I need a recipe

[datcajunman]

ok every year for july 4th, my family heads to Toledo Bend with her brother and sisters. We are the only ones with a boat, so i stay busy all week trying to give everyone that tube ride or the jetski ride.
this year, with the economy the way it is, I need some cheap ideas of what to cook at toledo and something that will go far. we normally supply most of the food.
Anyone have any good ideas or recipes that they would like to share with me? anyone have a good recipe for catfish balls etc . come on any ideas are great here!!!
Details:
We are going to be 15 of us to feed for one week.
we will be in a cabin with a stove and an oven to utilize?
What is something different to cook on the pitt?
come on I know you can come through for me. My wife's family recently lost someone very special to them and i just want to make their week a better one.
thanks in advance for all of your ideas

[Shawn Braquet]

i love me a big pot of tomato gravy and sausage, and normally have plenty of deer sausage so its cheap for me other than the price of deer hunting, what kind of freezer inventory do you have? any fish to fry or grill ?

[southern151]

Get some beef or pork rib and boil em in crawfish boil for about 15 minutes or until the meat starts to rise up on the bone. Throw em on the pit after that for about 30 minutes or so. These friggin things are great!!!!

You can actually do the boil part now and freeze em. I keep some in the freezer all the time!

Cheap, easy and great to eat!

[simplepeddler]

Man a good pot of Red Beans and rice goes long way.........

And right now...........Chilled cucumbers and tomatoes can be found cheap and same thing...........goes a long way.

Chicked wings and thighs on he grill, Easy and fast.

And we have been picking up those pre seasoned pork loins.......

Cook them on the grill in a black iron pot with potatoes and carrots...........can of cream of mushroom soup............

Good stuff

I know not recipes but ideas

[Ray]

You can get a 10 lb. bag of leg quarters for around $5.
Get a couple bags of those and some taters and eggs and bbq some chicken and make some tater salad.
Can't get much better than that and it ain't spensive.

[goldenrod]

big pot of jambalaya will go a long way

[datcajunman]

ok, i am surprised, this is datcajunman's wife. I asked him to research some good and cheap ideas for Toledo, and wow, he is trying,,, awe,, he's so sweet, thanks for the ideas, but keep them coming,, hey southern, I may try those ribs tonight to see how they taste,,surprise him after work today lol and simple, I had forgotten all about the red beans and rice,,, thanks,,,and shawn,,, We can't keep fish, we eat it as we catch it,, but our last few years we had no luck in catching anything in toledo, I guess we go when it is too hotttt and we play in the boat more than we fish..... Keep the ideas coming thanks
thanks Golden

[goldenrod]

go set yall a couple of trot lines, quick and easy and will always produce.

[datcajunman]

hey golden, what do you use on your trout lines,, he may know but i want to be prepared and bring everything that we will need, and we never think about bait for the trout line until we are there. we have used that soap concoction a few times and i don't remember what else

[goldenrod]

i use small bream or shrimp

[Finfeatherfur]

Good old drunken chicken!!!!!!! One chicken can serve 4-6, especially w/ kids involved. Best thing about it, inject it, rub the outside, set it on a can and forget about it!!!

[goldenrod]

i agree, DRUNK CHICKEN AND EVEN DRUNKER COOK

[datcajunman]

i just spoke to him at work and made him laugh that I am on his name on salty cajun ,, he gave me one instruction,, don't make his name look bad lol lol and i said he was a very special man can i take that back now lol j/k

[Woodduck Commander]

A big pot of spaghetti in the crock pot while you fish and swim always goes a long way

[goldenrod]

Yall making me hungry

[BananaTom]

A Boston Butt boiled for three hours, or until the bone is ejected. I use one half cup of crawfish boil for the first 1.5 hours per Butt.

Then add a second 1.5 cups of boil for the second 1.5 hours. Keep the meat covered with water and on a little bubble/roll.

Hard hard is it to boil water?

For 25 people, I would do two.

Simple and good!!!

[Hopedale Hustler]

dat cajun man....ya eva heard of a poor cajun mans meal...its rice meat and water...and thats wat a jambalya is a box of sausage a cheap pork but and some rice and green unyuun and you got you a good one...scrape dat brown of ya pot and itll taste real good ya....remember jambalya is a poor mans meal always was and still can be....and it goes reall far...

[LaAngler]

hamburgers, fajitas, chips n dip, boudin, cookies, boxes of snacks.......mmmmmmm

i'm starving

[BananaTom]

BananaTom Chicken Casserole

4-5 Chicken Breasts boiled and diced or pulled
1 Can of Cream of Chicken
1 8oz Sour cream
1 package of mushrooms – optional
1 sleeve of Ritz Crackers
Butter
Lemon Pepper
Flour

Mix the cooked chicken, cream of chicken, sour cream, and mushroom cooked in 1 stick of butter, and add lemon pepper taste. Place in Pyrex.

I use flour when I use too much butter ( on purpose cooking the mushrooms) to soak up the liquid to make it thicker.

Crush the sleeve of Ritz Crackers. I use a gallon zip lock and a rolling pin or can of soup to turn into a fine powder. Melt 1 stick of butter and mix the crushed Ritz crackers into the butter for a topping. Spread it on top of the product in the Pyrex.

Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

This is my favorite to do. I triple it for a group of 25.

[specktator]

pork steaks! some places they sell them already marinated. cost u $10 to feed 5 or 6 ppl. my dad always makes fun of me cause when we at the camp all we do is bbq pork steaks. but hey, they good and cheap.