Frugal Cooking

I’ve experimented with various asian peanut sauce recipes. There is some kind of peanut sauce variation in Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malaysian and other culinary cultures. Most recipes I’ve tried had some less common ingredient I didn’t have or just didn’t taste good. I finally hit on something that tastes great to me and is made with ingredients I almost always have.

I need to start this post by apologizing in advance to any and all Argentinians who happen by this post AND anyone else who might happen to attempt this recipe. This recipe is definitely not from Argentina and is, arguably, edible at best. There is one magical part of the recipe that hails from Argentina…

You can make a frappamochasomething at home and save lots of money but that’s not what I’m going to talk about. There are plenty of copy cat recipes around. This post is about making Turkish coffee, possibly the most frugal coffee around.

One of the things I really love about having a frugal living mentality is that when I get in the mood for something I don’t just run out and buy it, or even run to the store to buy the ingredients. Today was one of those days.

I like making my own seasoning blends. Not only is it more frugal, but it also allows me to control the amount of salt myself so I can use as much or as little of the seasoning as I like without worrying about the end result being too salty. Here is my version of Montreal steak seasoning.

Being a frugal cook doesn’t mean you have to eat bad tasting or unhealthy food. Part of the reason I started writing this blog is to show how easy it can be to be a frugal cook while feeding your family delicious AND healthy food. Alas, some people still don’t see a reason to be frugal in the kitchen. I can only speculate why…