1950s BUDGET RECIPES 🍽️ Money Saving Meals for Families
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2024
- Money can be tight after the holidays. I thought this month would be the perfect time to feature some budget meals! Join me as I prepare three 1950s budget recipes.
If you're looking for some good food on a budget, I'll be uploading new money saving meals for families from different decades all month long!
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FRANKFURTER CASSEROLE (6 servings, .83c per serving)
8 frankfurters
1/2tsp salt
1/8tsp pepper
1t worcestershire sauce
1Tbsp finely chopped onion
1 1/2c diced potatoes
2c medium white sauce*
1/2c sharp grated cheese OR bread or cracker crumbs, buttered
*for white sauce:
Heat 4Tbsp butter in a small saucepan over low heat. Add 4Tbsp flour and stir until well blended. Add 2c milk and blend well.Heat milk mixture to boiling, stirring, and cook for 1 to 2 minutes until thickened.
1. Simmer frankfurters in boiling water for 5 minutes. Cool slightly. Cut into 1" rounds.
2. Mix frankfurters, seasonings, onion, and potatoes with prepared white sauce.Put into an 8" baking dish; top with cheese or crumbs.
3. Bake casserole at 365 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.
EGGS CREOLE (6 servings, .51c per serving)
2T table fat or vegetable oil
1/4c chopped onion
1/4c chopped green pepper
1 1/2c tomatoes
2c water
1c washed uncooked rice
3/4tsp salt
6 eggs
1/4tsp salt
pepper to taste
1. Heat fat in a pan with a lid
2. Add onion and green pepper; cook slowly until onion is golden
3. Add tomatoes and water to onion mixture; bring to a boil.
4. Add rice and 3/4tsp salt to tomato mixture; cook slowly for 25 to 30 minutes or until rice is tender (add more water if needed)
5. Break eggs, one at a time, into a plate. Sip into pan on top of rice. Season with 1/4tsp salt and pepper.
6. Cover pan and simmer 3 minutes for soft-poach, 5 minutes for a medium poach.
CHILI CON CARNE (4 servings, $2.12 per serving)
2T table fat or vegetable oil
1lb ground beef
1/2c diced onion
1/4c diced green pepper
1/2 to 1 garlic clove, finely cut (if desired)
1/2c water
2c cooked tomatoes OR 1c tomato purée and 1c water
2c cooked kidney beans
1/2tsp to 1tsp chili powder
1tsp to 1 1/4tsp salt
1t oregano
1. Heat fat in frying pan; add beef and cook until light brown. Add onion, pepper, and garlic; cook 2 to 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
2. Add 1/2c water, tomatoes, beans, and seasonings to beef mixture; cover and simmer for 45 minutes.
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:52 Frankfurter Casserole
6:33 Eggs Creole
12:15 Chili con Carne
19:10 Book Chat - Experiences with Foods (1956, L. Belle Pollard)
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Fun book. I wish kids were taught life skills in school now instead of learning how to pass a test. Yes I have kids in school now.
I wanted to be a Family and Consumer Sciences teacher. I ended up changing my my major after one semester. It was being phased out of many schools at the time (1999)and I was encouraged to choose a different career path. But now...I get to do this! And I couldn't be happier about it. ☺
These recipes ad an extra plus. They allow you to really cook for yourself and not just grab a soda. I like the creole rice and eggs, I added t he real Tabasco Sauce. All so fun! Love your delivery espbthe little giggles.
The tomato and egg dish reminds me of a mild version of Shakshuka.
I thought the exact same thing at the beginning of the video. I was sitting there going, "Wait, they were teaching SHAKSHUKA in 1950s home ec classes?!" As it turns out, not quite the same, but very close for sure!
I thought that too! Just less spice.
I was born in '55. My earliest "food memories" is sometimes my mom would serve for lunch bread and gravy. That's it. Just gravy poured over bread. I can't tell you how much I actually loved that! I'm 69 now, and to this day, I will make myself the ocassional bread and gravy.
Memories....
When I was learning to cook, I made dinner every Saturday night. Most of my recipes came from the periodical Calling All Girls. My Dad told my mom he never wanted a hotdog again😅
I lived thru the fifties. Where I lived we didn't have all the spices available that we have now. It was just salt and pepper. Ground beef wasn't as expensive then and we never brought separate chicken parts such as chicken breasts. We brought whole chicken and cut it up ourselves. In the fall we would buy chickens from the local farmers and can them. We didn't have a freezer then because we couldn't afford one. People would also give us the deer they got but they didn't want the meat so we got it and was glad to have it. Alot of it was ground into ground meat and we would eat that. You have to remember that World war II had just ended and we had a recession during the 50's. Also we couldn't afford to eat large portions of food, but we never went hungry because we didn't just serve a main dish. There was always bread and butter along with veggies to fill out the meal
That being said thank you for making these videos.
❤❤ I'm one who cooked through the 50s to presence, we didn't make everything so spicy. That got started when everyone started eating low fat. They kept adding more spicy heat trying to get a good taste. I'm now 85 and don't like that heat. Love watching you cook these dishes.
The eggs creole is shakshuka adjacent. Looks great!
Eggsept it has rise and lacks pretty much everything from Shakshuka. :P
Eggs are technically a form of "meat". The entirety of the egg contains all 9 essential amino acids. Eggs are much easier to digest and absorb than actual tissue meat. It is the perfect protein.
Hey everyone let's color coordinate our clothes and hang out at the refrigerator! Love the illustration!
Thank you for shining a light on Home Economics education! IMO this curriculum, made co-Ed, should be back in the schools. The same goes for the many valuable practical classes like wood shop, auto shop and construction skills. As. gen-X er, I was one of the last generations to take these required classes. I use the skills from home - econ every day!
I wanted to become a Family and Consumer Sciences teacher, but ended up changing my major after one semester. It was being phased out of too many schools at the time (1999), and I was strongly advised to choose a different path. 😕
Since you expressed some interest in Home Economics as a academic field, I would highly recommend "The Secret History of Home Economics" by Danielle Dreilinger! I've been fascinated with it since I heard and NPR interview the author gave and I've just now gotten to reading it, being one of my Christmas gifts to myself. It's super interesting and talks about the now mostly overlooked but formerly robust field that existed and the women that empowered it.
I just added it to my Goodreads list! Thank you!
Thank you for the recommendation. Putting it on my list to read.
I'll have to give it a try
The tomato rice situation would be fabulous with a little harissa!
I saved the cook book from my middle school home economics class, published in 1947. A fun read and still useful. My family didn’t know there was any other kind of cooking than “budget “. There was a lot of soup and rye bread.
The poached eggs on tomato rice would be great if you used a can of Rotel (chilis and tomatoes) or even a jar of salsa instead of plain diced tomatoes. Lots of options for this as a pantry meal.
I would totally Tex-Mex style the rice. I love a good Chili Omelet, why not eggs on rice?
My first thought was, that needs Cholula.
i can get really nice flavored tomatoes here (oragano and garlic) for $1.20 a can (440g), im going to try this for breakfast, eggs are like gold mind you
I have half a Kielbasa left over and a potato looking for a purpose in life AND I have one of those blue cornflower casserole dishes! It's a sign. Dinner tonight!
Ooo! I never thought to poach eggs on top of a rice dish. I make one-pot rice/veggie/bean meals multiple times a week. I'm definitely gonna add eggs next time!
We used to have occasional family outings to the bowling alley. My mom made matching red shirts for my dad and brother, with matching red skirts for her and the girls to all wear on bowling nights. Red must have been a popular color then.
Anna that chili you also can use as a filling for enchiladas there's a retro recipe for enchiladas using Bisquick baking mix chili enchiladas from 1958 Betty crocker party cookbook !
I used this book in middle school home economics class. I vaguely thought the book looked familiar, but a second look at it I know For Sure it is the exact same book! After all these years, about 46 years...😂 I think we made biscuits and some kind of pudding from scratch. Anna the dishes you use remind me of my childhood. Many of the casseroles, dishes are the same as what my mom had back in the 60's & 70's. I really enjoy your channel.
I absolutely love the Corning Blue Cornflower stuff! When my grandmother left her apartment and went to a nursing home, she gave me all her Blue Cornflower dishes. I became obsessed! I’ve added to the collection over the years, and am always on the lookout for pieces that I don’t yet have.
Thanks Grandmom!
Good to see you Anna! I've been using ground turkey in chili for over 30 years as well as half of my meatloaf and meatballs and tacos. Went shopping with my 40 year old daughter and was putting ground turkey into the cart and she protests she hates ground turkey. Told her how she's been eating it her whole life . She was shocked and in disbelief. So then i told her how and how to use it. " Heck load up that ground turkey, ive got teenagers to feed and it's half the price !"😅❤ How she never noticed I haven't a clue.
You obviously disguised the taste of ground turkey well! So does my mum!😂
I love this! 😄 I often use it to make slow cooker meat sauce for lasagna. Between the long simmer time and the other ingredients in the dish, you'd never notice a difference.
@@karinberonius8799 Three cheers for clever mum's 😉
@@annettefournier9655 Absolutely! 😄
Ground turkey is as expensive as ground beef where I live. Another food that used to be good for the budget...
OMG that was my home ec book in 9th grade....1970
Your comments on grocery stores just totally got me! When we travel we always check out the stores, especially if there is one we’ve never been to! We were on a cruise once that ended up rerouted to places we had recently been to and so we just walked around and went into the grocery stores and local places. It’s become a tradition now!
Ok this is so funny…i had to visit the local grocery store in one of the ports on our last cruise! 😂
@@cooking_the_booksGood morning, hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. Glad you are back on channel now. I would like to know about your pepper shaker, I like it, and is there something similar for coarse salt as well. Thank you 🙏.
@@user-kh9jv8cx3l Hi there! We've had it for so long that I can't remember the exact one I purchased, but it's very similar to this: amzn.to/48rqGRf You can use the for both salt and pepper.
@@cooking_the_booksThank you so much for getting back to me about the pepper shaker. Found so many
different ones, even some that would do salt and pepper in the same shaker
@@cooking_the_books we got harassed in St Thomas last time at the grocery store!! There was one in St Maarten that was pretty neat though! Which ship did you sail on?
You could reduce the meat in the chili in half and add a can of navy beans. The texture of multiple beans is nice.
The frankfurter casserole is the recipe I would be most likely to try for a January supper. It looks hearty and cozy.
That one caught my eye too. I'll often add Franks to pasta bakes.
I love your vintage cookware. Reminds me of my moms and grandma's. Also, the quality is unbeatable
We still use those very plates with the gold flowers and butterflies. I like runny yolks too😊
I guess they don’t do much teaching of home economics in schools these days. I was in junior high school in the late 60s (middle school now) and all the girls were required to take cooking and sewing classes, boys took metal and wood shop. We also had to wear dresses to school, when I was in 9th grade they changed the rules and we could wear pants. Junior high was 7th to 9th grade, 6th was still in elementary school.
I’ll bet those text books are really fun to go through!
I would do anything to own a copy of Experiences With Foods. It brought tears to my eyes. I do exactly what you do, bringing vintage recipes back to life, only that I don't have a cooking channel (yet). I have a cooking website instead. I have scads of vintage cookbooks, but not that particular Home Ec book. What I would do to have a copy!
I see Julia Child on your shelf. I have that, too. Classic!
I'm 65 years old, female.
I was a kid in the 1950s.
I grew up eating the Chile recipe except for the beans. My Dad did not like beans.
Still make my chile very close to this recipe.
"Grocery Store Ted Talk" 😂 I love grocery stores, too. This was a great video! I will definitely be making the first two recipes very soon. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching! ☺
most schools now dont have home ec classes-that's sad! I took it for 4 years! Loved every minute of it. Kept me in high school when the rest of my classes were boring!
I wanted to become a Family and Consumer Sciences teacher when I started college in 1999. I ended up changing my major because they were phasing out FCS at so many schools during that time.
As for the photo in the book with the two matching dressed couples, families often wore matching clothes because mom sewed and the family was proud to identify together. It is sort of like today when whole families buy matching pajamas for Christmas! It’s a family kind of thing! We also had whole stores with matching print outfits like “Mother and Daughter” in Winston Salem, North Carolina. The neckline or trims or styles were age appropriate but the print was the same!
Yes! My mom would go to the church bag sales get the old poodle skirts make a dress for me & her, a shirt for my dad & baby brother!! Back when sewing wearing handmade was the way plus family mattered!
@@murlepeterson6028 my mum was a teenager in the late 50's early 60s
my grandma was breathern and wouldnt let mum have a poodle skirt, i always found this sad
Great job sis! I grew up in the 70’s with my mom making this style of foods for 8 kids. She’s almost 90 now and still makes these kinds of dishes.
My Mom would can tomatoes from our garden every year. The tomatoes used in her dishes during the winter were so good.
I make the tomato , rice n eggs lots but I use Rotels. Has the onion n pepper in it.. easier and still cheap.
For a year now, my Meijer has been giving me My Meijer coupons tailored allegedly to my shopping habits. And for that year, I have gotten a coupon for Rotel- sometimes free, sometimes half-price, sometimes a quarter off, but there EVERY month. 😂😂
@@loriloristuff That's even a better deal. I like spicy. My ma in the late 50s used to make this all the time with tomatoes, as I grew up and found rotel been hooked ever since. I use rotels for so many things. Love the stuff. BTW who is My Meijer?
@@PeaShaped My Meijer is the app that controls e-coupons for Meijer stores. MPerks controls the points Meijer hands out for shopping at Meijer.
I’m based in Scotland but I went to the South of France for the holiday period. I really enjoyed seeing how the grocery stores were in France, there was a definite greater focus on fresh produce. They also had a wider range of deli counters. I also went to Monaco, it was pretty crazy to see the grocery store there. It had a pizza counter, a huge section of foods around the world and it was like… you could buy anything you could ever want.
I also noticed that frozen, processed food was way more expensive in that part of the world than the produce. It’s the opposite here in Scotland and the wider UK.
There’s also a fair amount of difference between stores in England and Scotland, having lived in both. In Scotland you’ve got a lot more local products from local producers and a greater variety of meats (square sausages, haggis etc.)
Some of my very favorite types of RUclips videos to watch are grocery store tours in other countries. It's just so much fun to see!
How appropriate I happened on today's video as I am preparing fried Spam and eggs with toast, which is fairly low budget. Love breakfast for dinner. I will be trying a few of these over the next few weeks.
I just bought spam this afternoon bc I wanted chipped beef over toast but grabbed spam bc the dried beef was 3.00 more. I love breakfast for dinner! It’s comforting.
sounds delicious to me! 😋
@@stephaniepapaleo9001you can use ground beef or ham as well. I use ground beef all the time hardly ever use chipped beef anymore.
@@kelleym7623 I’ll definitely do that! I usually have some ham that needs to be used up after work lunches and ground beef will be easy to use leftovers for breakfast! Thank you! 😊
I remember the Ruth Lions Christmas Club show back in the early 70's while growing up in Ohio. My mother watched it every day and made a recipe that called for hot dogs cut down the middle whith cheese inside, we always used colby as my dad was a colby cheese freak and we always had a big chunck in the fridge, but any cheese would do, Then you poured a can of creamed corn over the top and cooked it until it was bubbly. As terrible as it sounds it tasted pretty good.
Also she used to make Halloween Hash, which I still make every Halloween. It consists of browned hamburger, a can of kidney beans in the liquid and a can of creamed corn, some salt and pepper and onion powder cooked together and served over crunchy chowmein noodle. Again it looks terrible but tastes yummy.
I was wondering if you could take a bag of mexican rice, or two depending on the size of your family, and do the same thing with the eggs and make it a cheaper dish as well since bags of premade mexican rice can be pretty inexpensive depending on where you shop? Yo would get all the flavor in the rice and just add the eggs at the end of the cooking time.
I'd try both of the dishes you mentioned! You could certainly use pre-made Mexican rice or any rice blend really. Whatever fits the budget! ☺
I laughed seeing the 1/2 tsp. of chili powder. I went to England to visit friends. I'm from Texas so they made chili in my honor for dinner. With zero chili powder and about 1/3 tsp. of cayenne for a whole pot. So, I had to make umm wow that's different from ours but it's good comments. I thought bless their hearts, when they come to visit me, I'd better lock up my spice cabinet or I'll accidentally put these people at the ER. Thanks for a great video!
I love your videos! Born in 1966, I’m at the very beginning of GenX. I grew up being able to ride my bike, alone, to and from school, 2 miles each way, when I was in the 3rd grade. Life was simpler then and your recipes always take me to that more simple time. I remember learning to cook and we had the same beautiful casserole dishes you use with the blue flowers on them. When I got married in 1987, as a wedding gift my mom bought me those but it was updated to a lovely green color. I have actually passed those on tho my oldest daughter and she uses the all the time now. Oh the memories!
Omg, ate all these in the 70s & 80s, but my mom made that frankfurter casserole into an actual abomination. Instant mashed potatoes, made with water only, with pickle relish, no white sauce. My parents accused me once of caring about the taste of food, like it was a sin. We were liberal protestants lol 😂😂😂 we barely acknowledge sin... Meanwhile I was one of the first food writers in our town lol...now i can't eat much solid food, but love food content haha, thanks for the memories that make me remember that sometimes a shake is better than regular dinner lol 🤣
Welcome back, Anna!! I'm glad you had some time to relax, but so glad to see you!!
Thank you!! 😊
Grew up eating Chili Con Carne from a can and of course growing up in the Cincinnati area, on top of a hot dog (no buns but bread, my mom didn't think buns were economical) with cheese. It was our version of a coney!
My mom thought the same thing about buns. I can't remember when I first had a bun, but I remember thinking they looked odd.
I liked how you said Mom thought it was economical! Yes! When I got out on my own, I’d tell myself, don’t get the buns bc you have perfectly good bread to use and maybe toast up with it and fold it on an angle! Memories!!
I loooove a good coney dog! 😋
I love seeing the bowls and bakeware. I had many of them when I was first married 50 years ago.
My mom has that very book from her high school home ec! She has used recipes from it all of my life. So cool to see you using it, too. Lots of solid recipes in that book. Btw,, I have also lived in tiny counties with miniscule IGA grocery stores and it occurred to me that they must choose their stock based on Betty Crocker or Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks. What other source would so perfectly encapsulate everything a Midwestern housewife should keep in a properly stocked kitchen?
I was a freshman in a rural high school in 1957. Making a white sauce was a critical cooking skill according to our teacher. Was used frequently in class. The recipes you
Find are perfect for the time period. Thanks for bringing back the memories!
Down here in Cincinnati and I think my children would adore the Frankfurter casserole being that hotdogs are so familiar because of Skyline Chili. A meal at Skyline for our family is now over $50 so casserole it is!!!
I have JUST that Corningware dish..and I live alone. So I’m making that hot dog casserole tomorrow!! ♥️♥️
I recommend the Delineator Cookbook. It was first published in 1928. (I think...) I have a mid 1930s edition of the book. It's over 200 pages. It seems that the earlier editions had a lot fewer pages. I got mine from a library used book sale. They actually sold books that people were no longer checking out. (!) I got it for a pittance, probably 25 cents, maybe less. This was more than 25 years ago & that cookbook is still one of my favorites. They take NOTHING for granted. They assume that you're a newby cook & tell you how to do everything very explicitly. You can find some difficult to find menus, recipes, even instructions on how to set a table, etc. I hope that I'm describing the book correctly... I have so many & I'm writing this off the top of my head... Anyway, it has been described as "culturally important". Since it has gone into public domain, it's been reprinted & oddly enough, it's available at Walmart online...
Love a runny yolk! Great New Years recipe!
I watched your latest video and loved the budget recipes! Guess what we are having for dinner tonight? The frankfurter casserole! I will make it with ingredients that I already have. Will use Kielbasa instead of hotdogs and top with breadcrumbs (since we don't have cheese). I'm sure it's going to be delish! Thank you, Ana! I'm so glad you are back!❤
Pantry perfection.
Oh I love to hear that! I hope you enjoyed it. ☺
The eggs creole might be good using fire roasted tomatoes. I have a shakshuka recipe for one using fire roasted tomatoes and Cajun seasoning
Hi Guys. I have a friendly tip. If your stove doesn't go low enough to simmer things properly put another metal trivet on the burner to raise the pan UP. I also save the metal parts of my old discarded stoves to do this. Love the videos..happy new year everyone.
Anna, it saddens me you had a rough time in middle school. You're such a kind soul! Why are kids such jerks to each other? Anyway, you brought back some memories!
Hi Anna! I found your channel about a month ago and I watch your videos every morning while I get ready for work and again when I come home and unwind for the night. I love your soothing voice, awesome personality, sense of humor, and good nature. The first time I watched you, it all clicked for me within the first 30 seconds and I knew I was hooked 😆. A couple of decades ago I started to collect old magazines and cookbooks and I have quite a few cookbooks from the 1950’s on, but they’ve been stashed away for a long time now. You have inspired me to get them out again. One I’ve really been enjoying is The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook (my copy is from 1959)- it has some great recipes, but even better, some great photos and illustrations. You probably already have it but if not, I think it’s worth the purchase if you can find it! Thank you for your videos, they make me happy 😊
Thank you so much for your kind words! I LOVE The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook! A friend gifted me a copy. You're right, the photos inside are wonderful!
@@cooking_the_books oh yay!! I’m so glad 😀. Thank you so much for responding, and keep up the amazing work 🙌🏻💕
I love visiting grocery stores in different towns and I’m always amazed at the different items they carry even when they are not far from my own town!
Not sure if anyone else mentioned, but I like to buy onions and green bell peppers when they are on sale, chop them up and freeze the chopped. Then I can just scoop out how much I need.
Honestly I am very happy and relieved because Christmas and everything is finally over. I am so glad the world is back to normal and out of the festive hysteria. I love budget meals and vintage recipes so I am definitely gonna try some of these recipes ❤
I totally get this. I love the twinkle and magic of Christmas, but once it's over and the glittery cobwebs have been cleared away, it sometimes feels like a bit of a fever dream. 😂
You are so delightful! Thank you.
My mom used to make a hot dog casserole, not sure if she came up with it as a way to use up ingredients or she got it from a cookbook. Sliced potatoes, hot dogs cut up, cream of mushroom soup, creamed corn and I think velveeta cubed up? Mixed all together and baked in the oven. I think just pepper as far as seasoning and maybe onion powder? Yes, it was salty, but we all liked it
I grew up in a big family. My Mom made this kinda of chili and she made mashed potatoes to go with it. Used to love the chili and mash mixed together😊
My mom used to do something similar. She called it 'Al Creo'? Maybe I spelled that incorrectly, because I cannot for the life of me find it when I google the name. 😂
Know what I like about you? I feel like I'm in a kitchen with my best friend. Just talking, cooking and very relaxed. ❤ We have Meijer stores where I'm at too. Michigan. Thank you for how you present yourself and your content. 😊
I live in New Mexico and we're very lucky to have many options where it comes to having chile! We have Red, and Green, Red and Green chile powder, frozen, dried...
NM( is known as The Chile Capital of The World)!
And it's consumed here on a daily basis in it's many glorious forms.
Whenever I travel out of state, I take along with me Red and Green Chile powders..
If staying with a friend or with family, I might take Frozen Chile with me as well. It's in our blood here.. when Red and Green are eaten together in a dish, we call this 'Christmas'!
Example having Enchiladas with both red and green chile.
Every August-October you can smell fresh green chiles being roasted by the sack, beautiful new red chile ristras being strung for decoration for some, for cooking for most like in preparation of chile caribe for use in Posole or Carne Adovada..
Our Chile is a beautiful thing!!
Just discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago! I absolutely love it! My mom has always been a big recipe collector. She mostly has church potluck cookbooks, etc. I would love to go scouting for the vintage Betty Crocker and others though.
Great recipes. I would spice up the egg creole too. My mom would add cooked macaroni to chili con carne to stretch the servings.
i love glancing at your bookshelf while you talk and noticing how many of the same books we have! love your channel. And i was shocked when you mentioned Meijer grocery, we must live in the same area of the US 😉
I love to shop at Meijer too! Hello fellow Midwesterners!
Great video! The tomato/egg dish is my favorite. I make a version of this called Chilaquiles in which I add a little bit of cooking oil to a skillet. Heat the oil and pour in a jar of salsa and heat it through. Drop in eggs and cover until eggs reach your preferred doneness. Add in tortilla chips, slightly broken, and mix everything together. Heating the salsa adds a real depth of flavor. (I enjoy a soft cooked egg, like you.) The chips add texture and flavor. It is a very delicious, economical dish.
I love chilaquiles. 😁
We try to eat half of our meals "vegetarian" (not really vegetarian, but with minimal meat like bacon or chicken broth for flavor). It started as a part budget, part health goal to eat more veggies. Egg and tomato has been a winning flavor combo for some of those dishes
I used to have that textbook! I lost mine several moves ago, but I remember the recipes well. I never made the egg or hotdog dish, but used the chilli recipe as a guide. Lol. I can't follow recipes as written. I like to experiment too much or use what I have on hand. So going to try the eggs. I like my yolks the same too. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
I believe that chili con carne is meant to be mild. Back in the day it called for adding milk at the end. Also, I agreed that the eggs over rice needed hot sauce on the side - I was thinking that and then you said it. Agreed. Frankfurter casserole I will try
Hello, Anna! Happy New Year! I love the budget recipe video. Not everyone lives near a Trader Joe's store, but for those who do and might be interested, they carry vegan meat crumbles. In my local store, they are in the aisle with the pasta sauce. It's a dry soy product that you reconstitute on the stove with hot water. The package is pretty affordable - I think it is about $3. It could be a beef substitute in the chili recipe you made in this video, in spaghetti sauce, tacos, or other dishes. I think it's tasty, and I even eat it plain with steamed rice and some cooked veggies on the side. With the bell pepper, I made a good discovery this year. I sometimes only need a tiny amount of chopped red or green bell pepper for a recipe. You can slice remaining bell pepper and freeze it for later use! It freezes really well. Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2024!
I love that Chinese chili crisp. I have 3 jars of it. Get it a Walmart in the Chinese section. It’s great on eggs, ramen with veggies, etc. I liked the hot dog casserole. The other 2 were a little bland for me. My family likes somewhat spicey, well seasoned, salted food. Love your cookbooks!
A good friend of mine tried making her own chili crisp and shared some with me. It was INCREDIBLE! 😋
Thank you so much for putting ingredients and instructions in the description box!
I remember eating thrse as a kid in the 1960s…..they taste very good and brings back eonderful memories. Thank you!!! ☮️💟
LOVE runny egg yolks! this looks like a delicious dish. Thank you
My household is small also (just me, lol). I've actually been making a potato and cheese crockpot casserole with a half tube of pork sausage (I buy the hot style, which truly isn't all that hot or spicy), and there is truly not a whole lot of grease with these (Kroger house brand). I've also done this casserole with leftover ham pieces (got a deal around Christmas on a ham butt at Kroger (not the honey spiral kind), and there was very little waste. I always use the ham bone for cooking beans or vegetable soup and freeze anything leftover. I'm not fond of ground turkey or ground chicken and rarely even buy hamburger anymore. My depression era grandma lived to be 96 years old, and her preferred meat was always pork, lol. I'm finding out I'm not alone in this. You don't need a lot of pork for flavoring a casserole.
Oh my goodness! Loved the grocery store talk. I grew up in a small town. The grocery store had 3 aisles. We live in Northwest Indiana about an hour outside of Chicago. We have a Meijer basically across the street! I saw 180 aisles. Lol. When I’d go home to visit I’d be like why are there only 2 choices? I’m used to 18 choices. Everything looked delicious! That frankfurter and eggs and rice looked really interesting. Have a great week!
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My Mom had a set of the blue cornflower Corning Ware. We grew up with that. 😊 The 2nd recipe is a lot like shakshuka that I've eaten in North Africa. ❤
Vintage Budget Meals is such a great idea for January, Anna. BTW, I've followed and cooked from BudgetBytes for years, even when she was still making recipes that followed SNAP allowances.
Such a great site. I have made the Coconut Curry Lentils and Roasted Sweet Potato Rainbow Salad SO many times!
Spent money on loved one's oral surgery last week. Will enjoy having these cost saving recipes and umphff in our meals... adding in real food again once the protein drink/ liquid diet boredom is finally over.
So glad these recipes can be helpful to you! I have another budget recipe video coming out this Sunday, 1/14. 😊
@@cooking_the_booksThanks!! I subbed to your channel recently and am a big fan. Have binge watched past videos. Your personality really shines thru the trips down memory lanes of these decades we grew up in. You're irresistible, Anna❤
One of my favorite post-workout meals is Spanish rice with two over easy eggs. I thought I came up with that on my own. 🤣🤣🤣
I know what you mean about grocery stores! When I go to another country, a trip to the grocery store is a must! I just love seeing the different types of stuff that is normal there, but unknown to me in the USA. It’s so fun!
I absolutely love watching grocery store tours/walk through videos from other countries. I don't get to travel outside the US very often, but I'm totally with you - a visit to the grocery store is a must!
I was excited to see you using this cookbook. I have a copy but I hadn't cooked from it yet. I love home ec books! Tonight I made the hot dog and potato casserole. It was quite tasty. I used chicken hot dogs since we eat low fat meats. I followed the directions for the white sauce and it was perfect. I did have to bake it for about 50 minutes though. I made the full recipe. Thanks for a fun video!
The Chili Con Carne recipe you made is really close to my mother's recipe. She grew up in the 1950's so I'm sure she got the recipe from some book back then. The only difference between hers and yours (I know its from a text book) is that my mom wouldn't have used garlic (much to my father's chagrin, he loved it, she didn't cook with it) and she would have added a can of Campbell's Tomato soup for the tomato flavoring. Over the decades I've tweaked mom's recipe and substituted the green peppers for either green chilies or jalapeños. Plus I've replaced the can of soup for a can of fire-roasted tomatoes instead. Still love that recipes that I was introduced to in the early 1970s. Your version looks and seems to taste exactly like my mothers. Pleasant but mild.
The chili con carne could be good on a tortilla as well. Some of my grammas recipes from the 50s are not as seasoned as what we are used to these days. I find that interesting. Going to make the egg dish.
This is the way my mom taught me to make white sauce, which was the base for sausage gravy, Mac n cheese sauce and so many things!
I also have Corningware casserole pans and Pyrex mixing bowls. I love the kitchenware my mom had and have either inherited hers or garage sale obtained my collection.
I appreciated the vintage home economics book. I’m sure there is some useful information in it still. I didn’t love taking the classes in middle school and opted out in high school. Some of it must have stuck because I love cooking now ❤
Fire roasted tomatoes are wonderful. I buy 12 cans a year at the Can Can Sale (the big sale of the year annually at ShopRite - right now it is going on). I definitely think it needed a lot more chili powder, maybe add a little cumin?? Or coriander?? I think folks in the 50’s and 60’s cookbook authors wee scared of spice. I think most people were. My mom was a good cook but the spiciest spice in her pantry was curry powder and I don’t remember her ever using it. I used it in some tuna salad (in the 80’s) and my Dad was so surprised and delighted at my choice. He loved it. Anyway, the spice section in our local supermarket (Waldbaums) had a tiny spice section.
I had home ec in 8th grade and in 10th grade there was a class called International Food and all I remember is we were taught how to make a frittata. That was international in 1977. I think we also made gazpacho. In home ec they taught us how to set the table. How to make cinnamon toast, scrambled eggs?
I love chili crisp. I have several brands - all a bit different. I have Lanh Ma, Mr. Bing, Momofuku, Trader Joe’s (they have many versions - the basic chili onion crunch, one with jalapeño, one with habanero and the latest is one with cranberry for the holidays, all really good.) We love spice in our house and we add hot sauce and chili crunch to most of our food..
I’m so excited to compare and contrast the different decades as you post! I love your videos and the comment section always has the *coolest* stories and people! 🥰
I am very lucky and so thankful to have amazing viewers and commenters! ☺
Hey! We have made this many times.Here is a tip.Skip the boiling.Tastes way better,pan fry the wieners first.way better taste,than boiled.Just a tip!! Love the videos.
In 1979 I was in 8th grade and I had a cooking home ec class that I loved! I still remember learning to make a quick banana bread- the school hallways on cooking days always smelled sooo good! That class sparked my love for cooking. Love your vlog content - cooking mixed w your cookbook reviews! You mentioned different grocery stores and you lived in the Bay Area.. I grew up in Campbell CA and we shopped at Alpha Beta! They no longer exist but I still remember loving to make weekly menus w my mom and making out our shopping list and going to the store each week with her. Taught me menu planning, budgeting and cooking for our small family of 4.
Out of curiosity I had to look into Alpha Beta a little more. It sounds like the Northern CA locations became Lucky stores!
What a helpful, non judgemental video. You very clearly just want to see people fed with good food. Very cool. Subscribing!
budget bytes MVP!!!!! been following since I was 18 and Im 30 now, love beth
I remember making a baked Alaska in homec. I was so proud and carried it home. Mus have been 7 th or 8 th grade in the late 60’s to early 70’s
I have 3 different sizes of the cornflower dishes, used to have lids, the clamp on handle and the metal holder. Love the cornfloweratter.
Growing up we ate beans and hamburger without hot spices pretty often. We often ate brown or molasses bread with it. too. With Aloha...
One of our favorite budget meals is roughly equal parts cooked rice, canned tomatoes, and browned ground meat, seasoned to taste (sauteed onion and bell pepper, usually, plus seasonings). I assumed this was something my parents started doing when they were broke grad students, but then I found a very similar casserole in a newspaper from 1937 and emailed it to Mom on a lark. She replied, "Yes, that's probably where my mom got it." My grandparents were married and set up housekeeping in 1937. I didn't know, though, that this was something that Mom had grown up eating first.
Spoiler alert - I'm making something that sounds very similar to this in an upcoming video! 😄
That's so funny, I thought I made up that recipe. I loved the filling of stuffed green peppers, but hated the soggy peppers, so I made the filling, added corn and a chopped green pepper and voila! Stuffed green pepper casserole.
My grandmother used to make a hot dog casserole very similar she also added celery, peas and carrots in with the potatoes and white (country gravy as she called it)Sauce and topped it with biscuit dough it was very similar to pot pie
I love this! I took “home ec” in 1975 when I was 13 and it was the way I learned to cook! I love that you used an old text book! The recipes are basic, easy but always tasty. I remember making a Waldorf salad only it had whipping cream in it. I wish I had that recipe now! I’m going to make that egg recipe, that looks like a quick and easy meal that you can also add to it to make it your own