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[derillius24]

I'm bored shitless of making the same dinner night after night. I love food and drink, and I thoroughly enjoy cooking when it's for more than just me. The problem is, for the past four years I have been cooking for one the vast majority of the time as I live apart from my girlfriend and she works generally unsociable hours so even weekends together are few and far between just now.

My go-to meals (mainly because they're quick, cheap-ish and and I can Michelle-Roux Jr them on autopilot nowadays I've made them so fucking often) are pesto pasta with some sort of vegetable / meat arrangement thrown in, omelettes, or some sort of fish with veg and / or rice on the side.

However, I'm losing the plot with it and it's becoming increasingly tempting to just get take-away and induce Diabetes / become atherosclerosed at record rate.

Tonight I threw pasta, prawns, chopped tomatoes, pine nuts and a tonne of black pepper in a pan - it was surprisingly tasty.

/Ramble.

BCF, come at me with your culinary witchcraft. What do you cook and eat often because it's quick, tasty, cheap and (reasonably) healthy? Apathy, paired with my expanding waistline, is losing me about 1bhp per day. I have just over 104 days until my ST-R is rendered powerless.

Ta
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[chickenstrip]

Is it summer where you are? Yes? Then try this:

Marinate a couple of boned chicken thighs in olive oil, lemon juice, ground cumin and coriander, chopped chillies and crushed garlic, half an hour will do.
Grill on a ridged grill pan on the hob until cooked through. Serve with a salad and some crusty bread, sprinkling over plenty of salt and squeeze a couple of wedges of lime over it. A taste explosion on the tongue!

A quick and simple one I use a lot:

Chopped courgettes, peppers (red, green, yellow, whatever you like), red onion, cherry tomatoes (whole) - I often cheat and just buy a Med. veg ready mix.
Put a chicken breast in a roasting dish, scatter the veg around it. Sprinkle over a mix of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, basil, oregano, garlic, salt and freshly ground black pepper. Shove in oven on about 190C for about 45 mins, or until the chook is cooked through. Serve with brown rice.
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[Itchy]

Pelmeni, Borscht

Boris describes the process quite well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO7AdLsUSec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RjawJ8LImM

My own?

Steamed eggs is kind of popular. Get a shallow bowl. Crack some eggs into it (3 at least), beat until it's a uniform colour. Add salt, pepper and then anything you want, peas, mushrooms, prawns, finely chopped beef or any thin small bits of left over cooked meat. Plop into egg add a half a tea spoon of vinegar for every egg you used. Then put it atop a bain marie to steam until the egg solidifies. Put some chives or spring onion atop and you can eat it. It's sort of like quiche.


Another one is meat stuffing.

Find some meat, pork is good, add some king prawn (raw else the texture is wrong) and chop it into a paste. Add salt, tiny bit of black pepper and also put some super fine chopped chilli and chives onions. Keep chopping until it becomes a jelly.

Then you get either a green paper and burn it on the hob. This chars the skin. Stick it in a bowl with cling film over it so it steams the bitter skin off. Peel the skin. Chop it open take out the seeds. Then stuff the meat thing you made before into the hollow of the pepper. Now you can steam or fry the pepper. For best results fry the meat side of the pepper and steam the rest of the pepper.


Or you can use it as an aubergine sandwich filler. Same deal but you simply put it between 1.5cm thick aubergine slices and fry them. You stab through the middle with a steel skewer to the middle of the meat gets cooked. Cook until outside is crispy.


Super easy? Buy fish, get them to gut it. Score the sides, put in chunky bits of ginger, spring onion then steam. While it is steaming heat some oil and soy sauce add some sugar or molasses how thick you want it depends on your own taste . After 10 or so minutes steaming depending on how big the fish is. Take it out and pour the soy/oil onto the fish and let is seep into the fish for a moment. Eat.
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Moar Pie



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[winz]

A quick and easy dinner I cooked this evening was pan fried salmon fillet cooked skin down for extra crispy on green beans, broccoli, new potatoes which were tossed in some pesto.
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[Ste]

Bacon.

[andyscooter]

I had steak slimming world chips and asparagus

It was nice
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[Ste]

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[Suntan Sid]

My go to easy meal is cajun chicken stir fry!
Diced chicken breast, peppers, onions, garlic, chillies, (to your own taste) and Cajun spice mix.
Chuck it the pan and fry it up.
I normally chuck in the spice mix after I've chucked everything else in!
Takes about 10 minutes, eat it with wraps and salad, or rice, or a potato product.

Fried rice is also good, go to aldi and buy packets of microwave egg fried rice, (49p a packet), fry up garlic, ginger, onions, and some bacon pieces in oil and sesame oil, chuck in chopped peppers and a couple of chopped mushrooms, plus prawns or chicken, the packet rice frys up really well.
If you want more flavour make some char sui pork before hand then freeze that in small portions and use that instead of the bacon.

If you're cooking for one and you've got a decent sized freezer, cook your meat products, stews, bolognese, curries etc for 4 and freeze in portions for one. All you've got to do then is remember to get something out of the freezer in the morning, then prepare the accompaniments in the evening, and nuke the, thawed out, meat!
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[UncleFester]

Do HelloFresh for a few months, build up some menus then cancel it and mix up what you've had.

That's what we do - as a non chef who doesn't mind cooking it's a no waste easy way to eat fresh stuff.

I mix mine with wine / pizza because already diabetic
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[Dave70]

Crisp butties (cheese & onion or prawn cocktail).

Preferably Walkers crisps.

Comes with the added benefit of very little washing up needed afterwards.
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[dydey90]

I always have some sliced mushrooms and peppers in the freezer and some tins of chopped tomatoes and passata in the cupboard. Stick in a handful of whatever spices you fancy and you can make a sauce for just about anything. Fried up the peppers and mushrooms pad out most meals and contain next to no calories. For extra points, spinach balls work well too.
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[ScaredyCat]

Have a look at the Hairy Bikers recipes...

https://www.hairybikers.com/recipes
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[recman]

Eggy bread sprinkled with finely chopped bacon.

[Jayy]

This thread should be dedicated to actual photos of people's creations on here. I can't really cook but it would be cool to see.

[dydey90]

[Baffler186]

diced sweet potatoe, smoked streaky bacon, diced mushrooms, paprika, garlic (if you want to smell). 1 pan wonder, quick and easy, fairly healthy and cheap.
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[hellkat]

Raw Sauce:

Ingredients
1. As many garlic cloves as you can cope with (must be beyond anti-social, i.e., more than 6)
2. Huge handful of parsley, normal or flat-leaf: it doesnt matter so long as its huge
3. Half a dozen large fresh tomatoes (or 2 tins of chopped ones if you feel lazy)

Plunge tomatoes in boiling water to remove skins. Smoosh into a bowl until pulped.
Peel, chop, crush garlic, add to tomatoes.
Wash and chop parsley, add to tomatoes and garlic.
Boil spaghetti, drain, pile into bowl/s, add sauce.
Eat.

Can also be done with fluffy white rice (Uncle Bens if lazy, but done properly is best)

Sometimes I drain a tin of tuna and put that on top.
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[stinkwheel]

COuple of my quick and easy ones.

Pack of chicken thighs (skin on).

Put 6 tabespoons of sugar and two tablespoons of madras curry powder in a jug. Add a slug of oil and enough vinegar to mix it up to a paste.

Put the chicken in an oven proof dish, pour over the sugar/curry mixture and put in oven at 180 degrees for about half an hour. Uncover and give it another 10 minutes.

Serve with rice and peas.



Fish is also quick and easy.

Get a whole fish, trout or bass works well. Put a piece of tinfoil on a board, wipe it over with oil, sprinkle it with black pepper, seaweed impregnated sea salt, lemon zest and chopped herbs (I use thyme and lemon balsm).

Make some slits in the side of the fish, rub more spice/salt pepper in and put the fish on the foil, fold the edges over to make a parcel. Put a squirt of lemon juice or vinegar in just before closing and poke a small hole in the top.

Bung it in a pre heated oven at 180 for 20 minutes or so.

I'll often do it with fresh soda bread and butter (takes minutes to prepare and if put in the oven as you start prepping the fish, will be ready at the same time) and accompanied by steamed kale drizzled in cold pressed rapeseed oil with nutmeg and black pepper.

Takes about 45 minutes from walking into the kitchen to having it on the plate. 20 of those minutes are waiting for the oven.
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[Jayy]

I like to eat healthy and train hard.

Just kidding, this is what I just made.

https://i.imgur.com/2ZBWjHA.jpg

[hellkat]

My fridge is mainly devoted to liquids at the moment : a litre of ordinary milk, half a tin of condensed milk, half a bottle of Sauternes, a brace of cans of Stella, a bottle of mango coulis and a carton containing about a mouthful of Tropicana-with-no-bits

Hence tonight it was devoid of much food other than the half a packet of bacon we had for lunch.

So I scrambled three eggs in the bacon fat/brownings, rescued the inside leaves of the celery I was about to chuck out, chopped it up and put it on slightly burnt wholewheat toast.

The Paxton and Whitfield cheeses were looking a bit ropy so I left them there to , uhhhh, ripen.

Quick and easy. Slightly healthful (wheat toast/celery)
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[hellkat]