Cooking For Engineers

[mimosa]

Sausage Causerole
8 sausages grill till brown (use whatever sausages you like from the cheapest to the most expensive)
I onion fry in wok add a dash of sugar
I can to plum tomatoes add to onion in wok
Add sausages and a dash of mustard
Add Tin of Baked beans
Serve with mash or pasta

[zspook1]

venison breakfast sausage patties with real american cheeze slices melted on top ketchup on the side with ranch style beans. maybe not the cheapest considering the price of game but simple and good.

[nephildevil]

cheapest meal in the world?

how about potato soup! its even cheaper than onion soup!

[guest]

my version can be found here...
(include value for money dine-outs as well)
http://teczcape-yum.blogspot.com/

and more to come...

[socal_chris]

nothing tops good ol' Oscar Mayer weiners and Hormel chili - no beans. On a bun or just mix and eat!

[ranger-o]

Microwave burito with a slice of American on top. Cheap and fast.

[BushBass]

maybe it's because i'm from NJ, but...

Taylor Ham, Egg and Cheese. With a little salt, pepper and ketchup

one of life's simple pleasures

BTW, my first post on these boards. Seems like a cool place!

[Auspicious]

Onion stuffed onions

Not much cheaper than onions. Half onions, use outer two rings as a shell, chop the rest, saute in a white sauce, refill shells, bake until top is brown and onion is soft.

Cheap.

[IndyRob]

I think I'd have to vote for something like Eggs Benedict, but could be convinced of better/cheaper egg applications (crepes? a souffle?).

I am at times absolutely dumbfounded by how little we need to pay for eggs. Considering their value in the kitchen, I don't see how anything else comes close to their bang for the buck.

[joshuaslocum]

Good ideas, everyone. Here's my vote. It's extremely cheap, and you almost always have all the ingredients on hand anyway.


Potato Latkes:


2 large potatoes, peeled
1/2 medium onion
salt and pepper
butter
flour
1 egg
vegetable oil



Grate the potatoes and the onions finely. Salt and pepper the hell out of them. Add 1 egg, and mix thoroughly. Add about two tbsp. flour or matzo meal, mix.

Fry in a half and half combination of butter and vegetable oil on medium heat until golden brown on both sides. Drain on paper towels, and serve with sour cream.

[Guest]

the engineer's answer was found in 1943, when there were actual shortages of nutrients which loomed as a gating factor on war production.

I won't quote the results, because I can't assure that the relative cost-numbers are the same 64 years later.

[srshoe]

You all are too funny!! Are you sure you are engineers??? If you are you are some of the best out of the box engineers I have come across!! That is a compliment! Cheap meals: eggs with anything in them scrambled, called it what you want the 1943 cheap meal is still relative cheap by today's costs( I know what Dad called it), potato soup and of course chili or ham & beans(a pot can last a week)! Thanks for letting come to your site.

[youngcook]

Aren't Wendy's fries and chicken burger cheaper and soo tasty? Don't we all here have an addiction to some restaurant?

[Ishbel]

You're surely not calling Wendy's a RESTAURANT, youngcook?!

[youngcook]

WENDY'S is a restaurant. It's called a fast food restaurant. Fast food restaurants (you are getting the explanation) are restaurants that serve you good food -FAST! May I stress that. It is a Fast Food Restaurant. And it is so good. But I bet you have an addiction to some restaurant,fast food or not, right?