Air fryer Baked Potatoes are so easy to make, the I wished found out when I got an air fryer a while back. All you need is a potato, olive oil, seasoning, & foil to make. The only downside, it takes almost an hour to make in the air fryer
Eggs.
Its so easy to cook eggs. I like eggs. My wife and I have pet chickens. And for some reason I never think to take five minitues to make some eggs. Its basically free food, because I sell enough eggs to easily cover the feed that our spoiled chickens eat.
I think I just need to remind myself that I have them.
eggs, and rice with rice cooker, make your own friend rice if you want.
Gotta have some friend rice. 😛
Eggs are like cheating at food. Full of proteins and makes you feel full like little else can.
soup. different kinds. never tried making, always seemed like magic requiring occult knowledge.
actually supper simple.
actually supper simple.
:D
Especially with a slow cooker. Chuck ingredients in, turn it on, let 8 hours do their magic. Sometime blend.
Ranch dressing from scratch is like 7 things.
Pasta from scratch with a roller machine is stupid easy and delicious.
Lasagna. Not hard, just takes a while. Make 3, freeze 2. You’ll thank me later.
Crispy smashed potatoes are every bit as good as IG posts make it seem. Practically no effort. Microwave to baked stage, smash, butter, oven 15 min. F, now I’m hungry.
Dutch baby/pancake. One of those “cast iron pan oh la la” things. Blend batter, pour in hot pan. Done. Regular pancakes take longer, are more work, and more mess.
Ranch dressing from scratch is like 7 things.
- You gotta add a little love. Trust me, I’m from the midwest.
Oh, I always do ;)
so thats why its always stringy and chewy
Scratch made ranch is the best. Once you try it you’ll never want that soupy Hidden Valley stuff again.
The baby pancakes are called ‘poffertjes’
Delicious
I pulled a working pellet smoker off the curb yesterday. Today I am really kicking myself for not spending 400 to 600 dollars I don’t have on something like this. I did a test run last night with the pellets in it and ate 3 plain hot dogs that were flavorful.
Carbonara. Sounds fancy, but it’s really just a matter of mixing some egg yolk and shredded cheese together
Once you’ve made carbonara right once, it’s super quick and easy. My favourite pasta dish.
Low effort, high payoff. Bacon is a good sub for pancetta too.
Guanciale is the traditional meat to use, but I actually prefer the less fatty pancetta. Bacon would do in a pinch but I like dicing the meat up before it goes in which isn’t easily done with bacon
I know what Im trying after work.
My favourite recipe. (context is outbreak of covid in Australia.)
Rice. The amount of cheap simple meals you can throw together if you have rice is ridiculous.
Cook it in stock instead of water for an easy taste upgrade. I just mix a stock cube in the water before adding it to the rice.
Ooh this is a good tip, thank you!
rice cooker, also the asian ones can cook/steam other stuff at the same time. making eggs, some meats. also making things like fried rice, and you can save it for later.
Upvote for the rice cooker. A real game changer. Rice may not be that hard to make but you have to pay attention. So much better to have the rice maker handle it while you pay more attention to everything else
cooked rice last alot longer, so you dont need to throw it away within a few days.
We got one recently, game changer
Rice on its own is bland, but adding a lot of salt, or any other flavorful sauce can make it a pretty enjoyable meal.
When I visited Japan, it was the standard replacement for breakfast cereal even in hotels, and it makes a lot of sense.
Yesterday I made a quick peanut sauce and chopped up some veggies and boom, instant rice meal
Sounds like making a potato in an air fryer is exactly the same difficulty as any other method except microwaving.
Gravy. I always thought it was hard, whenever I made it I’d get lumps and it would be bad. Then I learnt the trick is to fry the flour in oil/butter/fat first, then add the meat juices/stock
Its called a roux btw.
Salsa. And you don’t even need to cook anything.
Chop up tomatoes, sweet onion, a bit of fresh pressed garlic, lime. That’s the base. Then just add whatever else. Peppers, spring onions, cilantro (which I personally don’t add because it tastes like soap to me), parsley. Then to taste add a bit of salt, dash of hot sauce. A pinch of sugar can bring things out depending on the tomatoes.
Adding a bit of sour cream and/or avocado right before you eat it gives it an interesting twist.
You can keep it in a mason jar in the fridge for about a week. Probably longer but it never lasts more than a day or two in my house.
Okay hold on, if your salsa doesn’t include peppers in the base recipe something’s wrong. That’s not optional. It’s not salsa without the peppers.
That’s entirely, vastly, and certifiably incorrect.
EDIT: Unless you mean jalapeno, serrano, or pablanos or something. I thought you meant green or sweet peppers.
No, of course I mean hot peppers.
Maybe not one thing in particular but learning to keep rice, beans, cream of mushroom/chicken soup, and various seasonings on hand. That’s a strong foundation to just make something decent to good.
As well onion, celery, and green pepper goes a long way to making many dishes.
I am not happy with any canned or boxed cream of mushroom soup.
But making your own is really, really, easy.
Cream and mushrooms simplest. Butter, white wine, flour, and thyme for fancier. Yet still easy!
I would skip the foil. It makes the skin soggy. No need for it.
Was always intimidated by indian curries. Aloo gobhi, palak paneer, mattar paneer, etc.
They’re relatively easy to make compared to my assumptions. Like anything else, diffcult to do well… but i can make something passable
My homemade version of the KFC Famous Bowl which I make like every other week at this point.
For two or us I do 1-1.5 pounds of Yukon golds potatoes in the instant pot, I leave the skin on cause I like it and I’m lazy. I throw some chicken tenders in the air fryer towards the end of the potatoes cooking.
When the potatoes are done I throw one of those steamer bags of corn in the microwave. Empty the water from the potatoes. Add a decent amount of sour cream and about 2 tablespoons of cream cheese as well as 2 tablespoons of butter to the potatoes. Cover all that with the potatoes so they can melt while I’m adding spices and chives.
Take the chicken out, let it cool and chop it up into bite sized pieces. Go back and mash the potatoes and taste test, adjust spices if needed. Add the corn and mix. Finally putting in the chicken and folding it in. Plate it and add cheese. You can add gravy too but neither of us are crazy about it so we don’t.
Prep time is however long I takes you to wash potatoes. Putting it all together, spicing, mashing and cutting is all done in 10 mins or less.
Went to a really great BBQ place recently that had something like this on the menu. My partner and I both agreed that somehow, mine was better. And yes, their food is phenomenal.
Belgian waffles, as easy as regular waffles but you whip the whites and fold them in so they’re delicious and fluffy
Just so you know. There is no such thing as Belgian waffles. Source: I’m Belgian.
Waffles are rarely zaten over here but we have two distinct types of waffles:
- Brussels waffles - they’re very light and fluffy. Traditionally served with powder sugar, whipped cream and strawberries.
- Liegeois waffles - firm dough, bit moist with pearl sugar. You can top these with chocolate but generally people just eat them plain and hot. Straight out of the iron.
You can pressure steam potatoes in an instant pot, it takes 18 minutes =)
For me it was succotash. Super quick, cheap, vegetarian, and a complete protein
Sthuffrrin sthuccotash!
Grew up with Sylvester saying that, didn’t actually try it until well into adulthood. Made me wish I’d tried it sooner.
