Reply To: Recipes for the seriously poor

Wow! So many great ideas!! If I ever do get around to writing a cookbook…do I have permission to use them?

Tonight was really hard. I sent both my kids off to playdates so that they would have dinner by other homes. My husband won’t be back from work til late, and he usually subsides on matza broken up in a bowl with milk.

Someone left a package in my car by mistake…it was bread. I don’t know who it was or how long it had been there. I do a lot of schlepping for people. I asked a shei’la and was told I could eat from it, so I had four bilkes for dinner.

I often make pea, lentil soup with alphabet noodles for my kids to eat at breakfast and then the leftovers I give them for lunch. My son’s cheder serves lunch, Baruch HsShem!, but my daughter goes to a school for “special” kids. Their diets are all quirky, hers included, so they don’t get hot lunch. I have to provide for her daily, so soup it is. She loves it!

Snacks are really hard, cause at my son’s cheder they are all bringing “snack packs”. He turns his nose up at my cheapo versions stuck in sandwich bags. Oh well!

One of my favorite dinners is:

Curried farfel

1 onion

oil to fry onion

salt

pepper

1 chopped pepper

lots of curry powder

farfel

Fry onion and pepper. Throw in spices and farfel. Fry up a minute or so more. Add water to cover farfel. Cover tight and keep on low til water evaporates.

Yum!