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Best foods that are simple to make
- Thread starter ASleepingMonkey
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I do a mean chicken and chorizo pasta bake. Season with salt, pepper, paprika, and parsley and away you go. Serve with garlic bread and you have a meal fit for a king.
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You just need rice (leftover recommended), salt, eggs, garlic, union and soy sauce.
And it's called?
Ramen
But you could make almost any curry if you have basic ingredients (I just go with veggies), rice, and sauce.
But you could make almost any curry if you have basic ingredients (I just go with veggies), rice, and sauce.
Absolutely. This was my go to paleo dinner during the busy work schedule because it took no effort to to prep and cooking it was fast and dead simple.
Peanut Butter Sriracha Ramen
Make a regular ol' ramen (broth and noodles), drain about 80% of the liquid, add a big heap of peanut butter and Sriracha to taste. Bonus points for scallions or shallots.
Eggs Benedict.
Microwave the Ham and Eggs (have this little plastic device to make the eggs the way you do for it, works really well).
Toast the English Muffin
Heat the packet of Hollandaise Sauce in a pan
Super easy and works better than you'd expect. No major prepwork, just heating things up, and it's very fast.
Microwave the Ham and Eggs (have this little plastic device to make the eggs the way you do for it, works really well).
Toast the English Muffin
Heat the packet of Hollandaise Sauce in a pan
Super easy and works better than you'd expect. No major prepwork, just heating things up, and it's very fast.
Oven baked chicken tenders. Just batter and throw those babies in the oven.
Besides that, anything in a crock pot.
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Biscuits and Gravy.
The biscuits can be store bought (I prefer buttermilk biscuits) or you can find recipes online, they're not hard at all to make. Even drop biscuits could be used if you don't want to bake.
For the gravy:
1lb. bulk pork sausage
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
3 cups milk
1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
Pinch of salt
Cook and crumble sausage over med.-high heat. Wisk in flour, salt, and pepper. Gradually stir in milk. Cook until it thickens. I like to add a shot of Tabasco sauce before serving.
The biscuits can be store bought (I prefer buttermilk biscuits) or you can find recipes online, they're not hard at all to make. Even drop biscuits could be used if you don't want to bake.
For the gravy:
1lb. bulk pork sausage
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
3 cups milk
1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
Pinch of salt
Cook and crumble sausage over med.-high heat. Wisk in flour, salt, and pepper. Gradually stir in milk. Cook until it thickens. I like to add a shot of Tabasco sauce before serving.
Cheesesteaks, burgers, macaroni, chilli, potato soup...there are so many things that are relatively easy to make with no cooking experience. Shit I just started watching my mom in the kitchen and writing down what I saw.
Marcella Hazan's Butter, Tomato and Onion sauce is simple, easy, and great. I recommend it highly.
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/my-mothers-butter-tomato-and-onion-sauce-395730
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/my-mothers-butter-tomato-and-onion-sauce-395730
Big kudos to the mention of risotto. People treat it as a difficult dish because it has to be babied a bit, but there's nothing simpler. I prefer mine with a mixture of dry white wine and broth, with some grated parmesan and artichoke hearts.
Now for my go-to simple recipe - Shakshouka. It's a Tunisian dish that only truly requires two primary ingredients but can be customized endlessly.
Take a whole heap of plum tomatoes and boil them down, maybe using some oil of your choosing. Once the tomato sauce thickens a bit, either from cooking it down or adding some tomato paste or flour, make indents in the sauce and crack however many eggs you can into them. Essentially, your're poaching eggs in a tomato sauce. And you can add whatever other vegetables you want (I like garlic and onions, sometimes fresh basil leaves) alongside whatever spices you like (personally, cumin). A lot of people resort to the immediacy of canned tomatoes, and a ton prefer San Marzano, but I like using fresh. I also don't peel or deseed them; I like cooking with the entirety of an ingredient wherever possible. A crusty bread can be useful to soak up the leftovers, but it's so damned good on its own that I don't even bother half the time.
Here's a slightly more in-depth recipe using feta - https://kitchenstories.io/en/recipes/shakshuka
And a picture to whet your appetite!
Now for my go-to simple recipe - Shakshouka. It's a Tunisian dish that only truly requires two primary ingredients but can be customized endlessly.
Take a whole heap of plum tomatoes and boil them down, maybe using some oil of your choosing. Once the tomato sauce thickens a bit, either from cooking it down or adding some tomato paste or flour, make indents in the sauce and crack however many eggs you can into them. Essentially, your're poaching eggs in a tomato sauce. And you can add whatever other vegetables you want (I like garlic and onions, sometimes fresh basil leaves) alongside whatever spices you like (personally, cumin). A lot of people resort to the immediacy of canned tomatoes, and a ton prefer San Marzano, but I like using fresh. I also don't peel or deseed them; I like cooking with the entirety of an ingredient wherever possible. A crusty bread can be useful to soak up the leftovers, but it's so damned good on its own that I don't even bother half the time.
Here's a slightly more in-depth recipe using feta - https://kitchenstories.io/en/recipes/shakshuka
And a picture to whet your appetite!
Yup.
Do you make yours oppai side up? :D
Yeah, I do. :)
Specifically, I like them cooked over easy. I love runny yolk.
Shakshouka is amazing. I half assed kind of invented a dumber version of it years ago, and was blown away when found the complete recipe.
Cheese & Potato Pie
Since everything else has been mentioned I love this as a way to use left over mashed potato, mix it with some softened onions, plenty of sharp cheddar including extra for the top and then a few slices of tomato on top. Oven for 25 minutes or so and you get a delicious hearty meal, one for winter that's for sure.
Since everything else has been mentioned I love this as a way to use left over mashed potato, mix it with some softened onions, plenty of sharp cheddar including extra for the top and then a few slices of tomato on top. Oven for 25 minutes or so and you get a delicious hearty meal, one for winter that's for sure.
If you are not afraid to bake something then scones are very easy to make. The recipe basically just calls for flour, butter, and sugar. And also the mixture needs to be very wet when you cook it so you don't need to mix and kneed it for ages like with bread. Also because the ingredients are so few the flavor is always bang on. Give it a go!
I just had company over for dinner which was chilli and they loved it.
2 lbs beef
2 yellow onions
1 orange pepper
4 anaheim peppers
2 packets of store brand chilli seasoning
2 small cans diced tomatoes w chilli spices
1 large can of tomato sauce
2 small cans beans with chilli spices
Crock pot cooking is good and easy as well.
2 lbs beef
2 yellow onions
1 orange pepper
4 anaheim peppers
2 packets of store brand chilli seasoning
2 small cans diced tomatoes w chilli spices
1 large can of tomato sauce
2 small cans beans with chilli spices
Crock pot cooking is good and easy as well.
Congee. Easy to eat, easy to make and you can add different ingredients/sides/sauces for different flavours.
I never was able to make fried rice but maybe that's because I used just cooked rice? It ends up being some weird substance.
Should you put it in the fridge for a couple of hours or just leave it on the kitchen counter?
You can also add in meatballs. Thank me later.
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Arrabbiata is pretty easy to do and something I've never got tired of.
Like with cooking tasty cheap food I think one of the best things you can do is to make sure you've got a good range of dried herbs and spices in the kitchen to allow you to be flexible. So much stuff goes from ok to delicious with a couple of extra spices.
Like with cooking tasty cheap food I think one of the best things you can do is to make sure you've got a good range of dried herbs and spices in the kitchen to allow you to be flexible. So much stuff goes from ok to delicious with a couple of extra spices.
I missed this, cracked me up. I've had many a crisp sandwich in my day, monster munch are surprisingly good between bread
Spam and steamed rice! It's easy if you assume that the person making it (a) owns a rice cooker (b) can summon the energy to add water to rice. You don't even need to fry the spam, it's fine microwaved. The eggs are optional. I can be happy as an idiot sitting in front of the tv watching Futurama with a bowl of rice topped with two slabs of spam.
