This sounds delicious. More recipes please!
I forgot to mention try to get ur hands on some thai chilis, if not habanera will do but use a little, it's very hot when cooked in a stew or soup.
Another recipe... get a chicken cover it in satl and pepper, and I mean get salt in between the skin and breast, and put it in oven for 45 minutes at 450 for a 3 pound chicken, add minutes to cooking time for bigger chickens. A chicken is 5-7 dollars btw and it's two meals in one, fuckign cheap.
Go to a butcher and ask him for bones of veal or beef, it should be cheap, put it in water with celery onion and carrot, all thickly cut, the hard end of esperagus is also good for this, bring it a boil in a pot with a lid that can go in the oven. Set the oven on 200, when it boils trasnfer it to the oven and leave it there all day or all night or both. You now have priceless stock, stock made from bones is fucking amazing, you have the base for a hundred different recipes now, here's one you wont find easily for a central asian dish called ploff.
Put some veggie oil in a pot make it hot ho thot, throw in the beef cut into cubes, or lamb whatever is cheaper because remember you have stock, this makes everything delicious, let the protein brown in there, get a bowl of white rice and wash it twice, this will get some of the startch out so that the rice dont stick together, cut up carrot (yellow carrot if u can find it) and put it rhough a grader, maybe have as much as the rice, set rice and carrot aside. When the beef is nice and brown throw in the onions and when they are soft and translucent, put some of the stock and some water, twice as much as the rice, let it cook for 30 minutes, throw in a handful of salt, pepper, and most importantly cumin seeds, not ground cumin but whole, let it cook for 30 minutes. Throw in the rice and carrot mix it up and cover it. This is a dish much of the soviet union grew up on.
In terms of eating well on the cheap, buy whole chickens and save parts like fat chunks and skin and bone in the freezer for stock, buy shit cuts of beef cut off the fat and save it for stock and marinate the meet to make it tender, make things such as beef stews, but remember stock is the most important thing in terms of cooking on the cheap. If you wanna eat good steak... forget about hormones lol, unless ur well off then it's either good ingredients or bodybuilding, very hard to afford both lol
