/kitchen/ - tasty morsels & delights

Probably the simplest and cheapest thing you'll ever make: Swiss-style Rosti.

take 1-2 potatoes, and grate them into a bowl. Squeeze as much of the liquid out of your grated potato as you can by wrapping it in a piece of cloth/a tea towel/whatever, and twisting it up to wring the water out. season with salt/pepper, then put your slightly less soggy potato gratings into an oiled pan and fry on one side for 10 minutes, then flip and cook on the other for another 5. The starch from the potato sticks it all into this pancake, and you can eat it on its own or with whatever you want on top (eggs, ham, tofu, whatever). Optional extras include grating some onion or garlic in with the potato, but I personally prefer the taste it has on its own.

>>230
You just made a hashbrown

>>170
sorry if this is a silly question, but ow do the eggs turn out in this? do they look like scrambled eggs?

* Tuna Sandwich

** Ingredients
-Canned Tuna
-Bread

** Directions
1) Open can of tuna, but leave lid in.
2) Use lid to strain oil or water out into sink.
3) Place tuna on sandwich. With regular bread, there's often enough tuna for two sandwiches.
4) Add condiments to taste.

** Notes
-Mayonnaise is good.
-You can toast the bread.
-Sardines can replace tuna, and are probably cheaper.

* Home Made Garlic Bread or Texas Toast

** Ingredients
-Bread
-Butter
-Garlic Powder

** Directions
1) Preheat oven to 400 Fahrenheit or something.
2) Put chopped up butter and a few dashes of garlic into bowl.
3) Melt butter in microwave.
4) Cut bread.
5) Coat one side of bread in melted garlic butter.
6) Toast in oven for a few minutes. Longer if not crispy enough.

* Stove Chicken

** Ingredients
-Chicken Breast or Thigh
-Butter or Oil

** Directions
1) Place tablespoon of butter or oil in hot pan on the stove. If using butter, push it around to make it melt a little.
2) With stove on medium high, place chicken on.
3) Wait for chicken to be cooked on one side. You want the meat to just start to get cooked towards the center.
4) Flip chicken and wait until cooked all around.
5) Take chicken off.
6) If inexperienced, cut largest cut chicken in half and check that there's no pinkness. If pink, put chicken back in and start over. Clean your knife.

* Home Made Mariana Sauce

** Ingredients
-Olive Oil
-Garlic
-Salt
-Canned Whole Tomatoes

** Directions
1) Put a tablespoon of olive oil into pan and turn on heat.
2) Chop up garlic cloves into tiny pieces.
3) Place garlic into pan and wait for it to sizzle.
4) While waiting, open can of whole tomatoes.
5) Pour tomatoes in pan on top of garlic and oil. Crush tomatoes up a little bit.
6) Add a little less than half a can of water from your whole tomatoes.
7) Bring up to a gentle boil and then let simmer.
8) Wait. Add salt to taste. You will need salt.

* Tacos

** Ingredients
-Taco Shells
-Ground Beef (High fat content is fine, we're going to cook it out.)
-Taco Mix

** Directions
1) Brown meat in pan. It needs to be an earthy brown color. If it's gray, then it's under cooked and needs to stay in longer.
2) Add taco mix and some amount of water.
3) Let simmer.
4) While it's simmering. Prepare shells. If they're hard shells, nothing needs to be done. If they're soft shells you can cook them one of two ways. First, you can soak two paper towels and place five soft shells between them. Microwave them for about thirty seconds. Second, you can just fry them on the stove. With a pan on high, each shell will only take about ten seconds. Too long and it'll start to harder or burn.

** Notes
-If you have cheese, tomatoes, salsa, or lettuce, you can add them to your tacos. Be creative.
-When you add the mix, you can also add your own spices. Dried red pepper can add a kick.

>>79
one of the problems with instant ramen is, that the noodles are often deepfried to speed up the production (and thus contain alot of unhealthy fat)

>>23
I tried some basic cooking this month, here are some recipes :

>Croque-Monsieur
Put a slice of ham on a slice of bread, and spread the sauce of your choice on it. Then add a slice of cheese (or grinned cheese) on top, and then another slice of bread. Put it in a pan on low heat and flip it once in a while, until the cheese melt and the bread toast.

>Cucumber toasts
Spread thick cream on top of a slice of cereal bread, and sprinkle some herbs on top (I use chive). Then just top it up with cucumber slices and it's done!

>Tuna salad
Mix canned tuna, mayo and avocado, make sure that the avocados are soft enough to get mashed.

>Poutine
Cut potatoes in small bits and put them in the pan until they are cooked, then add grinned cheese and BBQ sauce. If you have an oven you can do the same with fries.

>Cream for pasta or meat
Mix cream with a little bit of olive oil, salt, pepper and your favorite herbs.

>Sausage with veggies
Cut thin bits of onion and put them in a pan with olive oil. Wait until they are cooked, and add red beans, corn, red peppers, tomatoes and sausage slices (toss your favorite vegetable in it as well if you want). When everything is cooked nicely turn off the heat without removing the pan and add honey, then mix it while it cools down.

Cheese Omelette:

- 4 eggs (use a big pan, non-stick or seasoned pan)
- splash of milk
- cheese (grated or cut)
- salt and pepper

Heat pan with butter or oil on low heat.
Mix eggs, milk, salt and pepper in bowl.
Once pan is hot, pour in the mixture.
Wait until you can put a spatula under the egg mixture without it breaking (about 5 minutes)
Fold 1/3 of the omelette toward the center.
Put cheese on top of folded bit and in the center (it will become the glue that holds it together)
Wait a bit for the cheese to melt.
Fold the other end of the omelette on top of the cheese.
Depending on how liquidy the top/inside of the omelette is, wait a bit more.
Fold the other end about half way.
Slide into a plate and enjoy.

Tuna & Rice
It's a super easy dish that I quite like.

Ingredients:
rice
tuna
mayonnaise
peas -> optional
tomatoes -> optional

You should cook the rice and then mix it with the tuna and the mayo until everything is even mixed. You can add peas to the mix if you like them and even carve some tomatoes and put the rice inside it (my grandma used to do that) and it's good as well.

I like to eat cooked potatoes.
>Cut up russet potato
>Add oil to pan
>Add potato and spices (I do salt, garlic, onion, and chili powder)
>Cook until a crisp
Cooked tofu
>freeze tofu overnight (optional), doing this makes the tofu less soft and more 'meat' like.
>Slice up tofu
>Add sauces I want (warsch, soy, vinegar)
>Add cornstarch (optional), when it fries with CS it has a crunchy outside
>Cook in oil until done
I'm also getting into miso. You just need broth, miso paste, and random food lying around you can add to the soup (Potato, onions, tofu, meat, etc)

simple tuna pasta sauce:
you will need
-can of tuna
-can of chopped tomato
-some cooking wine, i usually use red wine or vermouth
-olives
-onion
-garlic
-anchovies (optional)

>saute chopped onions and garlic until the onion is translucent
>add can of tuna, break it up with a wooden spoon, let it cook for about 30 seconds
>add tomatoes, olives, and a glug of wine
>optionally, this is where you would add some chopped anchovies. Don't worry, it won't taste too fishy it just adds umami.
>once the alcohol cooks off, taste and season appropriately with salt and pepper.
>cook it down to your preferred consistency.

if done correctly, the tuna should "melt" into the sauce. Don't put cheese on this pasta, cheese + fish will cause heart attacks in italians.

simple salmon cream sauce:
you will need
-salmon fillet
-double cream
-onion and garlic

>saute chopped onions and garlic until the onion is translucent
>remove the skin and cube the salmon (i find scissors are the best tool for this)
>add cubed salmon and cream to the pan
>season to taste
that's it. Not exactly healthy or super cheap, but a good treat once a month or so.

>>724
Wouldn't it be difficult to cut the tofu while its frozen? Also hard to absorb the sauce. I guess it absorbs it while cooking.

>>27
Speaking of rice: Jasmine rice with seasoning salt. Good for a cheap, low-effort side or if you just want something to snack on that doesn't require a whole lot of attention.

>jasmine rice ($1-2/lb)
>seasoning salt (recommend "Johnny's" brand but generic works too, about $5 for a 1/2lb shaker)

>rinse rice
>good ratio for jasmine is 1 cup water per 1 cup rice
>cook rice in rice cooker
>don't remove lid for 10 minutes once cooker is done to let rice absorb more of the steam
>fluff rice
>serve topped with a couple shakes of seasoning salt

you get a nice hot bowl of rice with a decent kick of flavor

>>23
I mean "low effort" is a bit of a definition thing, but I'll share some recipes. I start cooking whenever I am hungry, so my stuff needs to be somewhat fast to make. You can find the recipes online, if it's a chinese sounding dish, I probably got it from the YT channel "chinese cooking demystified":

>snacks (lowest of low effort)
garlic bread (bread + butter + garlic + cheese in oven)
Toast hawaii (toast + ham + slice of pineapple + cheese)
baked chickpeas (toss chickpeas, salt, oil, herbmix, then put in oven until crispy)


>very low effort
Spätzle/Spaetzle (german noodles, best eaten with cheese)
Shaxian peanut noodles
Pumpkin soup
Älplermagronen (swiss national dish)
Shakushka
煎焗鸡 (Cantonese Fry Roast Chicken)
Scallion oil noodles
Fruit crumble
Beef Stroganoff

>medium low effort
Oven baked califlower (toss califlower with oil, spices and put in oven)
Gyudon Yoshinoya
Dan Dan noodles
General Tso's Tofu
Arepas (from Venezuela)
Peking Pork (best eaten with 春饼 Spring pancakes, makes it high effort though)
Pad Kee Mao

>high low effort
Okonomiyaki
Garlic Naan
春饼 (to eat with peking pork or peking duck)
Kaiserschmarrn (austrian pancakes)

Generally you want sauces you can do in batches, keep them in the fridge and then just add for quick food/snacks. I currently have a plastic squeeze bottle of the following:
>Salad sauce
>pumpkin spice latte sirup
>chili oil
>scallion oil

__Oyasumi Pudding__

ingredients
- milk
- semolina
- sugar

seasoning
- cinnamon
- allspice
- essential lavender oil
- salt
- (extra sugar if desired)

Mix milk with sugar and bring it to a boil. Reduce heat and mix in the semolina. Keep stirring slowly. When it forms a nice pulp, add cinnamon, salt, allspice and mix well. If it gets too thick, just add milk. Take off the stove and add 1-3 drops of essential lavender oil (be careful here, this stuff is strong).

pasta is my go to when i need to eat something. its pretty low cost, tasty, and easy to make. i just grab some bologna or ham, cut it into pieces, stir fry with some cabbage and onions, and prepare the pasta with a bit of olive oil.

other times i just get some canned sardines with tomato sauce, heat the sauce and sardines in a pan with some onions and peppers, and toss it in the pasta with some pecorino cheese. takes less than 12min.

burgers are also quite easy and quick to make, and you can get pretty creative with them.

I've got 3 extremely low effort meals here

Everyday nachos
I find nachos with veggies like tomato, onion, olives, and peppers are really nice, but it takes a while to cut up all the veg and clean up after. So what I do is on the weekend cut a lot of veg mix and put it in the fridge, then during the week all I have to do is throw everything together and cook! I also use pre shredded bagged cheese, but you could prep grated cheese same as the veg.

Canned soup rice medley
This is very easy if you have a rice maker. Just cook rice and then mix in canned soup with it. I find chunky beef, chili, and chicken soups without noodles work really well. I recommend wild grain rice. You can also throw some veg from the nacho mix on top if you are doing that as well.

No cook oat mix
This is one of my fav meals it's so easy and quick. You mix one or two cups of quick or minute oats, one cup of trail mix (get stuff with dried strawberries if you can find it), 1/2 to 1 cup of skim milk powder, and a pinch of salt. Add water until it gets to a consistency you like and eat. I think it's cool because all the ingredients are dried so it works well as a camping or hiking food, but really I just like how fast it is ready and how little work it is.

>>746
Oyasumi Pudding is a good band name www

i'm a gymbro and also don't like cooking complicated meals so i've got plenty. here's a few:

breakfast (outside of just fried egg and toast): i love making breakfast burritos. cook sausage in a pan, and just before it's done add whipped egg, salt/pepper, and whatever veggies or other additives you want. i like to do mushrooms and diced tomato. only takes one pan and you can make a decent amount in one go. egg sandwiches are simple too. boil 2-3 eggs, peel them, mash them in a bowl with mayo or cream cheese, put em on toast with cheese. for a sweeter breakfast, greek yogurt with honey and berries is always good.

lunch: chicken/pork salad or wraps. the only thing you have to cook is the meat, everything else is just refrigerated and put straight in. i like doing chicken salad with leaf spinach, cheese, mushrooms, croutons, and a dressing. wraps are basically the same thing just in a low-carb wrap.

dinner: if i don't make anything listed above i like to do chicken/pork with rice (classic gymbro move) but i always cook my rice in chicken broth. makes it taste better for basically no extra work or calories. baked mac n cheese is also nice as you can do it without a roux instead substituting it for egg, milk, and cheese and it'll saucify in the oven. you can also add meats and veggies to this.

doushigatai special recipes for when you're alone:

Seafood Pasta with White Sauce
Boil noodles & strain. Add canned fish and pickled vegetables or olives. Stir in some mayonnaise. (can also be served with rice or bread instead of noodles)

Brothless Egg Ramen
Boil instant ramen noodles and 1-3 cracked eggs in a pot. Strain. Transfer to a plate or bowl and mix in about half the seasoning packet. Drink lots of water with this.

(moderate effort variation) - Boil chopped cabbage with the noodles/egg, and instead of the seasoning packet, mix some soy sauce, mayonnaise, horseradish, mustard, and ground peppercorn for that ippei-chan yakisoba flavor.

Microwaved Stuff on Rice
Soup? Chili? Lentils? Vegetables? Fish? If it comes in a can, it's probably good if you heat it up and mix it with some rice. Add mayonnaise as needed.

Chicken Thigh Stir Fry (moderate effort & requires 2 pots or pans)
Pan fry chicken thighs (real ones, not the boneless/skinless crap) in cooking oil and soy sauce. Boil frozen vegetables. Add vegetables to chicken after they are boiled and the chicken is cooked. Season with spicy pepper. Serve on rice or noodles, or eat with bread. Good thighs will have a little blood around the bones even when fully cooked so don't worry about it.

Bacon Fried Rice
Fry up a 2-4 strips of bacon, add 2-4 eggs and fry in the bacon grease, add some frozen vegetables and fry in the bacon grease, then add some cooked rice and fry in the bacon grease. Your arteries will hate you.

Despair (minimum effort)
Stare at the dry rice for a while and come to the conclusion that you don't have the motivation to even measure it out and put it in the rice cooker. Open the refrigerator & freezer a few times to look at some premade meals that you don't have the energy to pop into the microwave. Then go eat some protein bars and dried fruit and cry yourself to sleep.

I fry onions, garlic, cashew nuts and tofu in a pot. Then pour a grocery store premade soup in. Add my favourite spices, and the result is nutritious and super tasty!!

A fast breakfast I usually make is overnight oats. I don't even use yogurt for mine. I usually do 1C oats to 1C plant milk, a glob of peanut butter or small handful of nuts or both or a bit a tahini. It all works. Then, add fruits for sweetness (I like dates, but cut up fruit always works), and spice. I have a pre-mix, but literally any spice works. I usually have a blend a cinnamon, cloves, allspice, ground coriander, and something else. I don't remember. I also love a lot of powdered ginger.

The recipe can be made in like, 15 minutes the night before or even faster if you're using dried fruit. The spice mix can be bought (I used to use a pumpkin pie mix before it ran out) or even made.

And for the other meals, I usually make a soup and eat it for days. lol.

Sometimes I buy an ingredient that only comes in bulk and I end up at a loss as to how to use all of it up since I only cook for myself. One of those things is corn tortillas. I stumbled accross this for them:

2-3 tortillas roughly chopped
2-3 eggs, cracked and beaten
oil, i usually use tallow or avacado
salt

Fry the tortillas, stirring occasionally, till you have some nice crispy spots, my goal is to have some different textures usually. Just be sure to stir enough that they don't burn.
Salt them while stirring.

Once you're happy with the tortillas, pour in the eggs while stirring everything. Keep stirring and flipping till the eggs are cooked.
Bowl it up, it's tasty as is and goes great topped with salsa, queso fresco, avacado, loads of things. It has a very satisfying texture.
The funny thing is that I now buy corn tortillas specifically to make this rather than making tacos or what have you.

rice and beans (2 portions)

- 1 bowl of day old cooked rice
- 1 can of baked beans in tomato sauce
- 1 onion
- 1 clove of garlic
- paprika powder
- olive oil
- parsley
- (white) pepper
- salt
- egg (optional)

Dice the onion and fry it gently with olive oil. Grate the garlic and add it with the paprika powder. Give these a short fry to activate the paprika and mellow down the garlic. Add the rice, mix well and fry for a bit longer. Then add the beans, pepper, salt and parsley.

You can add an egg before the rice for extra protein.

Eat with a wooden spoon.

Samyang Buldak hot sauce is one of my little joys in life.

Oats
Cinnamon
Flax seeds/chia seeds
Handful of nuts
Frozen blueberries
Maybe a sliced banana or some granola on top

And

Quinoa
Black beans
Chopped tomatoes
Avocado/guacamole
Cucumber
Smoked paprika / chili pepper / sea salt / turmeric / olive oil

If I'm feeling slightly less lazy I'll make a vegan Italian dressing to put on the second one

>>1097
Oh and put some maple syrup or a little brown sugar on the first one if you want

premade veggie balls + onion + red bell pepper + hoisin sauce + gochujang thrown on a pan with some oil and soy sauce. result laid out on a pasta made from green pea. 15 minutes top. yes that is my foot :3 no. its not a dessert ..

>Tomato soup for two (or just yourself :3)
I start by boiling a couple of eggs (hard boiled).

* 0.5 onion (or just a single small onion)
* 1 clove of garlic
* 1 can of tomato
* 2 table spoons of tomato purée
* 4dl water
* 1 bouillon cube or similar
* However much pasta you want. If you want. I use a fistful of macaroni.

Fry your onion and garlic until soft and shiny, add tomato purée and let that fry for a minute or so.

Add the rest of your ingredients sans the pasta and let it lightly boil for 10 minutes. Finish with an immersion blender.

Now is when I add my macaroni. I let it boil until the pasta is soft. This is entirely optional.

Served with an egg on top.

I like to have some buttered toast along my tomato soup too.

>Oven-baked falukorv
This is easier done in scandinavian countries i think. Unless you have a nordic market that also have falukorv.

* 1 falukorv
* 1 onion
* 1 tomato (or a handful of cherry tomatos)
* Cheese
* Ketchup
* Mustard
* Butter
* Spaghetti or mashed potatoes

While you preheat your oven to 220C. Slice the falukorv (but not all the way through). Make each slice about 1cm or 0.5 inches thick. Put a bit of mustard, ketchup, and cheese in each slice and place the whole thing in a baking dish. Surround your falukorv with a sliced onion, tomato, and some butter.

Place the dish in your oven, and leave it in there for 20-30 minutes (I stop when the cheese has a nice crust)

I serve it with spaghetti, but I think it is common to serve with mashed potatoes too.

Apple & Cinnamon Oats
Very comforting in cooler weather.
Cut up an apple into small pieces and fry on medium heat until soft (it wont get any softer while boiling if you have quick cooking oats). Sprinkle a generous amount of cinnamon on top along with a dusting of nutmeg (or a good amount for mood improvement qualities of nutmeg, but then avoid tobacco for the rest of the day cause they interact, makes you feel like shit) and let it cook another minute or so moving it around to coat. Add equal parts water and milk, then add your oats when it has started bubbling. About 2dl or 1 cup of oats is good for 1 apple.
Volumes and cooking time differ depending on what kind of oats you're using. Refer to your package. I tend to use less liquid than instructions say, about 1.5x the amount of oats.
If you want some extra apple flavour and sweetness you can add some apple sauce at the same time as the liquid.

Makaronilåda
Great dish to make use of leftover stuff.
Mix leftover pasta (small shapes, won't work well with spaghetti and similar) with a bunch of whatever veggies (fry them up first, just for flavour no need to get them completely soft) and protein (also pre-fry if it's not beans) you happen to have around in a baking dish. Cover with a mixture of egg, milk, salt and pepper (additional spices optional). 1 egg per 1dl of milk, or about 2 eggs per cup. Bake for about 30min (give or take 10min) at 200 celsius / 392 fahrenheit.

Also just a small tip, when you're cooking ramen:
Skip about a third of the water when boiling, and instead add that water cold when it's done. No need to wait for the broth to cool down to eat.

>>1113
Finally some good friggin food.
>>27
It's also really good to make a burger inside a leaf or two of lettuce instead of bread buns, with lots of veggies in there. Good if you're on a diet. Tastes like a decadent hand salad.

Forgot in >>1117 for the makaronilåda (though maybe it's obvious), chop the veggies and protein into small pieces before frying. Also an image for it.
It's extra good if you have something spicy with lots of flavour for protein, like a chorizo cut into thin half circles and fried for some browning. Thyme is a good optional additional spice for the egg & milk mixture.

>>1111
that looks really nice. do you have a recipe for the veggie balls?

Gochujang Pasta
Make some pasta (tagliatelle is really good for this). Then with the pasta in the colander (to make less dishes, use same pot for next step) fry some thinly sliced garlic in oil until slightly golden. Add some gochujang and a splash of cream (for one big portion of pasta about 50ml of cream and 1 large teaspoon of gochujang) and stir together, then toss in the pasta and cover it in the sauce. Dunno what veggies would go well with it, do whatever you want.

If you want to make it without cream for less calories / cost: strain the pasta early while it's still a minute or two until it's soft enough, keep a cup of the pasta water. Add the pasta back in with some gochujang and a lil bit of the pasta water, stir it around so everything gets covered. Boil until soft and the liquid is gone. Not as good as with cream, needs some veggies or sides to make it yummy. (Or it's just cause I made it without garlic.)

Gochujang & PB Rice
Heat up some leftover rice in the microwave. In a frying pan, heat up some oil and in it mix together equal parts peanut butter and gochujang (just a warning though, this actually smells terrible for some reason, it tastes good when done). Put the rice in and push it around with a spoon until everything is equally covered. Again, dunno what veggies would fit, improvise if you want any. Good with a fried egg.

Banana Dessert
Put banana slices in a bowl, pour about a teaspoon per banana of cocoa powder on top. Place a small plate over the bowl and shake to cover slices in powder. Done! It's surprisingly delicious for being so simple.

Pyttipanna
Means something like tiny-stuff-in-a-pan. Would guess there are similar dishes under different names elsewhere.
Maybe arguable if this fits the simple label, but I think it's within bounds. Only three ingredients (+spice) and one frying pan, no complex moments.

For one person:
3 potatoes (depends on size of your potaoes ofc) (can be either raw or leftover boiled ones, but it's much more delicious with raw ones)
1 onion
some amount of protein of your choice (my preferred is falukorv)
white pepper

Chop the onion into small-ish slivers (one cut across a half, then slivered the other way is fine), fry to your liking, put it in a bowl (preferably the one you'll use to eat later for less dishes). Chop the (peeled if you want, it's your pyttipanna) potatoes into cubes, about 1cm / .4 inches. Fry with a lid until soft (if using boiled leftover, just fry to your liking). Depending on your choice of protein (chopped to a similar size as your potatoes), either put the potatoes in the bowl to the side and fry it up, or if it's something like tofu just put it in and add back the onion too. If you fried the protein seperately, just put everything back in when you're done. Sprinkle some white pepper on top, toss together, and let fry 1-2 minutes extra. Done. Add some salt / herb salt when serving.

You could also just fry everything together from the start (unless you're using raw meat that needs to be properly cooked), but then you need a huge frying pan to get good results and it probably won't be as good as it would be with the proper care for the individual ingredients on their own. Probably good enough if you're tired or drunk though.

Traditionally served with pickled beetroot and a fried egg. If you're particularly adventerous you can have some Bäska Droppar with it. A bit unpleasant to drink but the aftertaste is really long and lasts many bites, it's like if you had added another spice to the dish that does go quite well with it.

Slop
Cabbage
Carrots
Pickled onions
Olive oil
Apple cider vinegar
Soy sauce
Maseca
Eggs

Simmer vegetables in oil, vinegar, and soy sauce until tender. Add maseca and eggs, and cook until eggs are solid. Best enjoyed while watching isekai anime or summer romcoms.

Sauerkraut is really nice in soups and stews, just make sure to give it a rough chop before you put it in to not get long stringy pieces.
It's really salty so it replaces any need to add salt to the dish, and it has a nice acidity to it that's unlike (apple cider or balsamic) vinegar which I find a bit too round in some dishes.

If you're adding kimchi to a dish (while cooking, this might not work as well when used as a side, haven't tried) you could probably replace half with sauerkraut to make it cheaper while still maintaining a similar flavour. I find they work great together.

>>1159
I tried my hand at making slop. Didn't have all the ingredients so had to substitute some.
Boiled som mung beans and put to the side. Fried up a large onion, some carrot, parsnip, garlic. Added some freshly ground mustard seeds, cayenne, tomato paste. Let fry a bit extra. Then a box of chopped tomato, and water using the box to rinse out all the tomato stuck to the sides, some basil. Boiled until veggies are almost tender.

Then took some ladles of that into another pot, get it bubbling again and add a little bit of oats and a dusting of ceylon cinnamon, adding a bit more water from a kettle so it's not dry. Cook until oats are soft, adding more water if it gets too dry before then. When done mixed in the mung beans.

Was some decent slop actually. Only critique is that I could have skipped the parsnip, didn't combine as well as the rest. A potato would've been good I think.

Ingredient list:
mung beans
oats
onion
carrot
parsnip (skip this)
canned tomato
tomato paste
garlic
cayenne
mustard seed
basil
cinnamon (ceylon)

I feel like not enough people know about the easy modular soup recipe.

Start with 1 root vegetable and 1 or more aromatics (such as onion/garlic). Saute the vegetables in a pan, and set aside. Add a protein of your choice (stew cut beef, chicken cutlets, polish sausage, etc) and cook until the fat is rendered. Drain, and place both the protein and the vegetables in a pot over medium heat. Quench with 1 liter of broth of your choice (match the protein if possible). Bring to a boil, and add 1 seasoning (salt usually) and 1 or more spice (black pepper and cayenne pepper work great). Reduce to a simmer, and add some filler (rice/okra for gumbo, dumplings, or noodles). You now have a soup that will last for several meals, and is healthy and tasty.

A tip I learned recently, scrambled eggs get better texture if you mix a bit of corn starch powder with water and pour it into the raw eggs as you break them up. I do something like a teaspoon for three eggs. I haven't tried side by side yet, but they get softer I think? Supposedly potato starch powder should work even better because of its chemical properties but I haven't tried that yet.

Tofu lightly marinated in soy sauce can serve as a replacement for scrambled eggs in some dishes, like egg fried rice. I like tofu fried rice due to my egg allergy. Press extra firm tofu overnight, crumble it into chunks in a bowl, and pour soy sauce over the chunks, evenly coating them but not drowning them. Then make fried rice as usual, adding the tofu in with the vegetables to fry and absorb just a little oil.

Now that someone mentioned soy sauce I just wanna say that I've been adding it really often to my meals now, to not say almost all rice and noodle bowls that I cook use a lot of it.
Really surprised as to why I didn't discover it sooner

>>1017
Sushi's, please dont use mayo as white sauce… please. White sauce/alfredo is like 4 ibgredients max and is super easy to make. I know this is a doshigatai recipe but nobody is beyond the point of throwing butter, cream and cheese in a sauce pan.

>>1271
1. I literally am beyond that point some days
2. I don't normally have cream and cheese on hand
3. Mayonnaise is naturally lactose free
4. I don't even like alfredo that much

One really easy dish to make are peanut sauce noodles. Boil the noodles in a pot of water, and mix up peanut butter, soy sauce, a bit of vinegar, and chili flakes in a bowl. You can also add cut up green onions if you feel like it, it's not too hard and it adds great textural contrast. Then, just drain the noodles (keep a bit of the water in the pot though), and add it to sauce. Mix it up and enjoy!

it's hard for me to remember to eat or put much effort into cooking, so i usually stick by the combination of carb + protein + veggie
carb: tortillas, sandwich bread, pasta, rice
protein: ground beef, chicken, tinned fish, veggie burgers, sausage
veggie: spinach is a favorite of mine and what i primarily use but i also like broccoli, aromatic veggies of course like garlic and onion

i'll cook ground beef (or heat up black bean burgers, i like the brand morning star) with aromatics and herbs and wrap into a burrito with cheese, and pan fry it.
i'll also have bacon fried rice with a standard vegetable mix of peas, carrots, etc. tinned salmon/tuna for pasta dishes, i don't like my pasta dishes heavy with sauce so i just use butter and olive oil, herbs, and mix it all together with pasta water. reduce the sauce and it'll be all nice and combined…

Any other microwave salad enjoyers here? As it gets colder I like my salads to be warm. Works best with spinach or other tougher greens, lettuce doesn't take the microwave so well.

Ingredients:
Spinach
Pickled vegetables
Cheese
Turkey
Salad dressing

Lately my drunk snack of choice has been a hoagie bun, which I slice in half and add a thin layer of Vegemite in-between the slices. It's like an impromptu uncooked Vegemite sandwich, and it does the trick real nice. It's filling and super salty.

Charcuterie is pretty simple

Pita bread pizza is super easy to make.

You will need pita breads, wholewheat ideally but any are fine
Tomato paste
Cheese (cheddar, red leicester, double gloucester, or any other hard cheese)

If you have them:
Italian herbs
Toppings, e.g. pepperoni, mushrooms, onions

Preheat the grill to 220C.
Put the pita breads on a baking tray.

In a jug, mix a squirt of tomato paste with a little bit of water to make a thick sauce. Add some Italian herbs if you are including them.

Using a tablespoon, put a spoonful on top of each pita bread and spread it out to the edges with the back of the spoon.

Grate some cheese over the top of each pita bread.

If you are including extra toppings, put them on top of the cheese.

Heat under the grill for 5 to 10 minutes, until the cheese has melted and is bubbling.