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>>9425634
You need to switch to making your own pasta dishes. Pasta is one of the easiest things to cook, abd there's tons of simple sauces and toppings for pasta that take barely any time to cook. That should be your first step.

>>9425641
Plz gimme some home made sauces that keep the cost under $1 (plus the dab of butter or splash of milk if the box calls for it)?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dxK7qzePkd4

>>9426663
That was literally a 25 minute way to cook what takes 10 minutes LOL

hello wildcats

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>>9425634

I've started eating thin spagheetti with fresh pesto like 4 times a week.


Pesto Mk II:
>2/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
>250 - 270 grams fresh basil
>1 cup parmeshawn cheese
> 2 - 3 cloves garlic
> 3 tablespoons pinenuts

All these ingredients should cost like $15, but it makes enough pesto for an entire week.

Cook maybe 1/2 box speghuttti and a tablespoon or two of pesto should do the trick.

I like it with maybe 6 inches of a sourdough baguette (this is the fancy part), also spooned with pesto.

>>9426663
he never put the seasoning packet in...

Bump
Still looking for cheap scratch alternatives to the "Roni" stuff

>>9428886
Give it time, /ck/ moves slow when it comes to real cooking threads.
In the meantime, answer this, what kind of sauces do you like? Do you like chunky sauces? Smooth? Are sautéed vegetables OK? Tomatoes? Cream sauces? Give us an idea of what you like.

>>9428899
I'm allergic to mushrooms.
That's my only dietary restriction.
If it does not have mushrooms, I haven't met a sauce I didn't like.
>chunky
Yes for sauces and dressings alike
>smooth
Yes
>sautéed vegetables
Yes
>Tomatoes
Yes
>Cream sauces
No mushrooms ;) that being said, substituting cream of celery, for example, instead of cream of mushroom does not always work, bad synergies
For example, I've made cream of mushroom stuff for the senpai and they loved it, even though I cannot taste test.
At their insistence, I used cream of celery instead one time and nobody liked it, most left huge portions on their plate and I ended up ordering a couple pizzas.

>>9427238
I'm allergic to pinenuts. Replacements?

>>9428930
You can either leave them out completely, or replace with a handful of pistachios (my favorite), or walnuts.

>>9428912
So, that leaves you open to pretty much anything except mushrooms. Well, that will make suggestions easier. Also, you are trying to keep things cheap, right? Super cheap, or just normal cheap?

>>9429082
Trying to keep the starch side dish under $2 relative to the $1 cost of the box before adding butter and/or milk.
That's not a cost limit carved in stone, more like carved in hard cheese ;)

I've posted this in other "cheap pasta" threads, and I'll post it again. When I was super poor, a friend of mine gave me this cookbook that was all super cheap recipes that didn't use more than 3-5 ingredients. One of my favorites from that book was a recipe called "End of the Paycheck Pasta".
Basically it's just this:
>1 package spaghetti
>sour cream
>jarred salsa of your choice

You cook the spaghetti as normal. Meanwhile, mix together sour cream and salsa in whatever ratio you like best. Then toss the hot cooked spaghetti with the sauce mixture over low heat until everything is hot and well coated. You can add other stuff to it if you want, but that's the basics. It's pretty tasty as is.

>>9429182
I sour cream and salsa tacos, why not give spaghetti a go?!
Too bad this thread will be gone by the time I try it.
Got any other "end of the paycheck" recipes?

>>9429182

>post the book

>>9430008
I would, but I gave it to another friend of mine a long time ago. I can't remember what it was called. I kept some of the other recipes, though, I'll go see if i can dig them out.

>>9429582
Yeah, i have to go digging for them, but let me see what I can find.

>>9430033
thank you

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>I don't like icky mushrooms ewwwwww gross
>I mean I'm allergic

>>9430655
This is one of the most retarded political comics I've ever seen. Why are Americans so politically illiterate and so classcucked?

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>>9430726

>>9430726
OBSESSED