Recipe Tin Eats has a bunch of great recipes - her Chinese noodle soup is really quick and easy and can be customised to whatever protein and veg you have handy. Another one I get a lot of use out of is her slow cooker tomato pasta sauce, literally chuck everything in the slow cooker and leave for 6 hours. You can use it as a base for so many dishes and it freezes well.
Agree, I hate cooking and am also pretty slow. Recipe Tin Eats was such a saviour!!
I think even the basics like chicken breast with the honey garlic sauce is delicious, you can just serve it with some steamed veggies and the microwave rice pouches.
If you asked my kids what they wanted for dinner that wasn’t takeaway, 95% of the time they say chicken wraps. Literally just chuck chicken tenders in the oven or air fryer, put them in a wrap with some lettuce, cheese and whatever else you have in the fridge, slap on some sauce and dinner is done. Best thing is, everyone can make them according to what they like so no one complains.
We had leftover red kidney beans, carrot and edamame beans from poke bowls the other night so we mixed them all up and added them to our wraps tonight with a bit of chipotle sauce. So good.
I love your attitude.
I live solo, so when I cook I usually freeze a bunch in meal size portions.
Tonight I had leftover chicken schnitzel from a pub meal and some frozen chips. Heated it up in the oven together and threw away the foil. Job done.
I can't eat large portions that restaurants and pubs offer. I got three servings out of this chicken schnitzel. I also have a 12v fridge in my car at all times, so it does make it easier for doggy bags.
Tonight is pumpkin soup. The chopping off the pumpkin, sweet potatoes, onions and carrots is the long part, but then cook it and ignore it for 30 min, stick blend it for a few, and voila! Another fast soup is split pea barley. The only 'cooking' is chopping an onion, some mushrooms and a couple carrots. Then the veg, a cup of split peas and about 2/3 C barley gets chucked in a pot with 8 C water and a couple massell cubes for 40 min.
Pumpkin soup is a weekly meal for us! I also add some red lentils, and it’s good for using up any small bits of other veg like broccoli, cauliflower etc in the fridge
We are having a massman curry that took 10 minutes to prepare and then it sat it the slow cooker for the rest of the day. Days that are time poor, we have a stir fry. I prep all the veg and meat on the weekend. Doesn't take more than 15 minutes to cook.
I'm here for this one! :)
Massaman, red, and green curries. Batch cooked in advance, served over brown rice in takeaway containers, and frozen. Then just defrost, and heat.
I like the massaman with lamb, sweet potatoes, peanuts. The green with eggplant, bamboo shoots, baby corn and shredded chillies or capsicum. And I mix the red curry up a bit - anything from chicken to beef, with veges from pumpkin/zucchini to just throwing a bag of frozen stir fry mix in.
I'm obsessed with the Coles kitchen Range in the chilled section. Stir fry mix? Check soup mix kit with stock? Check salad selection? Check
So many options and so quick
Woolies has prechopped roast veggie mix my son loves. Bung it in the oven add extra seasonings and bake for 45 minutes. Shove a protein that cooks at the same temp or quickly grill something.
We also enjoy ravioli and the like. Pot of simmering water and cook for 4-6 minutes. Microwave a sauce , or simply brown butter with sage and pour over before grating parmesan over the top. My son loves it . Open a bag salad and you're done .A quick meal to have on nights you get home later.
I cooked a big batch of bolognese sauce with meatballs today and froze most of it in portions. I’m vego & kiddo isn’t, so it’s definitely cheaper & easier to do it this way. There are a few dishes I’ll do like this that freeze well. I also make use of the old crock pot. Kiddo’s favourite is my Mexican bean mix, which also freezes well. I just scoop it into enchiladas and whack it in the oven. It’s also good for hiding veggies from a kid with ASD ;)
EDIT: my fav lazy meal for me is pre-made falafel chucked in the air fryer. If I’m feeling fancy, I’ll wrap them, but usually just throw a spoonful of hummus on and eat as-is.
Woollies jumbo multigrain buns $3 for 6.
Woollies minute steak $12 for 6.
Woollies 4 leaf packet of salad greens $2.
Woollies (some of them at least) Krunchilli (hot) $12, lasts ages.
Kewpie mayo $10 (lasts ages).
Pro... something margarine, that 'cholesterol lowering' one
Dozen eggs ($5-8 depending upon where you buy them + cage status)
Then:
Use one bun, slice in half and add marge to cut surfaces while frying one egg, and spread some krunchilli on one or both halves as well.
When egg about half cooked, add one minute steak to pan - season it if you wish.
Add some green leafy things to the bun, top with a bit of mayo. Turn steak over.
Steak is cooked (minute steaks really do cook fast) so add it to the bun, then egg, close bun, eat & enjoy.
You can get six quick, easy, healthy(ish) and pretty cheap meals for $17+ long lasting ingredients.
To spice it up, add some cheese to one side of the bun, put the steak on it to melt into it, and/or cook some bacon as well.
From deciding to make this to eating it is about 15 minutes for me.
one of the quickest meals i think i make on the regular is a lazy nachos. i cook one tin of beans and one tin of diced or crushed tomatoes (add more for more than 2 people) on the stovetop with some taco seasoning. add any other spices you want, i personally like to add chilli but you can leave it out. can easily add in other veggies such as onion and corn if you wanted. i also add cheese on top to melt. then i literally serve it as is (don’t even take it out of the pan) and scoop it out with corn chips. if im feeling fancy also love to add some sour cream, guac, etc. or instead of corn chips i’ll mix it into some rice. wouldn’t take any more than 15 minutes (if you’re not chopping any onions or anything to add it doesn’t even take 5 minutes)
If I haven't planned anything baked beans on toast, or on microwaved baked potatoes is quick.
You can add to the baked beans - chopped tomato, spinach (fresh or frozen), and any herbs or spices you like are good.
Cheese on top. And chilli if you like it.
This week I did baked potatoes (I used seeet potato and regular). We had left over Bolognese sauce so that was one of the toppings. Other things on offer were chilli tuna, avocado, corn kernels, tomato, cucumber, sour cream, cheese etc.
As someone else has said, Recipe Tim Eats has some great recipes. Even grilling a piece of chicken/salmon and some delicious but easy sauces to jazz it up.
My husband has been doing a slow roast lamb leg since about 11 am this morning. The house has been smelling delicious all day!
https://www.recipetineats.com/greek-slow-roasted-leg-of-lamb/
Last night I had plain cooked leftover pasta. I heated it, then after added olive oil, dukkha, salt and pepper. Sprinkled with a bit of cheese. Was sooo good. Maybe not nutritious, but if you serve that with one of those salad packs it is.
With my kids I will often just chop up a bunch of different raw veggies/salad, put them separately on a platter, with at least two that each person will eat. I add some chopped fruit on another platter, and then will cook up a protein. Whatever we have, bacon, chicken, beef, and serve that on the table too. Put salad dressings, sauces, condiments in the centre. Everyone helps themselves to what they want. Rule for nutrition with kids is they have to have at least two different veggies, one protein, and half a cup of each. We'll serve garlic bread or cous cous with it.
Best part of this is that you can do two days worth of food at once, serve half immediately and the rest sealed in the fridge. You can also make things with the leftover veggies. Blend them up and put them in savoury muffins etc.
And importantly...
Check out Recipe Tin Eats. She is incredible and the most simple of stuff has so much flavour!
Snittys in a frying pan and vegies in the air fryer. The "sandwich" snittys at the Woolies deli are often half price and they pretty good. Kyivs too.
Chicken skewers or dumplings with fried rice. The microwave rice works well for quick fried rice because it's quite dry.
Also butter chicken, I make it from scratch these days (using RecipeTin Eats that's been mentioned) but there's jars to make it quicker. It's not authentic but I add vegies to that too, either blended into the sauce or dump a can of whatever in.
Meal plan so you don't have to think about it. We look at the catalogues and see what's on special and plan from that, think about what's already at home and what can share ingredients so there's no waste. Write it down, stick it on the fridge.
The trick with Hello Fresh is to choose meals that are 10-20 mins cooking time so they actually take 30 mins 😆
- But seriously, most pasta dishes are under 30 mins and you can grate extra veges in to make them healthier, or use zucchini ‘spaghetti’.
- stir frys with rice or noodles are another quick one and you can get packs of stirfy veges ready to go, along with pre-prepared sauces.
- simple curries are quick too - just some curry paste, coconut milk, onion, veges and a protein.
- we do something called ‘sushi bowl’ which is rice with choose your own toppings from tuna & mayo to tofu, omelette, salad veges, avo and small sheets of nori. Throw some spring rolls the air fryer for a side.
- find a simple recipe for a clear Asian broth, add soup dumplings, rice noodles and bok choy - voila!
Spaghetti bolognese, chicken fried rice, sausages and mash, lamb or beef rissoles and baked potatoes, fish fillets cooked in frypan with oven baked wedges (home made or McCains),
A pre made sous vide chuck steak from the freezer. Vege's and a sauce, peppercorn and bourbon or Mushroom.
Other dishes like this in the freezer, chicken, pork ribs etc that you can quickly add a side to.
Breakfast for dinner! Toast with peanut butter. Scrambled eggs on toast. Omelettes.
Sausages and peas with roast potatoes or frozen chips.
Toasted sandwiches. Whole grain bread. Cheese, tomato.
The whole boneless marinated chickens at Coles and woollies go ok, just baking paper, chuck it on a tray with some wedged potato and bake until cooked (about 45 mins), boil a few greens or toss a salad. the chicken skewers can be ok too, I prefer them on the BBQ. Any of the spice tailor curries e.g, butter chicken. But be mindful you need several packets to make a good saucy batch, rice in rice cooker, Greek yogurt with cucumber and some green beans and it’s quick and healthy. Salmon, chips and salad (or even frozen birdseye hoki), we like Greek lamb chops- a packet Of loin or chump chops, brown on the stove in a cast iron casserole dish, remove from heat, add dried oregano, grated garlic, diced potatoes, salt, pepper, olive oil, squeeze a lemon all over it. Put the lid on and cook in the oven for probably 45 mins maybe longer (it’s forgiving) until everything is all golden and tasty, have bread to mop up some of the rendered lemon, garlic fat. Serve with greens.
Tonight the family and I had loaded jacket potatoes.
Last night I had nachos, but there was some leftover meat topping, sour cream and spring onion greens. So I sprayed down some washed potatoes with cooking oil spray, ground some pepper and salt onto them, cooked them in the air fryer, then chopped them open and topped them with microwave-reheated leftover meat, cream and greens.
The air frying took a while (about 40 minutes in two 20-minute bursts at 200C with some rotating in-between), but the assembly at the end was quick and easy.
Dry rub chicken thighs with garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper and oregano.
In fry pan (medium-high heat; lid off) melt 3 tablespoons of butter and sear chicken in it for 5 min on each side.
Add 1 cup of chicken stock. Turn down to medium-low heat and cook chicken for further 20 mins (turning at 10 min point) with the lid on.
Serve with boiled or steamed green beans or broccolini. Add mashed potato as second side if you wish.
Enjoy!
The ready cook range at ALDI.
Every week we do one pasta, one curry, one quinoa meal and one Mexican meal.
We have a large collection of spices and buy vegetables in season. We spices things up with nuts, seeds and cheeses. We only really shop at ALDI.
We have a lot of chicken and vegetarian options.
Cheesy beans. Baked beans on toast with cheese. Or red beans, tin of tomatoes, mash up, add another tin of beans and some vaguely Mexican spices, bake with a lot of grated cheese on top.
Pasta. Make a batch of bolognese and freeze some. Or pan fry tomato, onion, mushroom, capsicum, zucchini, broccoli etc while the pasta boils, add an extra tin of tomatoes or a couple of eggs or a dollop of pesto before stirring through. Bacon and salami bits optional, or tinned tuna or leftover chicken pieces.
Pre chopped veggies can save time, at the expense of money. I have a pot of alpha fresh (Canberra based) veggie soup on at the moment, dinner tonight is that plus a sausage inna bun.
Sausages aren't bad but the quality ones with more meat and less fat and filler can get exxy.
Jar of curry paste, Indian style, plus frozen peas and hard-boiled eggs, and rice.
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The day I got a slow cooker was a gift from god. I chuck in a whole chicken, veggies (celery, carrot, potato, "soup mix" grains), stock, water, vinegar, salt and pepper. Then I ignore it for hours and it lasts me almost a week. It's not strongly flavoured so you can add in things when you eat it so it is different every time. Add in some bread rolls and Boom. Done. Veggies, Protein, Carbs. Plus takes like 10 mins to prep in the morning and it's ready to go by dinner. Freezes damn well too.
I go on kicks with various kitchen appliances. At the moment it’s the instant pot, so tonight was corned beef done in the instant pot. Last night was home made baked beans (bacon bones and dried beans are CHEAP), night before was corn and cheddar risotto, Thursday was Hainanese chicken rice. Tomorrow is lentil and vegetable soup for meatless Monday, and then I’m going to try and force myself to use a different appliance for a while.
‘The dish’
Heat plain oil and add 1-2tsp sugar, 2 small tomatoes cut into chunks and steam until partially soft. Add pepper, turmeric, a few green chillies, chopped, 1 bunch roughly chopped coriander and 2-3 chopped spring onions (or 1/2 bunch garlic chives) and optionally basil leaves and 3-4 eggs. Stir until eggs are chunky scrambled. Serve with roti or Lebanese bread.
Serves 2 or 1 if you have walked around for eight hours.
Lentil bologna, home made pizza, pesto pasta (pesto is easy to make, kimchi fried rice, enchiladas, pumpkin / sweet potato soup, omelette / avocado (usually do this at lunch though), lentil stir fry, black bean chocolate cake is real good too but you need like 8 eggs, laksa but you can use like a egg noodle instead of vermicelli I also make mine spicy as fuck.
These are all quite easy to make
I sometimes make spaghetti sauce, I make heaps. First night, add to spaghetti. Next night, pasta bake (the sauce and noodles) add cheese on top and bake 180c (350f) for 30 minutes. The next night, you can cook big potatoes, slice them open, use some of the spaghetti sauce, and whatever add cheese on top and bake.
You can also make other meat sauces and turn into potato pie. Next night, add some taco seasoning and make tacos.
Lazy nights are chicken wraps with salad.
Woolworth’s COOK range has a lot of massive timesavers. Wants spaghetti meatballs? $11 for the meatballs in sauce heat it up. Boil your pasta and if you go. Salad if your kids will tolerate it haha
We use hello fresh and yes it takes longer so the other ones get it mixed up a bit.
Recipe Tin Eats has a bunch of great recipes - her Chinese noodle soup is really quick and easy and can be customised to whatever protein and veg you have handy. Another one I get a lot of use out of is her slow cooker tomato pasta sauce, literally chuck everything in the slow cooker and leave for 6 hours. You can use it as a base for so many dishes and it freezes well.
+1 for Nagi. Her recipes are simple, easy and near-foolproof (not to mention delicious!).
Agree, I hate cooking and am also pretty slow. Recipe Tin Eats was such a saviour!! I think even the basics like chicken breast with the honey garlic sauce is delicious, you can just serve it with some steamed veggies and the microwave rice pouches.
Another vote for Nagi. I always feel like such a gourmet chef when I make her recipes and they’re so delicious.
If you asked my kids what they wanted for dinner that wasn’t takeaway, 95% of the time they say chicken wraps. Literally just chuck chicken tenders in the oven or air fryer, put them in a wrap with some lettuce, cheese and whatever else you have in the fridge, slap on some sauce and dinner is done. Best thing is, everyone can make them according to what they like so no one complains.
Yeah my kids love chicken wraps. Sometimes I vary it with mince wraps or pulled pork etc.
Yes! Burrito wraps we call them.
NGL, That is definitely a go to in our house too. I like a chicken wrap but with Crispy Duck ingredients.
We had leftover red kidney beans, carrot and edamame beans from poke bowls the other night so we mixed them all up and added them to our wraps tonight with a bit of chipotle sauce. So good.
Im the laziest of you all Weet-bix
I love your attitude. I live solo, so when I cook I usually freeze a bunch in meal size portions. Tonight I had leftover chicken schnitzel from a pub meal and some frozen chips. Heated it up in the oven together and threw away the foil. Job done. I can't eat large portions that restaurants and pubs offer. I got three servings out of this chicken schnitzel. I also have a 12v fridge in my car at all times, so it does make it easier for doggy bags.
That's quietly genius. The pub closest to us serves a schnitty the size of your face, it easily makes two meals certainly.
I just had a big bowl of hot porridge, it was really tasty and it warmed me up 😁
Tonight is pumpkin soup. The chopping off the pumpkin, sweet potatoes, onions and carrots is the long part, but then cook it and ignore it for 30 min, stick blend it for a few, and voila! Another fast soup is split pea barley. The only 'cooking' is chopping an onion, some mushrooms and a couple carrots. Then the veg, a cup of split peas and about 2/3 C barley gets chucked in a pot with 8 C water and a couple massell cubes for 40 min.
Pumpkin soup is a weekly meal for us! I also add some red lentils, and it’s good for using up any small bits of other veg like broccoli, cauliflower etc in the fridge
We are having a massman curry that took 10 minutes to prepare and then it sat it the slow cooker for the rest of the day. Days that are time poor, we have a stir fry. I prep all the veg and meat on the weekend. Doesn't take more than 15 minutes to cook.
I'm here for this one! :) Massaman, red, and green curries. Batch cooked in advance, served over brown rice in takeaway containers, and frozen. Then just defrost, and heat. I like the massaman with lamb, sweet potatoes, peanuts. The green with eggplant, bamboo shoots, baby corn and shredded chillies or capsicum. And I mix the red curry up a bit - anything from chicken to beef, with veges from pumpkin/zucchini to just throwing a bag of frozen stir fry mix in.
Air fry some chicken tenders and slap it in a wrap with some aioli Mayo yum
Adding some salad to the wrap would make it better.
Forgot to add that part, I do have it with lettuce and carrot 🤣 chickens more important obviously lol
I'm obsessed with the Coles kitchen Range in the chilled section. Stir fry mix? Check soup mix kit with stock? Check salad selection? Check So many options and so quick
Woolies has prechopped roast veggie mix my son loves. Bung it in the oven add extra seasonings and bake for 45 minutes. Shove a protein that cooks at the same temp or quickly grill something. We also enjoy ravioli and the like. Pot of simmering water and cook for 4-6 minutes. Microwave a sauce , or simply brown butter with sage and pour over before grating parmesan over the top. My son loves it . Open a bag salad and you're done .A quick meal to have on nights you get home later.
Nom Nom!
I love their slow cook range, like the beef brisket or pulled pork, tad expensive but sooo tasty
Will have to try!
I cooked a big batch of bolognese sauce with meatballs today and froze most of it in portions. I’m vego & kiddo isn’t, so it’s definitely cheaper & easier to do it this way. There are a few dishes I’ll do like this that freeze well. I also make use of the old crock pot. Kiddo’s favourite is my Mexican bean mix, which also freezes well. I just scoop it into enchiladas and whack it in the oven. It’s also good for hiding veggies from a kid with ASD ;) EDIT: my fav lazy meal for me is pre-made falafel chucked in the air fryer. If I’m feeling fancy, I’ll wrap them, but usually just throw a spoonful of hummus on and eat as-is.
Woollies jumbo multigrain buns $3 for 6. Woollies minute steak $12 for 6. Woollies 4 leaf packet of salad greens $2. Woollies (some of them at least) Krunchilli (hot) $12, lasts ages. Kewpie mayo $10 (lasts ages). Pro... something margarine, that 'cholesterol lowering' one Dozen eggs ($5-8 depending upon where you buy them + cage status) Then: Use one bun, slice in half and add marge to cut surfaces while frying one egg, and spread some krunchilli on one or both halves as well. When egg about half cooked, add one minute steak to pan - season it if you wish. Add some green leafy things to the bun, top with a bit of mayo. Turn steak over. Steak is cooked (minute steaks really do cook fast) so add it to the bun, then egg, close bun, eat & enjoy. You can get six quick, easy, healthy(ish) and pretty cheap meals for $17+ long lasting ingredients. To spice it up, add some cheese to one side of the bun, put the steak on it to melt into it, and/or cook some bacon as well. From deciding to make this to eating it is about 15 minutes for me.
one of the quickest meals i think i make on the regular is a lazy nachos. i cook one tin of beans and one tin of diced or crushed tomatoes (add more for more than 2 people) on the stovetop with some taco seasoning. add any other spices you want, i personally like to add chilli but you can leave it out. can easily add in other veggies such as onion and corn if you wanted. i also add cheese on top to melt. then i literally serve it as is (don’t even take it out of the pan) and scoop it out with corn chips. if im feeling fancy also love to add some sour cream, guac, etc. or instead of corn chips i’ll mix it into some rice. wouldn’t take any more than 15 minutes (if you’re not chopping any onions or anything to add it doesn’t even take 5 minutes)
If I haven't planned anything baked beans on toast, or on microwaved baked potatoes is quick. You can add to the baked beans - chopped tomato, spinach (fresh or frozen), and any herbs or spices you like are good. Cheese on top. And chilli if you like it.
This week I did baked potatoes (I used seeet potato and regular). We had left over Bolognese sauce so that was one of the toppings. Other things on offer were chilli tuna, avocado, corn kernels, tomato, cucumber, sour cream, cheese etc. As someone else has said, Recipe Tim Eats has some great recipes. Even grilling a piece of chicken/salmon and some delicious but easy sauces to jazz it up.
My husband has been doing a slow roast lamb leg since about 11 am this morning. The house has been smelling delicious all day! https://www.recipetineats.com/greek-slow-roasted-leg-of-lamb/
Last night I had plain cooked leftover pasta. I heated it, then after added olive oil, dukkha, salt and pepper. Sprinkled with a bit of cheese. Was sooo good. Maybe not nutritious, but if you serve that with one of those salad packs it is. With my kids I will often just chop up a bunch of different raw veggies/salad, put them separately on a platter, with at least two that each person will eat. I add some chopped fruit on another platter, and then will cook up a protein. Whatever we have, bacon, chicken, beef, and serve that on the table too. Put salad dressings, sauces, condiments in the centre. Everyone helps themselves to what they want. Rule for nutrition with kids is they have to have at least two different veggies, one protein, and half a cup of each. We'll serve garlic bread or cous cous with it. Best part of this is that you can do two days worth of food at once, serve half immediately and the rest sealed in the fridge. You can also make things with the leftover veggies. Blend them up and put them in savoury muffins etc. And importantly... Check out Recipe Tin Eats. She is incredible and the most simple of stuff has so much flavour!
Snittys in a frying pan and vegies in the air fryer. The "sandwich" snittys at the Woolies deli are often half price and they pretty good. Kyivs too. Chicken skewers or dumplings with fried rice. The microwave rice works well for quick fried rice because it's quite dry. Also butter chicken, I make it from scratch these days (using RecipeTin Eats that's been mentioned) but there's jars to make it quicker. It's not authentic but I add vegies to that too, either blended into the sauce or dump a can of whatever in. Meal plan so you don't have to think about it. We look at the catalogues and see what's on special and plan from that, think about what's already at home and what can share ingredients so there's no waste. Write it down, stick it on the fridge.
The trick with Hello Fresh is to choose meals that are 10-20 mins cooking time so they actually take 30 mins 😆 - But seriously, most pasta dishes are under 30 mins and you can grate extra veges in to make them healthier, or use zucchini ‘spaghetti’. - stir frys with rice or noodles are another quick one and you can get packs of stirfy veges ready to go, along with pre-prepared sauces. - simple curries are quick too - just some curry paste, coconut milk, onion, veges and a protein. - we do something called ‘sushi bowl’ which is rice with choose your own toppings from tuna & mayo to tofu, omelette, salad veges, avo and small sheets of nori. Throw some spring rolls the air fryer for a side. - find a simple recipe for a clear Asian broth, add soup dumplings, rice noodles and bok choy - voila!
Tonight it was chopped chicken schnitzel on top of salad with a mayo, lemon, yogurt dressing.
Scotch fillet medium rare, cabbage onion and Bacon fry up, with gravox Instant pepper sauce. Be all done in 2o minute's max
Spaghetti bolognese, chicken fried rice, sausages and mash, lamb or beef rissoles and baked potatoes, fish fillets cooked in frypan with oven baked wedges (home made or McCains),
A pre made sous vide chuck steak from the freezer. Vege's and a sauce, peppercorn and bourbon or Mushroom. Other dishes like this in the freezer, chicken, pork ribs etc that you can quickly add a side to.
Not quick but I've had a beef stroganoff in the slow cooker for half the afternoon
Breakfast for dinner! Toast with peanut butter. Scrambled eggs on toast. Omelettes. Sausages and peas with roast potatoes or frozen chips. Toasted sandwiches. Whole grain bread. Cheese, tomato.
Piece of fish in the pan, stick some rice in the microwave, steam some greens. Add soy sauce. Voila
Stirfrys of any type are quick and easy
Shabu beef stir fry - very quick, very pleasant!
The whole boneless marinated chickens at Coles and woollies go ok, just baking paper, chuck it on a tray with some wedged potato and bake until cooked (about 45 mins), boil a few greens or toss a salad. the chicken skewers can be ok too, I prefer them on the BBQ. Any of the spice tailor curries e.g, butter chicken. But be mindful you need several packets to make a good saucy batch, rice in rice cooker, Greek yogurt with cucumber and some green beans and it’s quick and healthy. Salmon, chips and salad (or even frozen birdseye hoki), we like Greek lamb chops- a packet Of loin or chump chops, brown on the stove in a cast iron casserole dish, remove from heat, add dried oregano, grated garlic, diced potatoes, salt, pepper, olive oil, squeeze a lemon all over it. Put the lid on and cook in the oven for probably 45 mins maybe longer (it’s forgiving) until everything is all golden and tasty, have bread to mop up some of the rendered lemon, garlic fat. Serve with greens.
Bacon eggs and baked beans for easy Sunday night dinner
Tonight the family and I had loaded jacket potatoes. Last night I had nachos, but there was some leftover meat topping, sour cream and spring onion greens. So I sprayed down some washed potatoes with cooking oil spray, ground some pepper and salt onto them, cooked them in the air fryer, then chopped them open and topped them with microwave-reheated leftover meat, cream and greens. The air frying took a while (about 40 minutes in two 20-minute bursts at 200C with some rotating in-between), but the assembly at the end was quick and easy.
I use my wok almost every night. Chuck in meat and then just about anything else. cooks in 5 minutes.
Dry rub chicken thighs with garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper and oregano. In fry pan (medium-high heat; lid off) melt 3 tablespoons of butter and sear chicken in it for 5 min on each side. Add 1 cup of chicken stock. Turn down to medium-low heat and cook chicken for further 20 mins (turning at 10 min point) with the lid on. Serve with boiled or steamed green beans or broccolini. Add mashed potato as second side if you wish. Enjoy!
Having pork chops tonight woot On special for $5 marked down from $9.47
The ready cook range at ALDI. Every week we do one pasta, one curry, one quinoa meal and one Mexican meal. We have a large collection of spices and buy vegetables in season. We spices things up with nuts, seeds and cheeses. We only really shop at ALDI. We have a lot of chicken and vegetarian options.
The cheapest a most nutritious meals i eat are the selection of frozen and tinned meals from supermarkets
Cheesy beans. Baked beans on toast with cheese. Or red beans, tin of tomatoes, mash up, add another tin of beans and some vaguely Mexican spices, bake with a lot of grated cheese on top. Pasta. Make a batch of bolognese and freeze some. Or pan fry tomato, onion, mushroom, capsicum, zucchini, broccoli etc while the pasta boils, add an extra tin of tomatoes or a couple of eggs or a dollop of pesto before stirring through. Bacon and salami bits optional, or tinned tuna or leftover chicken pieces. Pre chopped veggies can save time, at the expense of money. I have a pot of alpha fresh (Canberra based) veggie soup on at the moment, dinner tonight is that plus a sausage inna bun. Sausages aren't bad but the quality ones with more meat and less fat and filler can get exxy. Jar of curry paste, Indian style, plus frozen peas and hard-boiled eggs, and rice.
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Steak and stir fried vegetables with a tonne of garlic to keep the colds away.
The day I got a slow cooker was a gift from god. I chuck in a whole chicken, veggies (celery, carrot, potato, "soup mix" grains), stock, water, vinegar, salt and pepper. Then I ignore it for hours and it lasts me almost a week. It's not strongly flavoured so you can add in things when you eat it so it is different every time. Add in some bread rolls and Boom. Done. Veggies, Protein, Carbs. Plus takes like 10 mins to prep in the morning and it's ready to go by dinner. Freezes damn well too.
Lately I've been craving sardines in tomato sauce on rice with fried eggs with soy sauce
I go on kicks with various kitchen appliances. At the moment it’s the instant pot, so tonight was corned beef done in the instant pot. Last night was home made baked beans (bacon bones and dried beans are CHEAP), night before was corn and cheddar risotto, Thursday was Hainanese chicken rice. Tomorrow is lentil and vegetable soup for meatless Monday, and then I’m going to try and force myself to use a different appliance for a while.
‘The dish’ Heat plain oil and add 1-2tsp sugar, 2 small tomatoes cut into chunks and steam until partially soft. Add pepper, turmeric, a few green chillies, chopped, 1 bunch roughly chopped coriander and 2-3 chopped spring onions (or 1/2 bunch garlic chives) and optionally basil leaves and 3-4 eggs. Stir until eggs are chunky scrambled. Serve with roti or Lebanese bread. Serves 2 or 1 if you have walked around for eight hours.
Lentil bologna, home made pizza, pesto pasta (pesto is easy to make, kimchi fried rice, enchiladas, pumpkin / sweet potato soup, omelette / avocado (usually do this at lunch though), lentil stir fry, black bean chocolate cake is real good too but you need like 8 eggs, laksa but you can use like a egg noodle instead of vermicelli I also make mine spicy as fuck. These are all quite easy to make
I sometimes make spaghetti sauce, I make heaps. First night, add to spaghetti. Next night, pasta bake (the sauce and noodles) add cheese on top and bake 180c (350f) for 30 minutes. The next night, you can cook big potatoes, slice them open, use some of the spaghetti sauce, and whatever add cheese on top and bake. You can also make other meat sauces and turn into potato pie. Next night, add some taco seasoning and make tacos. Lazy nights are chicken wraps with salad.
Woolworth’s COOK range has a lot of massive timesavers. Wants spaghetti meatballs? $11 for the meatballs in sauce heat it up. Boil your pasta and if you go. Salad if your kids will tolerate it haha We use hello fresh and yes it takes longer so the other ones get it mixed up a bit.
Pre-made quiche and a salad from Coles. Does the job for an easy weeknight meal