My family was poor, but my mom always had a hot meal for dinner, anything from fried bologna and eggs, spam and eggs, meatloaf, greenbeans and mashed taters, and on Fridays it was always bread pudding made from the leftover bread from the past week. Please list your cheap but delicious meals your mom served you. As the economy falters many of us will be serving those tasty meals of the past.
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We ate a lot of eggs. Rice, scrambled eggs and soy sauce. Scrambled eggs and sliced hot dogs. Fried Egg sandwiches, French toast, soft boiled eggs, egg salad sandwiches. Dad could stretch a pound of bacon or sausage to feed two adults and five kids.
Do you mean fruit cobbler or some other type? I have only made fruit cobbler once, but I have heard you can make vegetable and meat cobblers, though I haven't.
Lol. Maybe it was just vegetables then. I was thinking if meat was in it it would be like one of those biscuit casseroles or a pot pie.
My roommate in college was Japanese American. She introduced me to this treat and almost 60 years later, it's still a treat.
I had egg yolk mixed with rice with some soy sauce. Everything's done in the rice cooker. It was my childhood and I enjoyed it very much. Once a month we'll have minced pork or beef mixed with steam rice and soy sauce. Super delicious, to me at least. I cook these meals even to this day.
When I was really young, one of my grandfathers had a small egg ranch so we had eggs all the time.
We were like Forest Gump when it came to eggs - hard boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, poached eggs, over easy eggs, egg salad, eggs with rice, etc.
My favorite meal during summer is saute onions in butter til transparent, wilt a LOT of rough-chopped swiss chard over them, and finish by scrambling eggs with it.
I also use butternut squash puree as the base for coconut curries over rice. There's never a shortage of squash, and they store well! Loads of Vit A.