Recipes

Ok, things are good.  Stuff goes well.  Audiences are getting bigger, cashflow is increasing, there's more free time, I'm meeting people...  But we all still have responsibilities.  Most notably, with 9 people sharing a relatively small apartment, household chores.  So we've split up into 2-man teams (interesting factoid, 'man' was originally gender-neutral, and is not derived from the same linguistic source as 'woman' - Rawson, Hugh. Devious Derivations. I forget the publisher, late '90s) and are on a 4 day rotation, one day on cleaning, one day off, one day on cooking (lunch and dinner), one day off.

That means I've had to cook 3 or 4 days so far, and since my partner comes from a fairly traditional Korean household, he doesn't really know how to.  Although he's a very good kitchen assistant.  So far it's gone pretty well, as I try to cook stuff that's NOT Korean and still falls within our 20 euro/day budget.  Pizza, beef and mashed potatoes, American-style hot dogs and potato salad have all shown up, along with a few casserole type dishes.  They were actually mostly pretty good too, if I do say so myself.  They've gone over well with most people, although after I made pizza for lunch, I got strong requests to include rice in the dinner menu.  And it turns out Koreans don't like odoriferous herbs.  Basil, rosemary... they'll be polite and try them, but the concept remains a little to freaky to gain general acceptance.

Anyway, I'm starting to run out of ideas, and, trying to stay under the airline's weight limit, I didn't bring a cookbook.  Dumb.  So, if any of you have ideas for good, not too difficult to prepare (our kitchen is not particularly well-equipped), and above all cheap meals that will feed 9 or more people, please pass them on.  If the ideas include rice, I hate you.  Not really.  But please give me something interesting to do with it.  Same goes for white bread and  'sausages', i.e. saucisses de strasbourg, i.e. hot dogs.  Thank you