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7. I ate a great deal of Risi Bisi

Wed Jun 13, 2012, 03:53 PM

Jun 2012

Rice and Peas cooked with a little meat and cheese if it was affordable. I don't know why my little group of friends got a little obsessed with this dish but it was always cooking at someones apartment. I always liked it with tomatoes and onions....

It's a simple easy dish and didn't require fancy ingredients or a great deal of attention or time. And it was always easy to adapt the recipe to what was around and cheap that week

http://www.food.com/recipe/risi-e-bisi-225151

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food we lived on in college [View all] backtoblue Jun 2012 OP

Ramen noodles KamaAina Jun 2012 #1

disgusting! backtoblue Jun 2012 #2

When I was really flush with money, I'd add a can of Veg-All and an egg. bluesbassman Jun 2012 #5

add a can of tomato paste or sauce backtoblue Jun 2012 #10

For us it was Lone Star OriginalGeek Jun 2012 #28

For about 3 weeks sharp_stick Jun 2012 #3

"when one of us lost a job" backtoblue Jun 2012 #8

Mrs Dash's Ketchup Spaghetti & Karl Marx Ketchup Soup HereSince1628 Jun 2012 #4

Karl Marx sharp_stick Jun 2012 #6

Yum Bertha Venation Jun 2012 #18

I ate a great deal of Risi Bisi The empressof all Jun 2012 #7

Rice with salt and pepper Rambis Jun 2012 #9

condiments and seasonings backtoblue Jun 2012 #11

for a few months I lived off of day old hoagie rolls and condiments NightWatcher Jun 2012 #12

when we first moved in backtoblue Jun 2012 #13

The trick is to butter tin foil and wrap the cheese sandwich in that csziggy Jun 2012 #58

My college girlfriend told me that students have been a poorly fed class KamaAina Jun 2012 #14

Imagine being housing staff. Chan790 Jun 2012 #16

Generic Mac N Cheese. geardaddy Jun 2012 #15

college cafeteria food Bertha Venation Jun 2012 #17

Pot pies. This was ages ago, when they were only .25 apiece. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2012 #19

Oh, yeah, Swanson/Banquet pot pies @ 25c Art_from_Ark Jun 2012 #50

Halloween pumpkins Iterate Jun 2012 #20

This: El Supremo Jun 2012 #21

Nothing on that plate except the salad looks edible. Chan790 Jun 2012 #22

Hot pockets militant_lib2553 Jun 2012 #23

Most of the above Moondog Jun 2012 #24

Ramen noodles. Chun King canned chow mein. Tuna noodle casserole. kestrel91316 Jun 2012 #25

the vending machines were frequented as well backtoblue Jun 2012 #36

Well, I did pretty well. Denninmi Jun 2012 #26

My generation was pretty big on cheeseburgers and fries. Pizza was a new thing for us. trof Jun 2012 #27

I never went to college, but i did live on a diet of fried bologna sandwiches RebelOne Jun 2012 #29

Beer and veal (I had "toting privileges" at the restaurant where I worked) Tom Ripley Jun 2012 #30

well there was canned beans, campbels soup heated in a popcorn popper. mysuzuki2 Jun 2012 #31

Salad bar at the OSU athletic department cafeteria. WCGreen Jun 2012 #32

Brown rice and ketchup, cliffordu Jun 2012 #33

Brown rice here too siligut Jun 2012 #40

Fried bologna is actually pretty tasty. Fridays Child Jun 2012 #34

With tabasco sauce Tom Ripley Jun 2012 #39

Good tip. Fridays Child Jun 2012 #52

Unlabeled cans of soup.......... mrmpa Jun 2012 #35

Rice and Beans dr.strangelove Jun 2012 #37

I did that plus pasta and potatoes. GoCubsGo Jun 2012 #46

Mac&cheese with Heinz ketchup. Swede Jun 2012 #38

T.V. dinners: (If you call that "living"!) femmocrat Jun 2012 #41

Ribeye steak with garlic mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus with garlic butter. Cali_Democrat Jun 2012 #42

Tang, instant coffee, coffee creamer, LiberalEsto Jun 2012 #43

besides the drugs and alcohol? Kali Jun 2012 #44

potato pancakes TrogL Jun 2012 #45

Beer. HopeHoops Jun 2012 #47

rice a roni Danmel Jun 2012 #48

Grilled cheese sandwiches. emilyg Jun 2012 #49

Whatever my mother bought at the grocery store, kentauros Jun 2012 #51

beer and something else rurallib Jun 2012 #53

Mac N Cheese with tuna, ramen noodles with frozen vegetables, frozen burritos, and Spagetti-O's annonymous Jun 2012 #54

Better food than I had most of my life to that point! Phentex Jun 2012 #55

The meal plan was required at our college too Nikia Jun 2012 #56

Tuna macaroni shit. nolabear Jun 2012 #57