Cooking #
Eating out in San Francisco is how most people quietly lose a thousand dollars a month. Cooking is the fix, and it does not have to be complicated. Everything here is food I actually make, filmed while I made it.
These are not fussy recipes. Most are one pot. Several are under five ingredients. One of them is literally two ingredients. Every recipe includes what the dish is, what it is good for, and a full list of swaps so you can adapt it to whatever is in your fridge.
Dumplings #
About $15 of ingredients from Chinatown, and it feeds six people. The best value in home cooking, and the best group activity on this site.
Stir fry #
Less a recipe than a template. Pick a protein, pick vegetables, flavor it simply, put it over rice.
One-pot soups #
- The Easiest Chinese Soup: Pork and Seaweed, Two Ingredients
- How to Make Chicken Noodle Soup the Easy Way
- How to Make Minestrone Soup the Easy Way
Big pots, cheap ingredients, and days of leftovers. The minestrone in particular is the best clean-out-the-fridge meal there is.
Cooking is one piece of a bigger picture. The rest of living here cheaply is in Frugal SF.