Cooking for the week: Quick Jamabalaya

Since M is strapped for cash right now, we decided M should bring lunch everyday instead of buying lunch which is bad for his health and his wallet.  The problem is that M does not have ANY cookware at his apt!  I proposed to cook a giant pot of food for him to bring to eat over 2-3 days for lunch.  I was so excited by the idea I ran out to get ingredients to make the first one pot (3 meals) for M right away!  It was messy but I completed the task in 2 hours and make one large pot of jambalaya.  No picture of the final product tho, because it was not very photogenic. It looked something like this.

(picture but NOT recipe borrowed from simplyrecipes.com)

Quick Jambalaya
2 stalks celery, diced
2 medium onion, diced
1 green pepper, diced
1 can of chopped tomato with juice
6oz sausage of your choice (I used turkey Italian sausage), sliced
1 chicken breast, diced
5 shrimp, whole
canola oil
2 cup chicken stock
1 cup beef stock
2 cups rice
1 tsp Cajun seasoning
1 tsp cayenne pepper (or to taste)
1 tsp worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper to taste

Saute shrimp until opaque, set aside.  Saute chicken and sausage until browned, set aside.  Saute onion, celery, pepper with a bit of oil for 10 minutes until tender. Add can of tomato and all seasoning, stir while cooking another 10 minutes.  Add chicken, sausage, shrimp and stir.  Add rice, chicken and beef stock and cook on high until boil, then reduce heat and simmer until the liquid is reduced - about 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Cost analysis:
 $2.14 a meal vs $6 if eating out
Saved $15.44 over 4 days!


(That's enough for a 10 pc bucket of KFC!)