back to super-frugal

Running a household budget is pants!
Plain and simple it's a pain in the neck from start to finish and almost anything can throw it off track.
Can you tell I overspent? Well actually it's not so much a case of over spending, it's doing daily battle with see-sawing prices that seem to have gone mad this month.
Of course the weather has alot to do with that.. we've had so much rain that it's affected our local market, and pushed the price of veggies up to a miserable level.
A couple of months of ill heath and eating out of my stockpile also didn't help matters... and I'm trying to build it up from scratch again, mainly because it helps to free up some cash in the long run and also because it's just so much easier to have things on hand.

So I'm back in super-frugal mode, and am cooking the dishes that I always fall back on when I need something tasty  but kind on the pocket...

The quantities are all relative to how much you feel like cooking, but it's more or less equal amounts of onion; tomato and green peppers gentle sautéed with as much garlic as you can comfortably handle. I also add some paprika for colour and season generously with salt ans coarse black pepper. Once it's looking relaxed and mellowed out break some eggs into the pan and put a lid on top so that they poach in the liquid. Only poach them till just cooked though, what your looking for is a yolk that will ooze out into your saucy goodness when broken. We eat this as is, with crusty bread from a communal plate, even better cook it in something you can take straight from stovetop to table. Delicious...