budget cooking

The holidays are a time for giving, sharing and spending time with your loved ones. Preparing festive dishes for your holiday table is not an easy task. But doing so on a small budget is a greater undertaking. So is creating a three-course holiday meal for four people on a $20 budget possible? Absolutely! And we share our tips and recipes with you in this week's Savings Experiment.

Top Chef finalist Carla Hall thinks the simplest dishes can give us the greatest pleasure. Here is the Washington D.C.-based caterer's take on a roasted chicken with tomato-olive relish and roasted potatoes. Not only is the recipe easy, it clocks in at about $15. Butterflied Chicken 4-pound...

There's a lot of whispering of the D-word lately. The stock markets are in free-fall. The banks keep asking for more money. Everybody being laid off. Americans are hunkering down and wondering how bad it can get. Old folks, meanwhile, know all too well how bad it can get, but nobody's asking...