If you need to make do with a cheaper cut of beef like cube steak, throw it in a crock pot and cook it for several hours, until it’s fork tender, and make a nice brown gravy with it. Southerners love it, and call it country style steak. Serve it over rice or with mashed potatoes. If you really want to give poverty food a spin, go out and pick wild mustard greens or whatever native type you have, steam them up with some fatback or a ham bone and dress them with pepper vinegar. Cornbread completes the meal, unless you want a pot of pinto beans. Dessert would be peach, cherry, blackberry or strawberry cobbler (a deep dish baked dessert with a crust on top), depending on what’s in season or you have frozen from your garden or orchard.
Man, do you know how to cook!