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A post elsewhere mentioned potato and carrot enchiladas. I had never heard of such a thing and loved the idea enough to try it.

Make a standard guajillo sauce and fry it.
Dice and boil the potatoes and carrots.
Drain the potatoes and carrots and toss them in a pan with some of the enchilada sauce.
Fry the tortilla in the sauce, assemble and top with lettuce and queso fresco.

I am normally a no lettuce Mexican food person but every recipe I found that wasn't AI generated had the lettuce so I figured it was necessary and if people of Michoacán where determined to use lettuce then I would do it for them.

Yeah, it's gotta have the lettuce. Not cabbage. It adds the exact right amount of texture and brightness. Now I need to figure out what to do with the rest of this head of lettuce because I'm not a fan of it in American food either.

Cost per person: $3.61 Can you order this anywhere? Not anywhere near me.

A rather standard veg fajita mix served with oven fries coated in an excessive amount of homemade taco seasoning. At the last prep minute I decided to slice up a smoked sausage and crisp it up before adding the veggies to cook. A little queso fresca on top.

We are adding this to the permanent menu.

Cost per person: $2.20 Can you order this anywhere? No place serves oven fries but there are Mexican places that have French fries they could dust with some seasoning before topping with fajita veg.

What do you do when you have basil that needs trimming every day and you have already dried enough to last the next year? You bake some bread and make Panzanella.

Cost per person: $3 because red and yellow bell peppers are expensive.

Sometimes I end up with the weirdest one offs of meat like pre cooked burger patties for free. Fried rice is the perfect way to use them up and clear out any veg scraps too.

This is the time added fresh ginger. I planted some and now have a supply of fresh ginger to use without paying a fortune.

Eggs free from the yard.

Cost per person: maybe $1

Apples were perfect. Pork chops lacked grill marks. Need to figure out how to get grill marks without drying out the meat.

The packet of sesame/pumpkin seeds and craisins was free. Local food bank has a grab what you can kale salad mix and this packet was in each one. We wanted a day to see what wasn't taken and then distributed them to local animal people.

Pork chops were marinated in a mix of homemade Emeril BAM, olive oil, cider vinegar and salt.

Was it tasty? Definitely. Cost per person: $4.25

Home grown eggs and bell pepper. Cost per person: $1.80

Provolone and cheddar.

Potatoes were half price. Squash from garden. Rye bread was free.

Cost per person: $1.50 Cost of you paid retail for ingredients: $3

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Corn dogs and fake Doritos.

Cost per person: $2

Basically $3 per person and most of that is cheese.

Pizza 1: honey ham, home grown bell pepper, mushroom.

Pizza 2: pepperoni, mushroom, olive, banana pepper.

Cutting board: made from poplar. Made from passive aggressive spite. You should never frame a board like this one is. The normal swelling of wood as it absorbs and sheds humidity will cause it to snap itself apart. It was made in 2019 to test if a thin enough board could survive. I have only ever used it for cutting pizza because poplar is soft for a hard wood and every knife and pizza cutter leaves a mark. It's great for end grain boards but not face or edge grain.

Anyway, the board refuses to break despite more than 200 pizzas.

Meat was free. Squash was homegrown free.

Cost per person, $2.00 Cost per person if you had to buy everything: $6.75

Yellow squash hummus with homemade bread. I'm fighting through my squash surplus and the idea of hummus came up.

At first I was worried about the texture being too, well, you might know, but figured I'd give it a try. I didn't have any tahini but I figured if I did that peanut butter substitution it might work enough to figure out if I should buy some. But I only used half the amount.

The recipe I found called for two large yellow squash. I found that my garden and their imagination has two very different ideas on what large means. I ended up doubling the salt, lemon juice, cumin and olive oil. Recipe in comments.

Did it work? Definitely. It is amazing. As I was plating mine my wife made an exceptionally rare request for hot sauce. Just a tiny amount. It was perfect.

Definitely saving this recipe.