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wasoxygen  ·  3710 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Grubski Challenge #1: $20 One Dish/Pot Meal

Sundays are the best. As sous-chef, I may have accidentally qualified for the challenge tonight.

We went to Costco yesterday and had to use the 4.8 pound bag of mussels today. From the receipt:

  MUSSELS      11.08
  C CREST CHAR  9.89
  CONT. SALAD   4.39
We only used one pot, not counting the big bowl used to give the bivalves the weird flour-water bath the Barefoot Contessa recommends. Only one cup of the Chardonnay went in the pot, but the rest wasn't wasted. There was some heavy cream too, and a variety of extras found on hand, but we were well under $20 per capita and had no regrets about not eating out all week.

Dinner conversation about how to store leftover mussels was resolved as we finished the mussels.