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Simple to make foods - OB3LISK - 2011-11-01
I live at home with Mommy and she cooks 5-7 times a week!
But I know how to make some things. pineapple Dust's advice wash your meat WELL. And yeah, you can make things with chicken easily, just take a day out of the week to season all you need for the week and cook it that day. Easy.
Simple to make foods - KhainiWest - 2011-11-01
OB3LISK Wrote:I live at home with Mommy and she cooks 5-7 times a week!
But I know how to make some things. pineapple Dust's advice wash your meat WELL. And yeah, you can make things with chicken easily, just take a day out of the week to season all you need for the week and cook it that day. Easy.
..WELL IT DOESN'T GET WET MAGICALLY NOW DOES IT OB3LISK.
Simple to make foods - WingZero - 2011-11-01
IllegallySane Wrote:Beef (mostly steak and tenderloin variety)-
1. Salt, sugar, black pepper, soy sauce, marinade. Mix all with your fingers
2. Coat in corn starch
3. Coat in oil
4. Let it sit
5. Cook with minced garlic and some thick slices of ginger
6. ???
7. Add a bit of water while cooking to prevent it from drying out before it's completely cooked. It also helps create a sauce
8. Congrats, you have a delicious meat dish
Preparation for chicken and pork are pretty similar, just adjust flavoring a bit, and make damn sure the pork is well cooked. Cut a random piece of pork in half when you think you're close to finishing, and check for any signs of extreme pinkness. If anything more than a slight shade of pink, it's not done.
Chili is rather easy to make as well, you just need more preparation time than actual skill.
Learn to stir fry various vegetables. Honestly, I hate American cooked vegetables. Who the heck just boils it in water, or cooks it with butter? Salt + sugar + soy sauce works wonders, and has it tasting good without being bad for you. Good stir fry vegetables to start off with are green beans, broccoli, and cabbage. Bell peppers are good too, as are white/red onions.
MUSHROOMS. Excellent on it's own, but works great in adding tons of flavor to just about any food item. I prefer the standard white button mushrooms.
There are very few vegetables you should ever boil, because it adds minimal flavor. The only one I know off the top of my head is lettuce. Even then, add some oil, salt, sugar, and soy sauce to the boiling water so at least the lettuce can soak the flavor in a bit.
You should try to make steamed egg custard if you haven't learned to do so by now. The version I eat and make isn't made sweet; it's more of a lunch/dinner dish. Ingredients are: eggs (obviously), water, oil, salt, sugar, white pepper, dash of MSG, soy sauce. You'd want plenty of water, around 2 cups for every 4-5 eggs; have the water be hot if you have a water cooler. because the hot water makes it easier for the egg to cook.
In case it's not already apparent, soy sauce is a rather staple cooking ingredient for me and my family. My 2 cents on easy yet good food dishes.
We must be related somehow since this is exactly what I cook most of the time. I thought I was the only one who knew how to cook steamed egg custard...
Simple to make foods - L2X - 2011-11-01
Rice is always in my meals, my usual side with rice is usually scrambled eggs with any kind of meat from vienna sausage, spam, and ham cut up pretty nice and sometimes fryed with rice.
Simple to make foods - BlueRuin - 2011-11-01
Invest in a crock pot.
Best thing I ever bought in college. Saved me a ton of time and money.
Simple to make foods - Atuan - 2011-11-01
Fish. Pick up some Tilapia or Mero fillets. Egg it. Bread it. Pepper it. Fry it. Eat with some stir fried vegetables.
Easy. Delicious.
Simple to make foods - SaptaZapta - 2011-11-01
Some of my easy staples:
Hardboiled eggs: keep in the fridge and add to salads or sandwiches (my favorite accompaniments to hardboiled eggs are avocado and tomatos), or just eat as is. ProTip: to prevent eggs from cracking while being boiled, make a small hole in the wide end with a thumbtack or sewing needle.
Scrambled eggs: break egg(s) into a small bowl, add a bit of salt, and beat with a fork until the yolk is mixed more or less evenly. Heat up a frying pan and coat its bottom with oil/butter/lard/Pam. Pour the eggs into the pan. Use a spoon to move cooked egg off the bottom and let the still raw egg take its place, until all the egg is as cooked as you like it.
Scrambled eggs are great plain, in a sandwich, or beside fresh veggies. But they are also great with all sorts of stuff mixed in, precooked if you like it that way (for example, I prefer fried onions, but some people like them raw). Pretty much anything you can put on pizza you can also put in scrambled eggs: cheese, sausage, mushrooms, onions, peppers, corn... and also some things like french fries or hash browns. Experiment.
Chicken: I don't know about where you are, but around here they have tons of different ready-made sauces and coatings, which require no more work than putting the chicken in a pan or cooking bag, adding the product, and baking/roasting for an hour or so.
Beef: I like keeping pre-cooked ground beef in the freezer in single-serving packages. Then I can thaw it out to quickly add to pizza, scrambled eggs, tomato sauce (and pasta?), rice, beans, or whatever else. Or even just eat it as is.
To pre-cook, I fry up chopped onions, add the beef, cook while stirring until the beef starts browning, and then add sweet Hungarian paprika, salt and black pepper. Keep cooking, stirring occasionally, for 20-30 minutes more, just to make sure it's thoroughly dead.
But you can make it with whatever spices, or lack thereof, you like. Or one of those prepared mixes.
Cooked vegetables: I'm not very big on those, preferring fresh, but when I do make them it's either steamed in the microwave and simply salted, or baked in the oven after a light coating in olive oil and sometimes rosemary or some other herb (my children don't like "green stuff" so usually it's nothing but the olive oil and some salt).
Starchy sides: microwave-baked potatos, mashed (boiled) potatos, rice or couscous or other grains cooked according to the instructions on the box/bag, and of course pasta, are all quick and easy.
Have fun.
Simple to make foods - IllegallySane - 2011-11-01
WingZero Wrote:We must be related somehow since this is exactly what I cook most of the time. I thought I was the only one who knew how to cook steamed egg custard...
Unless you live in the Briodgeport area of Chicago, gonna say no to that. Unless of course, we do a deep family tree dive.
Simple to make foods - ImagineAll - 2011-11-01
Trader Joes offers relatively cheap and healthy microwavable meals. Like yourself, I am a culinary caveman, so I usually just stick to vegetables/fruits/yogurts/microwaved pomegranate. Cheap and healthy (:
Simple to make foods - DrRusty - 2011-11-02
fettucini alfredo is ridiculously easy to make. Boil the noodles and heat up some sauce in the microwave until warm (usually like 30-45 seconds)
Simple to make foods - Eos - 2011-11-02
Same is true of pretty much any pasta
Simple to make foods - Piggy 2.0 - 2011-11-02
I still live with my parents, but what I like to do for a quick and filling (but not all that healthy) meal is to toss whatever bits and pieces of meat/vegtables in some broth (noodles optional, I use spaghetti noodles, but a healthier option would be the yolk-less egg noodles that you find in traditional chicken noodle soup) with a spice concoction I made. If you lack broth, just use some boullion(?) of choice.
Another way to save some cash and be fed for a while is to buy a metric butt-load of ground beef (like a 2 inch lasgana pan filled to the brim with it) and freeze whatever you don't eat for later use.
You can also stuff a diced boiled egg in some cup ramen too. Beefs it up immensely.
Simple to make foods - Alex123123 - 2011-11-03
Canned sardines with crackers.
Or, if you want to spoil yourself. Some ... steak with onions?
- punch the steak
- marinate the meat with some salt and spices (garlic, pepper (if you want), oregano etc).
- Put some oil on the pan, put onions below the steak, and MOAR onions on top of the steak (you can't never have enough onions, partly because they tend to vanish when they are cooked).
Now make some white rice, and enjoy. Seriously, this is my favorite plate because zomg it's delicious. And easy to make.
Simple to make foods - ThatWasMyKil - 2011-11-03
Go to your local supermarket buy half a cooked chicken take off the skin, get some wholemeal wraps lettuce red onion and some fetta cheese make a wrap
Simple to make foods - Chameleonic - 2011-11-03
ThatWasMyKil Wrote:Go to your local supermarket buy half a cooked chicken take off the skin, get some wholemeal wraps lettuce red onion and some fetta cheese make a wrap
Nooooo the skin is the part with all the flavour. Get one with extra skin.
