Ingredients: flour, yeast, sugar, salt, baking soda, hot dogs
Prep Time: 1 hour
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Having given up any facade of eating healthy, Jill and I chose a delicious, easy, and cheap meal this week: Pretzel Dogs! Pretzel dogs are my favorite food in the whole world (except for potatoes, of course). I had never attempted to make them at home before, so thank goodness Jill is an amazing baker. The dogs turned out so good that we have decided to open up a pretzel dog food truck and sell them on the mall. We should be billionaires soon enough…
Ingredients: bacon, potato, pie crust, cream, thyme, puff pastry, salt and pepper, swiss cheese
Prep time: 1 hour
Cook Time: 1 hour
In honor of pie day this week, Jill and I made pot pies! Jill had the idea, but there was one problem: I don’t like potpie! After a little searching, I came up with a recipe for bacon and potato potpie, and figured there was absolutely no way I could dislike it. I was right! It is impossible to create bad food out of bacon, potatoes, pie crust and cream!
After our delicious overdose of carbs and steak last week, we decided to keep this week’s meal a little healthier. So we did the unthinkable and cooked a meal that included vegetables! Right now you are probably about to close the tab and move on to another blog because you don’t believe anything with vegetables could ever taste good, but wait! It was actually tasty, I promise!!
It may look like something that's already been digested, but I promise it tasted good!
Ingredients: 4 cuts of beef, shallots, mushrooms, crepes, puff pastry, salt, and pepper
Prep time: 30 minutes
Cook time: 1 hour (30 minutes per part)
I promise we did not steal a picture from Wikepedia, this is OUR food!
Just in case you are unaware, this Sunday was the most important day of the year – OSCARS SUNDAY. This Sunday beats all others. Thats right, I claim that it is better than Super Bowl Sunday, Easter Sunday, and that rare time when your birthday falls on a Sunday – Sunday. This occasion transcends sports, religion, and birthdays – its all about the movies.
Just in case you were wondering…this is my favorite acceptance speech of all time 🙂
That would be me, except my voice would probably crack more and I would definitely be jumping the entire time!
Ingredients: diced tomatoes, tomato paste, lentils, chick peas, vermicelli, flour, lemon juice, ginger, cinnamon, parsely, beef stock, salt and pepper
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 1 hour
We got exotic this week, and attempted to make one of Jill’s favorite dished from her study abroad trip to Morocco. We also had a special guest cook: Renee from Renee’s Kitchen! You can read her version of the events over at her blog.
Harira is a yummy tomato based-soup that actually tastes nothing like Spaghetti-O’s. It was surprisingly easy to make and turned out flavorful and filling.
Look, garnishes! We are fancy food photographers now.
Ingredients: Lots of tomatoes (sauce, paste, and crushed whole), beef, kidney beans, chili powder, salt
Prep time: 1 hour
Cook time: 6 hours
I don’t know if any of you were aware of this, but last weekend was the Super Bowl. I try to get together with friends and watch the game every year. And by watch the game, I do in fact mean eat lots of crappy game food and hang out while the tv is on in the background.
Yup, I'm not even going to pretend I know this person's name...go Football!
This years game was fantastic. My roommate Bob threw an awesome party with some fantastic food (seriously it was fancy game food this year!!). Kelly and I decided that we needed some classic Superbowl food that everyone would love – and who doesn’t love a good hearty chili!?
Ingredients: 1 package of sauerkraut and a half pound of pork loin
Prep time: half hour to cut and brown meat
Cook time: 5-8 hours in a crock pot
When I was a kid, I was a ridiculously picky eater. Truth time…not much has changed. I am deathly afraid of flavor. I like my food bland with just a hint of butter and salt. So far, the food we have made for this blog hasn’t really challenged my taste buds all that much. Plus, as a bonus, they always seem to feature my two favorite food groups: meat and potatoes. This week is no different – except, I think this weeks meal adds a little FLAVOR! I could be wrong, but one reason a large percentage of people don’t particularly like sauerkraut (Kelly) is because they can’t stand the very prominent flavor of “finely shredded cabbage that has been fermented by various lactic acid bacteria”…aka, yum (thanks Wikipedia!). As surprising as it sounds, this has always been one of my favorite meals!
Something I didn’t know as a kid, and was pleasantly surprised to discover as an adult – sauerkraut is amazingly easy to make!
I feel like there should be a German Flag on the cover of that crock pot
This week’s meal was beef stew: the perfect winter meal. It went really well, except for one horrendous mistake: we didn’t start cooking until 3:30 pm. This would be an appropriate time of day to start cooking any other meal, but beef stew takes about a hundred million years to cook.
Food: Krubs (potato and pork dumplings) and Potato Skin Chips
Ingredients: potatoes, pork, flour, salt, pepper, seasoning for chips
Prep Time: 1-2 hours
Cooking Time: 1 hour
Cost: $7.50 per person (5 meals)
Krubs (potato and pork dumplings) are a staple food group for my family. About once a year, we all head to the “farm” for family bonding, shouting over the tv, and Krubs. This winter I went home for the first time since moving to DC. One of the highlights of my trip was learning (for the 3rd time) how to make Krubs. My grandma and I processed about 107 potatoes, cooked about 30 pounds of pork and fed an entire village for a week. Ok, not quite, but after the 3 hours it takes to actually prepare Krubs, it felt that impressive.
Kelly and I decided to start our cooking adventures with this yummy (if simple tasting) potato dish because it also makes great leftovers.
Two Girls, Ten Potatoes 