Recipies For Starving eBook Authors
So you’re a starving product developer? Want to eat like a king on limited budget? This one is just for fun, but I thought I’d post some of my favorite foods in terms of being able to make them on the cheap, but not sacrificing on taste. Here goes.
My Writer’s Block Pizza On A $5 Budget
Ya know, I just love pizza, but when I buy a twenty dollar pizza and realize there’s only a buck or two of ingredients in it, well–the getting cheap thing kicks in for me. I get an Appian Way pizza mix for a bout $1.50. There are two secrets here. First, you’ve got to juice it up a bit with extras, and second–you need to chop up the ingredients really well to let out the maximum amount of flavor.
Mix up the pizza dough. You’ll need your own Mozzeralla cheese, a small onion, a can of mushroom stems & pieces (their cheaper than the caps), maybe a red or green pepper, perhaps a few olives. I use a cheap little food chopper to get all of the ingredients chopped up pretty small. I usually add a little left over hamburger as well.
I add a little extra pizza sauce, the above ingredients, and then the cheese. Forget the 18-20 minutes it says on the box–this pizza cooks a little longer because of all of the goodies on it. You go by sense of smell and how it looks. This is better than 90% of the commercial pizzas and it won’t break your budget!
Easy Do Stew For Writers
I started making this when my kids were but wee tikes–they loved it and there’s nothing like it on a cold Michigan winter’s day. It’s so simple it should be illegal.
Just get two cans of Campbell’s vegetable beef stew and empty the contents into a casserole dish. Add just one can of water. Now cut up a largish potato (maybe two) into 3/4 inch cubes. (Pieces shaped like octahedron, icosahedron, or odecahedron will work just about as well–ha ha, just kidding–I used to be a math teacher.)
Anyway, add the potato pieces to the soup mix (add some onion if you like) and bake for one hour at 350. The last ten minutes add some grated cheddar cheese and let it melt over the surface. Take it out, scoop it up, and you’re good to go. It’s eating great on the cheap!
My Meat Fluff Is Brain Food For Creative Writers!
If you have a hard time following instructions this one shouldn’t challenge you too much. Add one pound of hamburger, one can of condensed tomato soup (no water), and one cup of instant rice to a casserole dish and mix it all together well with your hands–yup, it’s gooey, but it’s kind of fun! Bake one hour at 350 degrees F. or 623 degrees Kelvin (sorry, I used to be a chemistry teacher).
Anyway, this stuff is great. Eat is plain, or–try making a sandwich with a little mayo out of it and eating it with a fork. Oh yeah, I can taste it now. Enjoy!
