Tacos, probably. I could stretch to other dishes, but tacos are where my mind is.
Do frozen meals count? If so, pizza. If not, I guess burritos with rice, beans, cheese, grilled onion, avocado, and lemon.
Lots of options
- smoked bbq pulled pork sandwich
- french onion soup
- spaghetti and meatballs
- salads with various
- grilled ham and cheese sandwich
- roast pork loin with rice and brussels sprouts
- thai green curry with chicken, bell peppers, rice
- Stir fried chicken and broccoli, rice
- cucumber and tomato salad with shallot vinagarette
- chicken or beef tacos or quesadillas or taco salad
- napoletana pizza (if i had started the dough yesterday)
mostly all from scratch. lots more possibilities since we have diverse ingredients stocked
Pasta
I have some hopping John leftovers I have to finish.
Fish fragrant eggplant
Mapo tofu
Dumpling soup
Chicken veggie stir fry
Fondant potatoes (fried in duck fat mmmm)
Beef bourguingon (or whatever it’s called, the wine meat stew)
Black bean soup
French onion soup
Ropa vieja (with chicken)
I could go on but that’s what comes to mind quickly.
It didn’t occur to me to use duck fat for fondant potatoes! I have some fat in the freezer oh hell yeah
I’ll be there in an hour.
How is frying with duck fat compared to other fats?
For roast potatoes, it’s amazing. Fondant potatoes, I’d imagine it is similarly better than butter or oil. However, it would be wasted on a regular stir fry, for instance.
The other reply pretty much sums it up. Use it in lieu of butter, not vegetable oil.
Any instance you’d use schmaltz or beef tallow, duck fat can be used without issue. Though I know they deep fry potato wedges in the stuff in Frendh Canada… I just don’t have that much fat at once to use it for deep frying haha
Spaghetti aglio e olio.
Basta pasta
This is my go-to “can’t be arsed to cook properly” dish. But I add peperoncino as well. Like a nice fiery rawit chilli.
Well, I’m making a mushroom pasta right now… chopped some garlic, leek, shiitake, white button, portobello. Gonna sauté the mushrooms a bit with butter, sauté the garlic and leek with olive oil separately because the mushroom releases too much water, then make a béchamel (butter, flour, milk, and I also use heavy cream), mix them when they are ready, add salt, black pepper and perhaps paprika and voilà.
I felt like there was something missing so I picked some chives from my garden.
The pasta I’m making is an Italian Paganini “trafilata al bronzo”, might not be a big deal for Europeans, but is way better than anything local I have in my third world country.
For example, I’d wind up with sauceless pasta, beans, and frozen broccoli for a meal
Do you have olive oil or butter? You have sauce.
I have very small bottles of wine, decanted when we opened two different wines, if you have wine you have sauce.
Soy sauce and butter is pretty good for a sauce, miso butter is even better.
I dunno what your pantry holds but I think here we always have some way to make pretty good pasta of some sort. My kids live spaghetti fried in chili garlic paste.
Well I just made gumbo, so that
I got a cupboard full of basic staple ingredients and a freezer full of meat, veg and leftovers. I think I can last a week, if not two, if I really have to. And that’s for a family of three.
What are you? My alt account?
Also if you haven’t tried it take a look at “soy meat” it’s basically dried tofu and it’s a popular meat substitute in Mexico. Once cooked it has the texture like ground beef, but since it’s a spongey material when dry it soaks up flavor like none other. I like to cut it 50:50 with ground beef and soak it in a slightly different spice mix than the rest of the dish for things like sloppy joes and chili.
Thanks for the tip! I haven’t tried soy meat yet. I usually use 50% lentils when I want to stretch ground beef
A sandwich possibly tuna, possibly ham and cheese. Grocery day is tomorrow
We just got soup. So probably soup with like spices or something.
And dont you all dare make soup into something like beans or corn or whatever.
Bruh, I cant make shit.
I guess just cook rice (using a rice cooker obviously, idk how they cook it before rice cookers, I never tried the old methods) and fry some eggs… 🤷♂️
I suck at “being an adult”
I cooked rice in a pot for decades before my kids got me a rice cooker. It’s not much more complicated, and is quicker. Put rice in a pot, rinse it, cover with water by about 3/4 inch (from fingertip to first knuckle, yes? You have seen some old person sticking their finger in the rice? That is what we are measuring. )
Bring to a boil on high, cover and turn the heat way down to low (medium low if your stove sucks) Check it in 15 minutes if white rice, 45 if brown rice. If done, take it off the heat. If not, give it 5 more minutes on the burner then move it.
Fry the rice and egg up together with some soy sauce, add some garlic in whatever form, bonus points if you have any white pepper, suddenly elevated.
Or even just some ketchup, make omurice, can’t go wrong.
Ketchup wtf
that ruins the egg lol
Nah just the eggs are fine, sprinkle some salt and its good
Hey, it’s a thing, blame the Japanese!
You fry the rice in ketchup, serve it in an omelette. Optionally top with more ketchup.
Can sub the ketchup for demi-glace if that is more palettable, but that’s way more effort than I’m willing to put in for lazy time breakfast food.
Tell me more about this. Any other tips? Soy sauce?
You can use ketchup in stir fries the same way you’d use hoisin sauce or oyster sauce. Breaking it down, ketchup is tomato, vinegar, salt and sugar. I put it in after I’ve gotten the wok hei I want off the rice/veg/meat/egg, immediately after getting the food and fond off the sides of the wok with a lil shaoxing wine. Add in your sauces, toss to mix, sprinkle with scallion/chive/garlic scape greens, sesame seeds, serve.
Omurice is awesome! Sounds terrible but is great. I frying some chopped onion and adding to the rice.
Channa Masala, spiced lentils, felafel, pork belly ramen, chicken yakisoba, pork dumplings, sirloin tip fajitas, Dahl, butternut squash bisque, chicken soup, meatloaf.
