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Re: Share your peasant food secrets!
« Reply #100 on: May 28, 2014, 09:09:13 PM »

-Recently read about carrot-green chimichurri. Good to see that overlooked parts of veggies that usually go into the compost are getting a bit of limelight. Beet greens are pretty common now, for example.



Thanks for this!  I was just yesterday looking at my maturing crop of carrots and thinking that I needed to query the interwebs for things to do with those lovely organic carrot greens.  This will be one of them!

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Re: Share your peasant food secrets!
« Reply #101 on: May 28, 2014, 09:17:06 PM »
Make your own PIZZA!  There are a lot of 5 minute yeastless doughs you can make.  A large cheese pizza is a couple of dollars. We'll usually add any leftovers or veggies we have in the fridge.

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Re: Share your peasant food secrets!
« Reply #102 on: June 27, 2014, 01:51:31 PM »
I just came across these great (and FREE!) cookbooks and wanted to share. They're beginner-friendly and she's priced out the cost per serving: http://www.leannebrown.ca/cookbooks/

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Re: Share your peasant food secrets!
« Reply #103 on: June 27, 2014, 03:13:42 PM »
The Leanne Brown cookbook looks very good!  Thanks.

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Re: Share your peasant food secrets!
« Reply #104 on: June 27, 2014, 03:44:20 PM »
So many.  My newest favorite is called Maqluba.  It's is a Palestinian chicken and rice dish that I saw on Parts Unknown, and went looking for the recipe.  The best recipe I've found is here:

http://www.joyofkosher.com/recipes/magluba-up-side-down-chicken-rice/

Just ignore the ethnic/religious comments following the recipe.

The Baharat spice mix is important, you can find a good recipe for that here:

http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/23018/baharat+middle+eastern+spice+mix

If you buy a whole chicken and cut it up yourself, and skip the pine nuts, you get a huge delicious pot of food with tons of leftovers for about $10.   

 

Wow, a phone plan for fifteen bucks!