The tomato and bell pepper came from the garden.
The nopales were an experiment from foraged cactus. Definitely going to try a different recipe for that because the one I used left a lot of gel okra like gel making plating a little harder than it should be. Once I find the right recipe cactus will be a practically free food source
Instead of buying chicken thighs I bought a whole roaster and butchered it myself. This dramatically cuts the cost of chicken as long as you are going to use the whole thing. In this case I just used the thighs but I have uses for the rest including all the “waste” parts going to make a stock at some point.
Cost per person: $3.42 About a dollar of that was just cheese
Ah!
From the cactus ingredient and the comment about Roberto’s in SoCal, I guessed that you lived on the Left Coast. So, cactus in the Carolinas, eh? Well, I never…
I grows pretty well here in Lesser Carolina. We find wild patches on hikes and some have it as a yard plant.
No one in Southern California calls it SoCal.
Huh! “Lesser Carolina” is not a term I’ve heard before, but from what I’m reading, it’s totally not the state I was thinking of. More like the home state of a former peanut farmer…
Aw. It has a nice ring to it, but I’ll abide.
I moved from North to South so I had a pretty good justification for coming up with a better name.
SoCal is like SanFran. It’s a shibboleth that tags one as an outsider.
Sorry to hear that.
But at least you have nopales. :D
And livermush. I was delighted to find when I moved to the Carolinas that there was a whole new breakfast meat in my life.
Oh rabbits, that sounds… remarkably like what we refer to as “scrapple,” roundabout the town where I grew up in, a bit yonder, North.
Liver mush is made with just the liver and as much tastier.
Zoiks! 🤢
Ah well… all people to their styles, mais non? :S