Day 2 of LBL

Second day of living on just $2.25 a day for food.

Since I had the same breakfast as before, it was a bit of a waste of time to write it all over again.... and I'm lazy.

So lunch!

French onion Soup!

Ingredients
2 onions
water
1 slice of bread

Now this is freaking tasty as and as you can see, you really don't need much to make it.
Slice onions in long thin pieces and sweat them. Seating means that you kinda steam them. you want it to be limp. (this is sounding quite sexual isn't it.....) And it takes ageeessss...like an hour on real low...Then add water, now to pimp it up, instead of water add chicken stock. 'Cos that shit is good.
croutons are just chopped up bread fried. Want a bit more flavour? Add Garlic, and be generous, 'cos you can never use too much garlic!

Then, boom. SOUP!!!

Dinner:

Had a shared dinner with friends of my parentals.
Rod and Sylvia are in their 70's but still wanted to do the "Live Below the Line" for Oxfam, (Go team them!) so they invited us up to their place to share a Moroccan themed dinner.
Sylvia made a very delicious tagine made up of rice, fruit, nuts and her own free range chicken eggs! Spicy and Oh So Colourful!!! Did I mention Delicious!
Since we didn't make the tagine I don't have the recipe, but we made the pita, couscous and yoghurts.
So lets inform your brain how to make these simple, filling, cheap sides! 

First, the Pita Breads,

2 Cups plain flour
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup warm water
3tbs oil
10g yeast ( If you use Edmonds Surebake ...that's about 2tsp)

Put about a quarter of flour into a large bowl, add yeast, salt and warm water.
(If you stick your finger into the water...it should not fell hot...or cold to touch!)

Mix well, and leave for about 15 mins or until you see bubbles forming on the top of mixture. (IT'S ALIVE!!!)
Add rest of flour and oil, and mix into moist sticky dough. Roll out onto floured table and knead until it's springy and elastic to touch....about 5 to 10 mins.
Oil the bowl, and place dough back into it...rolling so lightly oiled. Leave in warm place for hour or so...
Remove from bowl, and divide into 10 pieces. Roll out into circles, and leave on bench for 10 mins, then turn, and leave for another 10 mins...this makes them "pop" up a bit.
You can fry in pan or bake at 200oC for 10 mins turning after 5mins for a crisper finish.
I know this sounds long...but you can do other stuff in between the mixing, that's multitasking baby!

Couscous

1 Cup instant couscous
2 Cups boiling water
1 TBS oil
(to be fair, you could just read the instructions on the packet... that would be easiest.)

Boil that water in a saucepan, add that sexy oil.
Stir in couscous, then take off heat.
put tight lid on and leave for 5 min. We added tons of chopped parsley and the rind and juice of a fresh lemon.

And that all there is to it! Instant Couscous really is the way to go... its not pricy at all!

We also had some yoghurt. INVEST IN A YOHGURT MAKER! you can even find them at second hand shops.

So we used plain yoghurt and with one we added mint and the other garlic.

And there you have some sides to add with most meals! You could even get salad, meat and make your own Turkish Pita pocket!

Enjoy and good luck!!