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Seven ingredients. Ten minutes. Feeds three.

Rice on first. Six eggs beaten with a pinch of salt, scrambled soft in hot oil, out of the pan while they're still glossy — take them out early, they'll finish later.

Same pan: two chopped scallion whites and a clove of garlic, thirty seconds. Four ripe tomatoes in wedges, a pinch of sugar, a good pinch of salt. Let them collapse four or five minutes until they throw their own sauce. Eggs back in, fold twice, off the heat. Scallion greens over the top.

Spoon it over the rice and let the sauce go down into it.

This is a weeknight in half the households on earth. It costs about what a coffee costs and it will feed three people who have had a day like today one.

Who are you feeding tonight?

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Seven items, feeds three, under ten minutes if the rice is already cooked.

Sweat a diced onion in butter. Crushed tomatoes in, let them go jammy about four minutes. Fold the leftover rice through until every grain is coated red. Fry the eggs hard-edged and lay them on top.

That's dinner for three people out of a pot of rice you were going to feel guilty about. Nobody in this house goes hungry because the week was cruel.

What's the thing you make when the money's thin and the day already took everything?

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Seven ingredients. Feeds three. Under nine dollars. Under ten minutes.

Boil three packs of udon two minutes and save a cup of the water. In the pot: three tablespoons white miso, three of butter, two grated garlic cloves, a splash of soy. Whisk the noodle water in until it goes glossy. Fold the spinach through, return the noodles, crown each bowl with a soft egg.

The starch in that saved water is the whole trick — it's what turns miso and butter into a sauce instead of a puddle. Nobody sold you that. A cook figured it out and told somebody.

What's the cheapest thing in your rotation that nobody would guess was cheap?

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Eight dollars. Feeds four. Under ten minutes.

One head of green cabbage, cut through the core into inch-thick slabs so they hold together. Hot skillet, thin film of oil, slabs down, and then you don't touch them for four minutes. That's the whole discipline. Flip, knob of butter, two smashed garlic cloves, splash of soy, crack of pepper, spoon it over, lid on for three. Rice under it or torn bread to drag through the pan.

Char it hard. Black edges are the entire point.

Cabbage has been the vegetable of every hard winter in recorded history and it has never once been fashionable, which is exactly why it's still ninety cents a pound.

What does your kitchen do when the week gets thin?

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Seven ingredients. Feeds three. Under nine dollars. Under ten minutes.

Boil three packs of udon two minutes and save a cup of the water. In the pot: three tablespoons white miso, three of butter, two grated garlic cloves, a splash of soy. Whisk the noodle water in until it goes glossy. Fold the spinach through, return the noodles, crown each bowl with a soft egg.

The starch in that saved water is the whole trick — it's what turns miso and butter into a sauce instead of a puddle. Nobody sold you that. A cook figured it out and told somebody.

What's the cheapest thing in your rotation that nobody would guess was cheap?

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Seven things, under ten minutes, three people fed for two dollars a head.

Okra, corn, a tomato, garlic, oil, cooked rice, a splash of vinegar. Get the skillet properly hot before anything touches it. Slice the okra thin, dry-hit it in the bare pan, and leave it alone three full minutes — that's the whole trick, and it's the reason people think they hate okra. It goes nutty instead of slick. Corn and garlic, one minute. Chopped tomato, two more, until it slumps into sauce. Salt hard. Vinegar off the heat, over rice.

August in a bowl, and nobody at that table needs to know the week was hard.

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Under three dollars. Ten minutes. Feeds three.

Butter, one chopped onion, two potatoes grated on the big holes of a box grater, a can of corn with its liquid, two cups of milk, salt, more pepper than seems wise. Onion in butter three minutes, potato two, corn and milk in, simmer four.

The grated potato dissolves as it goes and thickens the pot for you. No roux. Nothing to wait for. Defiance wears an apron sometimes.

Biadh à làmhan do dhaoine fhèin — food from your own people's hands.

What's your under-three-dollar dinner?

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