You might like this one Cody.

Many many years ago when i was still studying and living in a bedsit, some of my bedsit student mates and i went on a midnight raid after coming back from the pub a little worse for the wear one saturday to the local vegetable grossist and ended up with 2 x 55lb bags of potatoes on our backs... (Massive veggie grossist that always had about 2 lorry loads of veg delivered to the ouside of the premises every Saturday and was left over the weekend)...

Imagine 4 guys staggering down the street trying to look as inconspicuous as possible (plus the fact that one of the bags was leaking spuds out and we had to keep picking them up all the time!)

Not to forget the local dairy down the road where we always had a "free" crate of fresh milk for the week that we would manage to liberate!

We ate spuds for weeks afterwards and this is one of the goodies that i managed to cook up.

To mention also : (we only had a microwave and a simple gas ring burner).

Recipe for 2 to 3 people :

Cook 4 large potatoes in the microwave until inside is soft (or bake in oven)

Scrape out the inside and mash with a little salt, pepper, butter or margarine) but keep the skins for later use

Fry some bacon and then cut into tiny pieces then mix with the mashed potato

Place the mashed potato back into the skins and place potatoes into a casserole

Spread remaining mashed potato on top of potatoes in casserole

Open a tin of peeled tomatos, add some hashed garlic and also Parsley if you have it and then hash up tomatos.

Spread the tomato mix on the top of the potatoes (about 2 cm thick), sprinkle a little grated cheese and chuck back into the microwave (or the oven) until cheese bubbles or goes golden brown.

Yum Yum Bon appetit...

You can call this the RodSplodge if you like.

Kindest respects

Rodinus

Originally posted by Rodinus
You might like this one Cody.

Many many years ago when i was still studying and living in a bedsit, myself and some of my bedsit student mates went on a midnight raid after coming back from the pub one saturday to the local vegetable grossist and ended up with 2 x 55lb bags of potatoes... imagine 4 guys staggering down the street trying to look as inconspicuous as possible (plus the fact that one of the bags was leaking spuds out and we had to keep picking them up all the time!)

We ate spuds for weeks afterwards and this is one of the goodies that i managed to cook up.

To mention (we only had a microwave and a simple gas ring burner).

Recipe for 2 to 3 people.

Cook 4 large potatoes in the microwave until inside is soft (or bake in oven)

Scrape out the inside and mash with a little salt, pepper, butter or margarine) but keep the skins for later use

Fry some bacon and then cut into tiny pieces then mix with the mashed potato

Place the mashed potato back into the skins and place potatoes into a casserole

Spread remaining mashed potato on top of potatoes in casserole

Open a tin of peeled tomatos, add some hashed garlic and also Parsley if you have it and then hash up tomatos.

Spread the tomato mix on the top of the potatoes (about 2 cm thick), sprinkle a little grated cheese and chuck back into the microwave (or the oven) until cheese bubbles or goes golden brown.

Yum Yum Bon appetit...

You can call this the RodSplodge if you like.

Kindest respects

Rodinus

edit on 17-3-2013 by Rodinus because: crap spelling mistake

RodSploge it is

Ever thought of writing a cookery book for students? Of course you'd have to have an app for it

Kinda cooking by phone with whatever's left.

Could be interesting

Kindest respects
Cody

I have a book of "filling tasty meal[s]" - recipes by people who have cooked with little money for generations: White Trash Cooking, by Ernest Matthew Mickler. A few recipe titles:

Uncle Willies Swamp Cabbage Stew
Hoppin' John
Limpin' Sue
Betty Sue's Sister-in-Law's Fried Eggplant
Pore Folk Soup
Aunt Rose Deaton's All-American Slum-Gullion (The Best)
Mama Leila's Hand-Me-Down Oven-Baked Possum
Plain Ol' Potato Pone
Imogene's Impossible Pie

The photos alone are worth the price of the book.

I know this sounds mad but if you have an hour or so before you want to eat and have your basic ingredients and some red peppers then try slow oven cooking the sauce, it really brings out some beautiful flavours, easily my favourite dish and it's beyond easy to cook

Pre-heat oven to 190C. Cut one or two red peppers (use the long sweet peppers if you can!) into quarters, remove seeds and the stalk and place inside up into an oven proof bowl. Finely chop up 2 cloves of garlic and place them in and around the peppers and add a good helping of olive oil (don't be scared ) over the peppers. (you can add quartered fresh tomatoes now as well if you like!)

Now just slap it in the oven for 30-40 mins until the peppers have softened and began to cook a little. Now add a can of chopped tomatoes and stir it into the peppers with some salt and pepper then place it back in the oven until you are ready to eat.

Cook pasta, mix together and you have one hell of a tasty meal for not much money at all

hmm just spaghetti with tomatoe sauce... nothing special... everybody should know this.

I ate this "Pasta and Sauce" meal for $20/week for a few years while unemployed and studying on government allowance. Buying Mi Goreng by the box works too, can get like 30 packets for $10, add vegetables as desired.

Finding a local Hare Krishna place is another good way to get a tasty meal in tough times.

Another really cheap but filling and flavorsome one is simple corned beef hash. Add a tin of corned beef to a pan of well buttered mashed potatoes...amazing