Category Archives: cheap recipes 便宜食譜
Leak flower with bean curd
- 絞肉一些
- 豆乾切片一些
- 韭菜花一把. 切塊
- 糖一小匙
- 醬油2大匙
- 油一大匙
- 鹽
- 雞湯1/2杯
- 油鍋快炒肉. 加入醬油. 糖
- 肉快熟時. 加入韭菜花. 雞湯. 鹽加蓋. 悶約6-8分
- 加入豆乾. 炒一下.
Easy Apple Pie
This is an easy dessert for lazy day.
- 1 bag of store bought pie dough
- 1 can of apple pie filling
- 2 apples (peeled and chopped into bit size)
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp of butter
- Defrost the pie dough.
- Spread butter around the pie pan.
- Lay the pie dough in the pie pan.
- In a sauce pan, melt the butter and add apple.
- Cook until the apple until slightly softened. Add cinnamon, vanilla and apple pie filling.
- Pour the apple mixture in the pie pan.
- Fold the extra pie dough inside to cover the filling.
- Brush melted butter on top of the pie dough.
- Bake the apple pie according to the pie dough directions.
The fresh apple gives that fresh sour and crunchy flavor of apples to an ordinary apple pie filling.
Asian Potato Salad
My husband’s signature dish. Yum!
- 3 cups of cooked potatoes
- 2 tbsp of cilantro
- 1 cup of chopped celery
- 3 boiled eggs
- 2 tbsp of chopped red onion
- 1 tbsp of Sriracha sauce (chili sauce)
- 1/2 cup of toasted pine nuts
- 3 tbsp of Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tbsp of soy sauce
- 1 tbsp of rice vinegar
- some Paprika powder
- black and white sesame seeds
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- Cut eggs and potatoes into bite sized pieces. Mix in celery, cilantro and red onion.
- In another bowl, mix Sriracha sauce, worcestershire sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, Paprika powder and some black and white sesame seeds.
- Mix potato combination with sauce.
- Finally, add pine nuts on top.
Serve chilled. It is a wonderful dish for the summer.
Thin sliced bamboo with pork
- 2-3 cups of thinly sliced bamboo
- 2 cups of ground pork
- 1 tbsp of hot chili paste
- 1 tsp of chopped garlic
- 1 tbsp of oil
- salt and pepper
- 2 tbsp of soy sauce
- 1 tsp of sesame oil
- 1 tsp of sugar
- 1/4 cup of water
- Fry the garlic and chili paste with oil until fragrant.
- Add pork, soy sauce, sesame oil and sugar. Cook until done.
- Add bamboo and water. Cover with lid. Cook until bamboo is done.
- add salt and pepper to taste.
Ja-Jang Noodle 炸醬麵
- 2片豆甘切丁
- 2條小黃瓜切丁
- 2杯絞肉
- 1 杯甜面醬
- 2大匙芝麻醬
- 1杯紅蘿菠丁
- 一杯水
- 鹽少許
- 麵
- 碎蒜
- 油
- 將碎蒜在油中炒香.
- 加入絞肉及鹽少許. 肉熟後
- 加紅蘿菠丁. 水. 豆甘. 蓋鍋煮5分.
- 加入甜面醬.芝麻醬. 拌勻
- 起鍋前加入小黃瓜就好了
- 拌在麵上
Bangers and Mash
Ok…this is a bratwurst, but it is still freaking good.
- 3 bratwurst ($ 3)
- 1 cup of beer ($0.5)
- salt, pepper ($0.2)
- 5 cups of boiled potato ($2)
- 1 chopped onion ($0.7)
- 1/2 cup of milk ($0.5)
- 2 tbsp of butter ($0.5)
Total $7.4 for two people
- Put cooked potato in a food processor, add milk, butter, salt and pepper. Blend until potato is creamy.
- Start a sauce pan with beer, salt and pepper. Boil bratwurst for 10 minutes.
- In a skillet, pan fry bratwurst until brown, add onion. Cook until onion is fragrant.
- Serve bratwurst on top of the mashed potato.
Turkish Delight
Turkish Delight is certainly a tasty candy.
- 2 cups of sugar + 1/2 cup of sugar ($2)
- 2 tbsp of corn starch ($0.3)
- 1 cup of water
- 1 tsp of orange juice ($0.2)
- 1/2 tsp of orange zest
- 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract ($0.3)
- 1 tsp of backing powder ($0.1)
Total $ 2.9 for Twenty servings
- Bring sugar, corn starch, water, and baking powder up to a boil.
Stir constantly and bring the temperature to 220° F. - Add orange juice, zest and vanilla extract.
- Pour candy mixture into a pan. Chill in the fridge for 1 hr.
- Cut the candy into bite sized pieces, and coat them with sugar.
Home made Wine
去年釀的酒開罐了. 草莓的非常好喝.
蘋果的比較沒那麼有蘋果味.
我打算今年秋天再做早莓酒.
夏天喝. 剛好. :celebrate:
I made some brown sugar strawberry wine and apple wine last fall.
The strawberry wine is wonderful but the apple wine is less exciting.
I decided to make more strawberry wine this coming fall.
It will be perfectly ready next summer.
2nd anniversary cake ($5.56 for eight servings)
雷好公跟我剛過了我們美國婚禮的兩週年.
我自己做了一個蛋糕. 分好吃歐.
還自己裝釋歐
很可愛吧!
- 1 can of pineapple slices ($0.99)
- 1 can of peaches ($0.99)
- 2 cup of whipped cream ($0.99)
- 1 box of vanilla cake mix ($2.19)
- 2 tbsp of sugar ($0.2)
- 1/4 tsp of vanilla extract ($o.2)
Total $5.56 for Eight
- Bake the cake according to the directions on the box.
- When the cake is baked, set it aside until cooled completely.
- Using a hand mixer, whip the whipped cream until stiff. Add sugar and vanilla extract.
- Chop 2/3 can of pineapple slices and peaches into small cubes.
- Mix half of the whip cream with the fruit.
- Carefully slice the cake into two halves (upper and lower). Spread the whipped cream and fruit mixture in between the two halves.
- Spread the left over whipped cream on top of and around the cake.
- Decorate the cake as desired with left over fruits and additional candies.
No excuse to eat out (Includes easy recipes)
After being married for 2 years and living on 2-part time jobs, we are forced to learn how to eat cheaply but healthy and delicious.
Here are some tips to help you when you are too busy to cook.
1. Never eat out because you are busy.
It is a common thing we all do. After a long day of work, you just don’t feel like cooking.
However, there are some easy things you can do to achieve healthy delicious meals with little effort.
Lets use my dinner from last night as an example:
My husband and I couldn’t get home until 6:30pm and I knew neither of us would be up for cooking. So I went our price club to pick up:
- 1/4 lb. of London broil cold cuts ($3.01)
- 1/4 lb. of smoked turkey ($1.70) and
- 1/4lb. of Cheddar cheese ($ 1.78)
- a can of sweet corn ($0.89)
- a head of lettuce ( $ 1)
- a loaf of French bread ($2)
Right next door to the discount club is a grocery store, so I walked there to pick up
In addition, I knew I had carrots and celery at home.
Recipes:
When we got home. I popped open the corn and put it in to a pot with 6 cups of water and brought it up to boil. When boiling I added half of a chicken broth cube and stirred in an egg.
For the veggies, I chopped the carrots, celery, lettuce and mixed it with 2 tbsp of soy sauce, 2 tbsp of Worcestershire sauce, 1 tsp of hot chilli paste, and 1 tbsp of sesame oil. I then mixed and tossed.
I sliced the bread and had the cold cuts ready to go in no time.
The meal was served in within 10 minutes of arriving at home and we had salad, soup and sandwiches. In addition, there were lots of left overs for the next day’s lunch. The total cost was $10.38 for two and you still have leftovers.
2. Don’t buy pre-cooked packaged frozen dinners.
Most frozen dinners are too high in sodium, sugar fat, and crap. In addition, they often takes up to 10 minutes to prepare and are terribly unsatisfying. They are not cheap. Most tolerable frozen dinners cost between 3-7 dollars.
The alternative is frozen vegetables. You can buy stir fry vegetables, Oriental mix vegetables and many other varieties. They are unseasoned, but ready to go in the pan.
3. Don’t buy grocery story deli section prepared dinners.
Those products are often over priced. Using my grocery store as an example, 4 pieces of fried chicken cost $6.99. That is quite expensive. Especially, these foods are prepared early and sit on top of the shelf for hours. They are not fresh.