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:
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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.
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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.
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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
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The post is formatted well. This means a clear ingredients list, clear step by step instructions, and preferably a picture of the finished product.
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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!
Pain perdue/french toast
this recipe is pretty much impossible to miss and have many advantage: first of all, only cheap ingredient, scalable as much as you want/need and most importantly it make stale bread not only eatble even if hard as rock, but even taste good! Ingredient
meanwhile warm at medium/high heat a big pan and butter it generously. once the butter is melted, put the soaked bread on the pan, flip as soon start to be brown/black on some part. once both side are toasted, serve it on a plate and either eat as is or put on any condiement you would want. fresh fruit, jam & chocolate paste are the most usual thing to put on.