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Hey everyone,
So as of late my parents went to B.C. and my brother is going off to UWO for his first year of University. This means the entire house to myself and yes lots of house parties and whatnot but what I want to ask is:
Do you guys have any recipes that are fairly simple to make but taste really good?
Most of the stuff I've made so far is just a bunch of Korean food and some other stuff like Risotto, Filet Mignon, Tartar, etc. Most of this is off the Food Network I always watch at home but I'm getting bored of some of it and alot of the other stuff is waaaaay to complicated for me right now.
So any good ones would be appreciated!
P.S. Something that looks good, tastes good, and can be an actual meal.
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bits of bacon, eggs, shredded cheese. Scramble. so good.
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Get some fresh vegetables and some spices. Then get some pasta, couscous, noodles, ramen, rice or potatos.
Cook rice/pasta/noobles/ramen/couscous or in case of potatos (cook and then) bake.
Stir fry your vegetables in vegetable/olive oil. Do the hard/big ones first. Add the softer/smaller ones a bit later. Add a lot of spices to taste. Stuff like coriander and the like.
Maybe you want to add concentrated tomato paste or tomato sauce or soy sauce or some other form of sauce to your vegetables. Add more oil or water if you have to. Now you have the option of mixing in your rice/pasta/whatever to your vegetables (and potentially the sause/spice-based condiment) if you want to. Otherwise you keep the flavours seperate.
This is how you make all food.
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My basic day-to-day recipe would have to be pasta. Easy, cheap, healthy and tasty. Should be doable in 20 minutes.
Cook noodles in a large pot with plenty of boiling salted water until they have the desired hardness. Stir from time to time so they don't stick together.
Meanwhile, prepare the sugo sauce: parch a diced onion and pieces of salami, bacon or mincemeat. Add tomatoes in juice, mashed or cubed form (the stuff you can buy in cans is fine). Season with salt, pepper, basil, oregano, and - if you like - hot spices like chili or tabasco. Hint: if the sugo is too fluid, stir in some flour or corn starch to bind it a bit.
The noodles should be finished by now. Strain them in a sieve, put some olive oil in the pot, then put them back into the pot to keep them warm. I like mixing the noodles with the sugo right here to stir it up properly, but most people rather have a plate full of pure noodles with a blob of sugo on top.
Serve with grated cheese.
On May 21 2009 17:45 Diomedes wrote:
Add more oil or water if you have to.
NEVER EVER pour water into hot oil!
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Ummm really easy stuff off the top of my head...
burgers are easy & cheap (especially if youre a broke ass like me at eat them on toast instead of buns >.>)
ground beef (comes usually 2.25lb) + dry onion soup mix (box of 2 mixes)
if you get the pack of 2.25lb, cut it in half when you get home and freeze it. defrost either a day ahead of when you want it in the fridge, or an hour or two ahead in cold water in a sink.
put the soup mix on the ground beef, add an egg, mix it up, form it into 4 patties, throw em on a frying pan (or if you have a foreman, abuse that shit!)
Flip em every few minutes, should be done in about ten minutes or so on medium heat. Pretty simple and cheap.
Chicken is even easier to cook (buy the boneless breasts for no hassle, similar price to beef). Cut up a breast, throw it on a frying pan on medium heat. stir it up as its cooking so it cooks on all sides. Then throw it in one of those box pastas (that you'll be heating simultaneously. Might sound complicated, but youre seriously just stirring both >.>) If you feel really crazy, add mushrooms to the pasta while its cooking.
Lots of stuff that's similarly cheap, easy, and delicious (like tacos!). Do stuff like cooking chicken, throwing a tortilla in the microwave with some cheese on it for 25 seconds or until the cheese is melted, put the chicken on there, easy and delicious.
btw you should be spicing most things (anything chicken related for sure), but since most people have no idea what Tony's is, use whatever local spices you have.
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I like and appreciate what's been posted so far on this topic - I hope people keep it coming!
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On May 21 2009 18:00 Scorch wrote:
NEVER EVER pour water into hot oil!
Is this a joke? Yeah you don't throw water into a pan with boiling hot oil. But have you ever cooked anything?
How else are you going to add your ingredients? wtf If you add spices mixed with water it won't even sizzle.
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On May 21 2009 18:33 Diomedes wrote:Yeah you don't throw water into a pan with boiling hot oil.
That's what I meant and said. No need to atttack me.
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You could try looking through some of the old PX issues, and reading over some of c0bbler's recipes. Try them out, then blog about how they were.
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the problem is most of the ingredients he uses are pretty, pretty gourmet/expensive.
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I love cooking
Favorite dish to make for a bunch of friends is potatoes made in the oven with meat/chicken and a salad. Really hard to fail the potatoes actually comes out as in this picture:
take 4 potatoes / person. Put them in a big plastic spoon to prevent cutting through when you slice them up.
Roll them around in oil and place on oven plate. Salt and breadcrumbs on top to get extra crisps. This is not very healthy so I usually cut back to two potatoes / person and serve with extra veggies instead. Place slightly higher up then middle on 225 degrees Celsius
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Do normal chicken - hence slice it into equal sizes spray a little grease on it or use your fingers to make it a thin layer and then just roll it around in whatever spices you like and then just fry it.
Go for a standard souse you know how to make. Make the salad colorful and fresh.
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I do food and my girlfriend washes our clothes.
I cook lunch for the coming week every sunday. I make food for 12 luchboxes and it never takes me more then one hour.
This is an example (I made 18 boxes that time though)
It's bolognese sauce(to eat with spaghetti) and lasagna (I buy BIG packs of minced meat)
I can put the recipes here if someone is interested
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On May 21 2009 21:05 Patriot.dlk wrote:I do food and my girlfriend washes our clothes. I cook lunch for the coming week every sunday. I make food for 12 luchboxes and it never takes me more then one hour. This is an example (I made 18 boxes that time though) It's bolognese sauce(to eat with spaghetti) and lasagna (I buy BIG packs of minced meat) I can put the recipes here if someone is interested
Lasagna sounds good, if you could post it here that'd be awesome.
By the way I'm also loving all the ideas that are coming through in this thread, thanks guys.
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Here's something you might like:
You need:
Small red potatoes
Salmon filet [ I prefer with skin ]
Salt+Fresh cracked ground pepper+Butter+Extra virgin olive oil
Parsley or other herb.
-Salt and pepper your filet liberally after drizzling with some oil. Or just oil and heat your pan.
-Boil a pot of water, salt it, leave in potatoes for around 40 mins [ this part isn't quick but you can do this ahead of time during the week and you can have potatoes whenever you want ]
-A good way to tell if potatoes are done or not is to stick a chopstick or fork in them and if they fall out easily it means they're done. Before you put the potatoes in the water, cut the bigger ones in half so the potatoes are generally the same size.
-Butter/Oil your pan and throw in your filet, about 4/5 mins on each side [ more for skin side ] and also depending on how rare you like your salmon
-Pull out potatoes, drizzle with olive oil, salt pepper, sprinkle with parsley/other herbs and voila.
Plate filet next to potatoes.
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Simple recipes?
Adobo: Brown some chicken and/or pork in a frying pan for like 5 minutes. You'll finish cooking them later, you just want them to be browned.
In a saucepan add soy sauce and vinegar at a 1:4 ratio (more vinegar than soy sauce, you can adjust this to your taste), as much garlic as you want, a bay leaf if you have one, some ginger if you have some, and then stir it all together, put it over medium heat, add in your meat, and let it simmer for like 40 minutes to an hour. Serve with rice.
Corned beef hash thing: Dice about 2-4 potatoes (depending on size and how much you want) along with half an onion and fry it up in a pan. Once they're done add in a can of corned beef you can pick up at pretty much any store and stir it up. Serve with rice and beans.
Simple cheesy noodles: Boil some noodles as usual. After you drain them leave them in the colander and use your pot (which should now be on low heat) to make the sauce by adding in a tablespoon of butter, some flour after the butter's melted down (I never bothered to measure it, but enough so that it makes a sort of runny paste) then add in like...a quarter cup of milk, stir it up until it makes a thick sauce. This is a basic white sauce, you can add a shitload of things to this to make a number of dishes. Anyways throw in your noodles, add in whatever shredded cheese you have around (parmesan is fine), add in whatever spices (rosemary, thyme, etc.), then just stir it around until the cheese is melted, you may have to add in more milk. Then that's all.
Maybe those are a bit too simple, but I'm not sure how simple you want.
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On May 22 2009 00:56 Ack1027 wrote:
Here's something you might like:
You need:
Small red potatoes
Salmon filet [ I prefer with skin ]
Salt+Fresh cracked ground pepper+Butter+Extra virgin olive oil
Parsley or other herb.
-Salt and pepper your filet liberally after drizzling with some oil. Or just oil and heat your pan.
-Boil a pot of water, salt it, leave in potatoes for around 40 mins [ this part isn't quick but you can do this ahead of time during the week and you can have potatoes whenever you want ]
-A good way to tell if potatoes are done or not is to stick a chopstick or fork in them and if they fall out easily it means they're done. Before you put the potatoes in the water, cut the bigger ones in half so the potatoes are generally the same size.
-Butter/Oil your pan and throw in your filet, about 4/5 mins on each side [ more for skin side ] and also depending on how rare you like your salmon
-Pull out potatoes, drizzle with olive oil, salt pepper, sprinkle with parsley/other herbs and voila.
Plate filet next to potatoes.
Made this today. Most of it turned out okay. "Most". My potatoes shrunk because I overcooked it (was playing UMS games while cooking and did it by mistake). Other than that, my herbs, red onion, peppers, etc went pretty well with the salmon. No pictures on this one, I'll post some when I make this again ... successfully 
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On May 21 2009 17:45 Diomedes wrote:
Get some fresh vegetables and some spices. Then get some pasta, couscous, noodles, ramen, rice or potatos.
Cook rice/pasta/noobles/ramen/couscous or in case of potatos (cook and then) bake.
Stir fry your vegetables in vegetable/olive oil. Do the hard/big ones first. Add the softer/smaller ones a bit later. Add a lot of spices to taste. Stuff like coriander and the like.
Maybe you want to add concentrated tomato paste or tomato sauce or soy sauce or some other form of sauce to your vegetables. Add more oil or water if you have to. Now you have the option of mixing in your rice/pasta/whatever to your vegetables (and potentially the sause/spice-based condiment) if you want to. Otherwise you keep the flavours seperate.
This is how you make all food.
i am lazy so i just buy stir fry sauces normally
but my sister goes the spice route she has her whole spice rack, like 50 different spices hehe
ahhh patriot that lasagna looks good
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