For me, the ultimate in low sodium comfort food was cheesy rice - good long grain rice, you can cook it with a handful of varied herbs and spices - Add a little butter and some shredded cheese. Stir and it is teh YUM! And RAMEN Budget friendly, to boot!
Low sodium refried beans, cheese, peppers (your choice for variety, I liked both fresh bell pepper and/or jalapeno), ground beef w/spices (cuman, garlic powder, etc) and burrito shells for a reasonably decent burrito.
Apples fried in butter. Take about 5 tart apples (Granny Smith works good, but any sweet-tart apple will do), slice them up into a 10 or 12" skillet. Add 2-3 tbsp. of butter and 1/8 to 1/4 cup of sugar and fry, stirring fairly often--more than occasionally, less than the entire time. Don't let them burn, at least. They should begin to soften and start to look like something that resembles applesauce, but isn't. Tastes like buttery, apple-y awesome.
I'm making a crockpot chicken chili thing today. Basically:
Bag of corn can of tomato sauce can of black beans can of kidney beans some chopped onion a couple of chicken breasts taco seasoning chili seasoning
Put it all in the crockpot on Low for 10 hours or High for 6 hours. Chicken is on top of all the other stuff. Shred the chicken towards the end & mix it all up.
The seasoning can be salt-o-riffic, so you could sub in chili powder, cumin, garlic, little bit of oregano, bay leaf, etc. in individual spoonfuls as you like.
Crockpot stuff is so easy, and usually you can get off pretty cheap, with cheaper cuts of meat that cook into tenderness over the length of cooking.
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Date: 2013-01-14 10:13 pm (UTC)NO CINNAMON. That's another dish entirely.
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Date: 2013-01-16 06:55 pm (UTC)Bag of corn
can of tomato sauce
can of black beans
can of kidney beans
some chopped onion
a couple of chicken breasts
taco seasoning
chili seasoning
Put it all in the crockpot on Low for 10 hours or High for 6 hours. Chicken is on top of all the other stuff. Shred the chicken towards the end & mix it all up.
The seasoning can be salt-o-riffic, so you could sub in chili powder, cumin, garlic, little bit of oregano, bay leaf, etc. in individual spoonfuls as you like.
Crockpot stuff is so easy, and usually you can get off pretty cheap, with cheaper cuts of meat that cook into tenderness over the length of cooking.