Thursday, January 29, 2009

Cooking 101

I am poor, but that is no excuse not to learn how to cook. Here is an inventory of cooking ingredients I currently own. Please someone tell me what I can make with them (other than a tin foil dinner, I've been doing that)
  • salt and pepper

  • Pam cooking spray

  • bag of califlower

  • lean ground beef

  • carrots

  • pita bread (leftovers from an Institute thing)

  • bag of lentils

  • rice

  • eggs

  • milk

  • bread

  • 4 corn tortillas

  • 2 cans cream of mushroom soup

  • top ramen

  • can of milk

  • mustard

  • Miracle Whip

  • butter

  • applesauce

  • cranberry juice
    That's about it. Can I make something like mashed potatos, but with carrots? Carrots are a root thing like potatos, right?


    Anyway, I've been making tin foil dinners with the ground beef and carrots and stealing some of my roommate's onion salt. It hasn't been too bad, other than I've messed up de-frosting the meat sometimes so it turns out really tough (but still edible). One of my new year's resolutions was to spend more time learning to cook, but then I went to the store and realized how expensive spices are- I didn't even want to know how expensive all the OTHER little things were! Seems like all recipes call for "a little of this" or "a little of that", but when you have to buy "this" and "that", even a little bit of it ends up costing tons of money!! So, all you who are/ were poor married couples, please help out your single sister with some how-to's. Thanks!! Love you tons!

    3 comments:

    Melissa said...

    um when I was a poor single student, I worked at a preschool where breakfast and lunch was provided. That probably kept me alive since I couldn't afford much food either. I only had to fend for dinner. I ate a lot of mac& cheese and other pasta. Cereal is good too.you could spend $10 making a lasagna and it would be enough to last a week or freeze some for later meals.meatloaf is cheap and easy. you've already got meat and eggs and bread and carrots. you just need some bbq sauce or ketchup and some seasoning. Italian seasoning is great and is cheap at walmart. I'll continue working on some ideas and email them to you.

    Leighann said...

    Thanks Mel!! Muchas gracias, big time! :)

    Heather said...

    you can make some Lentil soup.