- 1 month
I’m going to date myself, but we used to have this show called Yan can cook. Chinese guy teaching you cheap ways to cook Chinese food.
How tag line “Yan can cook. And so can you.” Dude is a legend.
1 monthLooked him up and got this synopsis from nzb360.
Early 80s Chinese cooking show starring celebrity chef Martin Yan, airing on PBS station KQED. This is a US continuation of the Canadian syndicated series of the same name that ran from 1978 to 1982. The show features Chef Martin Yan as the presenter, and focused on Chinese-oriented cooking delivered with Chef Yan’s trademark humor and wit, filmed live before a studio audience who were presented the prepared dishes for sampling and commentary.
There’s a few episodes on YouTube as well. Not sure about PeerTube.
- 1 month
I used to watch this as a kid with my mom. At the time he was the only Chinese person on TV that was Asian that wasn’t a comedic relief or some kungfu villain.
I still cook some of his dishes. With how cheap Asian cooking is, there is no reason to eat taco bell except for convenience.
- 1 month
Older post, but Broke Eats, especially their Hand To Mouth series were missing. https://youtu.be/npvBH-zZMnY
- 1 month
Where could you even find healthy ingredients for under $10 that will last a few days?
It can’t be beans and rice again, all the time.
- 1 month
Okay I don’t live in America but I routinely make healthy meals for the local equivalent of under 5 bucks, which should be equivalent to about 10 in America according to a quick Google. And for the record I mean proper meals, not beans and rice. For example Walmart sells a pound of lentils online for two bucks, an onion for about one buck and half a dozen carrots (actual carrots, not baby carrots) for less than three bucks, or about 50 cents per carrot. A pound of lentils, an onion and a carrot will make enough lentil soup for five days*, or about a $0.75 per dinner. For the full experience you can add half a disk of pita bread for $0.5 per meal, or you can substitute with tortillas for less than 15 cents per meal. We’re still a full order of magnitude below the ten bucks limit. And this isn’t poverty food; where I’m from people actually eat this because they want to. It’s not labor-intensive either, but it does need a food processor (cheapest I could find was 6 bucks on Amazon, but I didn’t look very hard).
Point being: Maybe I’m missing something, but even with recent price increases there’s plenty of good food one could have without getting any close to the 10 bucks limit.
*There’s no need to make the five days’ worth all at once; lentils will last for months outside the fridge.
- 1 month
Beans, peas, lentils, peanuts, they’re all off the menu at our house because allergy.
- 1 month
Ow, admittedly I hadn’t considered allergies. In that case I suspect you’d find something like pasta with bechamel (100 grams of chicken stir fried, 100mL of bechamel sauce*, served with pasta) to be similarly affordable. Basic fried rice with stir fried chicken is also dirt cheap. Really chicken in general is the load-bearing pillar of non-vegetarian cheap cooking, though since you say “our house” I suspect you already know that.
*I like mine on the juicier side, adjust for taste.
- 1 month
Unless your local prices are seriously outrageous, most traditional cuisine from anywhere will fit that bill. At least the stuff I make comfortably stays below that number. If anything how would a home-cooked meal even get close to $10 per meal?
- 1 month
if you know what you’re looking for and
nowknow how to cook.one problem i see/have with cookbooks on traditional cuisine is that a lot of the better one focus on traditional sunday roast style fancy recipes (schweinebraten mit kraut und knödeln), and while good they are not cheap. what is more difficult to find is the saisonal poor mans cuisine. except maybe cucina povera from Italy.
- 1 month
Fair enough. The best way to learn traditional cuisine from somewhere is probably to have someone from there who can cook recommend recipes.
- 1 month
yes absolutely! but sometimes i have the impression that there is a intergenerational rupture such that the grandparents technically knew these recipes, but this knowledge did not get passed on to the parents’ generation. so depending on your age there maybe one or even two generations which just don’t know these recipes, hence the reliance on cookbooks, which involves trends, marketing, being fashionable, etc.
(also, lots of old recipes require quite some prep time and/or planning, which is why there used to be different recipes for different days of the week. e.g., Saturday was reserved for washing, with little time for meal prep, so Eintopf it is. i think what I’m getting at is that this kind of cooking is quite different to the modern idea of i can decide on the spot what’s for dinner. the old stuff just doesn’t work that way. sorry for rambling)
- 1 month
The Marvin Show is your poor man’s cooking show. Hosted by one time Big Brother participant Marvin Latimer. It’s hard to put to words or describe the show so I just linked a memorable episode. This was on broadcast TV at some point. Green screen doorway and all.
Another poor man’s cooking show was Masaokis. He had a poor grasp on food in general and his genre is more “cooking with hoarders” with a heavy splash of harebrained philosophy. One video is about hot dogs and peaches. I haven’t watched the video in a long time but I can still remember the sound he made after tasting the concoction of hot dogs blended in peach juice. He tried to cook a steak on the rim of his toilet by burning paper. He thought the shell of an egg was the egg whites. He made a smoothie with whole moldy peaches and unpeeled oranges and who knows what else.
I believe his whole mythology was that he filmed in an apartment he would go to when he was on a bender. I think I remember seeing a much
nicerless trashed apartment in one video. It has been a long time but I remember seeing a ton of books on a shelf with all their spines placed inward. The conditions he cooked in are not for the faint of heart. I can think of at least 2 fires starting from all the shit on his stove.- spiderhamster@lemmy.worldEnglish1 month
Masaokis was insane! I found him when looking for ways to grill a steak without a grill. The surprising part was that setting a steak on a toilet bowl rim was part of the process.
