About Me
My wife started to call me Cheap Bastid a while back because I enjoyed coming up with dinners that cost next to nothing--and making them taste good. I'm just a home cook who grew up in a home where cooking was from scratch and was a little bit Midwest and a little bit country. I love to cook and I love to cook good food cheap. And I write about my cooking and my recipes so that I can share them with you.
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Category Archives: Oriental
Sweet and Sour Pork
Remember “back in the day” when you could buy frozen “Chinese” meals—I want to say by Chun King, but I’m not sure my memory is that good. You could get a variety of “cooking bags” that you just tossed into … Continue reading
Posted in Oriental, pork, vegetables
Tagged carry out sweet and sour pork recipe, cheap sweet and sour pork recipe, chinese pork recipe, chinese sweet and sour pork recipe, easy oriental meal, easy sweet and sour pork recipe, family meals, oriental sweet and sour pork recipe, panda sweet and sour pork recipe, pork, pork recipe, simple sweet and sour pork recipe, sweet and sour pork, sweet and sour pork recipe, vegetables, wok sweet and sour pork recipe
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Steamed Rice Madame Wong’s Way
Sometimes it’s the simplest foods, cooked in the simplest ways that are the best. Over the years I’ve enjoyed cooking oriental-style food (I won’t try to claim to being able to cook “Chinese” or “Japanese” food just oriental-style food in … Continue reading
Posted in Oriental, Uncategorized
Tagged cheap rice recipe, chinese rice, chinese rice recipe, easiest rice recipe, easy rice recipe, oriental rice, oriental rice recipe, quick rice recipe, simple rice recipe, steamed rice, steamed rice recipe
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Ultimate Leftovers: Fried Rice
I love simple food. Even better I love tasty, simple food that’s cheap. But there are times when I’ve scratched my head and wondered what to do with that last lonely pork chop forlornly shivering in the freezer or what … Continue reading
Posted in family meals, left overs, Oriental, vegetables
Tagged cheap fried rice recipe, chinese cooking, chinese fried rice, chinese fried rice recipe, chinese steamed rice recipe, easy fried rice recipe, easy rice, easy rice recipe, easy steamed rice recipe, fried rice, fried rice recipe, quick fried rice recipe, rice recipe, steamed rice, steamed rice recipe, stovetop rice recipe
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