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I'm pretty sure this thread has been done before, but I can't find it.

Anyway basically this is the situation. My parents have gone overseas for a few weeks, which means I have to cook. Which would be fine, because I'm alright to cook for myself, I know a couple of good vegetarian recipes, or if I can't be bothered a freezer meal, or whatever. Problem is, I have to cook for my fussy 15 year old sister and her friend too which means... meat dishes. Or at least some variety. If she had it her way she'd tell me to make her carbonara every day, she'll get sick it, and then blame me.

So if you have any good recipes that are reasonably cheap and quick to make (not slap dash, but so that I don't have to slave over the stove all day, whatever), it'd be muchly appreciated.

Cheers.
 
Well here's a first. I'm being nice to an Essendon supporter:

Easy meat meals: my speciality

Mango Chicken Stir Fry-prep time 15 mins: cooking: 20 mins:

Ingredients: 4 chicken thigh fillets, 1 green capsicum, 1 mango (or tin of mango slices), soy sauce, Chinese 5 spice (Master Foods), white rice.

Cut the chicken into smallish pieces. Plop the pieces in a bowl and cover them in soy sauce. Meanwhile cut up the capsicum and mango. Put your rice on to boil (if you have a rice cooker use it-these things are godsends). Heat a little oil in a wok or frying pan. Bung in your chicken and cook till it is white. Throw in the mango and stir. After 6-7 minutes throw in the capsicum. Add a couple of shakes off the Chinese 5 spice. Cook until the mango is nice and runny. Serve with the steamed or boiled rice.

Hot Beef Salad:

No teenage s******s please.

Ingredients: 2 frying steaks, 2 tomatoes, some lettuce (buy the precut stuff as it saves time), cucumber, oil, vinegar, mustard, garlic, Worchester Sauce.

Slice the tomotoes and cumumber. Throw em with the lettuce into a salad bowl. Get an old jar-place about 20mls of oil, 20mls of vinegar, some crushed garlic and a dollop of mustard. Put a lid on the jar and shake the whole lot. Cut the frying steaks into thin strips and marinate in Worchester Sauce. Heat a little oil in a fry pan and throw in the meat. Cook until brown (10 minutes on a medium flame). Throw the meat in with the salad and cover with the contents of the jar (your dressing). Toss the salad and serve.

Chinese sausage and eggs-

Ingredients: Chinese sausage (Lup Choy)-most supermarkets have this stuff for sale now, 6 eggs, spring onion, capsicum, butter/margarine

Slice 4 of the Chinese sausages and steam them for 15 minutes. In the meanwhile, scramble the six eggs, adding sliced capsicum and spring onion. Once the eggs are nearly scrambled add the Chinese sausage and serve while hot.

P.S. I'd suggest making your sister help with some of the slicing and dicing to save time
 
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well basically any stir fry would be ideal cos they r soo easy. as well as umm pasta with the bottled sauces that u basically just add meat too. UMmmmmmm always the good old counter meal if u dotn wanna cook, or take away. But that gets too expensive.

But with easy to cook meals i have no idea cos i always like cooking, thus slaving over a hot stove cooking up a masterpiece
 

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A little masterpiece I developed while I was at Uni, it still comes in handy when my wife isn't home.

You will need:
1 packet of "savings" brand 2 minute noodles
4 cups of water
a saucepan

1. Pour water into saucepan, and bring to boil.
2. Add noodles
3. After 1 minute 50 seconds, add flavour sachet from noodle packet
4. Another 10 seconds, a quick stir, and into the bowl.

Keep it quiet, though. I don't want the missus to find out I can cook...
 
This is a recipe for the easiest dish you will ever make and it tastes delicious:

Tuna Pasta

First put pasta on and bring to boil!!!

In a second pot:

- Melt some butter in pot
- Add one onion
- Add 1 large tin of tuna
- Add one carton tomato paste
-1 carton of cream......
(Add cream slowly! Personal choice on how much)

Combined pasta and tuna in a pot, mix through, and stick it on a plate.
 
Thanks to everyone who replied, they might just come in use. Heh, especially roobears :D :rolleyes: But yes, I'm gonna have a go at some of these over the next couple of days.

Thanks again.
 
Originally posted by Dee
well basically any stir fry would be ideal cos they r soo easy. as well as umm pasta with the bottled sauces that u basically just add meat too. UMmmmmmm always the good old counter meal if u dotn wanna cook, or take away. But that gets too expensive.

But with easy to cook meals i have no idea cos i always like cooking, thus slaving over a hot stove cooking up a masterpiece
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Sound like my kind of woman!!!;) :D

You know I luv ya;)
 
I've got this ripper of a recipe called "oeuf dure", a french recipe.

Here's how you make it.

Boil a saucepan of water.
When the water is boiling get an egg and place it inside.
Boil the egg for 4 minutes and then take it out.

ENJOY! :D :p
 
Originally posted by Visro
I've got this ripper of a recipe called "oeuf dure", a french recipe.

Here's how you make it.

Boil a saucepan of water.
When the water is boiling get an egg and place it inside.
Boil the egg for 4 minutes and then take it out.

ENJOY! :D :p
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Damn! Where was this piece of culinary genius when I was trying to put myself through college?
;)
 
I got a better one:

Ingredients:

1 set of car keys
abour 5 dollars
petrol


head down to the fish and chip shop and let them do the cooking for you, not too healthy but still tastes great!!!
 
Originally posted by Stucey
I got a better one:

Ingredients:

1 set of car keys
abour 5 dollars
petrol


head down to the fish and chip shop and let them do the cooking for you, not too healthy but still tastes great!!!
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Errr... think you may have missed a vital ingredient there. :)
 

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Satay beef and rice is quite nice and very easy to prepare and make aggels. Buy the beef, buy some peanut butter (how to prepare peanut sauce is somewhere on the jar) and buy some rice. Tastes very nice!

Vis

PS With the peanut sauce, you might have to buy more ingredients for that.
 
Originally posted by Visro
I've got this ripper of a recipe called "oeuf dure", a french recipe.

Here's how you make it.

Boil a saucepan of water.
When the water is boiling get an egg and place it inside.
Boil the egg for 4 minutes and then take it out.

ENJOY! :D :p
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Tempting, but I'll stick to the pain au chocolat's from Jean-Claude's in Subiaco.
 
Welcome to Sam's Smokin' Kitchen...

I have a recipe for disaster - 2 cats, a dog, two goldfish and a mouse :D

No but seriously - I feel your pain. I can't cook to save my life but I'm learning and these ones are really simple for beginners ;)

Pasta is so easy - I love love love buying the Latina ravioli (it has instructions on how to cook it on the pack - brilliant!) and for vegettarians I think you can get vegetarian tortellini, or can try with macaroni or tubular shells. I'm not sure if you know how to cook the pasta but basically boil water with a pinch of salt in it, then add the pasta and keep boiling until soft (usually more than 10 minutes - good idea to keep watching it.)
Anyway for the sauce - I have found a simple yet really tasty way is to use about 1-2 cups of the pasta sauce like Dolmio or Leggos, and then add 1-2 cups of crushed tomatoes with oregano and basil and heat that up. It tastes so nice and its so easy. This is a multifunctional sauce too by the way :D Use it with any pasta...

Spring rolls and rice are a big winner for me because its so easy! Can buy the spring rolls from the supermarket (less than 5 bucks for a box of 30 or whatever). I prefer white rice. For three people probably need 3/4 to 1 cup of rice. Boil the water (pinch of salt) Add the rice and then keep boiling for at least 10 minutes then keep an eye on it until its nice and soft (but not mushy soft!!) Spring rolls don't take long at all. Most packets have instuctions for oven bake or deep fry. I deep fry mine in a wok. Heat the oil, add the spring rolls (or samosas even!) and it only takes 3-5 minutes until they're done.

If you are after a really really really quick and easy one with minimal money -
2 eggs
2 cups milk
1/2 loaf bread
large frypan.
Beat the eggs and milk together in a bowl. Halve about 12 bits of bread into rectangles. Heat the frypan (to about 4/5 heat level). Dunk bread in milk and egg mix and lie flat on frypan until golden/dark golden, flip bread => fried bread (with tomato sauce it's a real winner)

That's all we have time for on today's show. For fact sheets on today's recipes...hmm...well there are none but can private message me for further details.

I have only blown up one microwave in my life :D
 
Mac & Cheese:
Boil some elbow macaroni in salted water.
Melt 2 soup spoons of butter in a saucepan with 2 spoons of white flour and stir till smooth (don't brown!) Pour a small carton of milk while stirring. Grate some cheddar until you get tired of it ( 1-2 cups) and put in with sprinklings of paprika,salt & pepper.
If you keep stirring it should thicken ...if not drink it thru a straw. Pour over drained, buttered macaroni. You could stir in cooked brocolli or ham.

Meat:
Get a what they call a lamb backstrap or a long thinnish piece of roasting beef. Rub with oil, coat with cajun spices or lemon pepper or nothing...whatever. Put under the grill or on the barbie ..cook it till it's pink inside or well done whatever and slice with a green salad.

Or phone for pizza
 

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