Tonight Bryan and I went to Reading Terminal Market after work and picked up a few vegetables in season--corn and tomatoes. I also bought some pesto stuffed brie and one pound of King Salmon.
While Bryan worked on cutting up the 2 green bell peppers, a purple bell pepper, 4 ears of corn, four tomatoes, 1 cucumber, and a red onion, I made our favorite summer cocktail--mint cucumber gin and tonic.
Bryan finished the salad with Kalamata olives, olive oil, lemon juice and oregano. We didn't have feta cheese to make it a true Greek Salad (plus corn), so we set aside some blue cheese and will call it a summer salad. Cheap and delicious and huge.
Total cost for the salad: $10.00
Cost for tonight's serving: $2.50
Cost per person tonight: $1.25
Next we took our salmon filet and quartered it. We saved two filets for later in the week and coated the other two with olive oil and a mixture of spices--salt, garlic, basil and parsley.
Then we fired up a skillet and cooked those suckers up something nice.
Total cost of fish: $20
Cost for tonight's serving: $10
Cost per person tonight: $5
We drizzled a little more olive oil and lemon juice over the fish and plated with the salad.
For one of the hottest days of summer, this was a refreshing, tasty quick, easy and inexpensive meal.
So, how much does it cost to eat great in a recession?
Appetizer (pesto stuffed brie): $3.80
Fish: $10
Salad: $2.50
Total: $16.30
Per person: $8.15
Also each cocktail cost < $2.50
Mint: $0.80
Cucumber: $0.50
Tonic: $1.00
Lime juice: $0.05
Tanqueray: $6.40 (~$0.80/oz)
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