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I’m a medical student in the upper Midwest with limited time and no income. Any recommendations on recipes? Not very picky besides no PB (I know) and I love something that reheats well.
 
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Irish 0330 said:
I’m a medical student in the upper Midwest with limited time and no income. Any recommendations on recipes? Not very picky besides no PB (I know) and I love something that reheats well.
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Ha I actually do workshops on this for my college students, how to eat healthy on a budget,… mind you the definition of healthy here is anything better than fast food and ramen. So,…

I teach my students stuff like:
-Filipino chicken adobo and rice,… easier to make than hamburger helper.
-Veggie fajitas
-Red beans and rice
-Mexican pinto beans
-(having an instant pot or slow cooker makes the last two much easier)
-Variety of salads
-Cornbread from scratch, not from the box.
-Simple cheesecakes,… like berry or churro cheesecake
-basic chili ( my go to recipe includes high end meats etc so I dumb it down for college student budgets)
-variety of soups


Most of those either involve an up front cost but can be replicated numerous times on that one purchase (a big bag of frozen chicken and bag of rice, large soy sauce and vinegar can make NUMEROUS batches of adobo for example) or the ingredients are cheap enough for one go round like the salads etc… Each of those can last a couple days and stretch on the cheap… if any specific thing interests you let me know and I’ll delve deeper
 
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Irish 0330 said:
I’m a medical student in the upper Midwest with limited time and no income. Any recommendations on recipes? Not very picky besides no PB (I know) and I love something that reheats well.
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Do you have a slowcooker/instant pot? If the latter you can bulk cook rice rather easily and same for beans. Chicken thighs are your friends and legs are even cheaper.

J Kenji Lopez Alt has a video for a 5 ingredient stew made in a pressure cooker. It’s just potatoes, tomatoes, chicken, onion, and a bay leaf. Pretty quick and tasty so check that video out if you like the sound of that.

At my HEB frozen tubes of ground turkey dark meat is very cheap, might be worth looking if there’s a deal like that for you. It’s a decent substitute for ground beef and you can make Keema Matar (ground meat, ginger, and garlic cooked then add frozen peas and serve with rice) to change up from tacoish ground beef.

You can also just do a lot with willing to eat the same meal prepped dish several days in a row. Beans can go a long way if you cook them in broth and doctor them up with spices well.
 
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zelezo vlk said:
Do you have a slowcooker/instant pot? If the latter you can bulk cook rice rather easily and same for beans. Chicken thighs are your friends and legs are even cheaper.

J Kenji Lopez Alt has a video for a 5 ingredient stew made in a pressure cooker. It’s just potatoes, tomatoes, chicken, onion, and a bay leaf. Pretty quick and tasty so check that video out if you like the sound of that.

At my HEB frozen tubes of ground turkey dark meat is very cheap, might be worth looking if there’s a deal like that for you. It’s a decent substitute for ground beef and you can make Keema Matar (ground meat, ginger, and garlic cooked then add frozen peas and serve with rice) to change up from tacoish ground beef.

You can also just do a lot with willing to eat the same meal prepped dish several days in a row. Beans can go a long way if you cook them in broth and doctor them up with spices well.
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My wife's favorite comfort food is Keema Mattar. Her Dad always cooked Mughlai cuisine. We utilize the pressure cooker for Daal (lentils) as well. The slow cooked chicken in the pressure cooker tenderizes it like a charm.
 
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zelezo vlk said:
Do you have a slowcooker/instant pot? If the latter you can bulk cook rice rather easily and same for beans. Chicken thighs are your friends and legs are even cheaper.

J Kenji Lopez Alt has a video for a 5 ingredient stew made in a pressure cooker. It’s just potatoes, tomatoes, chicken, onion, and a bay leaf. Pretty quick and tasty so check that video out if you like the sound of that.

At my HEB frozen tubes of ground turkey dark meat is very cheap, might be worth looking if there’s a deal like that for you. It’s a decent substitute for ground beef and you can make Keema Matar (ground meat, ginger, and garlic cooked then add frozen peas and serve with rice) to change up from tacoish ground beef.

You can also just do a lot with willing to eat the same meal prepped dish several days in a row. Beans can go a long way if you cook them in broth and doctor them up with spices well.
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I do have a crock pot and that’s been super helpful. Even got bold and made some carnitas that were really good once!

My main problem is that, towards the end of the week, I’ll run out of my recipe, have little time to make a proper meal, and then resort to snacking to eat before cooking again on weekend. Not sure if there’s any advice about that
 
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Ha I actually do workshops on this for my college students, how to eat healthy on a budget,… mind you the definition of healthy here is anything better than fast food and ramen. So,…

I teach my students stuff like:
-Filipino chicken adobo and rice,… easier to make than hamburger helper.
-Veggie fajitas
-Red beans and rice
-Mexican pinto beans
-(having an instant pot or slow cooker makes the last two much easier)
-Variety of salads
-Cornbread from scratch, not from the box.
-Simple cheesecakes,… like berry or churro cheesecake
-basic chili ( my go to recipe includes high end meats etc so I dumb it down for college student budgets)
-variety of soups


Most of those either involve an up front cost but can be replicated numerous times on that one purchase (a big bag of frozen chicken and bag of rice, large soy sauce and vinegar can make NUMEROUS batches of adobo for example) or the ingredients are cheap enough for one go round like the salads etc… Each of those can last a couple days and stretch on the cheap… if any specific thing interests you let me know and I’ll delve deeper
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Wow thanks! I will PM you but I’m super interested in the red beans and rice, adobo, and soups/salads.
 
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Just had some homemade Mexican chili beans with ground beef, chorizo and hatch, with Mexican rice in the side…. I’m fortunate to have a lot of home cooked dishes between my bride and I but I’m telling you,… today was one of the best meals I’ve had in a long while. So good
 
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I made Marry Me Chicken for the first time last night. HOLY *%#@ that stuff's good! Not particularly hard to make either. Brown some chicken breasts with a lot of onion, garlic and butter, then 6 hours in the crockpot with a sauce made of heavy whipping cream, chicken broth, sun dried tomatoes and a few spices and herbs, then garnish with fresh chopped basil. One of the best things I've cooked in a while.

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Wife and MiL wanted homemade salsa roja with flounder and shrimp ceviche so,… that’s what I’m making.
 
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My FiL’s birthday and mine are this week so I’m hosting a carne asada tomorrow. Already marinaded the steak, made some Arbol salsa and a big pot of pinto beans. Tomorrow I make chile Colorado, guac pico and rice… the wife is making calabacitas and frying up fries for loaded asada fries. Gonna be epic
 
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ACamp1900 said:
My FiL’s birthday and mine are this week so I’m hosting a carne asada tomorrow. Already marinaded the steak, made some Arbol salsa and a big pot of pinto beans. Tomorrow I make chile Colorado, guac pico and rice… the wife is making calabacitas and frying up fries for loaded asada fries. Gonna be epic
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I made some charro beans over the holidays for my family and they still talk about it. I still maintain that they liked it so much because I overloaded it with bacon. What do you do for your beans?
 
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I made some charro beans over the holidays for my family and they still talk about it. I still maintain that they liked it so much because I overloaded it with bacon. What do you do for your beans?
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Slow cooked 2cups pinto beans and 2/3 ham hocks,… remove hocks and get what ever meat you want from them dice it up and add back then discard the rest. Then add cooked chorizo, bacon, couple Roma tomatoes, some hatch, garlic and onion. Season with salt pepper cumin, and about about a third cup tomato sauce.
 
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Yeah the chorizo and bacon make it. Makes a huge difference like it sounds like it did with yours. Care to share your recipe? Always looking for new ideas
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Yeah that pork fat helps big time lol, can't imagine making anything near as good if it were vegan. I think besides the sheer amount of bacon I ended up using, the key was to semi-bloom the spices and tomato before throwing them in the cooked beans. Lemme get my recipe, might take a bit.

South Texas Frijoles


Check dry beans for rocks and split or old beans

Soak in water overnight, discard the leftover water, rinse the beans

Put the beans in a pot and cover with plenty of water/stock (>1 inch water above beans) and bring to a simmer or light boil

Sautee bacon, drain a little grease but not all

Throw in aromatics, tomatoes at the end to cook only slightly

Deglaze skillet if necessary, add everything to pot of beans

Toss in cilantro when almost ready, can add spices now

Smash some of the beans in the pot until you reach desired consistency

Salt and pepper to taste, if necessary



Ingredients:



1 lb pinto beans

Knorr chicken tomato bouillon (ratio is normally 4:1 liquid to beans)

Bacon, up to 8 Oz, as little as 3

1 white onion

1-2 roma tomatoes

4 cloves garlic

Cilantro

Oregano (optional)
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The Knorr chicken and tomato bullions are my secret weapons... My salsa has the chicken and my Mexican rice has both.
 
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The Knorr chicken and tomato bullions are my secret weapons... My salsa has the chicken and my Mexican rice has both.
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They're great, I don't use them for much besides the beans but that caldo de tamate is so key. My mom waited until she visited Texas last week to pick some up because she couldn't find any back in Illinois
 
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Are we talking an ITALIAN girl, or some girl from the Chicagoland area with green eyes who saw Italy in a movie once but has a great grandfather from Europe somewhere... because in my sexperience, that makes a huge difference.
 
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