Now and then the wife buys a cheap frozen pizza then ads more onion, bacon bits, cheese and olives. Damn good dinner on the cheap and easy. .
Years ago when we were young and broke, we found we were down to a box of Rice a Roni, 6 eggs, and a package of Jimmy Dean sausages. She cooked it all up and mixed it together, and we put salsa on it in tortillas. We loved it, even the kids scarfed it down. We’ve called it Junk, and still make it occasionally and reminisce of old times.
When I’m in a hurry I make some Ziti which is very easy.
For company, I’ll make a roast in the crockpot.
Ground Beef
Cottage Cheese
Shredded Cheese
Taco Sauce
Super easy high protein meal, like a mexican lasagna without noodles.
Y’all are…creative. I’ll try some of this stuff later.
I eat canned soup/stew, or instant grits when I’m feeling super lazy. Or a steak.
I bet tortilla chips added at the right time to some of these recipes would give them a satisfying crunch.
Ha, same here. I buy a whole beef every year so it’s fairly quick and easy for me to just throw a couple of ribeyes on the grill.
Yeah, a steak is like the laziest thing I know how to cook that doesn’t come out of a can. And honestly in the current economy, comparatively affordable.
- meat
- pan
- stove and/or oven
- salt and pepper or seasoning mix
Combine. 10-15 minute job. 4 dish items to wash: pan, plate, knife, fork.
I’m gonna make a variant of Abnak’s thing tonight.
Mississippi Mud pot roast
Put chuck roast in the crock pot. Pour a package of powder ranch on top and a packet of powder au ju on top. Full stick of butter on top. Put 4-6 peppercinis around it. Cook for 8 hours. Amazing.
Make sure you use a chuck roast. A leaner cut will be too dry.
One that they used to feed us in preschool that Ive loved since childhood. I call it spanish rice.
Make a box of spanish rice. What kind doesnt matter.
add a pound of ground beef.
add a small can of tomato sauce.
add some corn. Usually 1 can or half a smaller frozen bag is good. If using frozen, cook it first.
add worchestershire sauce to taste.
Coat a baking dish with oil.
Fill the bakng dish with frozen burrito’s.
Add a can of enchilada sauce.
Add a can of ranch style beans with jalapenos.
Add a can of Hot Rotel and another can of enchilada sauce.
Cover the entire top with cheese.
Add some black olives on top.
Throw it in the oven for 20-30 minutes at 400.
Ok, I’ll bite.
Imitation kailua pork:
Pork shoulder aka boston butt (costco has nice options). Bone in, boneless, doesn’t matter. Fattier cuts are better than lean IMO. Salt liberally with pink or black Hawaiian salts if you have them, kosher salt if you don’t. If you have a crock, add the pork, a few dashes of liquid smoke (no additional liquid needed as the fat and moisture renders nicely on its own). Cover, cook low & slow as long as you can wait. I start mine in the evening, run it all night, and then again over the day before leaving for work. The meat will shred nicely. If you like cabbage, add a head after cutting into 1/8ths for the last 4-8 hours of cooking.
If using an Instantpot, follow above, add some water or other liquid, the cook on high pressure for 45-60 minutes. Let it vent itself, unless adding cabbage. For cabbage, vent the pot, add cabbage, recook for 1 minute on high. Fast vent, make a bed with the cabbage, then add the pork, and shred. Enjoy.
Hot dogs or brats simmered in beer till they split open.
Think of it as a chili-cheese dog but instead of a bun you use manicotti noodles. Since manicotti noodles are not always easy to find you could wrap each one in boiled lasagna noodles instead. These are a fork-and-knife meal, not pick it up like a regular hot dog.
You said easy odd dinners… Frozen ElMonteray beef/been burritos with ketchup… don’t judge me.
I would be ashamed to post mine…. I tried, but I just can’t do it.
So, the modification I made was I used elbow mac, and instead of Ragu, I used Food Lion spaghetti sauce, and I sliced up the hot dogs. I ate it, and it wasn’t bad at all. Leftovers were fine, too.
Quick and easy: one package Hormel Square Table microwave beef tips, two packages Barilla microwave rotini, add beef gravy and sour cream to taste.
It’s weird that frozen burritos taste good with ketchup, but they do.
Andy
Rice tacos/tostadas:
Boil up some medium grain japanese style sticky rice. (not pilaf or uncle bens crap). Having a dedicated rice cooker is the best and easiest.
Fry up a pound of crumbled hamburger and add in a pack of Schillings Taco seasoning and the required amount of water.
Cut up your taco condiments (lettuce, tomato, onion, cheese, etc)
In a plate, just flatten some sticky rice into a tortilla shape
put some of the prepared ground beef and then condiments on the rice tortilla
crush and crumble some tortilla chips over it (if you want to add some extra flavor use your favorite flavor Doritos instead of plain tortilla chipps)
drizzle a bunch of Ortega’s Taco sauce over it
Done. Freaking amazing and filling.
Ain’t nothin’ wrong with substitutions man! All the stuff you made it with was essentially the same.