So I'm trying to get better at cooking and cook new things. So drop down some of your food recipes. Start with simple and basic foods to make please! Maybe others can better their cooking too lol
I wanna learn how to make more basic 30-60 minute dishes so shoot them recipes my way gotta have simple ingredients too lol
K I got you. Buy whole chicken, rub with oil add salt & pepper. Add whatever other seasonings and spices you like or have on hand. Peel some carrots and potatoes. Toss them is oil and seasoning too. Throw it all in a roasting pan. Bake on 375 until internal temperature of chicken reaches 160°F. Check a thick part like a breast because undercooked chicken will make you sick af. Pull it out of the oven and throw some foil on top. Let it sit for 5-10 minutes. Boom. You have dinner for under $10
Brown hamburger in big pot(or use leftover sloppy joes or taco meat) Throw in garlic and onion when it's about done. Take inventory of your refrigerator and pull out every vegetable that's gotta get used up soon. Chop them up and add them. Fill the pot the rest of the way up with frozen or canned veggies. Add a big can of diced tomatoes, crushed tomatoes or tomato sauce 🤷♀️whatever you've got. Then add beef stock or broth until your veggie/beef mixture is covered. Add salt & pepper to taste. Now you have a months supply of soup.
Cut bacon into pieces. Fry and remove from skillet but reserve the grease. Set bacon aside. Add hamburger to skillet with hot bacon grease. Salt & pepper. Brown hamburger. Add diced onion and garlic to hamburger when it's almost done. Drain fat. Add ketchup, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, salt & pepper to taste. Mix reserved bacon into your mixture. You'll never eat sloppy Joe's without bacon in them ever again.
Cut chicken into bit size pieces. Put into big ziploc bag. Add a bunch of corn starch, some salt, pepper, whatever spices you like to the bag. Shake it up until evenly coated. Fry in oil until they float (3-5 minutes depending on the size). It's lazy chicken nuggets.
Boil water. Add tons of salt. Boil macaroni noodles. Drain and set aside. Melt butter in skillet. Add equal amount of flour by weight. Whisk whisk whisk until combined. Add a small amount of milk. Whisk whisk whisk. Add more milk. Whisk whisk whisk. It will thicken. Add shredded cheese. Whisk whisk whisk. Season to taste. (Don't let it sit still the whole time you're making this, dairy is disgusting when it burns and it burns quick. So keep it moving in the pan) Add macaroni to baking dish. Mix in cheese sauce and cover with bread crumbs. Bake for like 15 minutes. You can now brag that you don't eat boxed mac and cheese
Homemade Mac and cheese over the boxed shit, any day. But have you ever just mixed everything straight into the pasta? Doesn’t dirty/burn in another pot. I cook and drain pasta, put it back in the pot and set it on the burner turned to low or warm. I add butter, milk, shredded cheese, shredded chicken, and a can of cream of chicken soup. I stir it up and let it sit for 5 minutes with the lid on the pot, everything melts together and I stir some more. Chicken Mac. With only one dirty pot
🤷♀️I have to make a roux when I do it because tradition. But there's lots of ways to make mac & cheese I guess. Less dishes is always a plus!
Well it's summer so be like me and take advantage of salad season. Chop up whatever you have and call it dinner 🤣
Well thats easy 😶😂 but yehh its what its for. Eating tends to drop a fuck ton over summer coz never known how to make not hot food and last thing wanna do in 30°- 40° heat is stand over a hot stove or oven 😂
Exactly, plus you don't want a heavy meal in the heat. We eat salads almost every day in the summer. I just change up the toppings and the protien because I hate eating the same thing everyday. We were talking about a funny salad the other day actually. It's called depression salad. It's cold spaghetti noodles with lettuce tomatoes and cheese on top and French dressing. My grandma makes it, it sounds disgusting but surprisingly enough it's pretty good. I don't eat noodles though, so I won't be making it anytime soon
My grandma makes another one that's weird but wonderful. It's canned peas, corn, french cut green beans, and then a diced up bell pepper and an onion. Then you mix up some oil, vinegar, sugar, and water, salt & pepper and boil it. You pour the dressing over the veggies and stick it in the refrigerator all day. I put ham in it too so it's got all the food groups to take it from a side dish to a meal.