The People's Cookbook is an idea for having easy, simple meals for people to make on a tight budget. People need to eat, but processed food is bad for you and is often more expensive than making your own. These recipes will hope to give comrades the recipes they need to eat well while giving less money to those fuckers at Walmart.

Anyone can post a People's Cookbook recipe, provided it meets these criteria:

  1. The total cost of the meal must be affordable. I won't put an exact cost on this because prices vary all around the world, but try to keep the recipe to ingredients you can easily and cheaply get from the store.

  2. The meal must be simple enough that an untrained person can do it. No fancy Bernaise sauces and dauphinoise. These need to be easy to follow recipes, that anyone can do at home.

  3. The meal doesn't use specialist equipment. Again, not specifying exact equipment, but nobody in real life owns a sous vide. Make sure your recipe can be done with a hand whisk as well as an immersion blender, etc etc

  4. The post is formatted well. This means a clear ingredients list, clear step by step instructions, and preferably a picture of the finished product.

  5. Make sure to offer alternatives if necessary. Can you make your dish with Quorn instead of meat? Can it be done with almond milk? Can you make it halal or kosher? Present options.

To get a recipe into the cookbook, post it with the tag in the title [PEOPLE'S COOKBOOK]. Eventually, we'll get a wiki or something set up so that they're all collated in one place.

Bon appetit!

  • pwnzorshiz [none/use name]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Tomato Pie [picture]

    Ingredients

    • 1/4 cup cornmeal
    • 1 cup all-purpose flour
    • 1 tsp salt
    • Stick chilled butter, cubed
    • 1/4 cup sour cream (I used light, but either should work)
    • 4 tbsp ice water (cold works fine)
    • 4 oz Neufchatel (low fat cream cheese, regular cream cheese OK)
    • 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
    • 1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
    • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
    • 1/2 onion, very thinly sliced
    • 1 tbsp oregano (have used dill and also works)
    • 2 or 3 large vine ripened tomatoes, sliced (can use cherry or whatever is on sale)
    • 1 egg, beaten (or butter)
    • 3 tbsp torn basil leaves (dried basil works too or Italian seasoning)

    Directions

    1. Mix cornmeal, flour, salt, and butter together by hand in a mid-sized mixing bowl. Leave some clumps of butter.

    2. Mix in sour cream and water with hands. (will be a bit sticky on one's hands, this is OK)

    3. Wrap the dough in cling or plastic wrap. Use 2X as much wrap as one would think to use to wrap the ball of dough. Put in fridge for minimum of 1 hour (have had good results when leaving in for 90ish minutes, have not left in longer than that)

    4. Preheat oven to 400 F (recipe also works when halved so probably could use a toaster oven if one lacks a a full oven)

    5. Saute onion and oregano (or dill) in oil for a few minutes until a bit softened.

    6. Put three cheeses and the sauteed onions in a small bowl.

    7. Slice tomatoes and salt (try to remove as many seeds as possible. Bit of a pain, but looks and tastes better).

    8. Place parchment paper on cookie sheet (works well with pizza stone too). Place dough on parchment paper, leaving plastic wrap on top (prevents dough from sticking to fingers). Push through the plastic wrap to spread dough in a circular shape with roughly 1/4 in thickness (can use rolling pin, hands, or side of a wine bottle). Remove plastic wrap. Fold or push in dough to create a little crust.

    9. Microwave cheese and onion mixture in 30 second intervals (stir with spoon between each interval) until a dip like consistency is reached.

    10. Spread cheese and onion mix on dough.

    11. Blot tomatoes with napkins or paper towels and put on top of onion mixture.

    12. Brush crust with egg (can also use melted butter)

    13. Bake 30 - 40 minutes until crust begins to brown (I like to broil for a minute or two at the end to crisp up the crust and get a little char on some of the tomatoes. Be watchful if using parchment paper because it can eventually ignite under the broiler)

    14. Sprinkle basil on top.

    15. Can serve fresh out of the over or when cooled.