poor_skills has a lot of awesome budget recipes in their memories and tags. There's like... a million recipe posts a week.
Recipezaar is my favorite cooking website. It'll help get you started.
Other than that, beans and rice is my favorite for-two-budget-recipe. I add spicy tomato juice for about half the amount of water called for in the rice recipe... A blob of BBQ sauce... and spices (garlic powder, cilantro, red pepper, etc). Mix that with the water, heat, add rice. (It's important to put the spices in with the water, or you get patches of UBER HOT rice and really bland rice). Add a can of black beans, poof! Instant dinner.
I do tons of the cooking for Rachel and me even though I'm not very inventive and vegetarian stir-fry with brown rice is super easy and cheap. Cook brown rice, cook a bag of frozen stir-fry mix, add stir-fry sauce combine and eat. Things to include to mix things up: slivered almonds, an egg for protein (although you could very well add meat yourself, obvs.) Alternatively, you could make up a curry sauce and switch the brown rice for jasmine rice and it's relatively the same basic meal, but with canned coconut milk and chili powder instead of stir fry sauce.
pad thai. get peanut sauce from the store...like, thai sauce, just look around for a good one. and then rice noodles, veggies like bean sprouts and peas and an egg.... add it all in and sauce it up, sprinkle with peanuts on top. pretty much the best thing everrrr.
Oh, hooray. Moving forward, and in such lovely, tangible ways!
As for recipes, one of my favorites is huevos rancheros.
Fry up some onion, add garlic and chopped chili pepper, add chopped tomatoes and simmer for awhile. Cook two eggs sunny-side up and leave them a little bit runny on top. Slide them onto warm tortillas, add the hot tomato sauce on top of the eggs(this will finish cooking them), and top with cheese. Beans make a good side dish.
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poor_skills has a lot of awesome budget recipes in their memories and tags. There's like... a million recipe posts a week.
Recipezaar is my favorite cooking website. It'll help get you started.
Other than that, beans and rice is my favorite for-two-budget-recipe. I add spicy tomato juice for about half the amount of water called for in the rice recipe... A blob of BBQ sauce... and spices (garlic powder, cilantro, red pepper, etc). Mix that with the water, heat, add rice. (It's important to put the spices in with the water, or you get patches of UBER HOT rice and really bland rice). Add a can of black beans, poof! Instant dinner.
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get peanut sauce from the store...like, thai sauce, just look around for a good one.
and then rice noodles, veggies like bean sprouts and peas and an egg....
add it all in and sauce it up, sprinkle with peanuts on top.
pretty much the best thing everrrr.
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As for recipes, one of my favorites is huevos rancheros.
Fry up some onion, add garlic and chopped chili pepper, add chopped tomatoes and simmer for awhile. Cook two eggs sunny-side up and leave them a little bit runny on top. Slide them onto warm tortillas, add the hot tomato sauce on top of the eggs(this will finish cooking them), and top with cheese. Beans make a good side dish.
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