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"Broke Meals"
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11-28-05, 12:04 PM (EST)
 
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LAST EDITED ON 11-28-05 AT 12:18 PM (EST)Yes, this is the festive season, but if you're spending the little extra on gifts (and pity cookies) instead of on skinless boneless chicken breasts, what do you serve the hungry masses?
Tuna noodle is all very well, but let's have some suggestions for cheap and nutritious meals! I promised vols this recipe a long time ago, and here it finally is: Boeuf aux Légumes. It's my mother-in-law's recipe, and it really is the best I've ever tasted. Buy a blade roast, boneless or otherwise. Cut it into big chunks (but don't remove the fat). Heat some oil and brown the meat with onions, salt and pepper. Add a clove of garlic when the meat is almost done. Prepare the sauce:
1 can of tomato sauce
1 T brown sugar (DO NOT OMIT)
Beef broth
Chili paste (I use sambal oelek) Pour the sauce over the beef chunks, add carrot, turnip, and potato chunks, and bake, covered, at low heat for a few hours (I swear that's all the recipe says; my MIL didn't give me any time. I usually put it at about 250 for an afternoon). an hour or so before serving, add chopped cabbage, mushrooms, or green beans. This is very good with bread and butter or biscuits. Tonight, I'm making a vegetable curry and some dhal. It's a little more complex than the stew, but with good rice, mango chutney, and plain yogurt, it doesn't taste like cheap food. Add pappadums and it's good enough for company. Vegetable Curry Heat 3T oil and fry two chopped onions and a couple of cloves of minced garlic. Add 2T curry poder, 1t turmeric, and 1t whole cumin seeds. Fry until aromatic. Then, add 1 cup chopped tomatoes and cook until a thick sauce results. Add 5 or 6 cups of chopped vegetables (carrots, cabbage, potatoes, turnips, green beans). Stir until everything is covered by sauce, add salt to taste, and simmer until veggies are tender. (To fancy this up, I would reduce the tomato and add a can of coconut milk.) Dhal (make in the morning and reheat for best flavour) In a small saucepan, put 1c dried split peas and 2.5 cups water. Soak for 1/2 hour or so. Add 1t turmeric, 1/2t cayenne, and 1t salt. Bring to boil, reduce heat, cover partially, and simmer 20-30 minutes. You want the peas to be disintegrating and forming a kind of mushy sauce; you may have to add a little water. Then, sauté in 3T margarine or butter:
1 large onion, thinly sliced
1t whole cumin seed
10 whole cloves
5 whole black peppercorns Fry 10-12 minutes. Add onion mixture to peas, let sit. Reheat before serving. As you can see, this could also have been titled "1534 ways to use carrots, cabbage, and turnips"; because of our climate, those three vegetables are what's cheapest and best most of the winter. I like them, but it's nice to disguise them in something really flavourful once and a while. 
Edited because, while I am full of gratitude for my multiple sigs, I do not need to show them off all at the same time.And I got the first entry in the Bebolicious posting challenge.
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11-28-05, 12:22 PM (EST)
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2. "RE: Broke Meals" |
Got anything that works with ramen blocks?
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11-28-05, 12:37 PM (EST)
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7. "RE: Broke Meals" |
Cook your ramen noodles. Don't add the flavored salt.In addition, you will need:
a teensy bit of crushed garlic
a couple of green onions, chopped
mild thai peanut sauce
2 tablespoons crushed peanuts
1/2 tsp soy sauce
pinch of ginger optional: grilled chicken
or
1/2 cup firm tofu (cook with the other ingredients)
or
cooked beef In a wok, heat enough sesame oil to just coat the pan. Once hot, toss in the green onions, and stir for about 30 seconds. Now? Add the ramen, and stir enough to get the onions mixed into the noodles well. At this point, dump in as much peanut sauce as is needed to coat (but not drown) the noodles, the soy sauce, the garlic, ginger, and your optional protein item. Cook for about a minute, until everything looks all tasty-like (and is WARM). Put in bowl, dump peanuts on top, and consume. 
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11-28-05, 12:44 PM (EST)
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8. "RE: Broke Meals" |
Ramen noodles, how do I love thee...If you get tired of the soup you can do them as lo mein. Cook the noodles in water, reserve the flavor packet for later. Put in any veggies you got handy (if they need cooking boil with the noodles, if they are already cooked then hold on until you add sauce to noodles. If it is a special occasion add any leftover meat-like substance you might have handy, if it needs some heating up do it now, if you don't want to over cook it add when the cooked veggies are added. Take the flavor packet and add maybe a scant cup of water and about a teaspoon or two of corn starch. Drain the noodles/veggies when cooked. Add sauce mix (and cooked veggies) and heat until the sauce starts to boil a bit so it will thicken. Enjoy. 
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11-28-05, 01:00 PM (EST)
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11. "Spanish Rice and Mac and Cheese add ons and more" |
Basically brown a half a pound of hamburger meat and drain. Cook some onion and green pepper in the grease coated pan. Put the brown meat and veggies in a pot with like a cup of rice and replace some of the water with a small can of tomato sauce. Simmer until rice is tender and liquid absorbed.Mac and whatever. I've done it with leftover ham, a can of tuna, hot dogs. Add the meat to the macaroni as it cooks. Prepare the cheese sauce and mix in. Also good is take the other 1/2 of a pound of hamburger (this is how 1 pound of hamburger lasts all week for one graduate student for dinner and you have two different things to eat) While the MAc cooks brown it with some onion. Add the hamburger to the mac when you do the cheese sauce and you can also add in peas Egg drop soup. Heat up a can of chicken broth (or veggie broth) when it starts to simmer slowly pour a beaten egg into the broth while stiring the broth a bit. Chopped green onion on top as a garnish. Sweet and sour. Stir fry up some veggies (onion carrot green pepper, pinapple if you are feeling fancy) USually when I was on the cheap I'd boil a chicken once in a while and keep the meat on hand for this sort of thing (or do about the same with a curry powder, broth and cornstarch rather than the sweet sour sauce) Mix together 1/4 cup ketchup, 1/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup vinegar (the cheap white stuff works, apple cider vinegar works too) Add a cup of water (you can use the juice from the canned pinapple for some of the water) and a teaspoon or two of corn starch. Pour the sauce into the pan with the cooked stuff and simmer until the corn starch thickens it up.
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11-28-05, 04:10 PM (EST)
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15. "what the heck is? (are?)" |
LAST EDITED ON 11-28-05 AT 04:12 PM (EST)pity cookies?
blade roast?
sambal oelek?
dhal?
pappadums? with gratitude, Bawdy 
created by tribephyl 2005
(oops bad spelling)
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Coconut 10856 desperate attention whore postings
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11-28-05, 04:18 PM (EST)
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16. "RE: what the heck is? (are?)" |
pity cookies: Baked goods that Bob may or may not receive this Christmas. It depends on whether or not she stops calling me a) a squirrel and b) batshit loco f'n insane.  blade roast: Er, it was the best translation I could think of for "bas de palette"; I think it's called shoulder roast or blade roast in English. It should be flat, cheap, and fatty. sambal oelek: is Indonesian chili and garlic paste. Very spicy, very flavourful. I put it in almost everything, including tuna noodle and cheese sauce. It gives a zip without being too hot (once you figure out how much to put in). dhal: it's a spicy lentil sauce/dish. Recipe above. Very yummy. pappadums: kind of like a tortilla chip made with lentil flour. They're very thin and very crisp, and they're ideal for scooping up rice and dhal. 
Any more questions? *smooches Bawdy*
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