Oatmeal biscuits

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1-1/4 cups quick-cooking oats
• 3/4 cup milk

Method:

1. In a large bowl, combine the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in oats and milk just until moistened.
2. Turn onto a lightly floured surface. Roll out to 3/4-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 2-in. biscuit cutter. Place 1 in. apart on an ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 375° for 15-20 minutes or until lightly browned. Serve warm. Yield: 15 biscuits.

Simple oatmeal.

Simple oatmeal.

Ingredients:

Sugarless pancake syrup
1/4 - cup Condensed milk
1 - cup whole oats
1 3/4 - or so cups Water

Method:
Bring water to a boil.
Add the oats and stir into the water.
Once the oats are immersed turn down the heat to about medium.
Stir every 2 minutes or so.
After 5 to 6 minutes, the oats should have soaked up all the liquid and be soft.
Turn off the heat.
Add the milk and the syrup.
eat.

No knead bread.

Ingredients:

3 - cups flour
1/8 - teaspoon yeast
1 teaspoon salt
1/2  - cups 100 to 110 degree Fahrenheit water.

Method:

Mix all the ingredients together and cover for a few hours.

Let the dough rise overnight.

Punch the down and let it rise again

 
Bake the bread at 450 degrees for about thirty minutes. Check on it at 15- twenty minutes.  Fahrenheit in a heat proof container (i.e. not plastic handles).

And then you get:

Whole wheat.

Turkey day coming!

Tomato sauce replacement

Need a sauce for our faux orzo pasta. So we can a can of mixed vegetables and went from there.

Then we added a bit of oil and our favorite spices.  Of course the grinding came next.

To make the pasta, we made the noodle dough as usual, but used a cheese grater to make the rice like noodles.

  Then cooked and drained the noodles.

Add the sauce and the Parmesan cheese to the noodles and you are in heaven.

Cheap lard / oil.

Upset with the high price of lard and oil, then just make your own. Boil or bake a chicken. Take the liquid and put it into a heat proof container. Then put the container in the fridge to solidify. Ultimately you can take the while globs and use them in biscuits, frying, or even salad dressing. For salad dressing the globs need to go back to a liquid. Frying pans seem to clean easier when using your homemade lard in the frying pan.

You can pay through the nose for lard or just render the clear juices from a baked meat such as chicken. We let ours cool in the fridge overnight. perfect for awesome biscuits the next day.

Poorman's pasta

Most Italian's are very frugal especially Sicilians. Here is a dish to me is better than Ramen noodles. The Bologna is just used as flavoring. You have to remember that Europeans do not eat that much meat. Part of the Mediterranian .diet I suppose In any case, it is quick and easy to fix.

Note: normally this dish is covered with bread crumbs sauteed with onions, but I think there is already enough starch in the dish. The breadcrumbs were used as a substitute for cheese when cheese was unavailable or too expensive, Despite the naked pasta look, it is filled with tons of flavor! So eat!

Also see: http://www.instructables.com/id/Coffee-maker-pasta/

Step 1: Ingredients:

Ingredients:

1 lb. of your favorite spaghetti/pasta. Eggless pasta is cheap and easy to make. (angel hair pasta cooks fairly quickly). (http://www.instructables.com/id/Pasta-hold-the-eggs/)
1/2 c. cooking oil
Several teaspoons Garlic powder
2/3 tsp. black pepper
1 tablespoon finely chopped Bologna or other luncheon meat. (just butter or tunafish could be used in a pinch)
Salt to taste
1/4 - 1/2 c. finely chopped green beans. (any vegetable should work)

Step 2: Cook it all up.

Heat olive oil or cooking old  in skillet; add garlic powder and saute enough to heat the oil. Add black pepper, Bologna, salt and pepper and cook over low heat until the Bologna in part of the sauce (Make sure you don't burn the garlic or the Bologna.)

Meanwhile, cook the spaghetti as desired; drain, reserve one cup of the cooking water. Toss spaghetti with the sauce. If it appears too dry, add cooking liquid and sprinkle with chopped green beans. Makes 4 servings.

Step 3: Mealtime.

You have prepared a dish that only costs pennies that can feed several people. Enjoy!.