I’ve recently been fixated on the idea of struggle meals, probably because I’ve been struggling both financially and mentally. I’ll share a couple of mine:
-Egg on hash brown patty: as simple as it sounds, bake a frozen hash brown patty, cook a sunny side up egg and put it on top. I like to season the egg with salt/msg, pepper, and garlic powder, then add a few drops of Tabasco sauce. Bonus points if you have avocado to spread on the hash brown first
-Flaming Hot Cheetos taco: toast a corn tortilla on both sides on a pan, then add sour cream and shredded cheese and flaming hot Cheetos as the “meat”, add any other taco toppings you like/have (shredded cabbage/lettuce, hot sauce, etc)
Would love to hear everyone else’s struggle meals when you just don’t have the means mentally/financially to put much effort into cooking
This is my mom’s. She calls it chalupas but it’s not like taco bell’s chalupas. At all. I don’t know where their name came from. These are real chalupas. I think they came from the 50s.
First you take a can of red pinto beans and empty the whole can, juice and all, into a pot. Toss in an 8 Oz thing of cream cheese. Put it on the stove and melt the cream cheese into the bean juices. It’s gonna turn purple.
Get some frito CORN CHIPS. The small ones are better, but ykniw.
Then you kinda layer it. Corn chips, kidney bean creamcheeseslurry, grated cheddar cheese, onion, lettuce, olive, tomato, avocado, salsa, I’m sure I’m missing a few things. I like it, my wife doesn’t so we haven’t had it in a hot minute.
Eat with your fingers like the tired fellow your are. Or a fork, I don’t care