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25 Feb, 2010

Pauper’s Pizza

Posted by: jacqueline in: Credit Crunch | Light Meals | Recipes

It was actually quite nice

It was actually quite nice

The other day I came home from work and looked in the fridge. I had nothing to eat. NOTHING. And my pay cheque is not due for another week. I was really hungry. After sitting on the sofa for a full ten-minute huff, I went back to the fridge and looked again. There must be something, anything I could eat. It couldn’t be like last month, when I had porridge with a teaspoon full of sickly Chiver’s jam in it.

There was: a whole, oldish (but not rotten) green pepper. A half of a red pepper. The end of a tube of tomato puree. Some cheese. Two slices of wholemeal bread. A determined search in my ’store-cupboard’ (read - place to stuff thousands of bottles of untaken vitamin pills) yielded a tin of tuna; I could have wept for joy. The bloodsugars were going crazy. This is what I made, duly christened ‘Pauper’s Pizza’.

Ingredients

Two slices of wholemeal bread

1 small green pepper

1/2 red pepper

1 tin of tuna

Some cheese

1tsp of tomato puree

Method

Cook peppers in oven at 220 degrees for 15 mins - peel off the blackened skin to reveal lovely, softened, juicy peppers. Slice them up. Spread some tomato puree on two slices of wholemeal bread, and throw over some olive oil. Layer up the tuna, roasted peppers, and finish with cheese. Bake in oven for 15 minutes, at 180.

Now I’m not proud of this…(I can’t even bring myself to call it a recipe)..but I AM proud of feeding myself eloquently with barely any ingredients. Now, tell me your desperado recipes - has anything startling revealed itself?

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8 Responses to "Pauper’s Pizza"

1 | Cristi

February 25th, 2010 at 12:45 pm

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Great. I’m expert too in ‘pauper food’ and I like to do nice stuff from leftovers. It’s so bad to throw the food to the bin :( .
For today, I’m gonna ‘recycle’ some chickpea, some humus, some pork, some parsley and with some help from a few spices I’m gonna do a nice oriental style pizza :) .

2 | adam

February 25th, 2010 at 12:50 pm

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I love this post. Usually when you read about someone saying they had ‘nothing’ to eat in their house, they end up with some amazing spices and a load of weird shit that most people don’t have in their press. But this? This is as close to having ‘nothing’ as most of us get (apart from actually having nothing.I call those days the pasta-and-salt days) .I’m going to make this tomorrow for breakfast.

3 | Gillian

February 25th, 2010 at 1:26 pm

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Ah I’m with you on this one. Sometimes its just plain difficult to get to the shops so my backup is to use pitta bread for the base, pesto for the sauce then whatever else I can find. Cooks in the oven in no time and is rather tasty considering …

4 | kateks

February 25th, 2010 at 3:07 pm

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My kids love a version of this on a flour tortilla. It works really well for tea especially catering for individual tastes. You can use tomato puree, salsa or ketchup as the base, salami, sausage (polish or irish), tuna whatever and top with grated cheese takes less than 5 minutes

5 | tas

February 26th, 2010 at 12:41 am

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tuna cans are always a life saver… specially a week before payday..
i may add to that flour and probably egg.

in the days where i don’t even have bread in the house, a couple of spoons of flour + 2 eggs + salt + pepper+ any herbs i can find near by (dried or fresh, optional). then fry on low heat, and enjoy with any leftover sauce , ketchup, mayo, chutney even tomato puree works just fine

suppose you have no flour , but have an egg and some bread..
no problems… just french toast it :)

6 | claire

February 26th, 2010 at 9:22 am

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When theres nothing in the house, like now, I make pancakes. There are always milk, flour, eggs and maple syrup in my bunker.

7 | paula

February 26th, 2010 at 4:51 pm

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always a potato hanging around, into the oven for an hour and then whatever is in the fridge, especially good if there is cheese of some sort…on occasion, it’s been just a good dollop of ketchup on top

8 | Jacqueline

March 1st, 2010 at 5:57 pm

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Thanks for posts guys! Roll on the days when making a paupers pizza is not a necessity.

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