Eating Well on a Budget

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No matter how fancy a restaurant and the dishes could be, for me, the real comfort is always homemade food - simple, cost-effective, and delicious.

Pork fried with cucumber and basil, scrambled eggs with homemade spicy ketchep, and rice.
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The temperature drops so fast, and it's again the season of soup! Sesame oil, ginger, sliced pork liver and pork heart, homegrown leafy green.
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No matter how fancy a restaurant and the dishes could be, for me, the real comfort is always homemade food - simple, cost-effective, and delicious.

Pork fried with cucumber and basil, scrambled eggs with homemade spicy ketchep, and rice.
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The temperature drops so fast, and it's again the season of soup! Sesame oil, ginger, sliced pork liver and pork heart, homegrown leafy green.
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No matter how fancy a restaurant and the dishes could be, for me, the real comfort is always homemade food - simple, cost-effective, and delicious.

Pork fried with cucumber and basil, scrambled eggs with homemade spicy ketchep, and rice.
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The temperature drops so fast, and it's again the season of soup! Sesame oil, ginger, sliced pork liver and pork heart, homegrown leafy green.
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I too love homemade food the best! ♥️ Your dishes look wonderful! I have make homemade ketchup in the past, but I do get lazy with making that. We always make homemade mayo, salad dressings, sauces, tortillas, bread, and nearly every meal is completely homemade.
 

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@Dahlia , have you ever made homemade barbecue sauce?

I've used a couple rhubarb (rhu-b-que) sauce recipes. However, we don't barbecue very often and don't use much sauce. A bottle lasts for months. A bother ...

Still, it was good.

Steve
Yes, I have made homemade BBQ sauce and so many other sauce recipes! Your rhubarb BBQ sauce sounds tasty!
 

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Looking at an ingredient list, that Sazon sounds good. See, there are knowledgeable BBQ people and I'm not really one of them. There was a desire to do something with rhubarb and I had no real idea if it would taste good to me.

rhubarb BBQ sauce sounds tasty!
These are the ones I tried and, for me, they were all good ;).

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I'm surprised that they are still out there. It is almost 10 years since I tried them :).

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Looking at an ingredient list, that Sazon sounds good. See, there are knowledgeable BBQ people and I'm not really one of them. There was a desire to do something with rhubarb and I had no real idea if it would taste good to me.


These are the ones I tried and, for me, they were all good ;).

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I'm surprised that they are still out there. It is almost 10 years since I tried them :).

Steve
That kinda thing might be most fun with Bo Ssam. Here is the first one I tried, mainly because I like saying the name over and over at parties.
 

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I bought cheap chicken thighs to dehydrate for the pets. I took all the scraps and bones and made some stock. I have to chill it yet to separate the fat. I like using the stock. It is harder to use the fat. I usually toss it. I wonder if the cats would like it? Probably not -they are so picky.
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Taiwanese-style Pig's trotter over rice served with homegrown french beans.
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In Germany, some supermarkets will offer less popular varieties of meat and organs. I love them. The prices are always much lower than the lean meat prepared neatly - no skin, no bones, properly cut, and three times more expensive.
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I also like chicken wings - there are many ways to make them delicious.
Japanese-style fried chicken wings - crunchy and juicy in one bite.

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