How to cook on budget?
If you are busy and think you could not cook from scratch for lack of time, you can.
You could list the meals your family like to eat.
Select the meals you could cook within one hour on the list.
List the ingredients you need to stock up on to cook these quick meals and stock up with the staples you need for your meals.
Dinners: One Hour or Less Quick Meals
You could cook your quick meals days you are busy and days you can spend more time in the kitchen, you could make dishes that take longer to make that your family enjoy.
In this video series we made Cream Cheesecake with Rhubarb and Strawberry glaze, and Sourdough Pizza.
Homemade Food Recipes on budget
If you are cooking meals on a budget, in this example our sourdough pizza cost around $5
And the cream cheesecake cost around $11.50.
Sourdough pizza Recipe ingredients
½ cup of Sourdough culture
2 Cups Water from the faucet
6 cups of All Purpose Flour
To feed ½ cup of sourdough culture, we used ½ cup of tap water and 1 cup of All Purpose Flour.
Pizza Sauce:
29 oz. Tomato Puree
1 Cup Meat juice
Salt
Chili Pepper (optional)
Toping:
Grated Cheese
Brown Ground meat
Mix the dough in the evening and let it rise overnight.
In the morning, oil pans and divide the pizza dough in them.
Spread by hands.
Put the pans in the cold oven to rise for few hours.
Turn the oven on at 350 Degree F. Bake for 40 minutes.
In the meantime add tomato puree, meat juice, salt, and chili pepper (optional) to a pan.
Bring to a boil.
Simmer for the time the pizza is baking.
Add ground meat to a pan on the stove.
Cook for few minutes until it is brown.
Take the pizza dough out of the oven when baked.
Add the pizza sauce.
Use a spoon to spread it evenly on the surface of the dough.
Add shredded cheese.
Add the ground meat on top.
Put the pizza pans back in the oven.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 12 minutes.
Take the pizza out.
Cut in slices and serve.
Cream Cheesecake
3-14.4 oz of Graham Crackers
4 Stick of butter
8 Eggs Lightly beaten
8-8 oz. Cream Cheese
1 Cup Sugar
2-16 oz Sour Cream
1 Cup Milk
Strawberry and Rhubarb Glaze (Optional)
Chopped Rhubarb
Sugar as needed for the quantity of rhubarb used. In the video we used 1.5 cups for about 2-3 cups pf chopped rhubarb.
Strawberries
Let the rhubarb boil add the sugar.
Add the strawberries.
Let it boil for few minutes.
Pour in a clean glass jar.
You can make the glaze on the stove while the cream cheesecake is baking in the oven.
The video below shows how to make the cream cheesecake with mortar and pestle and mix the ingredients without using a food processor nor a hand mixer.
Homemade Cream Cheesecake and Sourdough Pizza-Video #3
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