A Blind Man Cooking

[Villager]

My cooking skills are limited. I can do the BASIC curry, rice, pasta, vegetable assortments, as well as pizza, but it's getting a bit repetitive. They are literally the only things I eat for dinner. Anybody got any REALLY NICE recipies that meet the following criteria:

- Cheap
- Easy to make
- Fairly quick to make
- TASTY

?

[Sterling]

Yup, plenty. Try this one, for example.


1: Preheat oven to 400F/200C.

2: Place 4-6 chicken thighs, including bone and skin into an ovenproof dish.

3: Drizzle over a generous amount of olive oil (enough to moisten the chicken, and leave a little bit in the bottom of the dish).

4: Cut a lemon in half, squeeze over the chicken. Place the shells in the dish too.

5: Squash 3-4 cloves of garlic in their skin (just give them a quick whack), and tuck them in with the chicken.

6: Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.

7: Cook in oven for 30 minutes

8: (Optional) Toss in some freshly torn basil leaves

9: Cook for a further 15 minutes

10: Remove from oven, take chicken out of dish and serve, I suggest with some rice and steamed vegetables.

11: (Optional) If your dish is flame-proof, pour off any excess fat from the juices and slosh in a glass of white wine. Boil on the stove until the juices reduce slightly - pour over chicken.

Alternative: use 2 limes instead of the lemon and throw in some crushed chilis.

This recipie is basically a doddle, always works, and it's too much work because once it's prepped it just sits in the oven with no mucking about with stirring stuff.

[Diva]

Ooooh *applause* More! Keep em coming.

All I can offer is egg salad sandwiches.... :whome:

[Villager]

I tried this last night, and it was really nice.

I neglected Optionals 8 & 11, and served with boiled potatoes, peas, carrots and lightly salted basmati rice. I added crushed chillis and some sliced peppers as well. Lovely. It's really easy to vary, I imagine.

Any others, Sterling? They'd be much appreciated at this dinner table..

[Princess]

cut up some bell peppers in strips and put them in a frying pan (use a non stick spray first) ..... cook them for about 20 mins on medium heat, when they seem done, add cooked bonless/skinless chicken breast (or strips of cooked roast beef) add some onion (about 1/4 of one... chopped in to little bits) and some pepper and some garlic.... if you have garlic power sprinkle some on, if you have minced garlic add about 1/8 tsp - 1/4 depends on what you like.....
cook for about 10 mins or so and then put that filling in Flour Tortillas..... (you can buy them easily... or go all out and make them too )

add shreaded cheader cheese if you like it,
shreaded lettuce if you like it,
salsa :)
and eat it.

I don't know if that is simple to you or not but :)



o and Tortillas:

1 1/2 cups of flour
2 table spoons of vegtable shortening
pinch of salt
1/4 teaspoon of baking powder
mix
add:
hot water to make a ball of dough

seperate in to little balls, flatten and roll out to 1/8th inch thick (sorry I don't know metric system)

cook on a heated flat pan or skillet on top of the stove, 20 seconds 1st side and about 10-15 seconds second side.
If you don't make the filling just butter these and eat them plain .... my kids love them... anyway
hope it works for you

[Sterling]

Or how about this:

1: Buy one salmon steak per person, should be approx 1.5" thick.

2: Pre-heat your oven to 370F/180C.

3: Place each salmon steak on a buttered square of aluminium foil.

4: Squeeze lemon juice over each steak, and add a sprinkle of parsley and a few grinds of freshly milled salt and pepper.

5: Top with a small knob of butter and wrap up into a loosely sealed package.

6: Cook in oven for 18-20 minutes or so (adjust time for rarer or more well-done salmon).

7: Serve with another squeeze of lemon and vegetables of your choice.

[kittyroze]

Chocolate powder, 4 packages cream cheese, sugar, pie crust, 4 ounces yogurt, 2 tblespoons flour, a pinch of cornstarch, 4 eggs, 2tablespoons vanilla, 8 ounces sour cream...
Mix everything except the pie crust sugar and sour cream together... pour into pie crust and bake at 350 for about a half an hour (ish). Let cool, mix sugar with sour cream-to taste, and use as a topping. So good...a little ingredient heavy...but so rich and lovely and easy. Instead of chocolate powder you can use pink lemonade mix...or pretty much any other drink powder you'd like. Yummy!

[kittyroze]

Oh, and potstickers...
1 pound ground/shredded meat (turkey works best IMHO)
1 tblspoon soy sauce, two chopped cloves garlic, a table spoon or so ground ginger, a table spoon of honey, two tablespoons green onions, a tablespoon cornstarch (of course, this is ALL really to taste)...
Wrap filling in potsticker wrap thingee using a bit of water to seal the edges and cook in a frying pan...use just a touch of water in the pan (yeah, I know, steamy and seemingly dangerous if you're not used to it) to make sure they're soft.

[kittyroze]

For a different flavor in Sterling's chicken dish, you can use apricot jam and barbeque sauce (keep the oil and lemon of course...maybe add a touch of honey...I LOVE honey)

[kittyroze]

Oh, and with pasta, you can cook up some chicken to go with it...use the following sauce...peanut butter, green onion, honey and soysauce...it sounds weird, but if you do it right it should taste pretty good!