/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10538130
You want something other than sandwiches? Navy beans and ham with some cornbread. Dirt cheap, easy to make, delicious as hell.

>>10030227
Big ol' pot o' soup. You make one big pot, you eat for a week. Bring it to work in a thermos, or heat it up in the break-room microwave. There's a million, billion recipes for soup from every country on the planet.

Soup is dirt-cheap, easy to make in bulk, and every cuisine alive has several recipes to pick from. You like American? Italian? French? Indian? Chinese? Japanese? Thai? Ethiopian? Mexican? Whatever, everybody has a soup recipe that's cheap, easy, and tasty to make and eat.

Buy your mirepoix (carrots, onions,and celery, it costs maybe $4 at the most), make a big pot full of soup, then portion it out in freezer bags. Eat some, freeze the rest. Then make a different soup the next day, and the day after that. Then you have three different lunches you made for yourself for the next month.

Carrots, onions, celery, water, bones & carcasses, salt and pepper: That's the beginning to make your own stock. That's where a good soup comes from.

I have a few ham shanks sitting in my freezer right now, and a bag full of navy beans. Ham shanks are the bones and fatty bits from a pig's leg. Not really edible on their own, but stew them so that the marrow and porky-goodness comes out into some beans, along with some legit ham and some cornbread, and you're in business!

>>9743255
My granddad used to love a big glass of buttermilk with his navy beans, ham, and cornbread. He'd pour some into the beans and mash up some of his cornbread in the bowl too. He grew up in the depression though, so it was all about dat poor people food.

>>9720645
Not true. Southernfag here, navy beans, ham and cornbread was a regular meal of my youth.