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  • #16
    Re: Poor man's meals

    My family was on a tight budget when I was growing up so we had a lot of cheap meals. We had a lot of "SOS" also but mom served it over rice instead of bread.

    The best cheap meal ever was fish that my dad and I caught. I had to gut and scale the fish and then mom would cook it up.

    Beef stew is a cheap meal that also tastes great. A small amount of beef can feed a lot of people especially if you grow your own vegetables in your garden.

    Another favorite was "campfire" stew or jambalaya. Brown some ground beef, add a couple cans of vegetable soup, stir in a bunch of cooked rice and season to taste. Very simple and cheap but quite tasty.

    My least favorite cheap meal was fried liver and onions. We always had liver at the end of the month before the next paycheck came because it was the cheapest "meat" at the butcher shop. My dad loved it but I never did acquire the taste for it.

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    • #17
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      Originally posted by localmoco View Post
      My least favorite cheap meal was fried liver and onions. We always had liver at the end of the month before the next paycheck came because it was the cheapest "meat" at the butcher shop. My dad loved it but I never did acquire the taste for it.
      another forgotten meal. i'm with you on the liver thing. both parents and brother loved it. sister and i just never acquired the taste.
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      • #18
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        LIVER?????? I'd rather go VEGETARIAN .............

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        • #19
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          Whoa...yick...liver. It feels good to be a vegetarian!

          I just moved into my new place, and all that's in the fridge are some onions, dry lentils, beer, and a package of egg noodles. Wish I could make some food, but we dont have a strainer yet! Aaaargh!! Maybe some sort of soup....
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          • #20
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            Originally posted by kani-lehua View Post
            another forgotten meal. i'm with you on the liver thing. both parents and brother loved it. sister and i just never acquired the taste.
            Originally posted by oceanpacific View Post
            LIVER?????? I'd rather go VEGETARIAN .............
            Originally posted by turtlegirl View Post
            Whoa...yick...liver. It feels good to be a vegetarian!
            LIVER. Yummy. Kilawen Bindongo (Thin sliced raw meat, raw liver and boiled tripe mixed with ummm, papait (bile.)

            Onolicious!!

            I love Liver fried too with bacon crisp and onions.

            I eat it um cold like chips. LOL

            Try it...you'll love it.

            Auntie Lynn
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            • #21
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              Originally posted by 1stwahine View Post
              LIVER. Yummy. Kilawen Bindongo (Thin sliced raw meat, raw liver and boiled tripe mixed with ummm, papait (bile.)

              Onolicious!!

              I love Liver fried too with bacon crisp and onions.

              I eat it um cold like chips. LOL

              Try it...you'll love it.

              Auntie Lynn
              ooh, auntie! i tried it and didn't like it. now tripe stew i love!
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              • #22
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                Originally posted by turtlegirl View Post
                Whoa...yick...liver. It feels good to be a vegetarian!

                I just moved into my new place, and all that's in the fridge are some onions, dry lentils, beer, and a package of egg noodles. Wish I could make some food, but we dont have a strainer yet! Aaaargh!! Maybe some sort of soup....
                have you gone to down to earth yet? they have a delicious spread over there when it's not picked over. the summer rolls are good too with extra peanut sauce. they have recipes on their website: downtoearth.org.

                if you can't/or don't want to cook tonight and you like korean food, go over to that korean restaurant across the street from the shack for their vegetable buffet. i really enjoyed it.
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                • #23
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                  What about hamburger curry? It's cheap. It's local. It's easy to make. And it's ono!

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                  • #24
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                    I never did like beef liver, but Mama fried lots of chicken liver. I like that, for some reason. Might be from the ketchup I pour over it.

                    We had Big Noodles tonight. Cut up chuck steaks, used crushed tomatoes instead of puree, over penne pasta. Everybody stuffed now...boy went straight to sleep on couch.

                    SOS is well loved here; I tried corned beef but just cannot love it. I have been making a cold vegetable salad w/ canned greenbeans, kidney beans, chopped celery and onion, and rice vinegar with sugar, salt/pepper. That we can eat on for several days and add to it as it gets eaten. It just marinates away in the fridge. I have added corn and diced tomatoes; guess any veggie would taste good in it.

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                    • #25
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                      Instead of sugary (and expensive) cereal for breakfast, try oatmeal...cold with milk, or cooked with milk or water. Or bake a loaf of wholegrain bread to eat at breakfast, and enjoy it with a bit of butter or peanut butter or jam.

                      Or save dried bread and make your own cereals or puddings.
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                      • #26
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                        i realized just now that over the weekend, i cooked a filipino favorite - balatong - that definitely qualifies for this thread. i bought a 16 oz bag of green mung beans for about $1.50 and cooked it thusly:

                        1 cup mung beans (i like the green, unsplit kind; you can used the peeled ones, which are yellow, and choose split or unsplit. it doesn't really matter)
                        3 cups water.

                        bring to boil and then simmer until beans soften & split. you'll need to watch this pot bcs sometimes it will need more water.

                        remove from pot and place into bowl. set aside.

                        chop one medium onion & four cloves garlic. add about 1 tbsp oil to pot in which you cooked the mung beans & saute onion & garlic. return beans to pot; add one large chopped tomato. add patis & pepper to taste. simmer for 15 minutes, then add as many chicarrones as you like. (i used about 1/4 of this bag).

                        i know, i know--my mom would scold me for this very lazy version of balatong. pinakboy posts a more traditional and labor intensive recipe here. you can add spinach, marunggay, or bittermelon leaves if you like. i think even frozen collard greens would work, too. plus you can omit the chicarrones and use chicken or pork, which you would saute in the pot before the garlic & onion (make sure to season w/salt & pepper). honestly, i've even made this with a can of spam that i'd chopped up. no matter what, it's good cheap eats. the one cup of beans yields six hearty servings eaten with rice. i'll repeat that the 16 oz bag only cost me $1.50 at foodland!
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                        • #27
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                          Ohhh I haven't had balatong in ages!

                          Fry up some pork/chicharon and add it to the balatong all over rice...my mouth is salivating as I type this!
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                          • #28
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                            Originally posted by Lei Liko View Post
                            Ohhh I haven't had balatong in ages!

                            Fry up some pork/chicharon and add it to the balatong all over rice...my mouth is salivating as I type this!

                            mmph! go hit the supermarket and buy you some mung beans then! you can have balatong on your plate in less than an hour!
                            superbia (pride), avaritia (greed), luxuria (lust), invidia (envy), gula (gluttony), ira (wrath) & acedia (sloth)--the seven deadly sins.

                            "when you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people i deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly..."--meditations, marcus aurelius (make sure you read the rest of the passage, ya lazy wankers!)

                            nothing humiliates like the truth.--me, in conversation w/mixedplatebroker re 3rd party, 2009-11-11, 1213

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                            • #29
                              Re: Poor man's meals

                              Originally posted by localmoco View Post
                              Another favorite was "campfire" stew or jambalaya. Brown some ground beef, add a couple cans of vegetable soup, stir in a bunch of cooked rice and season to taste. Very simple and cheap but quite tasty.
                              Another simple version is to take your washed uncooked rice and add a can of vegetable soup instead of some of the water, cover and cook over the fire. (Just make sure that the soup + water equals the amount of pure water you would add if making regular rice.)

                              This can be done in a rice cooker, too.
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                              • #30
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                                How about a plantation staple of hotonboogiboogi that obachun used to make? Squash could be easily grown in the garden. So, the squash could be deseeded, cut into little pieces and stir fried with canned corned beed with some kind of cooking oil or broth. But, I don't know how much local squash cost now at the market.

                                I just remembered that I ate that type of squash dish at that Filipino take-out place by Walmart on the Keeaumoku St. side. But, I think they use pork or chicken, so it's better than canned corned beef.
                                Last edited by Walkoff Balk; July 1, 2008, 07:41 PM. Reason: Add.spelling

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