Carbonara. It's ridiculously easy and very tasty.
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Pretty much all of them. I've made it a project to feed myself with just nonperishables given like 30 minutes of cooking a night, and I'm about 75% of the way there, I'd say. Salad greens and eggs seem to be impossible to replace, but I can realistically have my own chicken coop and a little growing area indoors. Canadian food prices and qualities are fucked, yo, especially away from big centers.
Last night, I had stierum with a simple salad. It's a bit like a single, big savoury pancake, and you eat it cut into cubes. The dressing is cream (the one rule-breaking element, for now), a dash of vinegar, and salt and pepper to taste. I like to let it soak into the bread a bit
On nights I really DGAF, my go-tos are pasta with jarred sauce, or shakshuka. You can get shakshuka sauce in a jar now, so you just empty it into a frying pan, crack four eggs in, and cover until they're cooked. Serve with toast, which you can butter with vegetable oil or ghee.
You can make a vegetarian pulled pork with canned green jackfruit, an onion, bottled barbecue sauce, buns and jarred red cabbage and apple in place of the coleslaw. You pretty much pull apart the jackfruit, and add it with the sauce to sauteed onions. It's delicious, all three components are slightly sweet and they go together well.
I'll stop there, unless somebody is actually interested, but I've got a few more.
Sometimes I bulk out my shakshuka with another great pantry staple - lentils. And a little more involved for this thread but mujadara is another great dish that's primarily pantry ingredients plus onions. But I almost always have onions on hand and they keep so I give them a pass
Roasted peppers and pesto pasta with sun-dried tomatoes.
Chicken Teriyaki. I often have left over grilled chicken breast or thighs so the hard part is already done. I just throw the chicken into a skillet along with some broccoli, pour in store bought teriyaki sauce and serve it on a bowl of rice.
Is the broccoli already cooked? Or are you just heating it up to absorb the sauce?
No, not cooked. More specifically, I throw them in first with a bit of oil to roast them a little before adding the chicken and sauce.
How long does that take? Are you using high heat?
Not long, 5-7 minutes, medium heat. Cook the broccoli for a minute or two until it browns on one side (I cut florets in half so it has a flat side), add in chicken and sauce and cook until they're hot.
Meatballs and spaghetti :)
Leftovers. Honestly, I cook like two times a week. Throw most of it in the fridge, some of it in the freezer, and grab a collection of whatever and microwave, air fry, or convention oven it. Even better is if the "cooking" is smoking or crock pot. You know, throw it in, check every few hours, kind of deals.
Otherwise, I'll just eat ingredients and pretend it's a charcuterie.
The other is sandwiches and eggs. Make bacon, use bread or eggs to clean up grease, throw some meat or cheese on it, season with bull shit (whatever premixed seasoning sounds good). I like mayo and balsamic on my sandwiches too. That's my easier than eating out and actually worth eating stuff.
Tuna salad sandwich
Tuna, celery, onion, mayo, dry dill, garlic powder, pickles if you want in a bowl and mix. Spread on toast and that's it. Has plenty of protein and will keep you full.
Next is ramen.
Boil water to cook ramen noodles
Stir fry some onion, scallion whites, other hard veggies and garlic, once tender add some soy sauce, broth and some bouillon powder, and soft or leafy veg and the scallion greens.
Let that cook and add noodles and a light drizzle of sesame oil
Porkchop and potato cut into wedgies tossed in the toaster oven then some raw broccoli for pooping power later
Usually I cross the street for some Mexican food! Cheap and magnificent!
Cassava flakes mixed with milk and sweetener
- Preheat oven to 425 MAGA temperature units.
- Put as many frozen brussles sprouts as you can fit in a single layer in an 8x8 roasting pan (disposable pan for extra laziness).
- Oh come on. You can fit another couple in there. Just cram 'em in.
- That's better.
- Spray olive oil all over 'em.
- Garlic salt all over 'em.
- Paprika.
- Onion powder.
- Black pepper.
- Throw a frozen Aidells-brand pre-cooked andouille or italian sausage on top.
- Cook for an hour.
If you want to be just a little less lazy, you can throw a handful of raw pecans on top of the brussles sprouts to roast about 18-20 minutes before that hour is up.
Why is this downvoted? It's a long list literally just because of writing style, if that's the issue. I guess an hour is a little on the long side, but lots of people are throwing out slowcooker recipes.
Roast brussels sprouts and sausage in an oven, with certain spices. Come back when it's done. Better?
I know, right? Maybe if I ever create a social media platform, I'll require people to write a short explanation why every time they downvote. Lol.
The "MAGA temperature units" comment was tongue-in-cheek and making fun of Americans like me for using the cockamamie Fahrenheit system, I promise.
Breaded chicken tenders with spaghetti and jarred sauce or pesto.