Since we all got worked up about the evils of SPAM, let's discuss some better ways to eat cheaper and better!
I gotta admit, I haven't got much here. I somehow manage to spend a ton on groceries and never seem to eat enough or healthy or whatever. So let's discuss ways to eat on a budget. Also, I would love to hear ideas on how to avoid fresh produce going bad before you can use it (because it's kinda expensive here in the city, and it seems like I'll buy just a tiny bit, use some in my meal, and then when I'm ready to use the next bit, it's gone bad! :cry:).
Here's what I had the other night:
-1 whole wheat tortilla spread with some nayonnaise
-broccoli, asparagus, sweet onion, and arugula stir-fried in olive oil, garlic, red pepper, and black pepper
-dump the veggies onto the tortilla, liberally add feta cheese crumbles
-wrap, eat, enjoy.
I have a flier for the co-op I shop at that says that refried beans in a can are on sale, so I think I'm going to stock up on some of those to augment my new burrito-making habit. Also, beans are delicious. I think beans and/or rice are going to become some of my new themes. Groceries are eating my budget alive. :sad:
Beans are also exceptionally good for you.
I'll try the burrito idea, but hold the mayo, as that stuff makes me ill.
Not a recipe exactly, but a grocery budgeting tip.
A few things to always have on hand:
Dry beans
Brown rice (I mix mine with wild rice, for texture)
Canned beans (I prefer pintos, garbanzos are great for a change)
A couple chicken breasts or pork chops in the freezer
Frozen corn, lima beans, spinach
Canned crushed tomatoes
Potatoes
Carrots
Onions
Garlic
Practically any combination of some or all of these will make an excellent meal, and will stop you from going out and buying last-minute groceries. They all keep a long time, so you don't have to worry about using them before they go bad.
If you like middle-eastern food, you can keep the following on hand:
Tahini
Garlic
Bottled lemon juice
Canned garbanzo beans
Olive oil
Bulgur wheat
And when the mood strikes, buy:
yogurt
parsley
a cucumber
green onions
a tomato
an eggplant
ground beef
pita bread
and you will have all you need to make hummus, baba ganoush, tabouli, tzatziki, and kafta, and it's all very cheap. I can, for instance, make enough food to feed all five of us several meals for under $20. You could probably go even cheaper by making falafel instead of kafta, but I don't know how to make falafel so I can't really say for sure.
This one was an impromptu effort that turned out to be popular with my vegetarian guests. Sorry if it is not more accurate, I am a chaot.
Not shepherds pie:
Cook blacklentils (I like them with rosemary and black cumin. If you use them, heat whetever fat you use, throw them in and add the lentils and water after they start smelling and before xsomething burns.)
Cook and mash potatoes. Add chili powder and parsley.
Grate zuchini and carrots and add them to the lentils.
Put the lentils in a deep pan, cover them with the mashed potatoes. You can finish with a thin layer of crumbled cheese. Cover them with foil and bake for about (Ok, 15 minutes in medium heat will suffice but it is a lot better if it stays in the oven for an hour in very low heat. It is more a matter
Serve with tomato sauce with garlic and green olives or capers.
Simple anything meal:
Meat / veggie part:
Cook 1/2 - 1 lb. meat with whatever veggies, garlic, and other spices you have around in olive oil or butter. Deglaze the pan to give it a little sauce if you like. Spice to match whatever meat / veg. / carb is involved. Make a lot and it will be good for a few meals in a row.
Carb Part.
Cook up 1-2 servings worth of rice or pasta. If you can't do that, WAYSA?
Put the meat part over the Carb bit.
If it's a pasta, add a little tomato sauce or pesto. If rice, add whatever you like on rice.
Eat it. Cover and Refridgerate the rest for additional meals.
A big part of making this economical is buy things CHEAP and OFTEN. Use sales to stock pasta and rice (or other dry / canned things), since they'll keep for a few years, and are versatile as hell. Work shorter term for the meat, but same principle.
I'll only buy veggies for a few days / one week to ensure quick turnover.
Purchase one x-large deep dish pizza from Sicilia's....
Feed Mr. and Mrs. Suu for 5 days straight.
Cheap eats: My one-pot Inappropriately-named Spanish rice.
I shall bump.
Somewhere I posted my posole recipe, I think... get a pork shoulder, cut it into cubes, place in soup pot with a diced onion. Add a couple of cloves of chopped garlic, some salt, a tablespoon or so of marjoram, and a couple of tablespoons of ground chili. Simmer for several hours, add a can or two of hominy (rinse first) and simmer a bit more. Serve over shredded cabbage and sliced radishes, with sour cream and lime wedges.
Oh! Also, lentil curry soup.
1 lb red lentils
an onion
a potato
a package of chopped frozen spinach
a lemon
salt
yellow curry powder
Water
Simmer together, eat, yum yum!
Quote from: LMNO on May 30, 2008, 07:47:02 PM
Cheap eats: My one-pot Inappropriately-named Spanish rice.
I shall bump.
Srsly, Mr. Suu and I eat a pot of his rice for days.
The posole sounds good Nigel.
I have a recipie for it as well, but it's not cheap. I roast some pork bones and may my own stock, use ribs as well as shoulder, and the whole thing takes all day to cook.
Delicious, but not cheap. I'll try your way, see what happens.
Its surprisingly good for how cheap and easy it is.
I have a fancier version for holidays that's more involved, and starts with dry posole corn, which is a royal PITA but does taste better IMO. I also usually serve it with green onions and cilantro, but if you're on a budget those can be omitted.
Another good cheap recipe is green chili with or without pork, which goes like so:
2 lbs pork (shoulder, once again, is good, and cheap)
2 potatoes
2 carrots
2 TBSP flour
2 TBSP oil
an onion
a few cloves of garlic
2 stalks of celery
1 qt chicken stock
1 can of diced green chilies
1 jalapeno, sliced
1 tsp sugar
salt and pepper to taste
Cube the meat, potatoes, and carrots, and dust them in flour. Brown them in the oil, add the stock and the rest of the ingredients, simmer on low for 2 hours. Serve with jack cheese, sour cream, and corn tortillas.
Dudes. Get some whole-grain rice, cook it, put some in a bowl, put some ketchup and chili on it and presto. Delicious.
... I think part of the requirement is actual, you know, nutrition.
Yeah, I like to feel like I'm not dying.
Nigel, some of those recipes sound freaking amazing. I can't wait to try them!
Likewise, Dido, your not-shepherd's pie sounds pretty excellent. This thread is full of win! Yay! :D
Speaking of which, I have this completely pathetic stir-fry that I make out of ramen every once in a while when things are looking sad.
All you need is:
Cabbage
Carrots
An Onion
Ramen
Oil
Shred the cabbage and grate the carrots, chop the onion and heat up the oil in a skillet. Boil the ramen until it's almost, but not quite done, then drain it and put it in the skillet with the onions. fry until golden, then dump in the carrots and cabbage and cook them until they're translucent (doesn't take long) then sprinkle all over with "flavor packet". If you have soy sauce, sesame oil, and/or rice vinegar, those are preferable to "flavor packet", but hey, you work with what you've got.
Adding garlic and meat to this improves it considerably.
onions are cheap and vegetable. you can add them to any dish and increase the vegetable amount. though since it's not very varied, i dunno about nutrition.
cooking for two is cheaper (and better, cause you try harder) than cooking for one.
further, you can buy stuff that doesn't keep for more than a few days, by planning a bit and overlapping the ingredients. for example i re-used the teriyaki marinade from yesterday which i used on salmon. same for the spring onions, i used 2/3rs for two persons, and the rest for today.
if i were smart, i'd have bought stuff today to add to that, from which i can eat tomorrow. i didn't, but it would have been smart :)
sometimes we make pho bo
but we usually have all the spices laying around and don't have to buy a lot of stuff for it. so it's cheap that way.
in a stock pot i put:
water
animal leftovers [bones, other "parts"](beef preff, but chicken will do)or i cheat and go to the asian market and get the pho bo stock in a can that needs to be diluted anyway
2 anise stars
a cinnamon stick
palmfull of 5 spice
nutmeg ground
stalk of thai basil
small wad of cilantro
couple strands of culantro (yes it's different)
the juice of a lime (and then throw the lime in)
celery, carrot, onion
2 slices ginger
simmer this crap until it reduces a bit then strain all the garbage out until you have a nice clear broth.
we serve it over bean thread noodles, rice noodles, hell- you could even use udon i guess
then we grill some cheap steak (like the thin ones for 3 bucks a pack)that was marinated in ginger and soy sauce, slice it into thin strips, throw that on top.
top it all off w/ some super thin sliced onion, fresh cilantro leaves, culantro (chopped) and thai basil leaves and it's pretty good. (lime wedges on the side fer squeazin)
you get some protein, some starch and some veg
this also makes a lot
also anything curry w/ a veg over rice (especially shrimp on sale) is awesome and cheap
spag is cheap to make. even making your own pasta is cheap.
i even like a good old tomato soup w/ grilled cheese.
mr squid puts garlic, onion and cilantro in the soup cause i like it that way
for the grilled cheese we use the sargento brand flavored slices(when on sale) a tomato and a little red onion.
makes it better.
the beans and hamhocks i learned from my dad:
chop an onion and sautee it in a little olive oil, add garlic and deglaze w/ that bottle of white wine that's been in the fridge for months.
add a hamhock or 3, dried pinto beans and enough water to cover+ 1 inch.
cook until goopy then remove the hamhocks, cut all the meat off and throw that back in.
s'good i swears.
or go ghetto and get a box of that zatarain's red beans and rice shit, add a sliced sausage(like hickory farms two for $5), onion and some garlic, can o red beans. don't forget the crystal sauce (to mask the flavor of everything else)
hold your nose and swallow
ohhhh...psole....omfg. That shit is da bomb. My mom's recipe is awesome, it's similar to Nigel's--will post when sober, I swear.
Quote from: Squid on May 31, 2008, 07:30:22 AM
or go ghetto and get a box of that zatarain's red beans and rice shit, add a sliced sausage(like hickory farms two for $5), onion and some garlic, can o red beans. don't forget the crystal sauce (to mask the flavor of everything else)
hold your nose and swallow
I like zatarain's red beans and rice...but only in the low sodium version. I'll have to try it with the sausages and stuff.
mmm...tube meat...
yeah that's a good tip
always try to get low sodium everything
it's always good to control the salt in your food.
Before this thread gets too vegetarian, do you guys eat entrails? I like them and they are cheap over here so I have many many nice recipes (even real ones, with quantities and times and such;-)
im not a big fan of chitterlings or organ meat myself
but they're pretty popular here in the south
Boiled oxtail (or whatever beef you want to use) with peanut butter sauce (use the broth to liquefy the butter). With rice/manioc/potatoes/pasta.
low dollah lunch:
1 can of tuna in OIL
a fist of salad
half a lime
about 100g of fresh pasta
2 cl kecap manis (sweet soy sauce)
2 eggs
bread
mustard
cilantro (if you live in a country where you can actually get the fresh stuff...)
Heat a skillet, preferably with a 50/50 of sesame oil and butter (don't be a cheapskate, buy the real shit). Low heat. 2/6 is what I used on my crappy oven. Crack the eggs into the skillet. It'll take around 5 minutes for them to be thoroughly cooked so while they cook, start boiling water for the pasta.
Take a plate, toss the fist of salad on it, add the kecap manis and the lime and gently toss it so it's evenlyish distributed. Drain most of the oil from the can and add it to the salad. Toast your bread and add mustard, put it on the side of the plate.
Finish cooking the pasta, drain, add coarsely chopped cilantro if you can get the wonderful stuff and toss it on top of everything that's on your plate. Add eggs, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Not too healthy, not too unhealthy and quite filling.
Frozen cheese pizza + whatever leftovers you have = yummy and cheap.
Many leftovers (meat and/or vegetables) can make perfect topping for pizza and can make frozen pizzas actually taste pretty good. The usual frozen cheese pizza we keep on hand for emergencies (i.e., laziness/cheapness) is only $1.50 and is enough to feed the two of us and more than enough if we add our own toppings and spices. Just cut up any leftovers (using of course your better judgment of what you think would taste good on top of pizza) and toss them on before you stick the pizza in the oven, or cook up some minced/chopped veggies then throw them on top before putting the pizza in the oven.
Two of the best we've done were chicken, broccoli and cheddar pizza and taco pizza. Also, chicken parm, barbecue chicken (and any other varieties of leftover chicken), pepper, onion, mushroom, bacon and onion, etc. Use your imagination and you can create a pretty cheap and easy *gourmet* pizza, and find a use for leftovers rather than letting them go to waste.
Leftover nachos--made of what you have leftover
Tortilla chips (end of the bag stale is good)
leftover beef anyhow
leftover chicken anyhow
can of red or refried beans (can also be leftover) or any beans really
cheese of your choice
Put all that shit on a cookie sheet and bake until cheese is bubbly, add toppings when out of oven like sour cream, chives, salsa, avocado, whatev.
Enjoy.
We make this on weekends when I'm lazy.
carbonara: garlic + onions + bacon + cheese + black pepper + eggs + pasta.
i assume you do know how to make carbonara, otherwise look it up.
cream and chopped mushrooms optional.
Buy box of Kraft Dinner + boiled water
... something to do with milk. And maybe butter?
Makes a delicious Foie Gras which serves nine people, for about 79¢.
Quote from: Hoopla on June 07, 2008, 04:20:48 AM
Buy box of Kraft Dinner + boiled water
... something to do with milk. And maybe butter?
Makes a delicious Foie Gras which serves nine people, for about 79¢.
if you add some green peas and some canned ham (similar to tuna, but ham)
this will make people wretch at the site of it but when they taste it...
well, they
might be able to hold it down.
this was one of my "damn i'm poor" moments
mac n cheese with ham and peas.
god it sucked. good thing i have a strong stomach.
oh hell, just make the box mac and throw bacon in it. instant success.
mac & cheese with hotdogs is also yummy.
TBH, I've found that the less pre-prepared food I buy (and less snacks like chips and crackers), the lower my grocery bill.
Breakfast food, in general tends to be cheaper as well...no reason you can't have egg sammiches, french toast, waffles, pancakes, etc. for dinner.
I like mac and cheese with tuna fish. Yes, I actually LIKE it.
Pasta + sauce / Rice + Sauce and kielbasa = Easy tasty.
Open: 1 can of Campbell's Cream of Whatever soup
Pour over: The cheapest pork chops you can find
Bake at: 350 for 1 hour.
Serve on: White rice
I might have to start sharing some traditional Mormon recipes. :lol:
Quote from: Nigel on June 08, 2008, 02:54:47 AM
I might have to start sharing some traditional Mormon recipes. :lol:
:barf:
Oh, now you're asking for it! OK, I will start with Funeral Potatoes:
1 can Campbells Cream of Whatever soup
1 lb shredded cheese (in Mormonland, "cheese" ALWAYS means cheddar. Other types will be individually specified if necessary)
1 8-oz container of sour cream
1 bunch of green onions
1 16-oz bag of shredded hash brown potatoes
1 tube of Ritz crackers, or if you're feeling FANCY you can use Pringles.
Chop the onions. Dump everything but the crackers into a bowl and mix well. Transfer into a casserole dish, crush the crackers on top, and bake at 350 for 1 hour. Bring to your favorite funerals, bible study meetings, or family reunions! A real crowd-pleaser!
Caution: for some reason this recipe WILL NOT WORK if you try substituting fresh, grated potatoes. Maybe it would be OK if they were chopped rather than grated, but I don't want to try it after what happened last time.
EDIT: looking at the ingredients list I am realizing that this recipe is not fucking cheap for the amount of food, not to even consider the amount of nutrition and what you'll have to pay for cholesterol-lowering meds, so if I post any more DELICIOUS Mormon recipes it will have to be in a different thread. I know you're all so disappointed!
One handy tip for this thread--onion soup mix (Lipton's OR cheap no-name brand) is excellent for anything. Mix wit plain yogurt or sour cream for a dip for chips or veggies, use it as a marinade for any meat. Use as a soup starter, use with oil on potatoes and bake for a fabu side dish, use alone for an actual clear broth soup. Either way, the shit is glorious in a pinch.
Another tip--salad dressing works in a pinch for marinade as well. I use it often when I bbq meat.
Quote from: Nigel on June 08, 2008, 04:55:54 AM
Oh, now you're asking for it! OK, I will start with Funeral Potatoes:
1 can Campbells Cream of Whatever soup
1 lb shredded cheese (in Mormonland, "cheese" ALWAYS means cheddar. Other types will be individually specified if necessary)
1 8-oz container of sour cream
1 bunch of green onions
1 16-oz bag of shredded hash brown potatoes
1 tube of Ritz crackers, or if you're feeling FANCY you can use Pringles.
Chop the onions. Dump everything but the crackers into a bowl and mix well. Transfer into a casserole dish, crush the crackers on top, and bake at 350 for 1 hour. Bring to your favorite funerals, bible study meetings, or family reunions! A real crowd-pleaser!
Caution: for some reason this recipe WILL NOT WORK if you try substituting fresh, grated potatoes. Maybe it would be OK if they were chopped rather than grated, but I don't want to try it after what happened last time.
EDIT: looking at the ingredients list I am realizing that this recipe is not fucking cheap for the amount of food, not to even consider the amount of nutrition and what you'll have to pay for cholesterol-lowering meds, so if I post any more DELICIOUS Mormon recipes it will have to be in a different thread. I know you're all so disappointed!
The fact that Loretta Lynn has this recipe in her cookbook lends evidence to it not being strictly a Mormon recipe.
Quote from: Hoopla on June 10, 2008, 03:24:40 AM
Quote from: Nigel on June 08, 2008, 04:55:54 AM
Oh, now you're asking for it! OK, I will start with Funeral Potatoes:
1 can Campbells Cream of Whatever soup
1 lb shredded cheese (in Mormonland, "cheese" ALWAYS means cheddar. Other types will be individually specified if necessary)
1 8-oz container of sour cream
1 bunch of green onions
1 16-oz bag of shredded hash brown potatoes
1 tube of Ritz crackers, or if you're feeling FANCY you can use Pringles.
Chop the onions. Dump everything but the crackers into a bowl and mix well. Transfer into a casserole dish, crush the crackers on top, and bake at 350 for 1 hour. Bring to your favorite funerals, bible study meetings, or family reunions! A real crowd-pleaser!
Caution: for some reason this recipe WILL NOT WORK if you try substituting fresh, grated potatoes. Maybe it would be OK if they were chopped rather than grated, but I don't want to try it after what happened last time.
EDIT: looking at the ingredients list I am realizing that this recipe is not fucking cheap for the amount of food, not to even consider the amount of nutrition and what you'll have to pay for cholesterol-lowering meds, so if I post any more DELICIOUS Mormon recipes it will have to be in a different thread. I know you're all so disappointed!
The fact that Loretta Lynn has this recipe in her cookbook lends evidence to it not being strictly a Mormon recipe.
Really? Is it called "Funeral Potatoes"? That is hilarious!
I doubt that any Mormon recipe is strictly Mormon, that would be silly! It's more a collection of recipes ubiquitous to Mormonland; certain things that you see over and over at Mormon family events. In the case of Funeral Potatoes, they're called that because someone ALWAYS brings them to a funeral. Also popular for showers and reunions!
If it has jello and fruit, it's Mormon.
Or so I've heard.
There's "scones", you might call those uniquely mormon. Of course, those are just navajo fry bread with a stupid name. I tried.
I knew several LDS families in my home town. They frequently hauled dishes of those potatoes around to whoever in the church needed to be spotted a meal due to illness, death, etc. :lulz:
Edit: and a least one pan of it seems to appear at every office potluck
There is no official name for this but it's good and the kids love it.
2 smoked sausages or kielbasa
1 can black beans
2 cups rice
1 large jar salsa - your choice of heat
cheese
Slice sausage and quick fry. Stir into baking pan with 3 1/2 cups boiling water, rice and drained beans. Stir in salsa. Cover with cheese of your choice. I have used sliced, shredded and even velveeta which wasn't half bad.
Bake at 350 covered until rice is cooked, approx 30-45 minutes. Uncover for last 10 so cheese will get all bubbly and lightly browned.
Cheap, easy and leftovers make great wraps.
Quote from: Richter on June 10, 2008, 01:47:14 PM
I knew several LDS families in my home town. They frequently hauled dishes of those potatoes around to whoever in the church needed to be spotted a meal due to illness, death, etc. :lulz:
Edit: and a least one pan of it seems to appear at every office potluck
Srsly. Can't get away from them.
But they're fucking delicious, if insanely, grotesquely fattening.
Quote from: Evil Bitch Khara on June 10, 2008, 03:04:43 PM
There is no official name for this but it's good and the kids love it.
2 smoked sausages or kielbasa
1 can black beans
2 cups rice
1 large jar salsa - your choice of heat
cheese
Slice sausage and quick fry. Stir into baking pan with 3 1/2 cups boiling water, rice and drained beans. Stir in salsa. Cover with cheese of your choice. I have used sliced, shredded and even velveeta which wasn't half bad.
Bake at 350 covered until rice is cooked, approx 30-45 minutes. Uncover for last 10 so cheese will get all bubbly and lightly browned.
Cheap, easy and leftovers make great wraps.
This sounds awesome, I'm going to try it out at Boots' house.
Quote from: Nigel on June 10, 2008, 05:02:41 PM
Quote from: Richter on June 10, 2008, 01:47:14 PM
I knew several LDS families in my home town. They frequently hauled dishes of those potatoes around to whoever in the church needed to be spotted a meal due to illness, death, etc. :lulz:
Edit: and a least one pan of it seems to appear at every office potluck
Srsly. Can't get away from them.
But they're fucking delicious, if insanely, grotesquely fattening.
..and I'm damn well going to make some.
Considering the addition of ground beef.
Quote from: Richter on June 10, 2008, 05:57:00 PM
Quote from: Nigel on June 10, 2008, 05:02:41 PM
Quote from: Richter on June 10, 2008, 01:47:14 PM
I knew several LDS families in my home town. They frequently hauled dishes of those potatoes around to whoever in the church needed to be spotted a meal due to illness, death, etc. :lulz:
Edit: and a least one pan of it seems to appear at every office potluck
Srsly. Can't get away from them.
But they're fucking delicious, if insanely, grotesquely fattening.
..and I'm damn well going to make some.
Considering the addition of ground beef.
Ooooooh! That sounds good. Or...
BACON.
YES. Bacon would be awesome to cook in with this. Not sure about the hamburger, which might be more of a side thing.
You could use the burger to make a "crust". Mmmmmm..... meat crust!
WANT.
Also: lattice the bacon over the top...
A very cheap, simple, reasonably healthy meal requires nothing more than:
pasta ( any kind )
olive oil
garlic
whatever vegetables or meat you happen to have around - this is especially good with olives or peas, especially with feta, but mostly anything works. Roasted red peppers are fun.
Pour the olive oil in a pan
Chop up some garlic, throw it in with the olive oil
Mix in vegetables, stir around
Add to pasta
I usually add salt and romano cheese. Parmesan might work if you're used to it, but I'm really not a fan.
The same basic idea has resulted in some excellent macaroni and cheese as well using provolone, bread crumbs and whatever vegetable is handy.
Cheap kickass salsa:
Get 1 jar of the cheapest salsa you can find. It may be the 'Fritos' brand or some such shit.
mix in 2-3 tablespoons lime juice.
Instant GOOD salsa!
I am so proud of myself right now, because we are going to a potluck later today and I, lacking quite enough of anything to make any one horrifying Mormon-style casserole, combined a number of unwanted ingredients to make a SUPER-CASSEROLE!
I had:
Some leftover brown rice
1 can of french-style green beans
3/4 of a bag of frozen string beans
2 chicken breasts
1 family-size can of cream of mushroom soup
A couple dozen leftover tater tots
Part of a block of cheddar cheese
1/2 can of fried onions
I cooked the frozen green beans and chicken breasts and let them cool, then chopped up the chicken and mixed together the green beans, chicken, tater tots, and cream of mushroom soup. I greased a casserole dish with a bit of bacon grease and spread the brown rice in the bottom, then spread the green bean-chicken-tot-soup mixture on top of it. About an hour before we leave I'll throw it in the oven at 375 for 45 minutes, then dump grated cheese and fried onions on top for OH THE HORROR! CASSEROLE!
:lulz:
I'm also bringing a nice bowl of bright green pickled ma-kok and hot pink pickled turnips for extra appetizer joy.
That sounds like one delicious casserole, Nigel. It's not a real casserole unless you've got the cream of mushroom soup and fried onions on top. You'll have to say how it went over at the potluck.
Here's my low dollah shrimp salad recipe (it's easy and quick too):
INGREDIENTS
• 6 large cloves of garlic
• 1 lime
• 1 lemon
• a bunch of extra virgin olive oil
• 1 bag of salad (I recommend baby spinach and arugula)
• half pound of salad shrimp
DIRECTIONS
If shrimp is frozen, thaw it out.
Squeeze and strain the lime and lemon and put into a medium size jar (you'll need a lid that seals later).
Press the garlic juice/oils from 3 cloves into the juice.
Chop the other three garlic cloves and put it in the juice as well.
Let sit for 15 - 20 minutes.
Add slightly less than 1 part water to 1 part juice solution (Leave this step out if you like intense lemon/lime flavor).
Add 3 parts olive oil to 1 part juice/water solution.
Firmly screw on the lid and shake it violently for a minute or two.
Dress salad, add shrimp and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Enjoy.
Serves 2. You'll have enough salad dressing for about 8 servings though.
Ooooh now I want shrimp salad! That sounds delicious.