The "I'm poor as hell recipe collection"

a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan

What? I thought my mother made up this recipe! She told me she did! You mean.......this has been done before?

BBFT, btw, has your baby gorilla stolen BH's new puppy?

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a reply to: ladyinwaiting

well...putting chicken in the oven...i think it goes back aways. LOL


When the wife and I first got married i had a congressional recipe book with someone's chicken recipe being to put chicken thigh (with skin) into a dusting of flour, set it on a cookie sheet with a pat of butter on top and a sprinkling of lemon pepper. Roast for 45 minutes.

a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan

After I tasted mother's I've always thought chicken thighs were underrated. They are actually quite good. I think she removed the skin because, cholesterol, and junk. Haven't tried them with the skin on.

Anyway. It's a cheap meal. Buy a big family pack of them for not a lot of money. I still like 'em.

soups and stews are in my opinion very cheap food. Not only cheap but very nutritious and easy to make.
If you have a wood-stove or such you won't even need electricity or gas.
You can put in what you like and just leave it on the stove for couple hours and voila.
Easy to store in the fridge or freezer and you can even use parts of it to make sauces.

Another cheap veggie i like is potatoes. Cheap to buy and you have lots of possibilities to prepare them.
Boiled, mashed(with or without other veggies), french fries, in the oven or on the bbq, stuffed, you can make chips,... i'm sure i forgot some.

Making your own bread can be cheap but it depends on what bread you want.
The cheapest and fastest off course is flat bread, water and flour and you're good to go(fun to do with the kids also).
But it's not just fun to make your own bread, there is something "ancient" about it
And after you made the perfect hamburger buns and baguettes, you're sold.

Got a bunch of cheap healthy recipes. The problem is i rarely write them down.
If you been cooking for years it all gets very familiar and you just invent recipes on what you have in the fridge.

a reply to: Ghost147
Don't freak too much with expired food. If it looks good, smells good, it will probably taste good

I love this thread. I find I'm the most creative with food when there's little food in the house. It's what got me into cooking (somewhat) when my family dealt with borderline poverty and I had to cook for myself.

Here's what I like to call "Irish breakfast".

You set a non stick fry pan to mid high. Fry up 4 pieces of bacon. Leave the oil. Dump a bunch of sliced up raw potatoes and flip repeatedly to make hash browns. Once they are brown and crispy, push the hash brown's to one side of the fry pan. Put some oil in the other side of the pan and drop a couple eggs to fry. Put a lid on it so the yolk's cook. I like to break the yolks in my hash browns. With a little sriracha or texas pete.

originally posted by: Mousygretchen
Here's what I like to call "Irish breakfast".

'Irish'? Where's the booze?

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus
Ahh well... I suppose you could flambe the bacon in some guiness or similar dark beer? lol not sure.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

It DOES have potatoes in it!



Sounds yummy Mousy Gretchen!

originally posted by: Mousygretchen
Ahh well... I suppose you could flambe the bacon in some guiness or similar dark beer? lol not sure.

Then you would have cooked the booze out!!

Just pour yourself a glass of whiskey before I revoke your Irish membership card.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: Mousygretchen
Ahh well... I suppose you could flambe the bacon in some guiness or similar dark beer? lol not sure.

Then you would have cooked the booze out!!

Just pour yourself a glass of whiskey buefore I revoke your Irish membership card.

Whisky and the 'i'm poor as hell recipe' thread doesn't really fit.

unless you were talking about
$3.65 for 5 liters.

But than you have no idea what whisky is.

a reply to: intergalactic fire

Wow. Jug whiskey.

Someone shoot me.

a reply to: intergalactic fire

Is this real, or do people named Armaan call motor oil "whiskey"?

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: intergalactic fire

Someone shoot me.

After you drank that stuff you would do it yourself no need for someone else

originally posted by: Atsbhct
a reply to: intergalactic fire

Is this real, or do people named Armaan call motor oil "whiskey"?

and wth is that horse doing? where is the connection??

a reply to: intergalactic fire

That's the horse you follow off the bridge after drinking a jug of "whiskey".

a reply to: Atsbhct
glad we got that cleared out, i was afraid you were going to say urinary incontinence filled the jar (common illness in male horses)

a reply to: intergalactic fire

I think only mares urine is worth paying for, and look at that stallion...no piss problems there.

a reply to: intergalactic fire

I googled that, and this came up;



By the powah of Castle Greyskull!

You know when it's got no E, it's some fine Whisky.

a reply to: Atsbhct

funny remark, you can't read it on the embedded pic but on the far left i reads : Best before dec 2012