Below are the 4 most recent journal entries recorded in poor and making it's InsaneJournal:

Monday, March 9th, 2015
7:28 pm	NYT: Efficiency in the Kitchen to Reduce Food Waste https://poor-skills.livejournal.com/4065386.html Thought this recent article in the New York Times would be relevant to our interests. Starve a Landfill Efficiency in the Kitchen to Reduce Food Waste SEATTLE  The nations first citywide composting program based largely on shame began here in January. City sanitation workers who find garbage cans filled with aging lettuce, leftover pizza or even the box it came in are slapping on bright red tags to inform the offending household (and, presumably, the whole neighborhood) that the citys new composting law has been violated. San Francisco may have been the first city to make its citizens compost food, but Seattle is the first to punish people with a fine if they dont. In a country that loses about 31 percent of its food to waste, policies like Seattles are driven by environmental, social and economic pressure. But mandated composting reflects a deeper shift in the mood of the nations cooks, one in which wasting food is unfashionable. Running an efficient kitchen  where bruised fruit is blended into smoothies, carrot tops are pulsed into pesto, and a juicy pork shoulder can move seamlessly from Sunday supper to Mondays carnitas to a rich pot of broth for the freezer  is becoming as satisfying as the food itself. [continued] (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
7:24 am	Cooking in Poverty the FOURTEENTH. https://poor-skills.livejournal.com/3470457.html Hey, kids. It's been a while. I've been busy with more poverty, but I have internet access again, so things are okay. And to show you that things are okay, I bring you a recipe. This is my piece du resistance. I think I even invented it. And it is delicious. I call it "Parmesan Breaded Chicken". And I mean that. So, we start out with some chicken, some buttah, some cream (or half-and-half or whole milk), Your Favorite Herbs and Spices", some Parmesan cheese (green can stuff will do), and some Parmesan goldfish crackers. Yes. I mean it. Put those crackers in a bowl. Get a canned good... And beat the tar out of 'em. Add some herbs and spices... And cheeeeese. Mix it together. In another bowl, get yo' cream ready. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees, and butter a sheet pan! Hopefully, one newer than mine... Then start to dredge your chicken. Roll it around in the milk... ...and roll it around in the cracker crumbs and spices and cheeeeeese. Keep one hand clean for taking pictures! Put them on your baking surface, And put them in the oven for 45 minutes or so. Turn them every 15 or 20 minutes. See? It does a body good. Look at that crust? It's delicious. Enjoy it, kids. xD (Comment on this)
Saturday, June 12th, 2010
5:45 pm	One chicken, five meals https://poor-skills.livejournal.com/3610500.html I've heard often about making one chicken last and decided to try it myself. My pictures are iphone pictures of my plates and I'm not putting recipes for things because gosh, these are simple dishes. The point of the pics is if people want to see serving sizes. I used a medium chicken which cost me 4 quid (technically it was a 3 for 10 pounds deal Sainsbury's was doing but the list price was 4 and a few pennies). All meals fed 2 [greedy] people. My boyfriend is a chicken fiend and I know for 1 meal midweek he felt a bit sad but was otherwise pretty satisfied For day one I removed the wings, legs and thighs. Frankly, my thighs weren't that neat because I'm not great at doing that to chicken... I put all the bits in one container with salt, olive oil, vinegar and garlic and shoved in the fridge. The rest of the chicken was then roasted with paprika/cayenne wedges and homemade garlic mayo. I'll x-post to a few comms so sorry if you' see it a few times. :) Pictures This first pic is 'half eaten' because it only occurred to me after the first meal that others may want to see the serving sizes. We each had one breast I then got P to pick the meat from the bones. I HATE coming across chewy/weird bits when someone picks a carcass clean so he said if anything felt knobbly/tendonny/etc. he would just leave it. We ended up almost a bowl full of chicken bits which we covered and placed in the fridge. For meal 2 I grabbed the raw legs with thigh bits (my sub-par cutting skills meant I really had more like half a thigh, which is why there was more from P's carcass pickings!) and trimmed about a handful of meat from the legs so there was still some 'thigh' but the drumstick was untouched. Adding some cooked chicken from the bowl (just under half) to a tomato sauce with courgettes it gave us enough sauce for 4 of these plates. I like to cook chicken tomato sauce for a while until the sauce tastes chickenny, personally. Same day I made the stock. I just added water and salt as it boiled. I find the smell of stock makes me feel ill so even with the lid on and door that leads to the garden from the kitchen open I could only stand to let it simmer for 3 hours. I ended up with 2 litres which I added black peppercorns and coriander seeds to and reduced for a few hours and when it was down to 500ml I drained the seeds out. I reduced it until there was about 200ml of a very thick juice that tasted *divine* ! With that I made a sort of Thai, chicken noodle soup using the last of the saved cooked chicken, plus frozen peppers and lettuce. Very fresh and limey/lemongrassy. YUM With the remainder of the meat left on the thighs and the wings I made a BBQ chicken/rice bean combo (this was the meal that P felt was more 'light' on chicken than he'd like). Overall there was 1 wing each plus 2 little drumsticks each, too. There was enough for 2 full serving plates plus another few serving sized spoons for seconds. On the last day I used the last 2 bits of chicken which, clearly, are the drumsticks. I ended up slathering in Caesar salad dressing and bread-crumbing before baking and served with oregano&garlic cous-cous - Caesar dressing drizzled on top. There you have it - 5 very different meals with 1 chicken plus other bits I already had. Sucess! (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
11:36 am	Dollar-a-Day Challenge https://poor-skills.livejournal.com/3698297.html X-posted to my minimumwager   blog. If you saved a dollar every day, at the end of the year you would have $365.00.  How could you get the most out of $365.00? Reply with your answers. Answers can be fun or serious. This is meant to be a mental exercise. (Comment on this)