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How to Buy New Albums and Eat For Cheap

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Don't have enough money to purchase Eminem, Prince Paul, TLC and BlackSTREET in the same week? I understand. That's why just like Boots from The Coup, I've got my own recipes for Top Ramen. So if your stomach is growling but your ears are fiending for fatter flavors, here's an "eat for cheap" hip-hop recipe to satisfy BOTH tastes.

You have to the 6 for a dollar variety beef flavor of Top Ramen. Fill a bowl half with water, crush the noodles up IN the bag, rip it open and dump them in. Set the flavor packet aside. While you are doing this you should have had some cheap hamburger frying in a pan, just little bits and chunks. Nuke that ramen for at least 3 minutes. Check to make sure it's got enough water, stir it if you need to, nuke it for at least three more. Drain it but leave just a LITTLE bit of water in the pan; enough to break up the flavor packet chunks when you rip it open and drop it in, and to keep it from getting too dry.

Mix the hamburger in with your ramen and your beef flavoring and then you add a couple of packets of Taco Bell hot sauce to it (the HOT hot). Voila. You have Flash's Broke Ass Ramen Hamburger Casserole. Add cheese on top if you like.

Got any favorite "eat for cheap" recipes you've used to afford new albums and more vinyl twelve inches? Send them in. I'll publish the best "hip-hop ramen" recipes in a future column.

Peace, Flash

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