This is a very old family farm recipe to make a delicious meatmix called Spam that is used instead of meat. The special spice is medieval. It is called “nailgrit and rattlespice”. I replicated it in here from fresh ingredients.When a piece the size of a breadslice is fried in a pan, it develops a crispy crust with a soft meaty filling. Enough is made for the whole year when a hog is slaughtered in winter, packed in breadloaf pans till cooled, and cut to bread slice size. Individual slices wrapped and frozen, stays fresh till next winter.I ran out already this August, so I made 24 more pounds from an eight pound pork picnic shoulder. This recipe scales down well, so you can start with one pound of well marbled pork till your spam is perfect for you.

Making your own fresh spam in your food processor is five times less expensive than buying canned spam at the Wallmart store, and fresh tastes better. Here is the curried version.#CA2025

I was planning Spam Singapore Noodles Pancit for a weeknight dinner, but since it was Fat Tuesday, I did a Mardi Gras recipe by substituting the yellow curry powder with Cajun seasoning. Was delicious!Would be good with substitutions like shrimp, chicken, sausage, and celery and carrots.

Lots of nourishment on a budget. Spam is made from pork , bacon and potato starch, but we make it with buckwheat instead of potato starch. I adapted this meal from leftover farm ingredients to store bought ingredients to make spam. It came out at half the cost of other dinners. You can make spam meat for 16 cents per serving in this recipe, and it is delicious. A full dinner for 70 cents. Spam Freezes well.

I made this dry spice mix a few times to make a fragrant seafood sauce, then tried it when frying croutons in olive oil, and to spice up a piece of fish fillet by blackening it. I do not put salt in this mix, the flavors are fragrant and exotic. This recipe is for two teaspoons, I made more to keep handy now that I like it.

We made pulled pork dinner portions and froze them. We also make a french bean dinner called Cassoulet, which we normally make with lamb, and tried it with pulled pork instead of lamb and liked it.Here is the recipe for six dinners in one pan. Easy to make in dutch oven, air fryer or crock pot or slow cooker: prep and forget. The longer it simmers, the better it gets. Freezes well.

Frugal Farm Dish with one pound each spelt wheat flour, buckwheat flour, pork belly and pork liver. Buckwheat gives this meatloaf its delicious flavor, spelt flour its crunch, and these two take away the liver taste and feel, so you end up with four pounds of meatloaf that everybody loves. Freezes well. Serve with fried rice.#GlobalApron

If you can get pollock filets, usually a quarter pound per filet, inexpensive, fresh or frozen, a pound makes a great dinner for 2, you are lucky, it is a tender, mild fish.This recipe coats fresh pesto sauce inside rolled up mild pollock and is served with other mild side dishes like steamed spinach and steamed rice.

Our oldest chinese restaurant closed, after about 100 years, they left us their two most famous dishes, chinese spaghetti and ginger onion duck. Here is the spaghetti recipe.

Smoked onion soup is a light meal with a strong flavor and brown color without butter, without beef broth, without slices of cheese or fried eggs, so the broth is not fatty at all.French onion soup is a heavy meal with a mild flavor, it gets its flavor and color from carmelizing the onion in a pan with butter, and from beef broth, bread, fried egg, and lots of cheese.I make four pints of smoked onion soup broth at a time, keep the onions and the broth in pint containers in the fridge or freezer and pour one in a cast iron soup bowl with lid when ready to serve. I top it with fresh french bread, a poached egg,crumbs of smoked cheese, and a wedge of lime, ready in ten minutes at 450F degrees.

Easy Recipe, these sausages never burst because you warm the sausage in a 175F degree water bath in your oven, and precook 5 pounds pork shoulder and 1 pound of bacon fat and 1 pound of bacon rind to mix with fresh liver and then stuff into delicious spreadable liver sausages.Every family makes their own spice and herb mix, ours is pungent. I recommend to cut my herb and spice quantities in half, mix and then add more to your own taste. Liver sausage Spread is served cold with mustard and pickles on bread and crackers for sandwiches and appetizers.

Spicy Catfish Nuggets are all-you-can-eat finger food. Served with two other finger foods, crispy sweet potato french fries, and breaded winter carrot rounds. Washed down with apple cider or beer.Served family style with ketchup, tartar sauce, buttermilk dip, you fill your own plate and enjoy sharing food and company.All food items are deep fried in the same oil, potatoes first, carrots next, fish is last, because the oil absorbs the fish odor and taste. The fish oil is kept in a separate container to be reused for future fish frying only.