I regularly bake sweet potatoes then add plain yogurt, salted peanuts, feta, nutritional yeast, and drown it in hot sauce. The dish has no name nor should it ever see the light of day. What goblin mode meals do you guys eat?
Two pieces of white bread, mayo, thick slices of tomato and a bunch of black pepper… Not sure how terrible it is, but I don’t generally serve it to others because it’s very messy.
I would make something similar. Tomato salt pepper sourcream and potato chips(any flavour). Haven’t had that in years, now in kinda want one and i have to go to the store soon
…i used to do that with a thick layer of thinly-sliced colby cheese…
I toast my bread, then do mayo or butter, thick slices of tomato, and salt. Some pepper sometimes.
Toasted tomato open faced sandwich!
But I would serve that to guests. I don’t see why not.
Liver and ground beef in a skillet.
Easy post workout meal, easy to clean, only minutes to cook.
Nobody I know would eat liver
The flavor’s alright, but the texture is awful.
Sourdough with chunky peanut butter, ground mustard, and aioli.
Hell no I’d rather starve
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Refried beans, rice, sirachcha, and too much mayo. Sometimes I eat it with bread like a sad sack sandwich.
Throw a potato in whatever form you want and roll that up in flatbread. I’d eat that in a heartbeat.
I bake a mean creamy chicken (like you’d find in a pot pie) but, for whatever fucking reason, I absolutely love that flavor spliced with white vinegar. I have a deep love of pushing tangy sour to the border of spiciness.
Ever try it with malt vinegar?
Yup, that’s also pretty good! I think it pairs better with white vinegar though.
A strong acidic zing is missing from a lot of dishes.
Generally I keep white vinegar around specifically for its chemical properties rather than its flavor, though.
I’ve seen that flavor profile referred to as “squirrel gravy.”
Peanut butter, jelly, and Cheeto burrito.
This sounds like one of those dishes you learn about in prison.
Wheat tortilla or are you using something more exotic?
I’ve done white, wheat, and the “Extreme Wellness High Fiber Low Carb” tortillas. They’re all about the same.
Peanut butter out of the jar.
I love peanut butter but on its own it feels horrible in the mouth!
Skip your mouth and just shovel it directly into your gullet
Just white bread with a slice of cheese and spiced ketchup.
When I’m really lazy I make spaghetti with butter and bread crumbs.
That has to be a real dish. Those ingredients are so fundamental that I would be surprised if that wasn’t keeping peasants alive for the last twenty two hundred years.
The shame I feel when I make it is very real.
That feeling isn’t shame, it’s carbs! You just have bread and butter in a different configuration. It isn’t healthy, but it is wholesome.
Yeah it’s called Pasta ca’muddica and has a whole bunch of variations such as adding anchovies.
Add garlic (powder), parmesan and chili flakes.
Now you’re talking
My invented dish I call “Scrumpy”. You take fries or fried potatoes, equal amount lettuce broken up like for a salad, chicken, then top it with chicken or beef gravy and chopped green onions. To really take up the indulgence level you can add southern hot sauce like Frank’s, and some Cajun seasoning.
It started because of my great love of poutine, and wondering how I could make it into a healthier full meal. I’ve done a million variations on it, too. Stir fried cabbage and onion instead of lettuce. Corned beef instead of chicken. Adding a fried egg on top… Very flexible weeknight meal.
I would absolutely serve this to someone if it ever came up, but it never has.
…that’s - odd…
Ok this I sort of understand because I used to make Nacho Potatoes. Nacho Potatoes are baked potatoes but with the toppings of nachos. Lettuce is essential because it gives a crunch that enhances the texture of the dish.
Nacho up your fries, include full trimmings.
I’ve had this at pubs (in the US). It was called “Irish Nachos.” They were pretty tasty.
Frank’s is not a southern hot sauce.
Noted, thanks! What do I call that style then? I thought it was southern style.
You might call it “Buffalo style” since it’s commonly the primary component of Buffalo sauce.
Tabasco and Crystal are classic southern hot sauces.
I’ll show my ignorance here, too, because I thought crystal was a similar flavor. That’s actually why I said southern style.
Crystal has a less harsh flavor than Tabasco and Frank’s. They’re all similar, of course, but there are subtle variations; thus, in my opinion, they each have different applications.
Don’t forget Louisiana… My wife’s favorite.
Oh, I didn’t forget.
Crystal meth?
You’re saying it’s from New York City?
NEW YORK CITY?!?!
Y’all are horrifying. That’s all I came here to say.
I’d love to answer OP, but that description somehow made me forget everything I’ve ever eaten.
Then you’re ready to try all the suggestions here!
And here I am, bookmarking this post… I have meals planned for the next 3 weeks!
I take pride in that remark.
Toasted bread with blue cheese, a fried egg, hot sauce and maple syrup on top.
This sounded really good… until the maple syrup thing. Why? Why?!
Don’t get me wrong. Maple syrup is great. On pancakes or so, but this? This truly is an abomination.
Cause there’s nothing quite like the combination of savoury, salty, spicy and sweet.
Other favorites of mine are chocolate chili, and my famous habanero honey salad dressing.I get that mixing thing, although it’s virtually non-existent in my country’s cuisine. But still, this one doesn’t feel right at all.
I used to work at a bakery and my favourite thing to do was bring home a fresh baguette and eat it with blue cheese.
Sounds like something I’d pay 16$ to have served by a malnourished hipster on a cutting board to a table lit by a bar bulb as an appetizer.
Instant noodles, peanut butter, and sriracha. Crack an egg in near the end.
It’s actually pretty close to pad thai, but screams of struggle meal
Yeah I definitely started relying on peanuts during my years of unemployment.
Try chopping up a green onion and throwing that in. White bit at the beginning of the boil and the green bits at the end. They’re extremely cheap.
Green onions aren’t cheap everywhere.
Frugal tip: You can get a lot more life out of green onions by setting them in a jar of water. Trim what you need from the ends, and the plant will grow probably 3-4 times before you need to replace it.
Well I guess I’m trying this next time I buy green onions
i only ever get green onions a few weeks after buying an onion that i didn’t get around to cooking.
Well, I’m no expert, but I believe this is a bit different kind of green onions…
maybe? i’m quite sure you can use them in the same way though. garlic greens are good too. and depending where you live, you can forage good wild options too. my dad’s back yard usually gets a good crop of 3 pointed leeks that i would harvest when i lived with him.
In many places in North America field garlic (which is very similar to green onions) grows voraciously in people’s yards in the Spring. Leave a small patch of yard unmowed and you’ll have more than you know what to do with. Just be careful not to mistake it for death camas.
You’re probably right. I have never personally seen them more expensive than like $1.25 for a half dozen.
We do the same thing! Had it yesterday for breakfast. We’ve been buying Ramen packs from Costco that are pretty spicy so we’ve been skipping the Sriracha though.
I wouldn’t serve instant noodles to guests either, but you have the gourmet version there.
Minus the egg, that’s also a popular backpacking meal.
Update: This was pretty tasty. I’ll probably use just a spoonful of PB next time. I used half the ramen seasoning packet and added a little fish sauce as well. Scallions would definitely kick it up a notch, but that involves significantly more work.
That sounds delicious and I am going to make that.
Fresh tomato and dry roasted peanuts.
Actually I might try it on someone …
I’m trying to envision this. Is the tomato sliced or diced? Are the peanuts whole or crushed? Is this a spoon dish or do you use your hands?
These are all questions I didn’t know I had. OP, please indulge us!
Either slices cut in half or diced and the peanuts whole, in separate dishes. A half mouthful of peanuts followed by a half mouthful of tomato. Never mix the two together before eating! I prefer to use a spoon.
I knew someone who would eat a tomato for dinner with a few slices of carrots. Nothing baked, just a plain uncut tomato and slices of carrots.
I’m talking a functionnal human being, knowing the concept of cooking and the ability to walk to their kitchen with such a “dish” as they would call it. Not vegetarian either. They did like meat and whatnot. Saddest “meal” I’ve ever had the horror to lay my eyes upon.
If you are on a diet, this meal has very few kilojoules/calories. Fewer than a single slice of bread.
Wasn’t on a diet. Thankfully, they ate more during lunch and didn’t have any health issues due to eating weirdly but those “meals” were something else…
I don’t care much about the what but the how. Biting into a whole tomato WILL make a mess. Simply cutting it in half greatly reduces the chance of that. If they already had a knife why not use it on the tomato. People are weird.
The whole thing was so surreal that I never bothered to ask about it.
I’m a whole tomato-eater, and there is a way to eat them without being messy. The mess is divided into chambers, and you basically go one chamber at a time, suck out the mess in the chamber and then move on to the next.
I was thinking that too, but maybe it was one of those hard, white-on-the-inside, unripe tomatoes.
the carrots get sliced but the tomatoes is left whole???
You can just bite into it, you know. More fun to eat it that way imo
yeah but same with carrots. its the fact they went through the effort to slice the carrot but not the tomato.
Don’t ask me why. Even I was speechless.
Honestly, can relate! Had a month-long period when all I craved were carrot and white onion salads with a tiny pinch of salt, a load of ground black pepper, and drowned in vinegar. Used to chop the carrots down into tiny strips.
In your case, you added something, it was a salad with pepper and salt during a time where you were craving something in particular.
What was crazy to me about the story I told was the poor tomato and carrots were unseasoned, bland, resting in the saddest plate I’ve yet to encounter, while the person eating it was considering what was in front of them a meal.
(Not sure why someone would downvote you for your comment by the way)
Ooh, I get it now! Yeah, that sounds unnecessarily spartan. Although healthy, I guess?
Sorry, focused more on the components than the context…
Indeed quite something…
Also, no need to be sorry, you did nothing wrong.
