Old Sicilian peasant food from my grandmother:
Escarole, beans & ditalini:
Steam escarole (you can boil it, too, but use the same water to boil the ditalini, so the vitamins absorb back into the pasta).
Cook from scratch or heat a can of beans (cannelini, pinto, kidney -red or black).
Strain pasta, toss with escarole and beans. A little parmesan on top.
Cheap- you can make a big pot of it for under $5
I made cabbage, beer, tomato, white bean, and pork bone soup yesterday. I call it soup, but there isn't a lot of juice.
It doesn't take a lot of money to have great food.
Thanks for the recipe. I can't get any kind of endive here cheaply, but I can sub for it. I can blanc chard (as in covering it so that it doesn't get sunlight) to get something similar.
/johnny