Posted in Chocolate, Dessert, Food Stamp Cuisine, Tofu on March 19, 2011| 2 Comments »
Made with shelf-stable, inexpensive ingredients, this is one of my cheap favorites.
Ingredients:
3 tablespoons liquid sweetener (sugar syrup, maple syrup, agave nectar, or honey)
1/3 cup Hershey’s cocoa powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (check that it says gluten-free)
1 package Mori-Nu Firm Tofu (more…)
Posted in Food Stamp Cuisine, Italian, Wheat Eater Parity on February 7, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I was looking in the freezer. Hmm….not much there. However, there were pork sausages and frozen spinach. I looked in the pantry: a box of Cream of Rice with all of the cooking instructions in Spanish. I also had some sea salt and expensive organic parmesan. 
This is another example of high/low cooking. It doesn’t all have to be cheap, and it doesn’t all have to be expensive, to be really good.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup Cream of Rice Cereal
1 1/2 cups water
1/8 cup grated parmesan
sprinkle of sea salt
1/2 cup frozen spinach (more…)
Posted in Beans, Catholic Guilt, Food Stamp Cuisine, Lentils, Soup on November 9, 2010| 2 Comments »
I’ve been really busy doing fun things like the Austin Celtic Festival, and I’ m feeling guilty about neglecting my cooking and my cooking blog, so this morning, after checking into work for a few hours, I cleaned out parts of the refrigerator, and decided to make crock pot red lentil soup with what I scavenged in the attempt. 
This is my atonement for wasting some perfectly good food–just cut off the bad parts and save what you can. You’ll feel much better about yourself.
Ingredients:
1 tsp fresh grated ginger
1 tsp turmeric (more…)
Posted in Beans, Food Stamp Cuisine, Tex-Mex on October 24, 2010| 3 Comments »
“You need to re-brand”, said my brother. “Why?” I asked. “Well, it’s not that cheap, and it’s not how I would do it.” I asked him what he does for gluten-free. He said, “I kind of make an enchilada. Corn tortillas are really cheap. Also, beans are incredibly cheap.”
Posted in Eggs, Food Stamp Cuisine, No Clean Dishes on October 17, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Sometimes, you don’t have a lot to work with. The vegetables left in the refrigerator have seen better days, and you might not even have clean dishes. In that case, vegetable frittatas are an easy fix.
Ingredients:
The good parts of some kind of vegetable scavenged from the back of the refrigerator: this time, it was eggplant and calabacita squash. Zucchini, tomatoes and mushrooms would also work well. (more…)
Posted in American, Food Stamp Cuisine, Italian, Wheat Eater Parity on October 10, 2010| 1 Comment »
Very occasionally, my local H.E.B., will make me cry.
The first time was when I realized that they had labeled every gluten-free thing in their store on 36th street, right down to the generic mayonnaise. Today was yet another teary-eyed moment in the grocery store, because they now sell this:
What is it? It’s gluten-free H.E.B. brand pasta, and it’s $2.00 a bag. Why is it so important? It means that if you have $6.00 in your pocket, you can walk into your local grocery in Texas, and walk out with a jar of generic pasta sauce, a container of parmesan, and a package of pasta, and feed a family in about an hour, just like someone who is not gluten-free.
Ingredients:
1 package store brand gluten-free pasta
1 jar spaghetti sauce (I used Newman’s Own. They support nice charities like camps for kids.)
1 container parmesan
Posted in Food Stamp Cuisine, Soup, Vietnamese on September 29, 2010| Leave a Comment »
In life, as in cooking, it’s good to work with what you have. In this instance, that means Pho. Pho is a Vietnamese rice noodle soup that involves lots of spices, ingredients and time. Thankfully, being gluten-free makes you a bit of a fearless eater, so I’ve eaten this in divey restaurants where the ingredients were, shall we say, “varied.” (more…)
Posted in Food Stamp Cuisine on September 5, 2010| Leave a Comment »
O.k. I’ve officially become one of those weird people that takes picures of their breakfast. However, this particular recipe has a lot of things in it that were basically cheaper. Everything in this sandwich was either in season, bought in bulk, or rescued from inedibility.)
Ingredients:
Romaine lettuce: this had gone bad on the outside. When that happens, just remove the exterior leaves; if it’s slimy, it’s not edible; not slimy–probably still good. (I don’t eat salad at home. It’s my adaptation to being gluten-free, anywhere in public, so, at home? No salad.)
Posted in Beans, Food Stamp Cuisine, Possibly vegetarian on September 3, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I’ll admit it: a lot of the food on this blog is me showing off–I spent a year or two writing an unpublished cookbook on weekends and some nights, teaching myself to make anything gluten-free. What I eat every day, though, is sometimes something entirely different, and cheaper. This is one of those recipes.
Posted in Food Stamp Cuisine, U.K. Food on September 2, 2010| 1 Comment »
And then there are days you just don’t want to cook: you wake up too early, and there are too many early morning phone calls, some of them even from people not related to you. That’s when it’s time for some comfort food. (So, of course, it involves bacon.)
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