Author Archives: Meg
Recipe Time! Springtime Baked Chicken and Rice
As you may have noticed, we’re big fans of chicken and rice here at Poor Couple’s Food Guide. For the less enlightened, you may think that it gets boring eating a lot of chicken and rice. But this is not the case! There are so many delicious ways to prepare it, each one tasting different from the last. Today I’m here to share one such recipe that I came up with. After months of heavy winter foods I wanted to come up with something light and springy, now that the weather is finally warming up. And something with green in it to reflect the green finally growing outside.
The Snack Report: Stacy’s Pretzel Thins
Pretzels are an awesome snack. We even made a pizza out of them! Part of the reason for pretzels’ high rank in snackdom is just because they taste good. But another part is because there are so many pretzel options. They can be hard and crunchy, or soft and chewy. They can be salty or sweet (or both at the same time!). They can be big or small. Even just within hard pretzels there are numerous shapes and sizes. Today we’ll be focusing on the flat pretzel thins.
Recipe Time! Monkey Bread
Monkey bread is a wonderful food, with a strange name. No one really seems to know for certain how it got its name, but rest assured – no monkeys are harmed in the making of this delicious treat. And it’s not some weird code disguising something gross, like how “sweetbreads” are actually the thymus and pancreas of cows. Monkey bread is made of biscuit dough cut into small pieces and covered in cinnamon, sugar, and held together with a kind of caramel. Monkey bread made its first appearance in women’s magazines in the 1950s and fits very much with the vogue of using canned or frozen ingredients and spiffing them up in interesting (and occasionally horrifying) ways. The 1950s ideology was all about making the modern housewife’s life easier with push buttons and quickly prepared foodstuffs. I have fond memories of sitting in my grandma’s kitchen and eating monkey bread that she made, which makes sense since she was a young housewife in the 1950s.
I could go on about this stuff forever, since it is part of what I’m studying in school, but I digress. Monkey bread is indeed an easy to make dish that can serve as breakfast, dessert, or just a little snack.
Recipe Time! Strawberry Peanut Butter Toast
Okay, so this isn’t so much a recipe as it is me just sharing this idea with you, but I’ll write it out in recipe form anyway.
As Erik mentioned in his last post, breakfast is an often skipped meal, which is a shame since it’s an important way to get your day started and also has lots of yummy foods. Even faster than French toast is regular toast, which can be kind of boring to eat every day, but luckily there are lots of ways to easily fancy it up.
Since powdered toast isn’t a thing, you’re going to have to make your toast the old fashioned way.
Recipe Time! Leftover Easter Egg Salad
While it didn’t really feel like it since it’s still barely spring out, Easter was this past weekend. You colored your eggs, hid them, found them…and now what? Eat them of course! If you’d like you can just straight up eat hard boiled eggs as is, but that gets pretty boring. My favorite way to use up Easter eggs is by making egg salad. There are a lot of fancy egg salad recipes out there, but I’m going to share my basic egg salad recipe with you.
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