/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13409961
Making a (hopefully) delicious batch of traditional chili tonight. When do you add the ham?

>>13341645
>chef sees golden opportunity to prank a vegan chow down on bacon grease
>vegan tips extra
pure comedy gold

>>11890871
It's the beans that make the gumbo. You need a little okra of course, but it's the beans that are the real star of the show.

Hi /ck/, I need your help. I'm trying to frugal my way to an early retirement. I'm living on $300 per week (I know, a lot more than some of you sorry SOBs). I save and then invest every dollar I earn above this with the hopes of eventually being able to live on the difference between the return on my investments and inflation. After rent, transportation, and entertainment, I've got about $80 per week to spend on food. I spend about $40-60 of this on breakfast and lunch (I'm planning on reducing this a lot in the future, to about $14-21, but I'd rather focus on optimizing my dinners for now). So, I've got about $20-30 per week to spend on dinners for the week.

So, basically, I need your poor people recipes. It has to be something that tastes good, stores well, doesn't go off quickly, and costs less than $20-30 to make 7 servings fit for a warrior. Ideally, I'd like to be able to cook it relatively quickly. I'm pretty active and I'd rather not get diabetes so if, somehow, this could be a healthy meal, that'd be awesome.

At the moment, I'm alternating between spaghetti and Japanese curry (I know, really not that healthy...). I'm about to learn how to cook beans and rice because I've been told this is what you a lot of you poor peasants are eating.

hi /ck/, im looking for some simple advice. i am making southern red beans and rice (dry beans) and i have some smoked pig tails here. what i want to know is when is the best time to add them in? at the start, halfway through, or at theh end of cooking time?

the reason i ask is because from my experience you cant add salt untill the very end when cooking with dry beans because it will harden, and im not sure if the natural salt on the smoked pigtails will effect the beans or not if i add it at the very start.

so when should i add them in?