By stone soup, I mean things you fix when you’re hungry, have almost no food in the house, and can’t go out and get more (either because you’re broke, your cars dead, or whatever).
Mine’s spaghetti noodles, covered in butter with Spike seasoning and parmesan cheese. If I’ve got other cheeses, I’ll throw those in as well.
Yellow rice. I always keep yellow rice on hand. A 1 lb. bag is 99 cents.
Mac and cheese with Ortega chilis, diced onions, bacon bits, and whatever meat-like substance I can find. Spam has been used! :eek:
Instant noodles here. 27 cent meal. I always keep a few packs around for when I don’t feel like cooking much, or when I need a substantial snack.
Generally, some sort of salad.
I ate one of green olives, onion, stilton cheese, and balsalmic vinegar about two days ago.
Rice. Take some white rice (thai is best, but any will do), cook it. Add your choice of the following:
Peanut butter
Frozen peas
Soy sauce
Miso
Thai sweet Chilli sauce
Sesame seeds
Sesame oil
Whatever else you have to hand.
It’s easy, quick, flexible to the ingredients you have to hand and can be done with one hob (or a rice cooker) and about a plate’s worth of counter space. I’ve lived off this for several days in a row when neccesary.
Chicken Whatever We Have in the Refrigerator
I always have some form of chicken in the house.
I generally cut up the chicken into bite sized pieces, plop it in the frying pan and then add whatever veggies and seasonings we have around.
The last time it was chicken with bok choy, two slices of ham, half a zucchini, a few spoons of soy sauce, a clove of garlic, a little onion, some chicken broth, a little tomato paste and two spoonfuls of peanut butter. I made rice to go with it. YUM!
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Have you ever tried rice with feta and chopped spinach? Delicious.
That does indeed sound nice, but unfortunately I can’t eat cheese. Causes me all sorts of problems when I do.
Typically, egg noodles + cooked meat (even spam) + cheese but also good is egg noodles + butter + garlic. This last time, I was even out of garlic, so it was egg noodles + butter + Emeril’s “Bam” seasoning. Amazingly tasty!
I suspect this is where they came up with a lot of recipes that involve things you wouldn’t ordinarly think of eating came from, back in the day where if you didn’t have food in the house, you didn’t have food, period.
“All we’ve got in the pantry is some milk and those shells full of slimy things that Prudence found in the bay this morning, eh?” And so oyster stew was born.
In China. “We ate all the dirt and mud around the place, mother. What shall we cook.”
“Oh, I can’t see a thing to eat on the ground, but are those birds’ nests in the trees over there? Perhaps we shall find some eggs.”
“Mother, we climbed the trees and got the nests, but there were no eggs in them.”
“Well, there’s eggs in one of mine, but they look like duck eggs, and they smell like they’re about a thousand years old.”
“I will see what I can do with what we have,” says Mom, and thus birds’ nest soup and thousand-year-old eggs were born.
Flour+water=quick erstaz pasta
cook it in boiling water with a stock cube added
a minute or two before it is finished, throw in whatever vegetables are available, finely diced.
Take a tortilla and add…
Well, nothing. I like tortillas.
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Imagine that! 
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