Thomas S. Nielsen's blog

Tasty

Today I had an unexpected guest for dinner. I was in town shopping when a friend met me. After finishing shopping some flowers to my girlfriend, we went home to my place. My girlfriend arrived shortly after, and we decided to invite him to stay for dinner.

We was having pork steak again, and had enough steak for him also. But we didn’t have enough fries, so I decided to use the leftovers from my salad also. Still that didn’t seem enough, so I cooked some vegetables that everybody should have in their home: Potatoes, carrots, cauliflower and broccoli.

All this is cheap stuff that you can keep around for a while. It took a while to make, again mainly because of the fries and vegetables. 30-45 minutes.

Ingredients

• Pork steaks (1 or 2 per person, depending on the size)
• Vegetables (I used potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli)
• French fries
• Salad (I used lettuce, maize, onion and garlic dressing. You can ad for example cucumber, red pepper or anything else you like)

Recipe
Start with heating the oven (if you use French fries that you make in the oven) and boil up some water in a pot. While they heat up, prepare the fries and wash the vegetables. Put the fries in the oven and the vegetables in the pot when the oven is hot and the water boils. Start with the potatoes, as they need to boil longer than the other vegetables. If you use the same vegetables as me, the other vegetables are added just a few minutes at the end (while you finish frying the steak).

Cut the ingredients of the salad. When you have about 10-15 minutes left before the fries are done, start frying the steaks. Remember to spice (salt and black pepper is fine). When everything is done, just serve it. I didn’t ad the garlic dressing to the salad, as some prefer to eat the salad without dressing. I put the dressing, some ketchup and spices at the table together with the rest of the food.

Enjoy.

As always I am happy to get comments and suggestions to my recipes.

Yesterday’s meal
I should really have posted my first cheap meal yesterday, but I was so hungry that I ate it before I could find my camera. After a long day of cleaning, me and my girlfriend had some delicious pork steak with fries and salad.

I bought a large pack of frozen pork steaks (cheaper than fresh ones), and picked out a couple of them. The French fries was also of the cheaper sort, and we used half a package. The salad was leftovers from Monday, when we ate taco. Really simple and tasty. Took about 40 minutes to make, mostly because of the fries.

If you wonder what I ate from Monday to yesterday, I was in Trondheim picking up the rest of my stuff, and ate with my family.

Today’s meal: Chicken wraps

Chicken wrap

This was also a fast, cheap and easy meal. I still had leftovers from the taco, so I just bought some ground chicken meat. I used the taco wraps, lettuce, pepper, maize, garlic dressing and cheese I already had. Short recipe:

Ingredients

• Ground chicken meat
• Iceberg lettuce
• Onion
• Red pepper
• Maize
• Garlic dressing
• Taco wraps
• Cheese

Fry the ground chicken meat until it is brown. While you fry the chicken, lay the wraps on plates, and cut the vegetables and distribute evenly on the wraps. Add some garlic dressing and cheese topping on top. When the chicken meat is ready, just ad it to the wraps, wrap them and eat.

Of course you can add or remove ingredients at will. Cucumber and carrots are great options.

Estimated time: 15-20 minutes.

Comments
I know this is not the cheapest meal you can make, but if you have lots of vegetable leftovers, this is a great way to use it. The ground chicken meat was really cheap, and I used only 1/3 of a 400g package for 1 person. The rest i froze for later. It is also easy and fast to make, and it tastes good. I would love to get comments and suggestions on the recipe.

Tomorrow I will probably make something out of only leftovers, but next week I will try to get some more meals up here. Maybe something with fish or other seafood.