How to Eat Good in a Bad Economy
By Buddy Brown
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The title, How to Eat Good in a Bad Economy, is improper English, but thats is exactly what I want you to do-Eat Good!
We all know that the costs of everything we need are skyrocketing. Gasoline, heating oil, electricity, water, and of course food. However, we still have to eat and we still want it to be good.
How to Eat Good in a Bad Economy shows you how. using less expensive cuts of beef, pork, chicken and pasta dishes that burst with big flavor. Using herbs, spices and marinades to bring out and also to add flavor, combined with simple marinating, smoking, and cooking techniques, youll soon be serving delicious, wholesome dishes for your family ranging from $3.00 to $12.00. Dishes like smoked marinated top sirloin steak. Restaurant quality pasta dishes for under $5.00. Delicious, melt in your mouth barbecued chicken using 9 ingredients, Including the chicken! Homemade pastas and cheeses. In season vegetable dishes with big flavor. Inexpensive gourmet desserts, and more. Recipes designed to save you thousands of dollars a year.
I hope How to Eat Good in a Bad Economy will soon become one of your favorite cookbooks, giving you and your family years of delicious dishes to enjoy and share with their own families someday. In the meantime, Eat Good, Stay Well, and God Bless.
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How to Eat Good in a Bad Economy - Buddy Brown
© 2009 Buddy Brown. All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.
Published by AuthorHouse 6/12/2013
ISBN: 978-1-4817-6617-3 (e)
ISBN: 978-1-4389-3889-9 (sc)
Contents
Introduction
Notes on Chile Peppers
Smoking
Barbecue
Seasoning Blends and Spice Rubs
Sauces
Waste Not-Want Not
Appetizers and Salads
Beef and Pork
Chicken
Side Dishes
Italian Specialties
Desserts
Introduction
Dear Fellow Food Lovers,
Welcome to How to Eat Good in a Bad Economy. I, like most of you, like to eat good. I also love to cook. Unfortunately, like millions of us, eating well in this economy is not always easy. After filling our gas tanks, paying our mortgage, electric, and water bills, there isn’t much money left over for food.
That’s why I put this recipe collection together. God wanted us to eat good and He doesn’t much care about the economy. However, We need to. The recipes include a lot of chicken and less expensive cuts of meat and pork. Adding the other ingredients and techniques that I will show you, will add big flavor to a small food budget.
Feeding your family healthy, nutritious and delicious food is fun and easy. It starts in the sale flyers from your local grocery stores. I like to eat fresh. This means I end up in the market just about every day. I get the freshest ingredients I can also find out if they have re-packaged yesterdays food. Be careful. If the top sirloin is gray, buy the fish. If the fish smells like anything but the sea, make your own pasta. One last point. I prefer fresh vegetables, but canned are perfectly fine for most of these recipes, but cooking times will vary.
Seasoning, marinating, smoking and saucing adds big flavors to food. (If you are smoking outside, it makes your neighborhood smell good, too.) This book contains recipes and instructions to give food big and bold flavors on a small budget. There are some very popular sauces on the market that are more expensive and less healthy than if you make them yourself, and contain ingredients than I can’t pronounce. Asian duck sauce is a perfect example. There are 5 ingredients in my recipe, 13 in the commercial ones, and the extra 8 ingredients do nothing for the flavor or texture.
The recipes in this book are my ideas on how to make food taste great. Some of them are time consuming, but I think you will find that the dishes are worth the effort. Try mine, and then experiment. A recipe is a guideline, not a rule. You may not like the ingredients I’ve put in a recipe. If that’s the case, use something else, or leave it out completely. Whatever you decide, eat well, have fun, and share food with friends and family.
God Bless You and Your Family,
Buddy Brown
P.S. Thank you for buying the book.
Notes on Chile Peppers
Chile peppers add tremendous amounts of flavor, as well as heat to food. Most chiles
have a fruity and sweet side as well. Depending on how you prepare them will determine how much heat they will give to a dish. Most of the heat comes from the ribs and the seeds, so if you want a lot of heat, use the whole pepper, except the stem.
Chile peppers are an inexpensive way to bring out big flavors. When used in a marinade, the heat spreads evenly throughout the food, creating a nice kick, but not a bite that will burn someone. Roasting chilies before putting them to use, brings a nice fruity heat to a dish.
Most of the time I only use 3 types of chiles, but you can use whatever you have. Dried chiles can be substituted for fresh, and the same goes for fresh. Chile peppers vary drastically in the amount of heat, so when substituting, it’s a good idea to start with a milder pepper and increase the heat to taste.
The following is a partial list of chile peppers listed in order of mildest to hottest.
WARNINGS:
When working with chiles, I recommend using gloves. Chiles will hurt you. Never
Touch your eyes or any open cuts. Wash your knives and cutting surfaces with hot
water before moving to other preparations.
When preparing poultry, always clean your cutting boards and utensils before using them
for anything else. Cook until the internal temperature is 175 degrees.
Smoking
Cooking food on an open fire brings out and adds tremendous amounts of flavor and juiciness. Smoking food on an open fire with wood chips smoldering underneath for hours is the oldest, and in my opinion, the best way to cook food. Smoking gives to food an earthy flavor that I believe used to already be in foods until over farming and over grazing. You can smoke food using a gas grill, charcoal grill, a stovetop smoker, or you can build a hearth. (Instructions for the latter are available in most hardware stores and on the Internet.) You can smoke anything, beef, pork, poultry, vegetables, and so on. The question isn’t can I smoke it; it is why shouldn’t I smoke it.
Indirect heat