you're cooking with rich friends, your best bet is to steer them away from recipes with expensive or highly specific ingredients.
Now, when you try to take your favourite butter cake recipe and add expensive dark chocolate, it can often turn out horribly dry and heavy.
