Cheesasaurus Rex!


I have a great recipe for pizza ramen (recipe: put a slice of american cheese in Oriental Ramen= Pizza Ramen.) Okay, so it isn't as much a great recipe as the findings of a group of stoners putting sundry items in ramen. It's science, dammit. It is more of an interesting bit of trivia than a dining idea, ultimately.
"You know, you can make pizza flavored ramen with the oriental top ramen?"
"Do tell me more of this intriguing development/subscribe to your newsletter."

I hate the limited/repetitive diet thing with being broke. That shit is so scurvy.

You're right about spices. Funny how they become so paramount when the food itself isn't super-stellar.

Classic Poverty Spices and Accoutrement:
Lemon Pepper (to the point that I can't stand lemon pepper now)
Garlic Salt
(most things in the "something else" pepper or "something else" salt category, actually... eloquence.)
Red Chili Peppers
Soy Sauce
MUSTARD! (Eating saltines for dinner again? Mustard's here to help.)
Salsa
BBQ Sauce/ Heinz etc
Oregano (ends up on everything somehow)
Personal Fave: Tajin (on everything... ever)
(note: Tajin is Mexican Chili Powder stuff used specifically for fruit and corn and such and less specifically for everything edible.)
Cilantro will also fix anything.

If you have these.. you survive the famine of bland foods. You can stone soup them into/with anything (skip the stone, though.. that's just ridiculous) and many of these items, haply and handily, are available in packet form complementarily.

Thug life.

You're lucky. The saltine diet's probably more common with vegans and those as irresponsible as myself as, when I run out of groceries, what's left over in my cabinet could barely sustain a pathogen.
"hm... lemmesee... I have rice vinegar, a bunch of packets of Miso soup, some cough drops, SALTINES!"

The connotative resonance of Vienna sausages is such that the sheer mention sent me reeling in a nightmarish underworld of smelly canned meats. Olfactory flashback to thinking "ahhh.. why are you nestled in non-newtonian smelly death jelly?"
Strange food creations are great that way, actually, perplexing or even disturbing bystanders.
"Why are you eating mustard on corn chips?" etc

I miss the days when my ability to turn on the stove made me a hero. Garlic salt on rolls was shockingly popular and Red Beans and Whole Wheat Rotini was really good.

You are pretty lucky that you're not presently having to create dishes with insufficient ingredients.
I had no choice but to make pasta without tomatos or cheese once and the concept hurt my brain. Secret?: BBQ sauce. Hm. Somethings up with that sauce.

it's been about six years since I've eaten meat... so I'm unsure whether or not i want to cave...