8 splurge Recipes

beef, cut into chunks (splurge on the cut if you can), butter, tomato soup, water, carrots, cut into chunks, potatoes, cut into chunks (i don tsp peel carrots or spuds but you can if you like), stalks celery, cut into chunks, onions, cut into chunks, salt, black pepper, fresh parsley, chopped fine, good quality cooking sherry, bay leaves

fresh basil, very finely minced (i use a mezzaluna), fresh oregano, very finely minced, fresh thyme, very finely minced, fresh parsley, very finely minced, olive oil (splurge for the good stuff)

maple syrup, brown sugar, water, butter, kahlua, heavy whipping cream, not whipped, vanilla, pecans

chocolate pudding mix (can use sugar free, regular instant, or the kind you have to cook, all will work, need to have a 2 cup), whole milk (or half n half if you want to splurge), graham crackers

extra virgin olive oil, best white wine vinegar /splurge with champagne vinegar, dijon style mustard, minced fresh mint, minced parsley, big pinch of sugar, big pinch of salt, ripe honeydew melon, peeled, seeded and chunked, english cucumber, peeled and chunked

lobster tails, water, unsalted butter, at room temperature, fresh thyme, lobster-infused butter, garlic cloves, roughly chopped, saffron, champagne, heavy cream, unsalted butter, at room temperature, all-purpose flour, lemons, sliced into wedges, chopped fresh parsley