On Vox: cooking

I've decided I need to save more money by not dining out. Here's what I've been trying:

• French bread. Making dough in the mixer is so awesome, and a three hour rising time makes it pretty quick, relatively speaking.
• "Vegan" chili. Besides grating cheese over it, I fry the onions in bacon grease.
• Braised beef ribs and stew. Basic and simple. Braise the ribs in either homemade or storebought beef stock, then add more stock and cheap beef, coarsely chopped potatoes, onions, carrots and mushrooms. Cook in dutch oven or slowcooker for at least 4 hours at 250.
• Cookies. Various kinds off the back of the wrappers. Probably going to stop though, they're too damn good.
• Roasted veggies, potatoes, chicken. Chop coarsely, season, coat with oil, cook for an hour at 350.
• French toast. Found a Denny's French toast recipe online that works well. Cut the above mentioned bread into really thick slices.
• Sausage with rice. This was just what Reg wanted the other night. I made breakfast sausage and short-grained Japanese sticky rice.

I also had to reseason my cast iron skillet, which made the kitchen smell amazingly. Bad, that is. Smoke everywhere. Dayamn.

Originally posted on herbaliser.vox.com