I usually post late at night but this time it really works out in case I have any morning readers. This Egg McMuffin cost a quarter of what the Mickey D’s version will cost you and is much healthier. Shall we proceed?
First, take a tuna can that has been emptied and cleaned out of tuna and take both ends off of it so it is simply a round cylinder. Put it in the center of your frying pan and put a little butter or a bit of cooking spray at the bottom.
Put an egg or two in there and break up the yolk with a fork. Pour just a little bit of water on the outside of it to create a little mote on the outside of the hollowed out tuna can but inside the pan lip.
Let the egg harden and remove the tuna can “shell” and WAH-LA! You have a perfectly round egg thing to put in between an English muffin. Just add a slice of cheese and maybe some ham lunch meat or a Jimmy Dean sausage patty and you have yourself a pretty stellar breakfast.
Don’t have time to cook it on the stove? Maybe you are like me and you did not have a stove in college. No worries, just spray the inside of a coffee cup with cooking spray, break your egg into it and break the yolk again. Put a piece of plastic wrap over the top or a flip top sandwich bag and microwave for about 2 minutes. Let it cool for a second, take it out, dump it upside down on your English Muffin and you have pretty much the same thing as the stove-top version.
I got two Egg McMuffins and an orange juice at McDonald’s the other day and it cost me over 6 DOLLARS! I guarantee this is cheaper and tastes a whole heck of a lot more fresh. Thanks again for joining me for another episode of meals that even dumb-asses like myself can cook! Enjoy!!!
Jaci made this stuff the other day and it was INCREDIBLE.
Now, I understand that not everyone is as big of a fan of left overs as I am. I can eat the same meal at least once a day for days or even weeks at a time if necessary. For example, I have eaten at least one hot dog per day EVERY…SINGLE…DAY for the better part of the last year.
Jaci and I made this Cavatini over a week ago and we still have some left in the freezer that we froze in individual Tupperware containers so that I can just throw them in my lunch box on the way to work and nuke them. The recipe makes such a big batch that each serving comes out to cost about a dollar. I do the same thing with lasagna, tuna casserole, roasts, goulash, Sloppy Joe’s etc. I just make a sh**load of the stuff and eat it for days and days and days. But again, I don’t mind leftovers. So if you are making Cavatini, be prepared for it to feed A LOT of people. Here’s how ya do it…
1) Boil a bunch of shell pasta.
2) While that’s boiling, brown some hamburger and season it with taco seasoning. Seriously.
3) Mix the hamburger and pasta and add as much spaghetti sauce as you want. Put it in a 9 x 13 or 11 x 13 pan. Put a whole bunch of shredded mozzarella cheese on top. I mean, completely cover it.
4) Put some tin foil on top and bake at 350 degrees for 20 or 30 minutes until the cheese is melted and the sauce thickens and gets a little bubbly.
There you have it. A simple and spicy pasta bake. Man, this stuff is good.
I made this easy little number in the crock-pot a couple of weeks ago and I have been wanting to share it ever since. In fact, for someone who can’t cook, I am actually pretty proud of myself. I bought the ham because I thought I was going to make some sweet ham and cheese sandwiches, but one day I just decided to switch it up and teach myself how to use the crock-pot. Here is all you need:
- So all I did is this:
- Sliced up the potatoes, threw some in the bottom of the crockpot.
- Put a layer of cheese on top.
- Cubed the ham into little chunks and then threw a layer of ham on top of the cheese.
- Then I simply repeated this process so I had two layers.
- Then I poured the condensed cream soup into a big bowl, added one empty soup can full of milk, and stirred it with a fork to make it less clumpy. Then I drizzled the soup over the top of the mixture. I put the lid on the crockpot and put it on low for about 3 hours. Here is what it looked like at the beginning:
I forgot to take a picture when it was done cooking, but you know it is done when the potatoes are nice and soft. Don’t cook it too long because the cheddar cheese will burn to the side of the crock pot.
And, if you are having trouble cleaning the crockpot…Fill it with water and throw a dryer sheet or two in there and let it sit overnight. The crusted on stuff just comes off like butter the next morning.
This recipe will serve an entire family (I imagine) or if it is just you, you could eat leftovers for almost a week like I did. Very inexpensive meal that goes a long way.
Jaci said she was proud of me for my first crockpot meal. That was all the approval I needed to make a post out of it!
OK, so this isn’t really a meal, but it is sooooooo good. If you like coffee liquor, than you know how expensive a bottle of Kahlua can be. I used to pay at least 25 dollars a bottle for the stuff…that is until I met Jaci’s father. From him I learned how to make amazing homemade Kahlua that, with a little bit of milk and ice, makes a mind blowing drink. So, here, just in time for summer (almost), is a really really really easy recipe for the stuff.
Get out a pot. Put 3 cups of sugar, a half of a cup of instant coffee, 3 cups of water, and 1/4th of a teaspoon of salt into a pot. Bring it all to a boil while stirring it the whole time to dissolve the coffee. As with most of the really really really easy meals, don’t turn your burner all the way up to boil the stuff. Just set it at about 5 or 6 out of 10 so that you don’t burn the heck out of the sugar before it dissolves. After it boils turn it all the way down to the lowest heat setting and stir it and let it simmer for about 5 more minutes. Then turn the heat all the way off and let it cool completely. You can speed up the process by putting it in the ‘fridge. After it has cooled off, add two cups of REALLY cheap Vodka. Seriously, I bought the $10 3-liter bottle of vodka that is on the very bottom shelf and basically tastes like rubbing alcohol by itself. But, you DO NOT need expensive vodka for this recipe, I promise you. Anyway, add the two cups of vodka and a table spoon of vanilla extract (baking section of your grocery store…dark brown liquid in about a 6 oz. bottle). Use a funnel or else very carefully pour it into an old liquor bottle. Pour some into a glass and add some milk or cream and ice and you have a White Russian!!! I think you will be pleasantly surprised at how much this tastes like the real thing.
Invite your friends over one summer afternoon and sip on this stuff out on the back patio. It is WAY cheaper than going out on the town.
For as much meat as you get, roasts are pretty freeking cheap. Here is a really easy roast recipe. This is what you need:
Disposable roasting pan (if you don’t have a regular one), Aluminum foil, 3 to 5 pound rump roast or any other cheap roast, 1 can Cream-of-(whatever kind of cream soup you want…I used cream of potato) soup.
Put the roast in the pan. Dump the cream of whatever soup onto it. Add one soup can of either milk or water. Mix it around a bit in the pan. Cover it with your aluminum foil nice and tight. Put it in the oven at 250 degrees for an hour. Take it out and stir it around a little bit and put it back in the oven at 225 degrees for about another 12-14 hours. You are not going to burn it at this temperature so it is not really a big deal. Take it out and if you want to, drain the juice into a pot and add some flour and heat and stir it and keep adding flour until it makes a gravy that looks the right consistency.
Add some boiled carrots, potatoes or onions if you want. Or, as I like to do, you can fork the meat off (yeah, it is that tender at this point) and add some BBQ sauce and you have a WHOLE BUNCH of BBQ meat for sandwiches for like a week! Or get some provolone cheese and some hoagie buns and make yourself some beef and cheese hoagie sandwiches. You could even make some french dips. It is a pretty easy and cheap meal for cooking idiots like myself. It is almost impossible to mess it up.
Here is what it looks like after an hour:
Here is what it looks like done
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Today I made Jaci French Dips for lunch:
Ingredients: Roast Beef (any kind of cheap lunch meat will do), Au Jus (you can buy powdered packets of the stuff in the soup section of your local Grocier), Provolone Cheese (any kind of packaged and sliced will do), Hoagie Buns (found an 8-pack at my grocery store for 99 cents).
1) Heat up roast beef in package for 1 minute in microwave.
2) Make the Au Jus according to package instructions. Pretty much add powder to water and heat.
3) Butter hoagie bun(s) and put them on George Foreman grill or oven rack to toast it(them).
4) Put roast beef on bun with a slice or two (or three) of provolone cheese. Dip it in the Au Jus. MMMmmmmm…sodium.
This can make 8 meals if you want it two. I also made some 50 cent instant mashed potatoes and some canned greeen beans. Pretty simple stuff.
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Ingredients:
Two Chicken Boobs, Uncle Ben’s Ready Homemade Rice: The 90 Second Kind (any flavor you want), Cooking oil of some sort, Salt and Pepper, Frozen Mixed Vegetables (any kind)
1. Put the chicken boobs in water if they are not already thawed. PET PEEVE TIME!!!! Does it ever bug you when people say they are going to “unthaw” or “dethaw” something? That just means they are going to freeze it again! Bugs me…
2. Cut the chicken boobs into bite size cubes. Remember to wash your hands when dealing with raw chicken.
3. Put the chunks in a bowl and pour some oil on them. One or Two tablespons ought to do. Shake some salt and pepper on ‘em and mix them around so they have oil on them. Throw them in a frying pan. Cover it if you want too.
4. Keep the heat on your burner on LOW…like 4 or 5 (setting) out of 10. Mix ‘em around a bit every once in awhile so that they don’t stick to the pan.
5. Put a cup or two of you frozen vegetables in a plastic container and put a sandwich bag over it or some saran wrap. Make sure to add a little splash of water so that they can steam. Put ‘em in the microwave for three or four minutes, stirring them once or twice.
6. Put the rice in the microwave for 90 seconds.
7 Add the rice and veggies to the chicken and stir ‘em around on low heat for a little bit so that they can soak up the flavor.
This makes for pretty good left overs, too. So make a big ‘ol batch.
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