1) There's always a themed ingredient. The ingredient should be versatile and affordable.
2) The meal should strive to be under 25 bucks for 4 people.
3) The invited guest must help cook and bring a drink that pairs with the ingredient for the week.
4) We must drink alcohol.
5) You must be invited to attend. And you have to be fun.
6) The general rule is, whatever you eat, you better say it's good. Gosh darn it, you helped cook it.
The rules will evolve. Ultimately, the goal is to have fun and hopefully, inspire you to not always eat out.
Our secret ingredient this week was ONIONS!!! 10 lbs for 2 dollars!!!! 10 lbs!!!!
We started out with a beautiful red onion, tomatoes, cucumber salad, topped with a piece of fried tofu. We dressed it with some old ginger dressing I had in the fridge. Simple and light.
There are few things I would spend hours making. And typically, the rule of MSC is to make things together. However, today, I had to break some rules. We made French Onion Soup. We made those onions CRY!!!!! 1 hour of sweating the onions. Tons of brandy. Another hour to cook the broth. Topped with oozy goozy mozzarella....it was heaven.
And finally, we wrapped it up in a steak sandwich. It was stuffed with cheese (mozzarella left over from French Onion), grilled onions and red peppers. I used to buy only rib eye at markets...usually avoiding the cheaper cuts steaks. Being budget conscious, we opted to cook with chuck steak and boy was it tasty. It was eye opening to try out other cuts of meat. Don't be scared...you should too!! Oh yeh, we also made oven baked, Japanese cookie crumbed onion rings. Guilt-free!
And what was dessert? 3/4 cooked brownies a la mode (coffee ice cream). Why would we mess that up with onions?
Total dollars spent? 22.47. Booyah. Thanks Kristal for taking head role this week! Dave and Henry, thanks for the alki (the TRUE SECRET INGREDIENT of MSC). Anytime starting cooking w/ Jagerbomb shots= good time. And that we did.
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