What are some easy but delicious meals an amateur could make?
I’m 18 and bored of eating only sandwiches and microwave dinners. What are some relatively easy things that I could make – breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack food.
Just looking for something new =]
Basic spaghetti with store bought sauce, that you add cut up veggies like carrots, garlic, peppers, etc.
Ground turkey and bean burritoes, brown the turkey with onions, garlic, peppers, whatever you like, and add the beans at the end to warm. Add shredded cheese, sour cream, diced tomatoes, salsa, green chile sauce.
Minute Brown rice with 30 minute Chicken curry (search Yahoo for chicken curry in a hurry or related recipes.)
Baked potatoes with lots of trimmings.
Breakfast, fry an egg and some canadian bacon, add cheese and make a breakfast sandwich. Make oatmeal the night before by adding some apple juice and some grated fresh apples, soak in fridge overnight- that one’s my favorite!
Do searches for recipes and you’ll find recipezaar, cdkitchen, cooks.com. there’s a lot of ideas.
anna potatoes
salads
omelettes — they’re the most flexible since you can put pretty much anything
fried dicks fried ducks fried ducks
popcorn. lol
Any kind of fruit salad.
Anything on the barbecue, or spegettie meatballs, or a simple stirfry
like pasta? this rocks
boil just enough pasta for yourself
add butter
add italian herbs (they come already mixed in the herbs isle look for the label italian herbs)
add some salt
do everything to your liking and enjoy!!!
hamburgers steak pork chops chicken fettuccine …. and "fried ducks"
Scottish Recipes – Cheese Soup and Dumplings
Cheese Soup
Ingredients:
1oz Butter
1 large onion (finely chopped)
1oz plain flour
4 oz scottish cheddar cheese
Seasoning (Salt & Pepper)
3/4 pt milk
1 level teaspoon dry mustard
1/2 pt chicken or vegetable stock
Dumplings:
2oz porridge oats
1oz shredded beef suet
1 finely chopped small onion
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
1 beaten egg
Seasoning
Method:
Use a pan large enough to contain all the ingredients. Then, melt butter and cook onion till soft. Stir in the flour, mustard and cook for approx. one minute. Then stir in the stock and milk, season and bring to the boil. Then cover and simmer for 15 minutes.
For the dumplings, place the oats, suet, onion and chopped parsley into a seasoning bowl and bind with the egg. Divide the mixture and roll into small balls. Bring a saucepan of (salted) water to the boil and drop the dumplings in. Cook for approx. 15 minutes, then remove from water and keep warm
Your soup should now be ready to remove from the heat. Add the cheese(grating will make this a quicker process) and stir until fully melted. Then return to the heat and when the soup is hot through, serve immediately with the dumplings placed in each bowl.
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Hash Brown Casserole
1 cup onion, diced
1/4 lb. (1 stick) butter, thinly sliced
1 (8 oz.) container sour cream or plain yogurt (optional)
1 (8 oz.) pkg. Kraft Cracker Barrel sharp cheese
1 can Cream of Chicken soup
1 (2 lb.) bag frozen hash brown potatoes, thawed
1/2 to 1 cup potato chips or corn flakes
Stir together well the diced onion, sour cream or yogurt, grated cheese, thinly sliced butter, and Cream of Chicken soup. Add the hash browns and mix well.
Spread this mixture evenly in a casserole dish and top with crushed chips or corn flakes.
Bake at 350°F 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
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Hash Brown Casserole
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 tablespoon butter
1 can (10 1/2 ounces) cream of celery soup
1/3 cup milk
1 small package (3 ounces) cream cheese
4 cups (loose pack) frozen hash brown potatoes
1/2 cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
PREPARATION:
In a saucepan, saute onion in butter slowly until tender. Add soup, milk, and cream cheese; cook over medium low heat, stirring, until smooth. Combine potatoes and onions in a large bowl; stir in the soup mixture.
Pour into a 10x7x1 1/2 inch baking dish; cover with foil. Bake at 350° for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until potatoes are tender. Remove foil and top with the shredded cheese. Return to oven to melt cheese.
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Potato Broccoli Casserole
INGREDIENTS:
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 cups milk
1 (3-ounce) package cream cheese, cubed
1/2 cup shredded mild cheddar cheese or process Swiss cheese
16 ounces (about 4 cups) frozen hash brown potatoes, thawed
2 cups frozen chopped broccoli, cooked and drained
1/4 cup fine dry bread crumbs
1 tablespoon melted butter
PREPARATION:
In a saucepan over medium low heat, melt the 2 tablespoons butter; blend in flour, salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and milk. Cook and stir until bubbly. Add cream cheese and Cheddar or Swiss cheese, stirring until melted.
Stir in potatoes. Spoon half of the mixture into a shallow buttered baking dish, about 10x6x2-inch or 8-inch square. Top with broccoli. Spoon remaining mixture over the broccoli. Cover and bake at 350° for 30 to 35 minutes. Mix bread crumbs with remaining melted butter; sprinkle around edges of casserole. Bake, uncovered, 10 to 15 minutes longer
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Potato Casserole with Sour Cream
INGREDIENTS:
6 potatoes, cooked and grated or riced
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 cup sour cream
1 bunch green onions (6 to 8), chopped
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
1/4 cup melted butter
PREPARATION:
Directions for potato casserole
Lightly butter a 2-quart casserole. In a large bowl, combine potatoes, salt, sour ream, green onions, and Cheddar cheese; spoon into casserole. Pour butter over top of potatoes; bake at 425° for 25 minutes, or until potato casserole is nicely browned
you could try working with eggs. its easy to make fried eggs, boiled eggs, all sorts of omlettes. that should cover your breakfast, added with toast and milk.
as for lunch try getting so chicken. its relatively easy to make and maybe boil rice with it! steam veggies, have fresh fruit with yogurt or ice cream for dessert.
and for dinne honestly i just make pizzas on bagels or have an omlette sandwich.
try looking up simple recipes on the internet, you’d be surprised how helpful google can be with food. and everything else:)
I’m King of simple and delicious, so here’s an easy one; Your friends will think yoiu slaved away all day it’s SO good!
Get some boneless chicken breasts- Brown them a little in a skillet with a little oil. Just long enough to get a nice brown outside. Then, put them in an oven dish (probably glass/pyrex or metal is OK…. cover with Salsa (Yea, the stuff you’d use for chips)
Cover with foil and bake at 350 for one (1) hour.
Rice is really good with this. Super tasty and tender… Have fun.
spaghetti,with garlic bread..cheap and good
try a SKILLET meal you can find them at most stores they have like a frozen roast one with the potatoes and what not and i get the boil in a bag rice just put the skillet meal over the rice and it is delicious
or the rice mixed with brown gravy mix and hamburger( sounds weird..but is amazing!)
Shrimp fettuccine! It’s just pasta, heavy cream, butter, garlic, parmesan, italian parsley for garnish, and shrimp that you can buy precooked at the store. You basically just heat up the cream and butter until it thickens, add the shrimp and stir until warmed through. Toss with cooked pasta and chopped parsley. If you don’t like shrimp, chicken works just as well (just buy some precooked chicken from the deli counter or cook some chicken breasts in olive oil and butter in a pan). It looks and tastes great for company too. It’s virtually foolproof.
Here is a link to a recipe very similar to mine.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Shrimp-Fettucine-Alfredo/Detail.aspx
Pork steak in a fry pan with some lawrys season salt, table spoon of water cover and cook on med heat until done. Little applesauce
some pork Stove Top stuffing, UM UM GOOD
Also try a fillet of salmon cover with butter(unmelted) cover cookie sheet with foil place in middle of oven at 350 for 20ish minutes
little asparagus UM UM UM GOOOOOOOODD
Spaghetti is fairly easy to make. All you need is a pound of hamburger a box of noodles and some spaghetti sauce. First you brown the hamburger and get some water boiling. Add a pinch of salt to the water to prevent the noodles from sticking. Then once the water starts to boil add the noodles and cook for approximately 10 minutes. After the noodles are done strain them and let them sit. Then add your spaghetti sauce to your hamburger and mix it. All you have to do now is put some noodles on a plate and put your hamburger spaghetti sauce on top and enjoy(:
spaghetti, just buy noodles and jar of sauce n add green pepper and if you have some brown sugar put a little in it is a secret to great sauce.
easy is shake n bake pork chops and just have salad with it.
oatmeal and celery for breakfast.
blend banana and berries and water together for a drink.
have can of soup and buy whole wheat crackers and cheddar cheese with it.
scrambled eggs (free range eggs everybody) is fast and slice tomato on the side.
fry up piece of salmon takes only 5 minutes, steam peas.
vegatarian wrap with fried onions in barbecue sauce.
Im hungry…..now.
Some yummie vol au vents
Chopped roast chicken, chopped bacon pieces, chopped onion, light cream, grated cheese, chopped chives, salt and pepper to taste.
Spoon the ingredients into the vol au vent cases and bake till golden brown, about 15 mins (not too high an oven temp).
You could do lots of different variations on this recipe, maybe add some mushrooms, corn etc.
The mixture keeps for about a week.
Absolutely delicious!
Shepherds Pie is easy, Chicken Noodle soup is too, Haddock Florentine or I know this recipe for a Haddock with Cilantro that is amazing, baked mac n’ cheese, chicken pot pies, lasagna, homemade pasta/sauce…actually relatively simple
I actually know a ton of recipes and it would take a ton of time to put them all in this box. If you want a certain recipe or want me to just email you a bunch email me at thenortheaster@hotmail.com most of them are in my head or ones I’ve fiddled with to make better.
For starters try this:
Chicken Noodle Soup
Chop about 2-3 Carrots and 2-3 stocks/pieces of celery, one onion and any other veggies you like…i like to throw a can of peeled diced tomatos in for extra flavor
throw them in with some chicken broth…
grill, broil, or even boil a chicken breast chop up throw in…add some spices, parsley, cilantro, pepper, or mrs. dash works well too…boil once veggies are tender break up a cup or so fettucine or egg noodles and add boil until tender…eat up!
Seafood Linguini
SAUTE: 2 TSP. GARLIC POWDER
2 TSP. OREGANO
4 TBLS. MARGARINE
(for 1 minute, stirring constantly)
ADD: 2 MEDIUM TOMATOES (CHOPPED) (I used 2 cans of diced tomatoes in tomatoe juice, 14.5 oz each can, total of 29 oz)
(Stir and cook for 3 minutes)
ADD: 12oz MILNOT
1 CUP GREEN ONIONS (CHOPPED)
1 CUP GRATED SWISS CHEESE
6 OZ. GRATED PARMESAN CHEESE
After cheeses have melted
ADD: 16 OZ. IMITATION CRAB (I used 24 oz)
POUR OVER: 12 OZ. COOKED LINGUINE NOODLES
NOTE: There’s just a little milk left in the can. After I drain the noodles, I pour the remaining milk over the noodles and stir, before I add the sauce. It thickens up considerably after setting a while.
Remember milnot is evaporated MILK
Vegetable stir fry easy as…
saute in frying pan onions, garlic,ginger.
NEXT place enought beef mince in frying pan, cook in till your desired colour. NEXT add good amount of chopped vegetables or stir fry mix. <you could add same soy sauce not to much enought to taste, cook in till al dente. NEXT serve.. REPLACEMENT you could take out the soy sauce and add the pasta sauce towards the end then serve…