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make a basic marinara sauce, fry an onion and some garlic, add a tin of chopped tomatoes, add a little salt, fresh basil if you have it, if not dried is fine, oregano or mixed italian herbs, a spoon of sugar.. (you could add a handful of grated cheese and melt it in to make the sauce creamy) whizz this in your food processor, boil some pasta,.. there you go a ready made meal.
Make your own garlic bread to go with this..
all you need is crushed dried garlic, butter, and dried parsley. add them all together, butter a bread roll or whatever you choose.. quite thickly with the butter and put in the oven for 10 mins @ 180c
my kids love this, they have it at least once a week and it's all freshly made.. it's really simple.
Make your own garlic bread to go with this..
all you need is crushed dried garlic, butter, and dried parsley. add them all together, butter a bread roll or whatever you choose.. quite thickly with the butter and put in the oven for 10 mins @ 180c
my kids love this, they have it at least once a week and it's all freshly made.. it's really simple.
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@JS1992: I'm used to making it now so I know quantities exactly etc. Maybe you could google a recipe for a simple marinara, the great thing is when you make one you really like you can make batch loads of it. and put in the fridge
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
@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
Mondayschild · F
Mondayschild · F
@JS1992: you can only do one chop per pouch if you want two make two pouches. And put them on a pan so they will be easy to deal with. :-) you're welcome
BooperDooper · 22-25, M
JS1992 · 31-35, M
Haha thanks. Sounds very good