50 & Fabulous

Would any of you be willing to share some inexpensive, man pleasing recipes?  With soaring prices at the grocerie stores and everything else, I could use some suggestions.

What are you doing different in the kitchen?

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Oh, {{{Linda}}} sometimes life comes to this for many who are tightening their purse strings! I'm sooo glad you posted this, for I have several very old cookbooks from which to draw from.

It would be nice to know just what foods you and DH do not care for, what you do like, and those you both "can tolerate".

I'll start out with a couple recipes I used a lot back in the 60's while raising my three DDs, and having to cut corners everywhere I could:

Rose Bock's Rice Bake

2 c. cold cooked meat or chicken
2 c. meat stock (improvise, or use bouillon, etc.)
1 c. tomatoes, chopped (raw or cooked, include juice)
1/2 c. raw rice
2 tb butter or oleo
1 tb worchestershire sause
2 medium onions, chopped, divided
salt & pepper to taste

Put meat, tomatoes, 1 onion, W. sauce, salt and pepper in a kettle and cook about 10 minutes.

Melt butter in skillet, add 1 onion and the rice, and stir-fry to brown rice. Combine all ingredients into a buttered casserole dish and back 40-50 minutes at 325 or 350º—use your judgement like I had to, for this hand-written recipe didn't guve the temperature.

This dish is very filling, and tastes good as a leftover.

Creamy Hash Brown Bake

1 can cream of celery soup
1/3 c. milk
3 oz cream cheese

Place in saucepan, mix together on low setting, and heat to blend all together well.

4 c. frozen hash brown potatoes
1 c. frozen chopped onion (or chopped fresh onion)
1 c. shredded cheese

Mix together the potatoes and onions, place in buttered caserole dish. Pour first mixture over this and bake at 350º, 1½ hours.

 

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I love those recipes, they sound so yummy!  Thanks for sharing them.  H is a meat and potatoes man and he loves rice and pasta.  He rarely eats anything cheesy except cheese on his burgers or mac and cheese, or a grilled cheese.

I just took a couple of chicken carcasses I was saving and made a stock for chicken soup for tonight.  I've eaten so much chicken I'm starting to cluck.  If I could just learn to lay eggs that would save more money LOL.  I'm on the look out for recipes like yours that don't cost an arm and a leg to make.  I don't have many spices left either and Lord knows they ain't cheap either.  I wonder how some of the dishes would taste with cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice LOL. 

Thanks Liz

(((((hugs to you too))))))

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Simple Stroganoff

• 1lb. beef tips, diced into smaller cubes
• 1 can cream of mushroom soup
• 1 can cream of potato soup
• 1 pkg. brown gravy (or onion, which is also good)
• 1 pkg. wide egg noodles
• 1/4 cup sour cream
• salt and pepper to taste

Brown beef. Add gravy and soups; stir together, cover, and simmer on low heat.

Cook noodles according to package directions; drain.

Stir sour cream into the beef and soup mixture, then add that to the noodles, stir to combine, and serve.

This feeds our family of 4 at least two dinners, if not three, depending on the size of the servings. :)

* Edited to add: you can use ground beef instead of beef tips to save even more money.