The picture is your starter. Assume a basic pantry for your other ingredients. What are you cooking?
These two ingredients were less than $4 total when I bought them.
For me, an obvious choice here is quesadillas. A little bit of salt, baking powder, oil and water and you have tortillas. You could add a little sour cream or hot sauce or peppers and onions or any number of other things to make this into a meal.
What are you going to make? How much is it going to cost per a person? Bonus points if you know how long it’s going to take? You kind of have to rest tortilla dough for 30 minutes. So for two people this meal is going to take me about an hour.
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Not included in the price is the cutting board. I made it years ago as an experiment to see if I could frame an edge face cutting board without it cracking breaking itself apart. It’s made of poplar and it refuses to die. Materials caused on it was probably about $10. Labor time was probably about 2 hours.
Poplar makes a horrible cutting board. It’s too soft even though it’s a hardwood. However, for end grain butcher blocks it’s a champion. I usually only use this for cutting and serving pizza because every knife mark shows on it.
It’s weird how I think tasty Chinese dumpling soup but when I think of Vareniki I’m picturing soggy pierogies and sadness. Maybe I spent too much time in Ohio. I should fix this.
Made soggy they are pure sadness.
You need to have very precisely the least possible amount of water that still enables all the flour to become a (very very firm) dough.
And then you need to hold the dough in one hand and pummel it with your other hand’s fist while talking with your friends or whatever.
These done properly, and your vareniks will not ve soggy!
And then, of course, don’t overboil them!