better late than never
We tested one recipe last weekend - an adaptation of Drea's quiche recipe for pasties. The "adaptation" is to get rid of most of the liquid....
Today, I tried this recipe, with the original version from the cookbook. I think I had around 1.5 pounds of chicken, but kept the rest of the stuff the same. Oh, and I made pasties instead of a bigger pie. The dough recipe there gave me 9 5" round pasties (I used one of the Smuckers bowls I have as a cut-out). Each pasty has 1/4 cup of filling. That isn't skimping at all... I have enough filling left-over for 9 more.
So that gives me, 1.5 recipe yields 1.5 dozen pasties. And one recipe of dough does 0.75 dozen pasties.
The cooking time I used was 30 minutes, and that seems to be okay - right now they've been cooking for 25 minutes, and they're not quite done yet. Oven temperature is 375.
So, for 1.5 dozen, I have about $7 worth of chicken (can probably do cheaper), say $2 worth of plums (probably less, but I don't have the receipt handy), and two eggs, two sticks of butter, and then miscellanous spices. $2 worth of butter -> $11 ingredients. For 9 servings. Yay! My budget isn't broken - at least on this one dish. I'll have to do cost analysis on the rest later.
So, spinach & mushroom pasties, chicken & plum pasties (dude, periodish recipe. where's the bad?), might do a chicken & mushroom (+ maybe cheese?) for the unadventurous, and another vegetarian? Or... the "other vegetarian" be apple pies?
For the rest of the meal, there's a hardboiled egg, and cheese, and either soda or water, oh and either an apple or orange.
I was thinking of doing the "gammon of bacon" recipe that I got from Sandy - ham, boiled egg yolk, parsley, misc. spices.
This is totally within the $5/lunch budget I was aiming for....
Of course, now I have even more incentive for being frugal with money, because it looks like I'm replacing my roof next week. Here's to hoping that that fixes the "it's raining in my living room!" phenomenon that has only kept from being bad/worrisome by a) I've been doing woodworking in my living room and thus there's a tarp down where it leaks, and b) it takes a pretty nasty storm to actually happen. Unfortunately, this summer's been pretty good at providing nasty storms :)
Today, I tried this recipe, with the original version from the cookbook. I think I had around 1.5 pounds of chicken, but kept the rest of the stuff the same. Oh, and I made pasties instead of a bigger pie. The dough recipe there gave me 9 5" round pasties (I used one of the Smuckers bowls I have as a cut-out). Each pasty has 1/4 cup of filling. That isn't skimping at all... I have enough filling left-over for 9 more.
So that gives me, 1.5 recipe yields 1.5 dozen pasties. And one recipe of dough does 0.75 dozen pasties.
The cooking time I used was 30 minutes, and that seems to be okay - right now they've been cooking for 25 minutes, and they're not quite done yet. Oven temperature is 375.
So, for 1.5 dozen, I have about $7 worth of chicken (can probably do cheaper), say $2 worth of plums (probably less, but I don't have the receipt handy), and two eggs, two sticks of butter, and then miscellanous spices. $2 worth of butter -> $11 ingredients. For 9 servings. Yay! My budget isn't broken - at least on this one dish. I'll have to do cost analysis on the rest later.
So, spinach & mushroom pasties, chicken & plum pasties (dude, periodish recipe. where's the bad?), might do a chicken & mushroom (+ maybe cheese?) for the unadventurous, and another vegetarian? Or... the "other vegetarian" be apple pies?
For the rest of the meal, there's a hardboiled egg, and cheese, and either soda or water, oh and either an apple or orange.
I was thinking of doing the "gammon of bacon" recipe that I got from Sandy - ham, boiled egg yolk, parsley, misc. spices.
This is totally within the $5/lunch budget I was aiming for....
Of course, now I have even more incentive for being frugal with money, because it looks like I'm replacing my roof next week. Here's to hoping that that fixes the "it's raining in my living room!" phenomenon that has only kept from being bad/worrisome by a) I've been doing woodworking in my living room and thus there's a tarp down where it leaks, and b) it takes a pretty nasty storm to actually happen. Unfortunately, this summer's been pretty good at providing nasty storms :)