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This Topic is only for recipes that are easy to make and/or fast. For those who want food done fast or those that don't want to put in a lot of work making it!

 

Here are some recipes from myself!

 

 

Improved Instant Ramen-

While cooking the noodles you can fry a egg and chop some green onions and add it in for a big taste improvement, make sure to bust the yoke and stir it good into the Ramen when adding.

If you have any pre cooked Chicken/beef/prok you can add some pieces.

(I personally like to add peanut butter to chicken Ramen)

 

Easy stir fry- Boil some rice and then let it cool in the refrigerator (Cold rice is better to cook with) Season some meat pieces and cook in a pan and just toss in a bag of frozen mixed veggies and let it cook! Add whatever seasoning you want.

 

Grilled Roast Beef provolone Sandwich-

This is one of my favorites! You butter the outside of the bread and you put your provolone cheese and roast beef lunch meat into it and fry it in a pan, with the lid on to make sure the cheese melts good, until both sides are nice and golden. Then enjoy~ <3

 

Lazy Soup-

Lazy soup is one of the easiest things to make and can be different everytime!

Don't do more than you feel like! You just get a pot of water and toss in whatever you have without doing any work! Just wash it and toss into the pot, feel like only chopping a little? Go for it! Feel like not chopping anything? Go for it! Just toss it all in and cook for a hour! For example: Toss in some whole potatoes, tomatoes, a onion only cut in half, throw in a bag of rice, any meat. Add all the seasonings. Never made a lazy soup I did not like!

 

I'll add some more later!

 

Add your own easy/fast recipes! :3

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The main work involved is chopping some veggies. Or if you're low on spoons you can get them pre-chopped at the store.

 

Skillet Black Beans and Corn

 

Need: a can of black beans, a bag of frozen corn, and some chopped veggies like onion, garlic, green pepper, tomato, or whatever you want in your food. Also a bag of tortilla chips. Oh, and oil to saute with. Shredded cheese and some sour cream and salsa are great with this too.

 

Saute onion, garlic, and green pepper in a little oil. I do this on medium; if you do it on high it might scorch the oil. Saute till the onion starts to get soft. Then add the frozen corn to the skillet, toss it around to coat, and then leave it alone for a few minutes so the corn browns a bit. I guess the sugars in the corn caramelize? Anyway, it tastes good like that.

 

While that's cooking, drain and rinse the black beans. You don't have to rinse them but trust me, it's nicer if you do. Your food will look prettier without that dark liquid in it.

 

Once the corn has browned a bit, toss in the black beans and chopped tomatoes. Or you can throw in some salsa instead of fresh tomatoes. It's your dinner, do what makes you happy.

 

Once everything is heated up, it's done! Crunch up some tortilla chips in a bowl and toss your black beans and corn in there. Top with shredded cheese and sour cream if you want. Cue up Netflix and enjoy.

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Barbecue pork ribs are surprisingly easy. The actual prep time is fast: don't pick this recipe if you want to eat soon, but if you want to put in 10, 15 minutes max of prep work and then do something else for a while until it's time to eat, try this.

 

-Set oven to 275 degrees Fahrenheit/135 degrees Celsius.

-Put ribs (possibly cut the rack of ribs into 2 sections so it'll fit) in a roasting pan (not stacked), toss some black pepper and salt on both sides (and other seasonings if you feel like it; good options are garlic salt, cumin... I used Chinese 5-spice powder once and that turned out surprisingly good.)

-Cover tightly with aluminum foil and throw in the oven for 3 and a half to 4 hours.

-Then take off the foil, throw your preferred store-bought sauce on them, set the oven to a broil setting if it has one at 400 degrees F/200 degrees C (if it doesn't, just do that temperature) and cook them for another like 5 minutes. Good time to heat up frozen veggies in the microwave to go with it. If you don't like barbecue sauce then it's not necessary and you can skip this step altogether.

 

Then all you have to do is cut them apart and eat them :3 You can also substitute a Crockpot/slow cooker on high for the oven if you're not planning to use sauce.

Edited by TheCompleteAnimorph

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This isn't a recipe, but my low-spoons cooking advice as a starving college student is just buy a rice cooker, preferably one with a steamer tray. Any kind of prepared meat (ham, sausages, whatever) you can just throw in with the rice. Get some frozen veggies and dump them in the steamer tray, no defrosting necessary. Then push a button and you have a meal in half an hour.

 

- Don't feel like washing dishes? Eat it right out of the pot.

- Or get a bigger rice cooker and prepare several meals at once.

- Optional: stir in soy sauce/sesame oil/salt/etc once it's ready for extra flavour.

 

Some days I barely have enough spoons to leave the room, so this has been a lifesaver for me. I actually have no idea how you'd cook rice without one of these things or why you'd want to ;p

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While this does involve chopping up stuff and grilling something, it's fairly simple.

 

Quick Bruschetta

 

Need: a tomato, fresh basil, olive oil, french/italian bread (ciabatta works best), garlic, butter (optional)

Equiptment: cutting board, knife, spoons, bowl, pan or skillet, some sort of stove

 

Dice a mediumish tomato, without seeds if you can spare the effort, and cho uo two basil leaves. Add them all together alongside a teaspoon of olive oil in a bowl, mix, add salt pepper to taste.

Then, get a french or Italian loaf of bread. Slice it so each piece has roughly 1.5 inch thickness (I might be wrong here, I dont exactly measure the slices).

If you want a less dry piece later on, add a little real butter on top of the bread. Place the slices in a skillet, turn them over, toast until both sides are light brownish. Get a clove of garlic and rub the top of the toasted bread with the clove, then heap the mixture of tomato, basil and olive oil.

 

 

might not be the most flavorful I didn't take a culinary class fite me.

In any case though, a medium tomato will go a long way, so it's breakfast lunch AND dinner if I have leftovers.

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I am kinda surprised nobody made a thread like this before now xd.png I have quite a few quick but also versatile recipes in my family. This is just two of them, I'll post some more once I get them from my mum.

 

Tomato and Chicken pasta

 

This one takes as long as the chosen pasta takes to cook, so it can take as little as 15 minutes, but certainly no longer than an hour. Put a little oil in a pan, then throw in a chopped onion and cook until translucent. Add a tin of tomatoes (chopped is better, but if not try to break up whole ones with stirring) and cook for about 5 minutes, or until hot. Add some pre-cooked and chopped chicken breast and mix. Then cook your pasta to the packets specifications, and when cooked, drain off and mix in the sauce. Voila, chicken and tomatoes pasta.

 

The great thing about this one is you can change it so much. You can change the chicken for other meat or even vegetables, it's a great way to use leftovers, you can use cream to thicken it, you can use any type of pasta. We tend to add a bit of pepperoni to the sauce.

 

Cheesy Bean Pie

 

This one is even simpler but even more versatile! Tin of beans in a dish, throw some mashed potatoes on top, bit of cheese on top of that, bang in the oven for 20 minutes or until it's golden on top. Job done.

 

With this one, so many options! Throw some meat or veg in the beans, like some ham or sausage, mix the cheese into the potatoes or even some chopped spring onion. You can have it alone, it's pretty filling with a large portion, or you can do a small portion and, while it cooks, why not grill up a pork chop or some sausage?

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This isn't a recipe, but my low-spoons cooking advice as a starving college student is just buy a rice cooker, preferably one with a steamer tray. Any kind of prepared meat (ham, sausages, whatever) you can just throw in with the rice. Get some frozen veggies and dump them in the steamer tray, no defrosting necessary. Then push a button and you have a meal in half an hour.

 

- Don't feel like washing dishes? Eat it right out of the pot.

- Or get a bigger rice cooker and prepare several meals at once.

- Optional: stir in soy sauce/sesame oil/salt/etc once it's ready for extra flavour.

 

Some days I barely have enough spoons to leave the room, so this has been a lifesaver for me. I actually have no idea how you'd cook rice without one of these things or why you'd want to ;p

Oh yeah, rice cookers are a godsend. I always screwed up rice on the stove top, but the rice cooker does it perfect every time. Mine doesn't have a steamer, though. I wonder if I can MacGyver a steamer basket somehow?

 

I recently learned you can cook quinoa in a rice cooker, using the same measurements. Good stuff.

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I love making canned salmon salad, whipped up with lettuce, greek yogurt and a bit of mayo. Tastes very nice and creamy, as well as being quite nutritious smile.gif

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Quesadillas: ~15 minutes total

Supplies

- Pan large enough for at least half a tortilla

- Spatula

- Olive oil or non-stick spray to coat the pan

Ingredients

- Pre-shredded cheese

- Veggies/meats you like (precook the meats, and depending on the veggie, you might want to precook them)

- Tortillas

Directions

1. Spread cheese and other fillings across half a tortilla

2. Fold other half of tortilla over so it's a half circle

3. Spray pan OR brush oil lightly over both external sides of quesadilla

4. Place in preheated pan (medium heat) for ~4-5 minutes each side, watching carefully (flip/remove when the side is golden brown)

 

Crockpot Sausage and Veggies: ~10-15 minutes prep, 4 hours cook time

Supplies

- Crockpot/slow cooker

- Cutting board

- Knife

Ingredients

- Link sausage (like Polish sausage)

- Potatoes

- Other veggies of your choosing! (Suggestions: carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, sweet potato)

- Seasoning to taste (Suggestions: Salt, pepper, red pepper, bay leaf)

Directions

1. Cut potatoes and other veggies into slightly large bite-size pieces

2. Cut sausage into bite-size pieces

3. Place densest veggies at bottom of crockpot (potatoes/sweet potatoes, then carrots, and so on) and sausage at the very top

4. Fill crockpot 1/3 way up with water

5. Add spices

6. Turn on high for 4 hours or low for 8 hours

 

Crockpot Meatloaf ~15 minutes prep time, 4 1/2 hours cook time

Supplies

- Crockpot/slow cooker

- Large mixing bowl

Ingredients

- ~2 pounds ground meat of your choice

- 3/4 to 1 cup Italian bread crumbs (depending on how loafy you like your meatloaf)

- 1/4 cup soy sauce

- 1/4 cup dark beer (not absolutely necessary, but totally worth it if you are of legal age to purchase!)

- Minced garlic (2-3 large bulbs) or 1/4 tsp garlic powder

- 1 egg

Directions

1. Place ground meat in mixing bowl and form a decent-sized depression in it

2. Add all other ingredients to the depression

3. (Here's the fun part!) With your clean hands, mush and mix together all the ingredients (including the meat) until it is all very well mixed and you can no longer see the typical ground meat texture

4. Shape into loaf shape slightly smaller than crockpot (so it's not pressed tightly against the sides) and cook in crockpot 4 1/2 hours on high, 8 1/2 hours on low

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Oh yeah, rice cookers are a godsend. I always screwed up rice on the stove top, but the rice cooker does it perfect every time. Mine doesn't have a steamer, though. I wonder if I can MacGyver a steamer basket somehow?

 

I recently learned you can cook quinoa in a rice cooker, using the same measurements. Good stuff.

Hmm, an appropriately-sized sieve could work? I think you can probably just throw the veggies in with the rice too, they just might come out a little weird.

 

Apparently you can also make giant huge fluffy pancakes with a rice cooker by pouring pancake mix right in there. I've only tried it once and it turned out a bit undercooked (I think I put too much), but fine.

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Here's a fairly easy modular recipe that you can alter based on what you have on hand. The only thing you need to make sure you have is oil, a frying pan, some kind of protein/veggies, salt and pepper, and medium-grain rice. You can use long-grain rice in a pinch but it will not be nearly as soft and tasty. It's not super quick but you'll be eating within an hour and the only difficult step is that you might have to cut meat, the rest is just pouring/dropping stuff into a frying pan and stirring it.

 

-Take some meat and if it isn't already cut up into bite-sized pieces, cut it up into bite-sized pieces.

-In a frying pan on a stove, cook the cubed meat on medium-high until the outsides stop looking raw with some oil (very thin layer on bottom of pan). If you have fresh onion and want to use it, put it in with the meat.

-Throw in some frozen veggies. Broccoli, green beans (especially Italian-style ones), and lima beans are my personal favorites, though I do not recommend anything leafy.

-Also throw in salt, black pepper, and any seasonings you have and feel like using. If you have fresh garlic, I highly recommend it, but onion/garlic powder is a perfectly serviceable substitute.

-Stir it around and cook it like this for like 3 minutes.

-Add 3 cups of your favorite/most convenient canned broth. Heat it until it's boiling.

-Add 1.5 cups of medium-grain rice, poured evenly around the pan. Do not stir it once you've added the rice.

-Cook on high for 10 minutes, then turn to medium-low and cook for another 15.

 

And you're done!

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Lazy risotto. It's been a while since I made this so you might want to mess with the recipe a little and see what you like smile.gif

 

Ingredients: Instant rice, cup a soup

 

1. Boil the kettle

2. Tip soup powder into whatever you are eating from. I usually use 2 sachets (both the ones in the box)

3. Put the instant rice in the microwave according to its instructions (you might want to wait a little, so the water will be boiled by the time it is done.)

4. Wait until the microwave has like 20 seconds left, then pour some boiling water into the soup. Don't use too much.

5. Mix it just a little, and tip in the rice as quickly as possible.

6. Mix it all up so the flavour is even

7. Enjoy

 

 

Like I said, it's been a while since I had this. I tried to remember how I liked to make it to the best of my abilities tongue.gif haha.

You might like more water, or to let it sit before you add the rice, so if you don't like it you can try again different ways. Also any flavour of soup/rice works. I like Continental brand garden vegetable and long grain rice. smile.gif I'm not sure what is available in other places tongue.gif haha

 

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Spaghetri carbonara. Seriously, this is probably the easiest pasta you'll ever make, short of box macaroni or opening a can of sauce and dumping it on the noodles.

 

What you need:

-something to cook the noodles in

-a saucepan of some kind

-a large bowl of any kind

 

Ingredients:

-noodles

-eggs (the number depends on the amount of noodles; I use six for about 18oz of noodles)

-cheese, the kind you put on pasta (parmesan is important, so get a mix of cheese or just straight up parmesan, grated for ease of cooking)

-bacon of some kind. I favor turkey bacon because it's already cooked so it's super easy, but you can get real bacon of course

Optional: I like to add onions and mushrooms, but this isn't called for in the original recipe.

 

Directions:

Cook your bacon and optional items until they're how you like them. When i cook the onionals and mushrooms it takes me about ten minutes, then I add the precooked turkey bacon and leave it on a simmer so it stays warm. Cook the noodles.

 

While they cook, crack your eggs in the large bowl. Add cheese until it gets just a little hard to stir; my father and i both eyeball it, so I can't give you a better idea about how much to add than that, but frankly the only way you could have too much cheese is if you're lactose intollerant or hate cheese for some mysterious reason.

 

This next part is super imortant: when the pasta is cooked, drain it, then immediately add it to the egg/cheese mix while the noodles are still very hot. This will cook the eggs. Mix it up very well so you don't get lumps of egg in the bottom. Add the meat and optional ingredients, stir them in well.

 

Serve.

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