I Need Recipies(sp)

[saintsaucey]

Heres the thing im nearly 27 and living on my own and i eat burgers fries tostinos pizzas and mac and cheese. I want to learn to cook actual meals like cassarols and stuff. so gimme you recipies(sp) I like mushrooms rice chicken broccolie and things of that sort. basicly i just want to learn to cook. so help a single fella out :)

[Night Swordsman]

No recipies...BUT..a word of warning..becareful of ANY recipie SK and Lester might offer you. You are best off asking the moms(HelloKittyKat and Dark Galaxy).


Also..if it is still moving around and making screaming noises...it's not done yet. :rolleyes:

[Toreador]

Something simple.

Sheperd's Pie:
brown 1 lb. of ground beef (or turkey if you prefer)
add 1 can of of tomato soup (or a cup of beef broth)
mix in 1 can of corn (drained) and green beans (drained)
let simmer for 10 minutes
place into a cassarole dish and cover with mashed potatoes (around 6-8 serving size)
sprinkle with cheese and place in oven set to 'broil' until the mashed potatoes are slightly brown. Then eat.

For a little more complex try paella.

[Joshua Pantalleresco]

Pasta...basic but effective

Noodle of choice
buyon
spices
cooking oils: almond, safflower, sunflower....anything that ISN'T, canola and soy based

Add your cooking oil, then take your noodle of choice and break it into the pot; add spices and buyon cubes for flavor. I recommend garlic, cayenne, rosemary or ginger as starters...but hey, as long as you like it, go for it.

Heat it up until noodles are brown. Medium heat is where it should be set. Just let the steam do the work for you. Occasionally scoop under the noodles to make sure nothing is sticking to the pot.

Very basic, but very filling

JP

[hellokittykat]

Super duper easy pasta:
a can of tune (or the chicken if you like that better)
large pasta (the spiral ones are best)
a can of peas
mayonnaise

Cook the pasta (just follow package directions) and dump it in a large bowl with the tuna and peas. Add mayonnaise until everything sticks together but isn't gloppy.

I'll think of some others.

[Sally Sensational]

Mom's fabulously easy chicken casserole

1 bag of egg noodles
chicken -either boiled fresh or canned
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can cream of mushroom soup

cook noodles
shred fresh chicken or drain canned chicken
mix those two and cover with soups - do not add anything to soup

sprinkly sprinkly parmesan cheese and breadcrumbs on top if you wish, then

place casserole in a 350 oven until sauce bubbles and toppings brown

Variation: put casserole together, cover with foil and freeze. Will keep for months. When ready to reheat, place frozen casserole in COLD oven and turn oven on to 350. Follow above instructions thereafter. Don't top it if you are going to freeze it.

You can also add vegetables - fresh or frozen, not canned. Peas and carrots are good, as are broccoli bits.

[Lester C.]

Shove a TV dinner into the oven and turn it on. My second specialty is putting a Boca chicken patty in the oven instead and then putting fat free cream cheese on top of the patty when its done.

[WhiteRose]

Dad's 'Special' Mince:

Your mince of choice (preferrably beef)
Every sauce you own
Salt and pepper
Poison control on speed dial.

Brown mince, add a little of every sauce you own, cook until...whenever, really. It ends up black no matter what.

6 times out of 10 it will be pretty good on toast or somesuch, the other 4 is a good excuse for dialling a pizza.

[howyadoin]

Shitloads of good recipes in this thread:

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=98951

[hellokittykat]

Shitloads of good recipes in this thread:

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=98951

I'm not sure if 'shitload' and 'recipe' should be in the same sentence.:cool:

[KevinTBrown]

Check out www.foodnetwork.com.

Plug in what you're looking for to doa search and you'll find TONS of recipes. Anywhere from super easy to very complicated.

[snarkbunny]

Heres the thing im nearly 27 and living on my own and i eat burgers fries tostinos pizzas and mac and cheese. I want to learn to cook actual meals like cassarols and stuff. so gimme you recipies(sp) I like mushrooms rice chicken broccolie and things of that sort. basicly i just want to learn to cook. so help a single fella out :)

Question are you familiar with cooking at all? For example, do you know how to brown meat?

First thing I would do is get two cookbooks, if you don't have them. The first one all-purpose cookbook like the Joy of Cooking, the Culinary Arts Institute cookbook, or my favourite how to cook everything by Mark Bittman. This is so you can look something up in a hurry without getting on the net.

The second one should a beginner's cookbook there are lots of nice ones. Look for one with lots of pictures and descriptions that explain what terms like simmer should look like, etc. Look at 3-4 until you find one that makes sense to you.

Double-stuffed potatoes

You will need
one large potato per person
1/2 cup of grated cheese per potato (cheddar, mozzarella, monterey jack, whatever)
1/8 cup of sour cream per potato (if you don't have measuring cups, a blob the same size as a golf ball)
cooked vegetables,onions, broccoli, etc to make up 1/8 cup (golfball) that are chopped into dime-size pieces. Use whatever vegetables you like.
crumbled bits of cooked bacon (yes, bacon bits will work) as much as you like.

an oven-safe pan or cookie sheet that the potatoes can fit into. You are going to be cutting the potatoes in half so you want to fit the whole potatoes in less than half the pan.

Turn the oven on and set the tempurature to 350F.

Scrub the potato very well and poke holes in it with a fork. (Jab the fork into into the potato several times all over the potato)

Place in oven.


After an hour, check to see if you can easily jab a fork or a knife all the way though the potato. If you can take it out of the oven and put on top the stove. If not wait another 10 minutes and check again. Repeat until you can easily jab the knife into the potato.

Turn the oven onto "BROIL"

Let the potatoes cool for 5 minutes.

Then cut the potatoes in 1/2 lengthwise. then scoop the inside potato flesh into a bowl leaving about a 1/4" edge around the skins. Place the skins (like bowls skin side down into the pan.

When all the potatoe s are in the bowl. smash them with a fork or a potato masher until they are in little pieces. Then add the cheese, sour cream, veggies and bacon and mix. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Then scoop the mix back into the skins.

Then place in the oven (which you set to broil) for 5 minutes.

Eat.

Please ask if anything is unclear.

[TomStillwell]

Easy Chicken Parmigiana

1 package boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 bag of shredded mozzarella cheese
1 can spaghetti cheese topping of choice
1 egg
1 box of pasta of choice
1 can of bread crumbs (seasoned)
2 jars of ready made red sauce of choice
cooking oil of choice
largish rectangular baking pan
frying pan
a good small knife
a tenderizer or clean hammer
a bowl
a plate
an egg whisk or fork

Pre-Heat your oven to 425 degrees.

First, seperate the chicken with a knife into smaller cutlet sized pieces.

Next, pound each piece of chicken with your blunt object until it's as thin as possible.

Take your egg and give it a few twirls in the bowl with your whisk. Just enough to mix it up fairly well.

Take your bread crumbs and spread them out on a plate.

One piece at a time, dip the chicken first in the egg and then in the bread crumbs. Make sure you coat both sides evenly.

Heat up some oil in your frying pan. Probably about a silver dollar sized dollap of oil will do for now.

Once heated, brown each piece of chicken on both sides, adding more oil as needed. You aren't trying to cook the chicken, just brown it.

Coat the bottom of your rectangular baking pan with about half a jar of sauce. Place your chicken in the sauce. Use the rest of the sauce to cover the chicken cutlets.

Cover each piece of chicken generously with mozzarella and a dash of spaghetti topping.

Slide your pan into your oven and bake for 25 minutes. The mozzarella should be very melted, use that as your gage on whether it is done or not.

While the chicken is baking cook your pasta and side dishes. Garlic bread is a nice touch. Use your extra jar of sauce for the pasta.

An average package of chicken should yield about eight pieces and last for several meals.

Enjoy!

[Solaris]

Here's something quick and easy for 1 person:

Cowboy Beans:

1/2 lb ground round
1 can baked beans (Van Camps, Showboat, or one of the "styles" by Bush's)
1/2 cup (or less) ketchup (I use Heinz; the others taste funny)
1/2 tsp. Worchester sauce (prefer French's)
1/2 tsp. mustard (French's again)

Brown ground beef and drain. Add other ingredients (fish out the pork fat chunk from the baked beans if it's in there), simmer for around 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Pick up some of the prewashed lettuce/salad in a bag (like romaine or something), and some instant potato flakes (I like the Idahoan brand "Real Premium Mashed Potatoes"). For the potatoes all you need is milk, butter, water, and salt and/or pepper (follow directions on box for making them; you can heat the liquids in the microwave in about 2 minutes or so).

All this makes a great quick meal---I like to drink milk with it, myself.

You can save yourself some time if you brown your meat ahead of time, and then once it's drained and cooled, put it in the freezer in a container. You can take out what you need, and put the rest back for something else.

Any leftover beans you can refridgerate and eat the next day---they're not half bad on sandwich bread, either---sort of like a sloppy joe.

Anyway, it gives you protein, lettuce greens, and the stuff from potatoes and milk, so it's not half bad nutritionally as a meal. :) You can add flair to it if you're the kind of person who likes cheese on their 'taters, or extra stuff in your salad, etc. You can even do garlic bread with it---I like the Coles' garlic toast that's pre-sliced and pre-seasoned, in the frozen breads section. Stick it, still frozen, on some aluminum foil on a pan and bake it for around 6 minutes (turning your slices once) and it's done. You can take out a slice or two at a time from the freezer, and put the rest back, so you're not wasting bread.

[Shades0077]

Cereal

You'll need:

1 bowl
1 spoon
1 box of cereal, your choice
1 jug of milk

1. Open box of cereal
2. Pour cereal into bowl, being careful not to overfill
3. Add milk to cereal in bowl, also being careful not to overfill
4. Add spoon to cereal and milk in bowl
5. Eat




Boiled Water

You'll need:
1 pot
1 stove
1 sink

1. Fill pot with water from sink
2. Turn on stove burner
3. Place pot on stove burner
4. Wait a bit (Contrary to what you might hear from old wives, the water will indeed boil if you watch it. Science fears no observation!)




Toast

You'll need:

1 or more slices of bread
1 toaster or toaster oven

1. Place bread in toaster/toaster oven
2. Push the toaster button
3. Wait a little bit

[howyadoin]

Toast

You'll need:

1 or more slices of bread
1 toaster or toaster oven

1. Place bread in toaster/toaster oven
2. Push the toaster button
3. Wait a little bitShit, that was mean. Least you could do is tell 'em about butter.