good morning everyone and welcome to my kitchen and today's another cheat me on
Monday and today it is going to be cast-iron cooking I hope you stay tuned
and welcome to cheap mill Monday and today we are going to make Texas rice
and we are going to be using a Dutch oven a cast iron and it comes from you
from this cookbook the Amish cooks family favorite recipes from now on
whenever I have a use book I'm gonna look for that book on Amazon and I will
share with you then link to the book a lot of these books are anywhere from
three to six dollars and I know you enjoy the books so let's get started on
our South Texas rice I wanted to cook on an open fire with my cast iron but we've
had such heavy rain it just wasn't feasible today but keep looking in the
future I will be using my cast iron outside on an open fire so today it
calls for 1/2 pound of ground beef and we are going to saute that with 1 green
pepper and 1 red pepper and 1 onion so for me this ground beef was really
expensive and you know the ground turkey was even more expensive so it was six
dollars and twenty-nine cents for this but if we use only half of it we're only
using three dollars worth so so far we have a real frugal meal so we're gonna
take half of this because it's a pound so we're gonna take a half of this we're
gonna saute this
now this looks a little bit less than a half a pound that's okay
like I said we go light on the meat and as you can see I have my onions and I
have my peppers boohoo isn't I really got into these food choppers and I
wanted to see if you can actually chop peppers up in it and you can so here's
my peppers and here's my onions so we're going to add the peppers and we're gonna
add the onions to our half pound of ground beef all right so let's get
sauteing this here is the green pepper I love this thing so much it looks so
great I'm gonna make sure we get everything out I'm gonna go ahead and
get my spatula so I'll get my spatula peen these out off-camera so the next
thing we're going to do is now we have to go ahead and saute it all right we'll
get working on this and then we add the other ingredients there the recipe at
the end of this video isn't that beautiful look how pretty
that is isn't this beautiful so everything we're making is in this
one pot what we're going to do is we're gonna drain off the fat when it's done
sauteing
so when it's finished browning and I drained off the fat I'll get back to you
and show you what we do next so now we're going to add our other ingredients
now it calls for one jalapeno but I don't like hot peppers so I'm skipping
that it calls for two cups of uncooked white rice and four cups of tomato juice
so I'm going to add the tomato juice first and then I'll add the two cups of
rice so it's four cups of tomato juice
okay
then it calls for two cups of rice
we're just stir that it
now this is 3/4 cups intervals so I'm just going to add a little there okay
and now it cause for our seasonings it calls for one to two teaspoons of taco
seasoning I'm only going to use one teaspoon of it I may add the other
teaspoon if it isn't strong enough but we're gonna add 1 teaspoon of taco
seasoning 1 teaspoon of chili seasoning
and we're gonna add two teaspoons of garlic powder
and two teaspoons of salt now I got to show you something so I bought one of
these a Dollar Tree and the holes were really big I wasn't thinking I put a
little bit of rice in this salt to keep it from clumping
well the rice comes out with the holes I know I know people that's just just how
Tessie is but for this it doesn't matter because we have rice in it so I'm gonna
go with one teaspoon of salt and has a couple pieces of rice in it oh my
goodness
all right and it calls for what did you teaspoons of fly heated seasoning I
don't have that and I'm not spending for it then it calls for one tomato chopped
some Tomatoes that needs to get used up and they're tiny so we're gonna just
chop up these Tomatoes I'm going to use two of them chopped up then what we're
gonna do is we're gonna put the littleness
and we're going to keep the lid on two for one half hour to simmer
alright let me go wash my hands this is what it looks like it looks so good so
we're gonna put the Little Miss and we're gonna let it simmer for 30 minutes
look how good this looks it turned out amazing
now this is a cheap meal if you really want to make it really cheap don't have
any ground beef in it and have it as a side dish a little bit of cheese and
some sour cream and we have a wonderful meal
but let's taste it let's give it a taste test and see if it really is as good as
it looks
mmm wow that is really good I know I say it every time but this was a new recipe
for me I'm gonna mark it in my book it's amazing
don't buy any Spanish rice packets in the grocery store this is ten times
better and it's so simple and it's so frugal I'm it the meat and you have a
real frugal meal mm-hmm I hope you give it a try it's it's really good and it's
a winner take care everyone we'll see you guys tomorrow bye Danny's diary we
are on April the 8th 1943 Fanny writes today was a nice day a house cleaned the
living room and kitchen they took the water tank out of the kitchen and the
Jumpman came and took the old furnace
so going to share with you a little story for the longest time I really
wanted to get more butter to can it but butter is so expensive here you can get
butter one pound it's usually around four dollars I had a group of friends
say a little prayer for me that I would find some butter I know it's a simple
things in life and some people would think it's rather quite funny to pray
for some butter but I really wanted to have some because I wanted to have some
in my pantry we went to the bank on Friday and we just went to the grocery
store Weis market now I don't shop here but I wanted to get a half a gallon of
milk and lo and behold they had to butter on sale two dollars for a pound
that is way cheaper than anywhere else I've ever seen it even the local
discount grocery store when they have butter which is very seldom do they have
it at that price so my friends prayers do answer even the
small prayers even the prayers that really aren't that important I think
it's great and I can't wait to share with you my canning of butter this week
you