The common saying is “as salty as the sea” but that’s actually a lot more salt than you would think. 2-3 teaspoons of salt for a large pot of water is plenty. If your water was actually as salty as the sea, your pasta would taste awful
That sounds like it involves a lot more mess with the addition of a piping bag that can’t even handle the chunks in many of my recipes. How does spooning crumple paper?
Clearly you have a better technique than me. When i spoon batter into paper cups, the spoon inevitable touches the paper, sticks to it, and causes it to fold and stick to the batter in the rest of the cup. At least a third of my cups end up messy and misshapen. Piping works great for me, but I dont do a lot of things with “chunks.”
Not really a hack but just something important, always remember to account for how much salt you need if you don’t have the recipes specific type of salt because different salt types have different shapes and sizes
Also (and I know this is obvious to many) aim to undersalt your dish. You can always add more salt but it’s hard to fix oversalting. If it needs more flavors, use herbs and spices. If you’ve already added a good bit of salt and you’re nervous about oversalting, add some acid. Wine, vinegar, lemon juice, lime juice, etc. That might reveal flavors that the salt was trying to bring out!
If you have access to bulk spices at your local grocery, try mixing the following to your own personal taste: black pepper, white pepper, cayenne pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, mustard powder, chile peppers, cumin, celery seed. 🤘🏼
p.s. If you have a food dehydrator, try lightly charring some hatch chilis over open flame and then dehydrating them after they’re cooled. Grinding them into powder (+seeds = spicy) and adding that to your mix. 🧑🍳
I never noticed before, paprika is bell pepper, onion powder and celery seed, It’s the Cajun mirepoix. Makes perfect sense it would be predominant in the seasoning.
I'm a big fan of frozen herbs, frozen cubes of garlic save a ton of time breaking open cloves, frozen basil still has that fresh taste and smell relative to dried.
If you make pizza in a home oven, baking steel is a game changer. It gets nice and hot and makes your crust crispy. Like a pizza stone but better.
If you have a blender, try making your own almond milk for a fraction of the cost. It's easy.
Blend at 1 to 4 ratio. Ex: 1 cup almonds, 4 cups water. Strain through nutbag or cheesecloth. Save pulp for recipes (Google will help)
Some people drink the milk as is but to me, but it tastes even more amazing if you cook it on a stove just until it starts to boil and immediately turn off heat. Add a tablespoon sugar.
Cashews: same but don't need to boil. These don't strain as well so some people prefer using high speed blender and not strain but I didn't care for it that way. I haven't made oat milk that I'm happy with so no advice on that
Hope this helps a little and just fyi Im from Germany, so maybe some things are cheap for me but not for you :(
First thing try using the same spices for a lot of dishes and you'll save a lot of money! I thought the spices were the worst money burner when I moved out.
Some good and cheap dishes for me were stuff like
fried rice: cook rice and let it cool down, chop some ginger, garlic, onions and put it in a pan with a little oil. After 1-2min add vegetables you like and you'll come by cheap (frozen is as good as fresh). Add rice and if you like some eggs and stuff like ham. Everything turns out delicious if you use soy sauce.
spaghetti arrabiata: it's just spicy tomato sauce with noodles and if you like cheese. If you have the money to buy arrabiata spices, do it (I think it's great for pizza sauce or a quick bolognese).
spaghetti alio e olio: it's noodles with oil and garlic
peanut rice noodles: add peanut butter, soy sauce, rice vinegar and hot sauce together, put aside and cook some rice noodles and some veggies. If everything is cooked, put everything in a bowl and add the peanut sauce. I eat it at least 2x a month (if you like add garlic and/or ginger to the sauce)
if you know how to do a yeast dough, cheap dishes are easy. If you can do the dough yourself pizza is cheap as hell, but also filled stuff like fake dumplings. If you do it on the sweet side, you'll have some bready and caky stuff (and this kind of dough is great for a freezer)
if you're short on time but not exactly on money try stews and soups. You can add nearly everything you have at home and let it cook and you can eat like at least a week from it
Edit: One dish I like and just want to add is spaghetti carbonara. It's not quiet cheap but super easy to make: Cook noodles (spaghetti), meanwhile mix 1 full egg and 2-3 egg yolks for around 2 people with around 200g parmesan (or 100g parmesan and 100g parmigianino). Fry bacon cubes (pig belly is the best). When the noodles are done add some noodle water (it won't taste salty even if you put a lot of salt in the water) to the cheese egg mix and put the noodles in the pan with the bacon, turn off the heat and add cheese-egg mix to the pan, but be aware that the pan isn't hot anymore, you don't want the eggs to boil.
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