Hey.
So, as I have discussed it with some of you here, our almonds have been activated, but even weaponised autism bodies need the fuel.
All jokes aside, inflation is crazy everywhere. Just ordering some stuff was viable some time ago, but it's getting less so. Plus, tasty food is good for your general well-being and making it so is not only a skill all adults should have in my opinion (you are strong, independent adults, learn life skills that make you depend less on everyone else), but it can also be fun.
As much as I would love to feed you all, that's obviously impossible. The next best thing is, I curate a little collection of recipes and break it down so you can make it with relatively simple ingredients that don't depend on specific brands and using from scratch stuff as much as it is viable. Making your own pasta and churning your own butter would be fun, but I work a full time jerb that's not ASMR whisper cooking on Tiktok in a peasant dress.
It's going to be a combination of food from all different kinds. Some Hungarian (none of the war crimes Americans call goulasch), some Asian, some inauthentic shit that will get you cancelled, some mains, pasta, soups, desserts.
So gather around, my friends and eat like kings.
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I recently learnt that a person I know spends on average of £45 to 50 a day on takeaway, coffee and lunches etc. Now 50 quid is around my average weekly shop but there was a time where that 50 was a luxury month. And knowing the British government it might just be again.
So a dish that helped me through that time, cabbage soup. It's filling for a soup, cheap to make, the ingredients last a long time unrefrigerated and you can use them in plenty of different things.
You'll need.
750ml water or chicken / veg stock. Stock a chicken carcass or make your own veg stock. Water works if things really have hit the fan.
1 onion, diced small 1 carrot peeled and diced small 3 sticks of celery diced smallish 1/2 head cabbage, cored and diced medium. (reserve some whole leaves to make stuffed cabbage leaves) Can of tomatoes, or 3 to 4 fresh 3 cloves garlic, peeled and roughly chopped Rosemary, bay leaf and chill (fresh or powder to taste)
Take the mirepoix (onion, carrot and celery) and very gently fry it in a little olive oil for 20ish mins. The goal isn't to brown them but to extract the natural sweetness especially from the onion and carrots. Once done, add everything else and simmer for about 30 mins.
You can add meat and rice or potato as you see fit. It's quite good with some Cumberland sausage that's been browned then boiled in it.
Oh and season to taste. But that's obvious.