It might not be on the same level of “easy and quick” as some of the other suggestions here but chili is really simple once you get the hang of it and you can kinda just dump random things from around your kitchen in and make a large amount of food relatively quickly and without a ton of effort.
Something super easy if you have an oven: Just put some soft cheese (for example Camembert) into your oven for about 20 mins at 180°C. Cut it open after about 10 mins the way you can see here:
If you don’t have anything to put it into for baking, just wrap in Aluminium foil.
Then eat it with baguette, chopped vegetables or even grapes.
Chop garlic, onion. Saute in olive oil, throw in a can of crushed tomatoes. Throw in one or several of: black beans, kidney beans, tuna fish, tofu cubes, whatever. Season with peppers, salt, chili, herbs as you like. Takes about 5-10 minutes.
Probably pasta works best in combination, but quinoa and others may too.
Gnocchi. Potatoes take a while to cook, but then just add flour and egg, roll, shape, boil, toss in sauce. It could take hours and be a disaster if you’re new to it, but 20 mins from cooked potatoes once you’re good. Get a potato ricer.
Pizza. Flour+water+yeast+salt, tinned tomatoes + salt + pepper + olive oil + herbs + whatever, shape+bake. Under an hour from hunger to plate, once you’ve got your process down.
At night, in a container put layers of yogurt, frozen fruit, and oats. Maybe add a little water. In the morning it is ready to eat. Oats will soften. It’s a healthy parfait.
Eggs are always fantastic. It’s not cheese or ribs or hamburgers that keep me from going vegan, it’s eggs. Experiment with different prepapations and end products. You can make a soft poached egg in the microwave with some experimentation, since it depends a lot on the specific power output of your microwave.
What works for me:
Mix 4 oz water with a tiny splash of white vinegar. Microwave full power 60s.
Swirl the water with a spoon, crack the egg and drop it in the water.
Microwave full power 30s. Remove, swirl the water.
From there, it’s 1 or two more iterations of 10 seconds on full power, swirl, check for doneness.
I eat it over rice or toast or lots of different leftovers.
Scrambled eggs are great, you can add a bit of milk to fluff them up, I find I prefer no milk which makes them a bit more toothsome. Top with salt + pepper l, maybe cheese.
Oats in cold milk is an excellent meal with hot coffee. To boost the oatey flavor or for a vegan option, use oat milk.
It’s possible to top this with any number of things, like ground cinnamon, caraway seeds, ground ginger, molasses, honey, fresh berries, walnuts, almonds, etc. If you have the time or desire, you can even heat the oats with the milk of choice.
Just combine the lot and do coffee in oat milk cappuccino. Or oaty coffee and a muesli bar with all the exciting things.
I’m a big fan of good cow milk, but I’ll choose oat milk half the time with coffee – because it tastes good together. Try all the oat milks until you find a good one.
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
1/8 cup butter, softened
3 tablespoons light mayonnaise
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon dried basil
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon onion powder
1/8 teaspoon celery salt
2 pounds tilapia fillets
Directions:
Preheat oven broiler. Grease broiling pan or line with aluminum foil.
Mix Parmesan cheese, butter, mayonnaise, and lemon juice together in a small bowl. Season with dried basil, pepper, onion powder, and celery salt. Mix well and set aside.
Arrange fillets in a single layer on prepared pan.
Broil a few inches from the heat for 2 to 3 minutes. Flip fillets over and broil for 2 or 3 minutes more.
Remove fillets from oven and cover with Parmesan mixture on top side. Broil until fish flakes easily with a fork, about 2 minutes.
Ah well, hope you enjoy it anyway! I’d be interested to learn what your new friend uses to give it ‘Puerto Rican flavor’! Cooking is allllllll about evolution! :D
I bought frozen tilapia at Econo this morning…he’s coming at 3pm (AST)…and it’s not “ah well” more correct: it’s wonderful to share weather it be code or recipes…my friend will probably make some changes, but like good free software people…i will share our adjustments with you.
Have a look at this thread too!
https://lemmy.ml/post/148115
It might not be on the same level of “easy and quick” as some of the other suggestions here but chili is really simple once you get the hang of it and you can kinda just dump random things from around your kitchen in and make a large amount of food relatively quickly and without a ton of effort.
Someone should make a cooking or food community. /suggestion
Anyway, eggs are quick to cook.
There’s !recipes@lemmy.ml
There is https://lemmy.ml/c/cooking looks rather inactive though, perhaps post your favorite recipe there?
Something super easy if you have an oven: Just put some soft cheese (for example Camembert) into your oven for about 20 mins at 180°C. Cut it open after about 10 mins the way you can see here:
If you don’t have anything to put it into for baking, just wrap in Aluminium foil.
Then eat it with baguette, chopped vegetables or even grapes.
Chili con soy/tofu.
Just onions, garlic, tomato concentrate, kidney peas, corn, pepper.
You add pepper powder, some herbs, nutritional yeast extract, soy sauce for the umami.
The soy granulate or tofu is best when soaked in herbs, nutritional yeast and soy sauce.
Just throw everything together and boil for 20min.
sounds really good. If you can find dry kidney beans, they are way cheaper and it’s easier to add larger quantities ;)
This recipe is good for you, the climate and the animals!
Chop garlic, onion. Saute in olive oil, throw in a can of crushed tomatoes. Throw in one or several of: black beans, kidney beans, tuna fish, tofu cubes, whatever. Season with peppers, salt, chili, herbs as you like. Takes about 5-10 minutes.
Probably pasta works best in combination, but quinoa and others may too.
Gnocchi. Potatoes take a while to cook, but then just add flour and egg, roll, shape, boil, toss in sauce. It could take hours and be a disaster if you’re new to it, but 20 mins from cooked potatoes once you’re good. Get a potato ricer.
Pizza. Flour+water+yeast+salt, tinned tomatoes + salt + pepper + olive oil + herbs + whatever, shape+bake. Under an hour from hunger to plate, once you’ve got your process down.
At night, in a container put layers of yogurt, frozen fruit, and oats. Maybe add a little water. In the morning it is ready to eat. Oats will soften. It’s a healthy parfait.
Perhaps a simple grilled cheese (although probably not very healthy).
Grilled cheese is so good tho
Can make it healthier with good bread and add grilled veggies.
also you can easily add more protein with some deli meat, not super budget but its definitely easy
So…i don’t want to be a downer…i just read a study that said deli meats are JUST AS carcinogenic as smoking!
Ps…i love cigarettes and processed meats …uh oh :(
gross warning This just makes processed meat sustainable. Eat processed meat, grow tumor, extract tumor, process, repeat.
noo wtf :(
Yeah, thanks I love grilled cheese
Noodles with various kinds of pesto.
Ramen 🍜
I guess our understanding of easily and quickly differs slightly.
Eggs are always fantastic. It’s not cheese or ribs or hamburgers that keep me from going vegan, it’s eggs. Experiment with different prepapations and end products. You can make a soft poached egg in the microwave with some experimentation, since it depends a lot on the specific power output of your microwave.
What works for me:
Mix 4 oz water with a tiny splash of white vinegar. Microwave full power 60s.
Swirl the water with a spoon, crack the egg and drop it in the water.
Microwave full power 30s. Remove, swirl the water.
From there, it’s 1 or two more iterations of 10 seconds on full power, swirl, check for doneness.
I eat it over rice or toast or lots of different leftovers.
Scrambled eggs are great, you can add a bit of milk to fluff them up, I find I prefer no milk which makes them a bit more toothsome. Top with salt + pepper l, maybe cheese.
Fried eggs on a sandwich.
Sofboiled eggs in soup.
Eggs are the shit.
For sure, eggs are king. Definitely the hardest part of a vegan diet, cus they are so versatile!
Oats in cold milk is an excellent meal with hot coffee. To boost the oatey flavor or for a vegan option, use oat milk.
It’s possible to top this with any number of things, like ground cinnamon, caraway seeds, ground ginger, molasses, honey, fresh berries, walnuts, almonds, etc. If you have the time or desire, you can even heat the oats with the milk of choice.
How easily and quickly do you want?
Just combine the lot and do coffee in oat milk cappuccino. Or oaty coffee and a muesli bar with all the exciting things.
I’m a big fan of good cow milk, but I’ll choose oat milk half the time with coffee – because it tastes good together. Try all the oat milks until you find a good one.
I know this works for lots of people but cold oats + milk is disgusting to me. Just microwave it and oatmeal! Will also be easier to digest the oats…
Broiled Tilapia Parmesan
Prep Time: 5 m | Cook Time: 10 m | Servings: 8
Ingredients:
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese 1/8 cup butter, softened 3 tablespoons light mayonnaise 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1/4 teaspoon dried basil 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper 1/8 teaspoon onion powder 1/8 teaspoon celery salt 2 pounds tilapia fillets
Directions:
Preheat oven broiler. Grease broiling pan or line with aluminum foil.
Mix Parmesan cheese, butter, mayonnaise, and lemon juice together in a small bowl. Season with dried basil, pepper, onion powder, and celery salt. Mix well and set aside.
Arrange fillets in a single layer on prepared pan. Broil a few inches from the heat for 2 to 3 minutes. Flip fillets over and broil for 2 or 3 minutes more.
Remove fillets from oven and cover with Parmesan mixture on top side. Broil until fish flakes easily with a fork, about 2 minutes.
I’m trying this out.
Let me know how it turns out & what you think. I serve this with jasmine rice. :)
If i remember, I’ll tell you on Monday. This is my day off plan. I’m a terrible cook!
Thankfully, the recipe is super easy. You’ve got it made, my friend! :)
I made a local friend…he’s coming over tonight and will use your recipe but add Puerto Rican flavor to it!
So…i guess I’m cheating cause I’m not gonna actually cook!
Ah well, hope you enjoy it anyway! I’d be interested to learn what your new friend uses to give it ‘Puerto Rican flavor’! Cooking is allllllll about evolution! :D
I bought frozen tilapia at Econo this morning…he’s coming at 3pm (AST)…and it’s not “ah well” more correct: it’s wonderful to share weather it be code or recipes…my friend will probably make some changes, but like good free software people…i will share our adjustments with you.