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Cabbage, link sausage cut up, corn cut off the cob, can of seasoned tomatoes, some onion, and a head of cabbage in a one pot supper. First real meal today.
We made and ate our first Shepards Pie this evening. I crushed 3 beef bullion cubes for seasoning the meat and we mixed some sour cream into the mashed potatoe's. Peas and carrots where the vegtables. Dang, it was good.
Cabbage, link sausage cut up, corn cut off the cob, can of seasoned tomatoes, some onion, and a head of cabbage in a one pot supper. First real meal today.
Folks, you realize that if I ever decide I need to go on a diet, I will need to stop reading this thread... Nomadicus, this meal sounds amazing!
This has been chicken week for me...tonight I had fried chicken, mac and cheese, broccoli and two chocolate chip cookies.
Even though I'm a Canadian I think there are a lot of general principles that can be applied to eating well and not spending too much money on it. I raised 8 kids and I like too eat real good delicous food. I just don't like spending a lot doing it. I never spend more than half price on any meat. A lot of grocery stores put their meat on clearance a couple of days ahead of the stale date. Here it's usually 50% off. Do your shopping first thing in the morning and you will get the best selection of these markdowns. Iwas at the store today and there was a bunch of big chickens marked down to about $4 each. I bought 6 of them. I could make hundreds of different recipies out of them. I also buy lots of 50% off produce. To really save the max you need a good sized freezer. It will pay for it's self many times over. I buy almost no processed food at all. It's expensive, full of chemicals and It's not even in the same league with the food I make from scratch.
A lot of foods like carrots, potatoes, pasta, rice, cabbage and other staples are low cost. The problem is that people find them boring. The secret to get around this is spices. I make a carrot dish that disappears in a flash. I just microwave the carrots for 4 min. I take them out and and mash them put in a spoonful of curry and butter a little salt and pepper and then back in the micro for 2 min. It's cheeeep and good. I have about 10 different kinds of curry and every one of them is very different. I make a lot of Thai food and it's way delicious easy to make and very inexpensive. Last week I made a huge batch of "Green Thai curry" about 20 good sized helpings for a total of about $12. It's so good that even though there is only 4 of us living in the house now it was all eaten in 2 days.
Green Thai curry about 20 helpings. 4 onions, 2green peppers, 2 red peppers, 2 big zuchinnis, 1 bok choi [chinese cabbage] about a pound of bean sprouts and any other veges you may like or have hanging about, about 4 pounds of chicken quarters that were 89cent a pound to begin with but were marked down to half price. Also about 1 whole garlic and equal amount of ginger.
Cut up all the veges into bite sized pieces, I like them small, throw the chicken in some water and boil it. Stir fry the veges in a wok if you have one or a fry pan if not.A spoon or 2 of peanut oil is the best for stir fry as you use high heat and it doesn't burn. Heat up the pan first then put the oil and the garlic and ginger in, cook gor a min or less then put in theveges except the sprouts and bok choi because they cook so fast. stir fry the veges and throw the sprouts and bok choi in when there is just 1 min left to cook. the whole process take 4 to 5 min max. Do not overcook. Take it off the heat and set it aside. I usually just put it in a big bowl. The chicken is usually done about this time and I put it in the sink in cold water. Now using the biggest sause pan you have make the green curry sauce. I put 2 cans of coconut milk 2 cans of water and the juice from 1 can of pineapple pieces. Gently heat this and dissolve about 4 tablespoons of green thai curry paste into it. When it's all desolved and almost boiling put 2 tablespoons of {Nam Pla} into the sauce. That is what makes it taste THai. It'sreally gross stuff. fermented fish sauce but it's essential for any Asian cooking. I'm addicted to it and even out it in western dishes. Thicken the sauce to your own requirments with corn startch.after it thickens turn it off. By now the chicken has cooled down enough that you can take it all apart with your fingers. Cut all the good boneless chicken into bite sized pieces and feed all the skin and grissle to the dog. Take the veges the chicken pieces and the pineapple and add it into the sauce. Gently heat it. You don't want to cook it anymore just keep it hot. Make the biggest pot of jasmine rice you can. You need lots of leftover rice. Don't forget jasmine rice is 1.75 to 1 water to rice mix. You don't want mush. When the rice is done serve the curry over it and let me tell you, it's heavenly. My kids drive 100kms sometimes to come home to get some. The Asians really know how to eat and they know how to do it without spending a lot.
I'm back online and posting again after a nasty bout of stomach flu. Even gave up and went to the doctor after suffering for almost two weeks with this bug. Sigh...
Yesterday I fixed pizza casserole, salad and fruit for dessert.
Tonight it's Roast Turkey Breast (got the turkey on sale for $1.99 a lb.), mashed potatoes, green beans and cranberry sauce on the side.
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Nomadicus, this meal sounds amazing!
