I like to take those boxes of breakfast cereal they sell and I like to whip them up in a big bowl with some milk. I call it cereal with milk.
But what if you aren't feeling like soup?
Sometimes I add some sliced banana or strawberries, but that may be over the scope of this question.
Fake pizza: Make toast. Drizzle toast with a little bit of olive oil. Smear tomato paste on toast. Sprinkle with garlic powder and oregano. Top with a slice of provolone.
You just described one of the famous Catalan tapas Pan Con Tomate (maybe minus the cheese)
Damn, OP. Here you thought you were making shitty white trash pizza and all along you were making Catalan tapas Pan Con Tomate!
It's definitely popular here in Barcelona pan con tomate is a regular dish across Spain. It's especially hilarious when you get the little condiment container full of tomato & garlic and mini-olive oil bottle on renfe.
Cook some rice in a rice cooker, top it with a runny sunny-side up egg, add some high quality soy sauce and a bit of butter. Sliced green onions if I'm feeling less lazy.
Egg and rice is the easy comfort food my husband learned from his grandmother. It's our too lazy to cook or shop dinner.
Looks like super easy and great, love the idea :)
Pesto pasta.
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Cook a packet of pasta and drain
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Put in a bottle of pesto
Done.
Sprinkle goat or feta cheese on top and you're riding high
I have an electric kettle, so instant ramen. I live near an asian grocery store, so I also have a ton of ramen varieties
Poaching an egg as you're cooking the ramen is probably my favorite life hack.
Sometimes I will fry some spam until it is a little crispy and add that too. Egg(s) + spam in spicy ramen is awesome. Favorite spicy noodles are nongshim shin noodles red.
Yep, poaching an egg (or a couple) in the ramen as it's about to finish cooking is one of the ways I add eggs to instant ramen. Another is a technique similar to egg drop soup: stream pre-beaten eggs while stirring the ramen (also just about the ramen is done cooking).
But I default to adding soft-boiled eggs. I cook the thoroughly washed eggs in the same water I'd cook the ramen on. I take the eggs off (put them into cold water if necessary, or I can just take them a bit early and let the residual heat take it the rest of the way), then cook the noodles. While waiting for the noodles to cook, I peel the eggs and then put them back into the noodles just before serving.
Bake some frozen chicken nuggets, toss in buffalo sauce, cut up some iceberg lettuce and throw it all in a soft tortilla with ranch.
or just cut down a piece of cheese and put it in a bread
You can't just disrespect Germany like that...
Rice via rice cooker. Ground chicken cooked in a frying pan with preminced garlic and squeeze tub of ginger. Pinto beans from a can. Mix em all together in a bowl with shredded cheese.
Tofu scramble. I premake the spice mix, then open up a pack of tofu and crumble it into a preheated pan with oil, sprinkle over the spice mix, add black beans then pepper and sriracha (as well as a bit more of the spice mix), stir and heat it up a bit, then done. If I'm feeling less lazy, I'll add veggies and stuff, but it's honestly decent like this with the right spices. Here's what I use for my spice mix (this is for a full jar which will last between 10 to 20 meals depending on how heavily seasoned I'm feeling that month):
- 8 tablespoons nutritional yeast
- 4 teaspoons chili powder
- 4 teaspoons ground cumin
- 4 teaspoons black salt (also called kala namak) or regular salt
- 3 teaspoons turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
A real cheat code here is when you truly can't find it in you to cook, have some easy heat and eat meal or something and then plan + prepare tomorrow's dinner.
Microwave burrito + take chicken out of the freezer for tomorrow
Open faced sandwiches (smørbrød/smørrebrød/smörgås) - slice of bread or toast, butter and some topping.
Very nearly as no-effort is boiling or frying an egg. Very nearly as no-effort as that is a scramble or omelette. Grilled cheese sandwich. Pasta with butter (sauce), garlic and/or chili oil. Baguette/sub/hoagie kind of thing as an upgrade on the sandwich - they sell "half-baked" ones that keep for a good while. Bacon and eggs, carbs optional.
A basic stir fry or meat-in-pan-sauce are still easy. Get whatever equipment makes your preferred foods (or healthy eating) easier.
"Every Day Dal" from Curries Without Worries 1 cup split red lentils Tbl ghee or butter 1-2 dried red chilies Tbs tumeric Tbs cumin 1-3 Tbs salt (to taste) 1 Tbs each minced ginger and garlic 5 cups water
Put in large pot bring to boil simmer 35+/- min stir it you want
Feeds 6-8 people & nice w rice
- Turn on your oven at 200c, ballpark
- Trim any excess skin you don't wanna eat off of a bunch of chicken thighs
- Chuck the thighs in a baking sheet skin up
- Wash some potatoes and cut em into wedges. You can peel em if you want
- Chuck em in the baking sheet with the chicken
- Sprinkle on some salt, and a bunch of other spices that work with chicken and/or potatoes. Garlic powder, pepper, paprika, fuckin dry basil or whatever, idk. Try to get it on both sides of the chicken but if you CBA just get it on the skin side
- Drizzle some sunflower or olive oil all over everything. Just a bit is fine
- Put the baking sheet in the oven. Doesn't matter if the oven isn't fully heated, it's fine
- Come back in like 1h and check if the chicken's done. Come back every 10 min after that until it is
- Once it's cooked, you might turn on the fan to crisp up the skin and the potatoes a little more, or maybe not, whatever
It's gonna be the most 7.5/10 dinner but it's like 5 min prep, it reheats fine, and you can walk away and shower or take a nap. You can wash the baking sheet tomorrow, who cares? It was the first 'recipe' I learned how to cook in college, and it's still my go-to lazy weekday recipe.
Make rice, throw minced meat in, done. It looks like dog food but it's pretty good.
Lazy Chicken
- Pour about a centimeter white rice in a baking dish. I prefer something a 20x30cm tempered glass one, but I'm sure you can use whatever.
- Add frozen vegetables on top.
- Dissolve a chicken broth cube hot or boiling water, pour into dish, add water to a bit above the rice.
- Place frozen chicken legs on top, or whatever other frozen chicken pieces you'd like.
- Generously season chicken.
- Stick in oven for about an hour at 200°C.
You might need to add boiling water while it's cooking, but after making it a couple times you'll know about how much water is needed from the start.
If you're lazy but not in a rush, legume soup. Throw lentils, canned chopped tomatoes, frozen veg and some spices and maybe stock powder in a pot and wait. If you don't want to wait for lentils to cook, replace by canned beans. Easy, cheap, minimal cleanup (this is usually the part I'm too lazy for) and very reasonably healthy.
Pasta and jarred sauce
Quesadillas!
Some of mines
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Pasta with frozen veggie and curry sauce, like take a bag of frozen veggie, put in the pan, add coconut milk and curry powder
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Pasta with eggs, That's the extreme on the too lazy to cook spectrum just crack an egg in the pasta, an improvement is to add some garlic and olive oil
Sub rice for pasta in the first recipe and you have a passable curry. Add bacon to the second and hello carbonara!
This is not lazy cooking! It’s just regular cooking when you messed up your shopping ;)
I just go to bed when I am too lazy to cook!
I am severely malnutrition 😎😎😎
I wrote this when I had just woke up, this is a lot less funny than I remember
- Macaroni
- Can of concentrated tomato soup
- Half a can of milk
- Shredded cheese added when mixing
Noodles with sriracha, olive oil and nutritional yeast
Whenever I make soup, I always make a lot. The extra soup goes into quart bags and goes in the freezer. So I have a soup library.
Rip open a bag of soup, toss it in a pan on medium low. Make some popcorn in the air popper.
Soup and popcorn with about a minute of work. The hardest part is picking out which soup I want.
- Two minute noodles (ramen) and a cup of frozen veggies. Boil in water for 5 mins.
- While that's boiling, fry an egg separately - I like to season with a little salt and pepper while the egg is frying.
- Once noodles/veg are done, drain then add the noodle seasoning, a little butter and half a cup of shredded parmesan. Stir through until butter & cheese has melted and everything's well combined.
- Put noodles and veg in a bowl, egg on top.
- Enjoy!
Sliced mozzarella (or whatever) cheese in a bowl, and some sandwich meat. Served cold.
spaghetti ala bolognese is my lazy to cook recipe or chicken paprikás (or rather it's less sour creamy version which is called pörkölt). if I make it from chicken, it's done pretty quickly
or, chili con carne. it's also in the super easy and quick category
I boil half a cup of rice, add 3tbsp of peanut butter and about 100ml sweet chili sauce, and I mix it evenly. Bish bash bosh.
Chicken chickpea curry.
Canned chickpeas, whatever chicken you have on hand, canned diced tomatoes, curry powder, onion, coconut milk, lemon juice. Served over rice.
Cook white rice in a rice cooker but instead of water, use a canned soup. Flavor of the soup gets into the rice. A few minutes of prep and walk away.
Smoked salmon and cherry tomatoes
Oatmeal made with milk. Stir in peanut butter when it is hot and ground cinnamon. Filling.
Spiced fried chicken breast, steamed veggies and carb of choice: mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, scalloped potatoes, or wheat bread.
"Stir fry": Fry meat of choice in a frying pan, add spices and vegetables of choice. Eat with rice or on/with wheat bread. 1 frying pan with meat and vegetables add carb to that.
Grill meat and vegetables of choice. Add carb on the side.
A bowl of hot instant ramen with a poached egg is my go-to. Very simple, takes at most 10 minutes, and tastes really good too.
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