I need recipes, dammit!

[lesrae]

I need to boost my meagre repertoire of easy to cook dinners for when my wife and I get home from work. I could look some up on the net but I thought I’d ask here as there’s a good selection of nationalities and we could get some interesting ideas.

I’ll start with what we’re having tonight, a Scottish dish called Stovies, which is one of those dishes that every country probably has a variant of.

For 2 people you’ll need 6 – 8 medium/large potatoes and about 2/3 that volume of onions. Peel and slice the potatoes and onions down to roughly ¼ inch slices, then get a pan (with a lid) big enough to hold all the potatoes and onions and put a little margarine or oil in the bottom of it. Put it on a low heat and then put in a layer of onions, followed by a thicker layer of potatoes, then add salt & pepper and a knob of margarine or a spot of oil. Repeat the layering with onion/potato/seasoning until the pot is full.

Cover the pan and let it simmer on a low heat for at least an hour, or until the potatoes and onions have gone soft. Some people like to stir it during cooking, which mashes up the potatoes; I just leave it as it is.

Eat it with hot or cold meat, or on it’s own - tonight we’re having it with gammon steaks. This recipe got me through college as it’s filling and very cheap!

[GakunGak]

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[TteFAboB]

If your idea of an "easy to cook" dinner involves peeling and slicing things then cooking them for, *ahem*, AT LEAST an hour, I'm afraid my suggestion won't even qualify as "dinner".

You need 50-65 grams of your favourite Barilla pasta. I find your regular Penne to be the easiest to measure, handle and eat. 10-15 tablespoons of your favourite tomato sauce. Finding a good ready-made tomato sauce is really tough but if you never tried a good one you probably won't be able to tell either way. Parmesan cheese, grind it yourself or buy it packaged. 40-50 grams of previously-sliced-by-somebody-else Turkey breast.

Fill any cooking pan with just enough water and put it to boil. Separate the amount of Pasta you'll cook. Pick a dish and start laying out the Turkey breast slices on it while the water heats up. Prepare the tomato sauce to be heated, you can use some small milk pan or something. Prepare to mark the time. As soon as you notice the water has started to boil, reduce the temperature to bare minimum where there's still water vapor coming up but no more bubbles and drop the Pasta in the pan. Immediately start stirring and marking the time. Continue to stir for the first minute or so. You can add some salt to the water if you want but I don't. Go get the Parmesan cheese ready, grind it, open the bag, whatever. Keep stirring the pasta every now and then to prevent it from sticking on the pan or on each other. After 5 minutes, start heating the tomato sauce at the minimum temperature possible, you can add a drop of sugar to the sauce now to cut the acidity but I don't. Put the Turkey breast in the microwave oven at maximum temperature with that special cover for cooking things in the microwave for as long as it takes to get the Turkey breast popping like pop-corn, which should be more or less 50 seconds. You aren't actually "cooking" it but killing any unwelcome bacteria (and warming it up anyway), that's why we're using sliced turkey, it's easier and quicker to get it steaming and popping. Don't forget to stir the pasta every now and then. Take the Turkey breast out and dress it as you wish as long as it doesn't take more than 5-10 minutes to prepare, I suggest Aceto Balsamico di Modena and olive oil, it will only take 30 seconds. But pretty much anything will go with turkey, like the tomato sauce itself. Hopefully you're at the 8th or 9th minute by now, time to take out the pasta. If it looks like it has absorbed enough water already, take it out or wait another minute but don't let it pass the 10th minute. You may take it out at the 7th minute or on some cases even the 6th if you don't mind a harder chew. With the pasta on your dishes it's time to get the tomato sauce out which should be warm by now. Drop it over the pasta. Put the Parmesan now or take it all to the table and there you go.

Dinner ready in 15 minutes, or 10 if you don't count the time it took to boil the water. You can replace the turkey breast for anything that's just as easy to sterilize in the microwave in less than 15 minutes, like a very chopped Chicken breast (without skin).

[Jimbuna]

Might be better off reading the instructions for your microwave :lol:

[Heibges]

Rice Tuna Noodle
1 Can Tuna Fish
1 Can Cream of Mushroom Soup
2 Cups of Rice

Cook Rice. Dump in Tuna Fish and Soup. Heat & Stir.

[Iceman]

Rice Tuna Noodle
1 Can Tuna Fish
1 Can Cream of Mushroom Soup
2 Cups of Rice

Cook Rice. Dump in Tuna Fish and Soup. Heat & Stir.

Do ya dump the can of soup in unmixed with water and prepared the way you would soup or just dump in the can with the cooked rice...sounds a little dry combination but sounds intresating I like alll 3 ingredients. :up:

[lesrae]

If your idea of an "easy to cook" dinner involves peeling and slicing things then cooking them for, *ahem*, AT LEAST an hour, I'm afraid my suggestion won't even qualify as "dinner".

Fair point, I wasn't very clear about that - tonight's dinner/tea/supper/whatever took 20 mins to prepare, then we went to the pub for an hour and a half and then ate it when we got home - that's my idea of easy, either cook-eat or cook-drink-eat.

I look forward to trying your recipe :D

Rice Tuna Noodle
1 Can Tuna Fish
1 Can Cream of Mushroom Soup
2 Cups of Rice

Cook Rice. Dump in Tuna Fish and Soup. Heat & Stir.

Not a fan of mushrooms, but I do a similar one without the tuna but using a tin of chicken in white wine sauce (one less tin to open).

[FIREWALL]

CHICKEN You can do anything with chicken. Any and all vegies go good with chicken. Over rice or pasta. Soy or other available sauce over top.

Yummy! Now i'm hungry :damn: :p

[Heibges]

I use Campbell's so the Cream of Mushroom adds a little moisture. You could add a little water if it is too dry for your tastes.

You can also substitute basically any type of pasta for the rice, and make a down and dirty tuna casserole.

[FIREWALL]

I use Campbell's so the Cream of Mushroom adds a little moisture. You could add a little water if it is too dry for your tastes.

You can also substitute basically any type of pasta for the rice, and make a down and dirty tuna casserole.


Yep Heibges :up: That is always my base for sausage gravy or just plain white gravy. Never lumpy :p

[ross knight]

since you want something fast when you get home try this.
make marinade: 1/2 cup soy sauce, 2 cloves garlic chopped, 2 tablespoons grated gingerroot, 1/4 cup brown sugar, and 1/2 cup of sherry (cheap) blend well. pour over chicken pieces(can do whole chicken) the night before. i like to pierce each piece. when you're ready, place pieces in 13X9 foil lined pan skin side down. 350F oven for 30 mins. turn over for 35mins. great hot or cold. called Habachi Marinade. out of James Beard' s BBQ book. very good.

[Jimbuna]

http://www.shopenglandonline.com/englishrecipes.html :up:

[cobalt]

funny you bring this up

right now im waiting on my chicken wings in the fridge so ill post my famous hot wings recipe

what you'll need:

1TSP Salt
1/2TSP pepper
1/2TSP Cheyanne pepper
1/2TSP garlic powder
1/2TSP paprika
1CUP flower
a bunch of chicken wings
Franks Red Hot, Hot Sauce(not Franks Red Hot Wing Sauce)
3TSP butter or margerine

and a deep fryer

mix the SALT, PEPPER, CHEYANNE PEPPER, GARLIC POWDER, PAPRIKA AND FLOUR in a large bowl. Save the leftover mixture.

Coat your chicken wings and leave them in the refrigerator for about an hour.

Heat your oven to 400 degrees F.
Heat your deep fryer to 375 degrees F.

Take 3TSP butter and start melting in saucepan on stove. Once melted mix 9-10TSP Franks Red Hot, Hot Sauce. Leave on low flame.

With the leftover mixture coat your wings again and then place then into your deepfryer. Cook for 3-4mins and turn or shake the wings. Cook for another 3mins.

Remove the wings from deepfryer and coat your wings in the sauce. Then place them on a baking pan lined with aluminum foil and cook for 4-5mins at 400F.

while those are cooking make a new batch in your fryer.

Enjoy the most amazing wings!

I would really love someone to try this recipe and get back to me on how you liked it.

[Heibges]

1 Package of Maccaroni & Cheese
Hotdogs
Maple Syrup

1. Cook Hotdogs & Slice them up.
2. Mix Maple Syrup with Sliced up hotdogs.
3. Prepare Mac & Cheese
4. Mix Hotdogs with Mac & Cheese

Best enjoyed with Mountain Dew.

[Dan D]

Light pea-soup ligurian style

Saute 2 onions and 2 gloves of garlic in 3-4 tsp of olive oil for 5 min.;
add 200 gr. potatoes peeled and cut and 150 gr. dried split peas,
fill up with 1,2 litre water,
have a drink in the pub, takes about an hour until boiled soft,
mash soup with hand blender,
add a good amount of salt and pepper,
sprinkle with some Parmesan, hashed parsley and some drops of a good olive oil.
Serve with roasted bread.

[P_Funk]

All I can say is use extra virgil olive oil for everything. And I never touch margarine. Real butter.

One way to make stuff more interesting is to grill it. Makes the flavours great and all you need to do is take chicken or pork chops or something like that, marinade it in a nice sauce of some kind (like a yogurt sauce) and then grill it til its nice and juicy with a bit of char on it. And you can just as easily add to that some roasted veggies like some onions and peppers and whatnot. Just season them and souse them in olive oil.

Simple, variable cooking for whatever you happen to have.

[Yahoshua]

How much time do you have to spare before she gets home?

I know a GOOD recipe, but it takes at least 3 hours to prepare and about 1 1/2 hours to cook.

[lesrae]

How much time do you have to spare before she gets home?

I know a GOOD recipe, but it takes at least 3 hours to prepare and about 1 1/2 hours to cook.

A lot of the time we get back around the same time, but one or other of us often works from home so bring it on!

[Jimbuna]

http://www.home-almanac.com/cooking.shtml :up:

[TteFAboB]

http://www.globalwarmingdiet.org/about/

Kudos to the anorexic.

[Jimbuna]

http://homecooking.about.com/library/archive/blbbindex.htm enjoy :up:

[Yahoshua]

Sry I ahevn't gotten you that recipe yet, I can't seem to find it but I'll post it when I do.