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Tatsumi · 31-35, M
Easy dinners are more or less difficult dinners that you can make in advance. If you dedicate one day to cooking, probably 1-2 hours, you can make a week's worth of food. Keep 2-3 days in the fridge and 4-5 days in the freezer. They'll still technically be microwave dinners, but better quality than ready-to-eat processed garbage. Mix a bunch of different shit. Rice, fish, veggies (cook them probably 2/3rds of the way, then the microwave will finish them off), beef, chicken. Good stuff. It makes it a lot easier when you have ready-to-eat meals and don't have to cook anything.
Serenitree · F
Serenitree · F
@JS1992: you can, and I do, often. If I've made a soup too watery, I throw in a handful of uncooked rice and let it simmer for half an hour, and abracadabra, no more watery soup. Another great filler is Bisquick dumplings. Sometimes for a very quick meal, I'll get a can of Campbell's chunky soup, and toss in a couple of Bisquick dumplings on top, put the lid on the pot and in fifteen minutes I've got hot and hearty stew, and it's got its own bread in it already.
Or take that same soup and same Bisquick, but in an oven proof casserole, drop the Bisquick on top, bake in the oven and you've got casserole with tea biscuits instead of dumplings. When my daughters were growing up,,the checkout clerks at the grocery store where I shopped said Campbell's would go bankrupt if I quit buying their soup. I used it as a base for so many meals.
One afternoon,,I was planning hot turkey sandwiches for dinner because I had one turkey breast left over from our Sunday dinner. Without any prior notice two of my friends decided to drop in for a visit. Between them they had five children. I had four. Suddenly I had twelve people to feed, instead of five. So, no hot turkey sandwiches. Two cans of cream of mushroom soup and one can of cream of celery soup, and a can of peas, cut up the turkey breast into small pieces, chopped a large onion, grated a couple of carrots, cut up a couple of large potatoes. I dumped all that into my roasting pan, put it into the oven for half an hour, to get the veggies partially cooked, topped the whole thing with a Bisquick crust, and baked it for another twenty minutes. I fed twelve people and had left overs for my lunch the next day. And everybody got plenty of turkey.
It was like magic.
Nov. 29/16
4:35 pm
Or take that same soup and same Bisquick, but in an oven proof casserole, drop the Bisquick on top, bake in the oven and you've got casserole with tea biscuits instead of dumplings. When my daughters were growing up,,the checkout clerks at the grocery store where I shopped said Campbell's would go bankrupt if I quit buying their soup. I used it as a base for so many meals.
One afternoon,,I was planning hot turkey sandwiches for dinner because I had one turkey breast left over from our Sunday dinner. Without any prior notice two of my friends decided to drop in for a visit. Between them they had five children. I had four. Suddenly I had twelve people to feed, instead of five. So, no hot turkey sandwiches. Two cans of cream of mushroom soup and one can of cream of celery soup, and a can of peas, cut up the turkey breast into small pieces, chopped a large onion, grated a couple of carrots, cut up a couple of large potatoes. I dumped all that into my roasting pan, put it into the oven for half an hour, to get the veggies partially cooked, topped the whole thing with a Bisquick crust, and baked it for another twenty minutes. I fed twelve people and had left overs for my lunch the next day. And everybody got plenty of turkey.
It was like magic.
Nov. 29/16
4:35 pm
JS1992 · 31-35, M
Dang, way to think on your feet like that! I am sure your friends and family were lucky to have you. I will save all of this and try it out.
Serenitree · F
For a meal for just me, I have the French onion soup bowls. They are oven proof and just big enough to hold half a can of the chunky soup with a Bisquick topping. Just be sure to not completely cover the soup. The steam needs room to escape. And set the bowl on a cookie sheet or a piece of tin foil in case it bubbles over. You don't need that mess in the bottom of the oven.
Nov. 29/16
8:59 pm
Nov. 29/16
8:59 pm