A quick dinner dish made from white precooked rice noodles and the classic five vegetable colors: 1) white slivered onions or mushrooms, 2) green frozen peas or spinach or beans, 3) red tomato, sweet red pepper or carrots, 4) black beans or mushrooms, 5) yellow frozen corn or squash.You can add and stirfry 1/2 cup precooked egg omelette, meat, precooked tofu, croutons, precooked fish or nuts for more protein. This fried noodle dish is called different names in different cooking regions, like bami, mie, lo mein, chinese spaghetti, ramen, udon.

Refreshing cold summer dinner from garden ingredients, served cold with home made sparkling wine.#august2026

Aqua Faba means bean water and is the nourishing thick broth from soaking and cooking dried garbanzo and other beans. It is often thrown away because the foam on top has a bitter taste. We skim the bitter foam off and use the broth, it tastes mild like egg whites in egg drop soups.There is also a fava bean called Aqua Dulce, which is not bitter when soaked and cooked, that can be used with or instead of garbanzo beans.We mixed both beans to make a hearty bean soup dinner served over croutons with poached egg yokes, spiced with harissa sauce and other spices, served with side dishes of pickled cucumber, pickled onions, pickled olives, pickles sweet peppers and chopped cilantro and green onions.If you prefer vegan, you whisk the aqua faba broth till it develops white strings, like eggwhites, use in this soup instead of eggs.#GlobalApron

We poached the whole chicken in boiling water first, pour water off. Typically, there are eight to nine dinner soup meals from one whole chicken carcass, bones, fat, skin, neck, liver, gizzard and heart, about 2 to 3 pounds from a 4 to 5 a pound chicken, after the breasts, wings and leg quarters have been removed. With younger chickens, we brown the meat in the dutch oven to bring out the flavor and give the broth more color.

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.

Foolproof recipe, kids love this. Cup of chopped carrots, cup of chopped potato, cup of chopped onion to sweeten the mash, tablespoon of butter to make it creamier. Served with bratwurst, fried egg, tofu.

Midweek dinner from any leftover beef or other meat sauteed with miniature potatoes in sweet and sour peppers in a cast iron skillet. You will feel like you are in the field, at a campfire, your horse right next to you, eating under the stars.

Quicker than take-out, no oily taste, and $2 for a big meal. Half a chicken is used to make broth, then deboned and chopped in bite size pieces, while you make a delicious thick sauce from a fresh orange, spices, honey and cornstarch. Served over sushi rice cooked in a pan with this foolproof method.

Classic Traditional Grilled corn on the cob, cucumber salad, flag pie with blueberries and raspberries and whipped cream, stuffed baking potatoes, and New York steaks.Serve with fresh homemade young rhubarb wine.#July2026#BBQbites

Great recipe to taste lots of meat flavor without using much meat, getting your protein from black beans and cheese, summer flavors from tomatoes, garlic, jalapeno tangy peppers and sweet red peppers and eggplant. Big, hearty meal.

Sautee the calamari and garlic, boil the fettucini, add the fresh mild long italian red pepper, basil and parsley, a fifteen minute summer lunch best enjoyed outside in the shade on a hot day, with a cold beer or white wine.

Broth boiled polenta mixed with sweet red pepper pieces and chives and parmesan cheese bakes with mushrooms into a tasty and chewy hamburger patty. Served on slices of fresh hamburger tomato, ripe avocado, red onion, and lettuce, with chopped sprinkled green onion on top and hamburger sauces.#GoldenApron23