Showing posts with label cheap and easy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cheap and easy. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Any cheese stovetop mac and cheese

1.Boil your choice of noodles to al dente. Toss with 1 tb butter and set aside. I'm digging on Aldi's gf rotini about now because it's inexpensive and comes in a few shapes.
2. Grate 1/2 lb of cheese (or if pre sliced cut into tiny pieces) (cheddar, harvarti,gouda, parmesan or odds and ends of various cheeses) leave it alone until step 5.
3. Add 1/2 cup beer, milk, or cider to 1 tb brown mustard and if you have it 1 tb nutritional yeast to a 2 qt pot. Bring to a boil.
4. Take another 1/2 cup of cold milk and add  2 tb of either ap flour (not ap gf..it will be terrible)  or gf cornstarch/arrow root flour (for the gf folks). Whisk together until there are no lumps.  Add 1/4 tsp or 10 grates of nutmegs and same of pepper
5. Pour milk and spice mixture into pot and stir until it thickens. Stir in cheese rapidly.
6. Once cheese melts mix in noodles. Serve with veggies.


Sunday, November 15, 2015

Drink your greens

scurvy is bad.

2 handfuls of any of these: spinach, kale,swiss chard, if you are in the mood for tart use sorrel,etc...
Add 1\2 cup milk or milk sub.
And 1\2 cup sweet juice like orange or apple
Then chop up an apple.
Blend all
You can also add ginger chopped into the greens 

Thursday, August 27, 2015

buttered cabbage

Its spring or fall or winter and you have a cabbage staring at you from the back of the fridge as you eat mushrooms or if you aren't me potatoes and sausage. That cabbage can be tasty and healthy-ish in under 15 minutes. First  remove funky outer leaves and throw in compost/trash. Slice it in half. Then slice in thin ribbons. Toss these in a skillet with 1\2 chopped onion 1 tb caraway and 2 tb butter. Sauté until bright green. Serve. Wrap the other half head for later.

Easy florentine tomato soup

Take  1 jar marinara sauce you would eat and pour into your pot add entire container of same size of milk and 1 of water.add 5 oz of spinach fresh or frozen. Cool until thickened. Add parmesan or asiago as garnish.

Salad mushrooms

Wash and slice one container button mushrooms. Add three tb lemon juice, bottled is fine. Add salt and pepper  to taste, 2 tb olive oil.put all ingredients in a jar with one green onion sliced. Shake and wait at least 20 minutes.Refrigerate up to one week. Use as dressing layer in salad jars or on mashed potatoes or along side noodles or salad greens.