Tuesday, January 29, 2008

A few cheap and easy eats

Cheap and fast mock paella. Through in whatever you've got that makes sense. I added a leftover chicken breats, used two chicken sausages that were about to expire, my son's leftover corn...and a pile of hot sauce. The only thing I needed to buy was the couscous.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_25497,00.html

Homemade mac-n-cheese. Someone gave use a bag of leftover cheese cubes at an event. What's a gal to do? This was basically free. Bad for you, but free.
http://southernfood.about.com/od/blackeyedpeas/r/bl30605l.htm

Sholayzard. This is a persian dessert. Rinse one and a half cups rice. Boil with 9 cups of water. Simmer and add a sprinkle of saffron (or tumeric if you don't have saffron) and about 3 cups of sugar. Keep simmering until it thickens. Crush and toss in whatever Christmas nuts you have left over - ideally pistacios and almonds. Sprinkle in some rosewater if you have any and like it. Serve warm or cold.

We ate all of these last week!

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