Budget cooking: soul food for the zombie apocalypse

When this post goes live, I will (hopefully) be about 2/3 of the way through a 24 hour stream of 7 Days to Die. I had to plan ahead for the stream, making sure that I'd taken time off of work, that I would have something to eat on breaks when I was hungry, that I'd have energy drinks stocked, etc., so I decided to make a pot of stew and keep it simmering while I stream.

I picked up some turnip greens at Kroger over the weekend, so I figured "why not do chitlins and turnip greens?" A few minutes later, I noticed the delicious irony of eating soul food while killing zombies. I've gotten a lot of mileage out of that one. I dredged the chitlins in flour seasoned with salt and pepper, and I chopped the greens up a bit. Really simple prep work for that shit.

I started off by browning the chitlins in butter, then added in my chopped greens to sauté with them. Once the greens had cooked down some, I added in some roughly chopped vidalia onion because that shit makes everything better. I also had some leftover steak from a company dinner the night before, so I chunked that in there, too. I mean, why not?

I decided I needed a little more sustenance in there, so I quick chopped a few radishes and mushrooms, too.

I poured in a bit of water (y'all know I don't measure shit) and dumped in some salt. After that, it was just putting the lid on and letting it simmer for several hours.

Ans a few hours later with some black peppers red pepper flakes, and herbs de Provence. Tasty, hearty, and inexpensive. Bone apple tea!

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