Well, going with the pantry method of keeping the kitchen stocked, in the interest of saving as much cashola as possible (that is, making the amount of grocery money I have budegeted to spend last as many weeks as I possibly can) I have been getting inspired at hillbillyhousewife.com, as I mentioned before.
I thought I was frugal, but there was so much fat to cut! Now, granted, I have lots of meat I'd bought on sale in the freezer still, but today, planning on cooking all from scratch but NOT planning on mixing my own milk from dry milk powder, I only spend $57.00 for food. That's for six people for a week. Many basics we are stocked up on like oats, and meat and flour and sugar, etc.
I also learned that I can make really yummy split pea soup: sautee an onion, rinse and sort the split peas, add them and eight cups of water. 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper, 1 tsp. garlic powder, 1 tsp. cardamon, 1 tsp. sambhar masala spice. Bring to boil and simmer until tender and...you know, split-pea-soupish. Yuuuuuumy! I was worried about it tasting not so good without any boullion or meat, but it was really good.
Later this week I'm gonna try making salmon patties. I'll blog about how those turn out.
I thought I was frugal, but there was so much fat to cut! Now, granted, I have lots of meat I'd bought on sale in the freezer still, but today, planning on cooking all from scratch but NOT planning on mixing my own milk from dry milk powder, I only spend $57.00 for food. That's for six people for a week. Many basics we are stocked up on like oats, and meat and flour and sugar, etc.
I also learned that I can make really yummy split pea soup: sautee an onion, rinse and sort the split peas, add them and eight cups of water. 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper, 1 tsp. garlic powder, 1 tsp. cardamon, 1 tsp. sambhar masala spice. Bring to boil and simmer until tender and...you know, split-pea-soupish. Yuuuuuumy! I was worried about it tasting not so good without any boullion or meat, but it was really good.
Later this week I'm gonna try making salmon patties. I'll blog about how those turn out.
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I`m hoping to incorporate more of it in my weekly budgeting and recipe-planning :-)
And I"m happy to report I have perfected the art of biscuit making. My ones this morning for brunch were pretty much just like McDonald's. (Lame, when fast food biscuits are the standard, but man, a sausage egg biscuit from there is my favorite thing ever, and now I can reproduce it here at home and boycott the borg.)
Are you going to share the recipe?
My personal fast food biscuit faves are KFCs sad to say.
there is no recipe on the biscuits, there is only a zen like state of mind. Come to my house, I teach you, grasshopper.
If you throw in a glass of sweet tea, I'm so there ;)
Would that I lived close enough to come see (and taste) them.