Simple to make foods

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...