easy recipes for not-very-good cooks... (1 Viewer)

[sweetoblivion]

Does anyone have any links to good websites/books/etc with easy but tasty recipes on them?

Or have any easy recipes they'd like to put here?

I've got two friends visiting next month, who will be staying with myself and the boyf, and obviously I'm gonna have to cook for them - but I've never cooked for more than my family/boyfriend before...plus one of them is a veggie (not that that is a big issue as I don't eat much meat anyway, but I want to cater for everyone)

I don't want to serve them up horrible meals....so all help or tips greatfully received!!!!

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Videojug is the biz for this.

 

[sweetoblivion]

Thanks dude!

I figure if nothing works out, then I can rustle up pasta/rice dishes...every day

 

[broken arm]

my not so bad fast food dish..... takes 10-12 minutes and the only cooking is the pasta - could take longer if you make your own pesto...

1. cut macaroni pasta with pesto, cubes of feta and chopped green olives stirred in.

2. side salad of chunky tomato and cucumber salad with whatever dressing

3. some chopped lettuce

4. ciabatta for dipping into olive oil. (preferably some of that really nice palestinian stuff)

5. serve with a shed load of fairtrade wine.

 

[sweetoblivion]

that sounds good, even though I don't eat feta or olives the girls will though!

I make my own pesto (basil or parsley, nom) so can't wait to make a crapload of that before they get here....

 

[plug]

I never knew a crapload was the collective noun for pesto!

 

[sweetoblivion]

yep it is here in Kildare! *shifty eyes*

 

[BonsaiSuperstar]

I never knew a crapload was the collective noun for pesto!

a rake of sausages!

 

[broken arm]

a rake of sausages!

a gullet full of buckfast

 

[thairock]

Easy Tasty Recipes and tour diary combo HERE

it works for me.

 

[whathappen?]

1 packet of chicken noodle soup
1 spring onion
1 tablespoon of basmati rice
1 egg

make soup per instructions
add chopped spring onion
and beaten egg and stir
add boiled basmati rice

very yummy , surprisingly so

 

[sarah]

I thought I'd resurrect this thread, for quick recipe suggestions, or even any 'very few ingredients" recipe's.

Here's one i'm fed up of but is simply yum.

1 butternut squash, chopped up into 1cm pieces, toss in oil salt pepper, whatever herbs you have handy... I just used mixed and it was grand. Roast.

10 mins before roasting is finished throw in one or two crushed garlic cloves. and a good bit of cream.

Mix into pasta, throw in whatever cheeses you have for extra heart attack factor.

With lidl doing butternut squash for 1.49 this is mad cheap.

 

[sweetoblivion]

I can thankfully report I can now actually cook properly and spend quite a ridiculous amount of money on ingredients...

 

[Wobbler]

Wobbler's pork chops (recipe stolen)

Crush up a clove of garlic or two (more if you're a mad bastard like me) with some thyme (or rosemary if that's what you have), lemon juice and enough olive oil to make it sludgey. Season with Salt and Peppah. Smear sludge over chop and leave to marinate for as long as you have (an hour would be good) and then grill.

Way better than the sum of its parts.

Serve with a baked potato and a bag of salad leaves dressed with olive oil and lemon juice.

 

[sweetoblivion]

What would life be without thyme, rosemary, garlic and olive oil?! I'm serious. You can throw 'em on anything - veg, potatoes, meat - and they just make it delicious.

I made gorgeous sweet potato falafels last week, but they take about 2hrs preparation time (cooking and chilling) so they're not really 'fast' food. Really yum though.

 

[daydream_nation]

I made gorgeous sweet potato falafels last week, but they take about 2hrs preparation time (cooking and chilling) so they're not really 'fast' food. Really yum though.

they were amazing. tasted like actual falafel, nearly better!

 

[BonsaiSuperstar]

Wobbler's pork chops (recipe stolen)

i had pork chops over the weekend - they didnt marinate them but they did squeeze loads of fresh lime juice onto them as soon as they were taken off the BBQ.Gorgeous.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

I made a tasty improvised "what's in the cupboard" dinner today. Satisfying, it was like the Dunkirk of quick dinners.

 

[sweetoblivion]

they were amazing. tasted like actual falafel, nearly better!

why thank you not dosed in five million grams of saturated fat, actual healthy falafels, who'da thunk it!

 

[whathappen?]

I thought I'd resurrect this thread, for quick recipe suggestions, or even any 'very few ingredients" recipe's.

Here's one i'm fed up of but is simply yum.

1 butternut squash, chopped up into 1cm pieces, toss in oil salt pepper, whatever herbs you have handy... I just used mixed and it was grand. Roast.

10 mins before roasting is finished throw in one or two crushed garlic cloves. and a good bit of cream.

Mix into pasta, throw in whatever cheeses you have for extra heart attack factor.

With lidl doing butternut squash for 1.49 this is mad cheap.

jesus christ