Beginning as a College Cook: Pantry
Miss Em shares a kitchen space with 3 other people. There's no stove. Almost no storage space. AND she is car-free. The dorm cook has many limitations.Last year, we hit on the idea of creating a dorm...
View ArticleMore Pantry Items from Amazon: Coffee for Caffeine and Tahini for Hummus
My College Dorm Cook has not yet cooked anything other than oatmeal. The first few weeks of school are full of FREE FOOD OPPORTUNITIES. Seek them out, College Cooks. It seems that Miss Em has a...
View Article4 ingredient meal for the college dorm cook: rice, olive oil, feta, spinach
My dorm cook is still going from potluck to potluck, so no dorm cooking yet for her! Just in case you need a recipe, try this. Proportions aren't exact. For your 4 ingredients: rice, frozen chopped...
View ArticleAdd some eggs for another meal: frittata
Remember how I suggested you make some extra of the 4-ingredient meal? You can, of course, reheat in a microwave. But how about making something different? If you have a stove, you can make a frittata...
View ArticleLeftover Frittata with Beans in a Tortilla: Third Meal!
It seems to me that the key to easy cooking is transformation. Like Proteus, the sea god, things turn to other things, involving very little in terms of time, mess, or cost.So far, a simple rice...
View ArticleWhat to Bring to a Potluck: Beans, Of Course
We just got off the phone with Miss Em. She is going to a potluck dinner. Since she lacks a kitchen, she thought she'd go buy some cookies at Publix. YUK!I pointed out that she could mix a can of the...
View ArticleVegetables for the College Cook: Cabbage
Here is the email I sent my College Cook earlier today. I wanted to let her know what was on special this week at Publix.grapes 1.69pears .99cucumbers .50 (good for gazpacho!)bag coleslaw 1.29bag baby...
View ArticleAsian Sesame Noodles: Pot Luck Offering for the College Cook
Miss Em has made (i.e. opened three cans) black bean salad/dip for two pot lucks. The dish has been well-received, but she is feeling a bit guilty because it's so easy. Recently, I received an SOS...
View ArticleCondiments for the College Cook: Thai
If you want the easy 20 ingredient/14 meals no-stove system put together by Frugal Son and me, get a hold of our ebook--upper left for the pdf. or on Amazon for your Kindle: College Cooking Crash...
View ArticleDinner Party for the College Cook, with Thai Peanut Sauce
We are going to visit Miss Em soon and she requested that we make dinner for a bunch of her friends. In case you don't know, parents are supposed to provide food for students, either by taking the...
View ArticleWhat the Dinner Cost: Thai Feast
The lesson here is that home cooking is inexpensive! We bought most of the items at sale prices, but even at regular prices--double or triple for some things--this would still be a reasonably priced...
View ArticleThe Cheapest Rice Cooker and Slow Cooker I've ever Seen: You have no excuse...
A cross-post from my other blog. If you don't get one as a holiday gift, you can certainly afford to buy one yourself. Or buy both. Or give one to a bewildered friend (who will be grateful later)....
View ArticleGood Present for College Cooks: Martha Shulman Cookbook
Miss Em just asked for this. She made a wonderful soup, involving canned tomatoes and other things she had. The little neat thing: it was cooked with rice. This is pureed with the stick blender, so it...
View ArticleHealthy Soup in Your Rice Cooker: Bob's Red Mill Mix
I started this blog (and put together a little ecookbook) so my daughter would have good things to eat in her stove-free dorm suite. As it happens, she doesn't need much help: she partakes of some of...
View ArticleCollege Cooking/ Frugal Cooking from Publix: THE SHOPPING LIST
OK, College Cooks (and even people like me with a kitchen): with the list from this week's sales at Publix, you can make easy, nutritious, and (yay!) even frugal meals. If you go to the Publix site and...
View ArticleWhat You Can Cook from the Shopping List or Pantry: Permutations
As an experienced cook, I marvel at what you can make from a limited number of pantry ingredients. Inexperienced cooks (or people who hate cooking like my mother) tend to keep their cupboards bare and...
View ArticleA Quick Asian Meal for the College Cook
Check out the recipe from a bonafide College Cook. Tofu, Peanut-Hoisin Sauce, Rice, and Vegetables. Note that Miss Em, while still in a dorm suite with no stove, does have a kitchen a few doors down....
View ArticleRao's Sausage, Cabbage, Tomato Sauce for the College Cook
I wrote about this recently cooked dish on my other blog. It is a perfect recipe for a great convenience item: packaged coleslaw mix. And, no, you don't need to use the brand-named items in the...
View ArticleCouscous: Friend of College Cook
Couscous--that wonderful middle eastern grain--is positively mainstream these days. It is also a good friend: you can cook it with tap water! We spent a good chunk of time in France last summer and had...
View ArticleWhat Else To Do With Couscous
OK. Let's say you bought the 10 pound bag of couscous from Amazon per my recommendation. Now what?If you have my ebook, you know we recommend amassing a pantry of about 20 ingredients. These include:...
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