The picture is your starter. Assume a basic pantry for your other ingredients. What are you cooking?
These two ingredients were less than $4 total when I bought them.
For me, an obvious choice here is quesadillas. A little bit of salt, baking powder, oil and water and you have tortillas. You could add a little sour cream or hot sauce or peppers and onions or any number of other things to make this into a meal.
What are you going to make? How much is it going to cost per a person? Bonus points if you know how long it’s going to take? You kind of have to rest tortilla dough for 30 minutes. So for two people this meal is going to take me about an hour.
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Not included in the price is the cutting board. I made it years ago as an experiment to see if I could frame an edge face cutting board without it cracking breaking itself apart. It’s made of poplar and it refuses to die. Materials caused on it was probably about $10. Labor time was probably about 2 hours.
Poplar makes a horrible cutting board. It’s too soft even though it’s a hardwood. However, for end grain butcher blocks it’s a champion. I usually only use this for cutting and serving pizza because every knife mark shows on it.
I found this recipe like two decades ago. I made it and my girlfriend swore that it was a perfect clone of Red lobster biscuits. You can tell how long it’s been in my notepad because it talks about things like biscuit mix which I would now make from scratch and it would talk about shredded taco cheese instead of the specific cheeses. This is long before I really started cooking from scratch.
Mexican Drop Biscuits
2 cups biscuit/baking mix
1 cup (4 ounces) shredded taco cheese
1 can (4 ounces) chopped green chilies, undrained
1/2 cup water
3 tbsp butter, melted
1 tsp dried parsley flakes
1/4 garlic powder
1/4 tsp dried oregano
1/4 tsp dried thyme
1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
In a small bowl, combine the biscuit mix, cheese and chilies.
Stir in water just until moistened.
Drop into 12 mounds 2 in. apart onto a greased baking sheet. Bake at 450 for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.
In a small bowl, combine the butter, parsley, garlic powder, oregano, thyme and cayenne pepper; brush over biscuits.