TUESDAY

Hi, Todd!

This recipe is for a salad I used to make when I was about 7 or 8 years old. The recipe was in a kids’ cookbook I had back then. I never knew why my brother Bob always used to crack up whenever I made this for the family until just a few years ago.

Flagpole Salad

You’ll need (per serving):

1 lettuce leaf

1 pineapple ring

1 banana

1 cherry

Whipped cream

Place the lettuce leaf on a salad plate. Place the pineapple ring on top of that. Cut the bottom of the banana so it will stand up and then place it in the pineapple ring. Squirt a little whipped cream on the top of the banana and put the cherry on top. Voila! Flagpole Salad!

Lois

Dear Todd~

Hello from California.

Here's a recipe for a yummy filling that will feed you twice a day--all week long---without feeling like you're eating the same thing over and over.

With this tasty stuff, you could have a taco salad on Monday night, just toss the filling with lettuce and Fritos and some warmed pinto beans from the can, squeeze on a little Cesear dressing (really, it's good with that) Toss it up.

Just fine left over for lunch that same way on Tuesday. Tuesday night you could stuff a few fried tortillas with the filling and add salsa/cheese and a sports game with some icy, cold beers. Call it Tuesday Taco Night.

Wednesday, perhaps Quesadilla's and a Margarita--or ten. Leftover quesadillas are perfect for lunchie the day after--when you have a tad of a hangover from Wednesday PM. Just nuke them for 30 seconds and it's a chessy & yum lunch.

What if Thursday night, you showed off a bit-- and stirred in an 8 oz. tub of sour cream into the lassssssssssst of the filling. Wrap it in a big flour tortilla with some cheese/beans and heat it up for about 2 or 3 minutes in the micro. Serve with 2 shots of tequilla. Or a soda. Whatever. Anything that is left on Friday, roll into a tortilla and dip in Cesear dressing.

Let me know if it feeds you all week.

I like it because it CAN feed you all week, You'll like it because it can feed you for $20 all week. With that kinda budget, you can afford the liquor to enjoy it with. Peace out hombres~!

At the market buy:

2 pounds cheap ground beef (greasy isn't bad here, you'll drain it) = $3.00

1 small red onion = . 20

1 small green pepper = .50

2 Tablespoons butter borrow it

1 can (14 oz.) RO-TEL (tomatoes/green chile combo can) = 1.00

1 package Taco Mix = .50

1 can low sodium beef broth or stock (14 oz.) = .50

1 (8 oz) sour cream = 1.00

Bag of Fritos or whatever chips you like = 2.00

Head of lettuce = 1.00

1 can (14 oz.) pinto beans, or whatever beans you like = .50

1 bag of cheese (pepper jack, cheddar, whatever) = 2.00

1 bag of flour tortillas = 1.00

salsa = 2.00

Cesear dressing = 2.00

Saute red onion, all chopped up with some green pepper, all chopped up in the butter.

Add ground beef, and cook together until no longer pink. Drain well. Return to pan. Add RO-TEL (NOT drained), taco mix pkg. and beef broth with 1 cup water (free). Stir and boil for 5 minutes. Reduce heat and cook on the lowest possible heat for about an hour. Stir occasionally. Store in a tightly covered Tupperware type container after cooking & cooling and you can make boo-ku meals from it all week long. I did this when I was flat ass broke and even now that I'm not, I still make it. It's that good.

Love & Budget Meals, from your friend, Agent 34-24-34 Robyn Hardisty, Los Angeles~CA

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Hi Todd,

This is Katie from Gatineau Québec. I made this recipe up today, and it is GOOD! And full of iron and protein!

Poached Eggs on a Bed of Kale

Sautée a lot of crushed garlic in olive oil. Add strips of kale, black pepper, freshly-grated nutmeg. Cook until tender.

On your plate, make a bed with the kale, top with slices of good aged cheddar (like aged one or two years).

Poach (in vinegary water, so that the eggs don't separate) two free-run*, preferably organic*, eggs. Serve eggs on top of kale and cheese. Grate fresh and good parmesan on the eggs, more black pepper, more fresh nutmeg. I sprinkled on some fleur de sel.

With an espresso on the side, this is heaven.**

*This makes a noticeable difference! Organic eggs have darker, richer, more flavourful yolks, plus more nutrients. Make sure you get free-run, because chickens are wicked-cool creatures and they love to run around and take dust baths and scratch for worms.

**Try it with an espresso, or a coffee, the flavours go really nicely together! For real!

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