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Topic: Favorite Recipes or low cost foods?
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Padre35
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posted March 28, 2013 08:13 PM
  
As a bachelor college student, I've learned how to uhm, make what I'd call peasant food to stay within budget.Right now my favorites are: Breakfast:
Scrambled eggs with home made refried beans in a ranchero sauce. Lunch: probably a pasta salad made with home made infused oregano oil, peas and carrots, and wild onions Dinner: Egg Drop Ramen Basically poach and egg when you boil your Ramen, throw that flavor pack away, and use parmesan cheese and garlic power instead. Desert is banana bread topped with those packs of frosting you get from pizza hut when you buy cinnamon sticks Nice thing about that menu is all cost right around 1.00 per meal, sometimes less. Any favorite recipes or low cost good tasting meals or foods? IP: Logged |
SunChild
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posted March 28, 2013 11:52 PM
Here ya go http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum31/HTML/000014.html IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted March 29, 2013 01:15 PM
Ramen anything!IP: Logged |
Padre35
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posted March 29, 2013 01:42 PM
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Ramen anything!
Geez, I've learned to make more ramen dishes then Bubba knew how to make shrimp dishes! Always ditch the flavor packet though, basically pure salt and imo, doesn't really add a whole lot taste wise. Also learned how to make various hashes, from potato/jalapeno hash (you can buy huge jars of pickled jalapenos for 2.00) to potato/chicken hash. Key is, you put a clean pan on top of the hash as it cooks, the weight helps the potatoes to cook quicker and brown more uniformly.
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Faith
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posted March 30, 2013 03:44 PM
Best convenient cheap meals I can think of:#1 Barilla Plus angel hair pasta (whole grain/complete protein/yummy) Tossed with olive oil or butter, spinkled with salt and freshly ground pepper, and maybe some grated cheese. Slightly more extravagant: #2 Barilla Plus Penne pasta, tossed with: - Homemade pesto sauce (made with raw, freshly toasted sunflower seeds instead of expensive pine nuts...and cheap parmesan cheese instead of "the real stuff")
- tomato cut into chunks
- rinsed, canned chickpeas
- goat cheese crumbles
- salt & pepper IP: Logged |
Padre35
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posted March 30, 2013 03:50 PM
Nice, I love pesto, and learned how to make it from stinging nettles (you just boil the things, there are plenty of youtube videos on how to do it).Use it for everything from pasta to a chip dip IP: Logged |
Padre35
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posted April 08, 2013 12:35 AM
This night we went gourmet as it was the first real day of Spring.Saved a piece of wood for 2 years, then turned it into wood chips and smoked some chicken thighs all day and finished it off with hamburgers. Desert was banana bread with frosting from those pizza hut cinnamon bread sticks that we rarely ever eat. Sun tea to drink, all in all, a fun, and inexpensive, yet custom meal today. To me that is cooking on the cheap! Next up, a maraqua (onions, celery, carrots) on top of fresh bread from a bread machine and fast cooked liver on top. IP: Logged |
Dreamweaver
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posted April 09, 2013 02:31 AM
When I was a student I lived off instant noodles too! But I'd always go to the local Asian store in Chinatown and get fresh tofu and asian greens and throw them into the saucepan - cos I can't eat a meal without loads of greens. At the moment, I'm loving dried soy beans. I soak them overnight & boil them and they last for at least a week in the fridge. They make good dips blended up to have with vegie sticks, nice filling for tacos/burritos, as an alternative to bolognese sauce (or any mince meat dish), mashed up makes good vegie burgers. So cheap & sooo good for you! IP: Logged |
T
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posted April 19, 2013 12:45 AM
Here's a fun one...Get a nice plain frozen pizza and LOAD it with your favorite toppings. I usually bake mine briefly to take the freeze off, then bring it out and load it up with veggies and more cheese, then put it back in the oven until done. Cheap and easy. IP: Logged |
T
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posted April 19, 2013 12:53 AM
the usual toppings:deli sliced roasted red peppers (from the jar)
sweet onions
black olives
mushrooms broccoli
&
ricotta
along with real mozzerella
is always to die for as well. I'm not a huge fan of Boboli pizza crusts
as they are too thick. Pita pizzas are my fave, or two flour tortillas stacked on top of one another. Pilsbury makes a "Thin Crust" pie roll, but I have not tried it yet.... not a huge fan of the thick crust, or a ton of bread in general. It has to go with something else..... IP: Logged |
Padre35
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posted April 22, 2013 02:26 AM
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Originally posted by T:
Here's a fun one...Get a nice plain frozen pizza and LOAD it with your favorite toppings. I usually bake mine briefly to take the freeze off, then bring it out and load it up with veggies and more cheese, then put it back in the oven until done. Cheap and easy.
Those are really good, I make a sort of pizza burrito out of mine. Potato pancakes: -Heat skillet with oil (cast iron works great)
-Grate potatoes (maybe 2 small ones for a single person)
-add pepper and onion or garlic powder
-table spoon of flour
-add 1 egg to bind ingredients Just fry until golden brown on both sides, if in a hurry you can microwave the potatoes for a couple of minutes Sometimes I'll take mayo and add a seasoning and make a dipping sauce for them
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Ami Anne
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posted April 22, 2013 07:30 AM
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Originally posted by Padre35:
Nice, I love pesto, and learned how to make it from stinging nettles (you just boil the things, there are plenty of youtube videos on how to do it).Use it for everything from pasta to a chip dip
I never tried stinging nettles. Do you pick them? Where do you get them? What do they taste like, Padre? ------------------
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Padre35
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posted April 22, 2013 10:48 AM
Not sure were you live AA, but they are all across the US.In the South they are called "Sting Weed". You pick them, but wear gloves, as the plants has "hair" like structures on it that are actually small tubes of acid thus the sting. Just boil, rinse, boil, drain, to deactivate the acid and they are delicious, you can also make Nettle tea from the leaves(just make sure they do not have the hair like structures) without the processing and it is packed with Vit C. IP: Logged |
Faith
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posted April 25, 2013 08:10 PM
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Originally posted by Padre35:
Nice, I love pesto, and learned how to make it from stinging nettles (you just boil the things, there are plenty of youtube videos on how to do it).Use it for everything from pasta to a chip dip
Sounds yummy. I just got a book out from the library called Green Smoothie Revolution. The author talks about obtaining your greens from a wide variety of plants, including all kinds of "weeds" like nettles and lamb's quarters, amaranth greens and purslane. If you rotate the greens you eat (or drink), unhealthy alkaloids won't build up in your system. 
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Padre35
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posted April 25, 2013 11:48 PM
One of my favorite things to do is to take what other people think of as useless and make something useful from them.This week, Spring Garlic is in season, take the time and pull it up, clean it, snip off the bulbs and the chives You make:
-Garlic infused oil by pouring olive oil on the garlic bulbs and allow it to sit in the fridge for at least a week. If one is worried about a bacterial problem simply add lemon juice to the oil. -Chives are mixed 50/50 with Olive Oil and Canola oil and use it to fry potatoes or whatever you have to pan fry. This mixed with balsamic vinegar to make a drizzle or salad dressing etc Wonderful flavors, just use old wine bottles to store the infusion. IP: Logged |
Padre35
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posted April 25, 2013 11:50 PM
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Originally posted by Faith:
Sounds yummy. I just got a book out from the library called Green Smoothie Revolution. The author talks about obtaining your greens from a wide variety of plants, including all kinds of "weeds" like nettles and lamb's quarters, amaranth greens and purslane. If you rotate the greens you eat (or drink), unhealthy alkaloids won't build up in your system.
Actually, Dandelions are simply awesome detoxification plants, they will cleanse the liver, and are quite tastee. IP: Logged |
T
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posted April 26, 2013 01:52 AM
Some great ideas in here. Yes, dandelion is very cleansing. I used to take it regularly. quote:
One of my favorite things to do is to take what other people think of as useless and make something useful from them.
One of my ex's was GREAT at that. He could whip the most delicious dishes up out of practically nothing! I am not talented in culinary arts like that. IP: Logged |
Padre35
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posted April 26, 2013 01:58 AM
Well, T, for me I like the idea of not having much, but it merely makes one more creative! Love the idea of a sort of rural/urban fusion. IP: Logged |
T
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posted April 26, 2013 02:24 AM
Yes.& i admire those with a flair for making the best use of the ingredients they have on hand. It is an art. IP: Logged |
Padre35
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posted April 26, 2013 02:34 AM
To me, and this concept, there are things every kitchen should have:-eggs
-potatoes
-cheese
-onions With those four staples, along with things like spices and pasta/rice/sauces (even taco bell salsa and soy from the chinese take out place) one can create deliciousness. Everything from mac and cheese to egg foo young to potatoes o'brien can be made with those staples. Also really like the 5 pd bags of chicken legs and thighs, everything from chicken hash to confit to burritos to chicken poppykosh to BBQ. IP: Logged |
Padre35
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posted April 29, 2013 04:06 AM
Check this out, tough cube steak, ie peasant food:Saute' onions in a cast iron pan w/butter or what have you. Defrost cube steak Salt and pepper the cube steak Place it on top of saute'd onions and place into an oven at 350' degrees for about 20 minutes Basically the cheapy steak is poached on the bed of onions in the cast iron skillet in the oven and is quite tender..fork tender IP: Logged |
Faith
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posted May 03, 2013 08:57 PM
Mujadarrah (spelled differently in practically every cookbook I've seen it in):Cooked rice and lentils
A big pile of sauteed onions on top
Salt and pepper Extremely yummy and cheap. I agree about those staples, Padre.  IP: Logged |
Faith
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posted May 03, 2013 08:59 PM
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One of my ex's was GREAT at that. He could whip the most delicious dishes up out of practically nothing!
Huh? And you broke up with him?   IP: Logged |
T
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posted May 04, 2013 12:32 AM
lol Yes. & I still miss him in a weird way, to this day. Even though I broke it off.He's a Taurus & a good **** .   He knew a lot about a bunch of **** too. lol My Leo ex could do the same. Been lucky in that way. IP: Logged |
T
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posted May 04, 2013 12:40 AM
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Originally posted by Faith:
Mujadarrah (spelled differently in practically every cookbook I've seen it in):Cooked rice and lentils
A big pile of sauteed onions on top
Salt and pepper Extremely yummy and cheap. I agree about those staples, Padre.
k. yeah. i could go for some of that right now! IP: Logged |
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