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<div class="IPBDescription">Post away your receipes!</div>So I just had dinner and me, beeing the extraordinary chef I am, made some pasta and put some meat in there, mixed it up with mayonais. Well, not very delicious although it is not the baddest thing.
Now, I know some receipes which are easy to make and taste pretty good, but I want more. Post your receipes.
Some basic rules for your receipes:
1. The meal should not cost a lot
2. It should be easy to make.
3. Anything has to fit in either a pan or a pot, no ovens or micowaves.
4. You should have eaten this thing at least once or know how to make it, no external links to some fancy websites!
5ish: If it has melted cheese in it, ovens/microwaves are allowed.
So, with the basics clear here is my first receipe:
Mushrompan (word for word translation, it sounds better in german, I promise)
Ingredients:
Creme Freche
Salsa Sauce (any will do, but you need a good portion of it)
Champignons (obviously)
Onions
Some sort of bread/baguette (optional)
Cut the champignons to slices (correct phrase? Well just make them thin, you get what I'm trying to say.) Not too thin tough. Thow them in the pan and let them lose some water.
Prepare a pot, put in a good spoon of creme freche, trust me, you need a lots of this stuff. Pour in a LITTLE water, don't overdo it or you'll end up with a very thin sauce. Now add salsa as you like, the sauce can get pretty hot if you add too much. Some pepper (white pepper if you can spare it) and thats it for the sauce. Just mix it up pretty good till it gets a very bright red tone. Heat it up a little and let the water flow out. It should be dense when your ready.
Now for the onions, cout them in little pieces and put them in the pan with the not so big champignons and let them in till they get glasy (Oh well, so many hard phrases, until you can see through them, hope that clears things up).
Now just mix the sauce in, take you some bread and viola, your done. Takes about 15-20 minutes and tastes delicious.
Now, I know some receipes which are easy to make and taste pretty good, but I want more. Post your receipes.
Some basic rules for your receipes:
1. The meal should not cost a lot
2. It should be easy to make.
3. Anything has to fit in either a pan or a pot, no ovens or micowaves.
4. You should have eaten this thing at least once or know how to make it, no external links to some fancy websites!
5ish: If it has melted cheese in it, ovens/microwaves are allowed.
So, with the basics clear here is my first receipe:
Mushrompan (word for word translation, it sounds better in german, I promise)
Ingredients:
Creme Freche
Salsa Sauce (any will do, but you need a good portion of it)
Champignons (obviously)
Onions
Some sort of bread/baguette (optional)
Cut the champignons to slices (correct phrase? Well just make them thin, you get what I'm trying to say.) Not too thin tough. Thow them in the pan and let them lose some water.
Prepare a pot, put in a good spoon of creme freche, trust me, you need a lots of this stuff. Pour in a LITTLE water, don't overdo it or you'll end up with a very thin sauce. Now add salsa as you like, the sauce can get pretty hot if you add too much. Some pepper (white pepper if you can spare it) and thats it for the sauce. Just mix it up pretty good till it gets a very bright red tone. Heat it up a little and let the water flow out. It should be dense when your ready.
Now for the onions, cout them in little pieces and put them in the pan with the not so big champignons and let them in till they get glasy (Oh well, so many hard phrases, until you can see through them, hope that clears things up).
Now just mix the sauce in, take you some bread and viola, your done. Takes about 15-20 minutes and tastes delicious.
Comments
Thanks for killing about 95% of my recipes, ******* >_<
King of the cheap meals, but they either need more than 1 pot, the oven, the microwave, or a combination of all of the above (I s**t you not, I've made something off the top of my head that needed all 3 of stove, oven, and microwave. But only because something needed a VERY fast heating, so I had to use the microwave, or wait 30 minutes for the oven to heat to mark 9...)
I've got a fantastic macaroni cheese, but it needs the oven, and a stove, 2 pans, and a glass oven dish. Oh, and some (relatively) expensive-ish herbs...
5ish: If it has melted cheese in it, ovens/microwaves are allowed.
Ramen
Water
Boil water. Insert ramen. Wait 3 minutes. Add ramen seasoning. Eat ramen.
Thats really all we should need, right?
Ingrediants:
Ramen
Water
Boil water. Insert ramen. Wait 3 minutes. Add ramen seasoning. Eat ramen.
Thats really all we should need, right?
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Amen.
I really need to get a better diet oh and curry chicken = sauce+ rice +naa bread most stuff for about £5
allthough some place its cheaper to eat in uni caniteen than to make your own food.
<b>R</b>amen.
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fix'd. although, i wonder how many will get the reference...
fix'd. although, i wonder how many will get the reference...
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FSM?
Mantrid with the early showing of geek-knowledge
When it's done cooking add a scrambled egg and diced scallions FTW. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />
Beef Ramen, follow normal instructions, drain the water from the noodles, place in bowl. Add chili powder and stir like a lunatic. Make sure it's REALLY spicy chili powder.
Consume.
I have lots of other quickies but they all contain the microwave because I'm a cheese-addict. (Hoorah cholesterol.)
Bread
Beef (sandwich slices)
Milk
Flour
Step 1: Cut beef into small tiny bite sized slices, cook beef "canadian bacon" style in a large frying pan.
Step 2: Add milk to cover 90% off beef (think of cereal).
Step 3: Warm milk/beef combo until the milk is "near" boiling (DO NOT BOIL MILK, IT IS NASTY).
Step 4: Add a TON (about a cup to 20 oz) of flour to the broth to "thicken" the concoction. Requires patience and a LOT of stirring.
Step 5: Toast bread.
Step 6: Put bread on plate, smother some beef concoction on to bread. Eat.
Cheap, fills you up, takes 15 minutes.
<b>Colan Blow (Poor man's feast):</b>
1 Package Romaine Noodles (I like chicken)
1 Can of tomato soup
Cooke Romaine noodles as you normally would, except only use enough water to "just" cover the noodles so they cook. After they have cooked, let some of the water boil off and then add the tomato soup. When the tomato soup has heated add the flavor packet of the Romaine noodles and serve. Fills you up and later gives you a real workout on the toilet.
There's also my Italian Chimichanga. It involves browning Italian sausage in a pan, spreading the ground sausage on a tortilla with diced tomatoes, rolling the tortilla up and closing the ends, then fry it. I used to use a deep fryer, but that stopped working, so about 1/2" (1ish cm) of oil in a pan (can be and usually is the same one I used to brown the meat).
Fry until both sides are golden brown. Put on a plate, cover in marinara sauce and enjoy.
Most likely not very good for you.
2) place in mouth
3) chew
4) enjoy
Plus I have no idea what Creme Freche is.
Anyway, I always try to make stuff spicier (it helps when your meals are all college student pasta-based meals and need more flavor). For anyone that is at college: buy some spices and you'll be able to vastly improve the deliciousness of the limited food available.
Whenever I do manage to splurge on something, usually I break out the penne noodles and then make a pretty spicy sauce...with the following ingredients and their vague measurements (goes best if you taste it occasionally to make sure the temperature sits well).
Penne works best, since it captures the sauce inside, but mostaccioli or rotini work as well - mostaccioli if you like less noodle and more sauce, kind of the same with the rotini...it just kind of sticks in the spiral).
I assume everyone knows how to boil noodles.
For the sauce:
Break out some ground beef which you've browned previously and a can of tomato sauce and just mix those into a viscosity you like (or just buy a can of Ragu or something from the store...like me).
Now, start off the sauce pot/pan with some olive oil, and the, after its been sitting in there a minute on low heat, throw the main component of sauce in there. Now, you'll want to gather a few things:
Cayenne (or red) pepper (probably ground, spicerack stuff, but if you want you could use a real one)
black pepper
salt
garlic
onion (grated or finely chopped)
chili powder (probably spicerack stuff)
Just mix in various amounts (copious amounts of chili powder, the others are to personal taste - but you don't want it to smell like chili). Cayenne pepper adds more hotness, but some people don't want too hot of a sauce. Serve like any other pasta. Then just find some sort of drink to go along with the spicy sauce and kick back with a giant plate of pasta.
I also subsist off of Macaroni and Cheese...but the directions for that are on the box <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> . There's also this nifty stuff called frozen pizza, it's delicious. At 4 for $10...that's like $1.25/meal (if you can limit yourselfto not eating the whole pizza) - more economical than macaroni and cheese. French toast is also pretty good (heat pan, crack egg into bowl, dip bread slice into bowl, put egg-dipped slice of bread onto pan, cook until golden brown, eat - possibly with syrup) and easy, but sort of messy (bah, there's like 4 dishes involved, and that's just too much.
I'm also wondering what black_mage does with the packet of ramen flavoring that comes with the $0.14 package.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creme_fraiche" target="_blank">Creme fraiche</a>
Just the wrong spelling...
100g butter (bakeing butter/Unsalted butter, thanks patch)
150g sugar
200g porridge oats
25g Vanilla sugar
50g Cocoa powder
25g plain hot Coffee
Very simple: Melt the butter (best if its kinda hot if ur gonna eat it directly)
Pour everything into a large enough bowl in above order (bowl should be at least 2x the space the ingredients take)
Attack with favorite spoon and give it a whirl until everything is a chocolatic mass
Eat directly with said spoon
Alt: Roll the chocolate into balls (put in fridge if you want them overnight)
Alt Alt: Roll the balls in coconut shreds (put in fridge if you want them overnight)
Notes: I prefer to do it quickly and eat it while it's warm, keeps most of the flavour then. Microwaveing it cold is not recommended.
Boil water with some salt and cooking oil. Throw a few handfuls of pasta into boiling water.
Once the pasta has absorbed the water to your liking, drain and insert:
Some Chorizo sausage sliced or diced. Very fattening, but not much is needed.
Some Oregano and Basil herbs.
Chopped peppers perhaps.
Grated parmesan.
Tomato based sauce of choice!
Throw it all in, shove it back on the flame and stir it about frequently, nay, constantly, until the sauce is heated.
Serve! And congratulate yourself on being a lazy cook. Yes that's right, I just explained how to cook pasta as if its news. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
I don't know any other quick and easy dishes, save stir-fry (stir, and fry. Done!). Soup?
Something to do with the pasta NOT absorbing whatever else you add to it, being the pasta's got an oily film on it. You'll also find the dish tastes MUCH better once you've boiled the pasta without the oil.
Easy Recipe #1: Chicken in Cream of Mushroom <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
-1 can Campbells Cream of Mushroom Soup. super cheap, super yummy. 2 cans for a lot of chicken.
-As much as 1 chicken (baked), you can do this with less, or with pre-cooked chicken breast, frozen chicken breasts, etc. My favorite portion for this is 3 frozen chicken breasts.
-Pasta, potatoes, or rice. You know how to do those.
-Garlic (or garlic powder if you're ghetto)
-Salt and pepper
-A little lemon juice if you like.
PREP
1) Slice cooked chicken. Presentation and bite size are best if you use 1/2" x 2" strips.
2) Peel 1 clove garlic
3) Open can
COOKING
1) [disregard if you don't have garlic] Press 1 clove garlic onto pan with a little olive oil. (Size pan according to how much chicken you're using.) Saute until garlic is nice and golden. Do not burn.
2) Place chicken and Cream of Mushroom Soup (NO WATER!) into pan. Stir to distribute garlic.
3) Simmer the sauce and stir periodically. Add salt and pepper to taste. Splash with lemon juice if you like that.
4) After the sauce has simmered a couple minutes and the chicken is hot, add your pasta or potatoes. If you're eating this with rice, it's better to serve it separately as the sauce kinda drowns the rice.
5) Eat lotz
But I shall try it without my olive oil next time, and let you know if I happen to spot any difference in how tasty I already find it : P
On the subject of corned beef...
What the f**k is corned beef hash?
And I found out what corned beef hash is, I thought it was something else... might have to get a packet of corned beef, and make some <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />