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The picture is your starter. Assume a basic pantry for your other ingredients. What are you cooking?

These two ingredients were less than $4 total when I bought them.

For me, an obvious choice here is quesadillas. A little bit of salt, baking powder, oil and water and you have tortillas. You could add a little sour cream or hot sauce or peppers and onions or any number of other things to make this into a meal.

What are you going to make? How much is it going to cost per a person? Bonus points if you know how long it's going to take? You kind of have to rest tortilla dough for 30 minutes. So for two people this meal is going to take me about an hour.

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Not included in the price is the cutting board. I made it years ago as an experiment to see if I could frame an edge face cutting board without it cracking breaking itself apart. It's made of poplar and it refuses to die. Materials caused on it was probably about $10. Labor time was probably about 2 hours.

Poplar makes a horrible cutting board. It's too soft even though it's a hardwood. However, for end grain butcher blocks it's a champion. I usually only use this for cutting and serving pizza because every knife mark shows on it.

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[–] mech@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Like make a crepe and put cheddar in it? Like a French quesadilla?

[–] mech@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

Yes, basically.

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[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I have thought about cheddar pizza a couple of times and my brain always shuts off.

[–] Sprinks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I like to do a cheddar sauce instead of tomato and then top with mozz, cumbled beef, and bacon bits.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Instead of tomato sauce? So like a cheesy bread with meat toppings people might do if they got heartburn from a tomato sauce? Are we talking like pizza crust then or like focaccia?

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[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I just created a bluesky account called Cooking Challenge If you want to go over there and play.

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[–] faeb@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hassleback potatoes w/ cheese sauce.

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[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If this is what you're restricted to, (ie. no eggs, milk, spices/herbs, etc.) then I'd say you were looking at a chance at a fondant-texture cheese dough, if you're patient? Essentially, a roux to a Beschamel without milk, but it'll take a steady heat and a non-stop, gentle stir/folding.

I'd start by rendering the oils from ~⅓ of the cheese, and begin the roux from there. Then, slowly and completely, melt only enough grated from the ⅔ to emulsify without clumping.

Continue until the roux won't take any more grated without breaking (you'll see oils sweating/escaping on the surface, just dust w/ sifted flour and fold until absorbed evenly)

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Assume a basic pantry. So yes, eggs, milk, herbs, spices, baking powder, yeast, butter, etc.

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