Useless at cooking

Look at the 5 ingredients, 10 min approach? When you start getting used to cooking, you can start customising to make things taste better.
http://thestonesoup.com/blog/ - some recipes on the blog and a free ebook you can download.

Besides that, Google is your friend. Look up whatever you'd like to make. Find simple instructions (might not be the first site you go to).

Look at something like this for some ideas, maybe:
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/440969


Make things with leftovers that you can re-invent. eg, cook a load of mince (fairly cheap), freeze in smaller portions, have it as spaghetti bolognese one day, put some in some baked beans the next, use it in a lasagne, on toast with tomato sauce, in a tortilla with kidney beans and lettuce to make a burrito...
 
Shot for the recipes/tips posted here already.Yeah I have been looking around and found 1 or 2 good sites. The bbc food site seems pretty good, they have a section for easy and <30 min recipes. Think I will try them out this weekend. The cost sometimes factors in to the laziness. To cook a decent meal( with meat of course) often come to >=R15 ( pasta is an obvious an exception) and you can get something from pnp for around the same price. I know its a terrible excuse. But health wise if I carry on like this I will probably end up getting a stroke in a couple of years :p
 
So many Jamie Oliver haters. I don't see why people hate him so much.
 
You can cook nice tasting meals without meat but I know some people have to have meat every day kind of thing.

Stews, curries, biryani etc are also nice to cook and freeze. Biryani is also very nice cold!

You can make pizza dough and store it in the fridge, just add different topics. My favourite pizza does not even have meat.
 
I don't have an issue with Jamie Oliver if you happen to be an urbanite Londoner with a great salary and plenty of time to spare, and a healthy assortment of cookware.
 
Laziest meal I know how to "cook". (Usually conducted with one cracking hangover)

Put oven on.
Get a square oven dish.
Get 2 slices of bread. Cut off crusts and use to make a plus (+) sign in the dish dividing it into 4 quadrants.
Crack 2 eggs. One in each quadrant.
Baked beans on another quadrant.
Get some veggies (defrosted, if frozen), chuck in last quadrant.
season with salt, pepper, herbs, whatever.
Place in oven.
sleep/play games/brush teeth/be lazy/do something for 15 mins.
Place the bread you used earlier in the oven to toast for 5 minutes.
Get your drink ready.
Remove and eat.

best part: total dishes to wash up - 1 (plus cutlery).
 
ratty said:
Shot for the recipes/tips posted here already.Yeah I have been looking around and found 1 or 2 good sites. The bbc food site seems pretty good, they have a section for easy and <30 min recipes. Think I will try them out this weekend. The cost sometimes factors in to the laziness. To cook a decent meal( with meat of course) often come to >=R15 ( pasta is an obvious an exception) and you can get something from pnp for around the same price. I know its a terrible excuse. But health wise if I carry on like this I will probably end up getting a stroke in a couple of years :p
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Maybe look at frugal cooking.
Stuff like:
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/eat-for-eight-bucks/
http://thefrugalcook.blogspot.com/
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/735189

Google and ye shall find :p
 
How to eat like a king in 3 easy steps.

Step One

Find a girl who knows hot to cook.

Step Two

Make her your girlfriend.

Step Three

Eat to your hearts content. Oh and if you get some meals thrown in well that's a bonus.
 
ShaunSA said:
How to eat like a king in 3 easy steps.

Step One

Find a girl who knows hot to cook.

Step Two

Make her your girlfriend.

Step Three

Eat to your hearts content. Oh and if you get some meals thrown in well that's a bonus.
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Step Four
Complain that you're getting fat from all of the good food :p
 
blunomore said:
I like him, he seems a nice guy; in any event much nice than someone like Ramsay!
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I think all girls like him, he's like the heins winkler/enrque iglesias of cooking. The name I have for ramsey I would rather not post here :D
 
Chicken a la king

1 roast chicken from the shops
1 packet mushroom soup
Use half the recommended liquids for the soup
throw in some green peppers (optional)
throw in some mushrooms (optional)
cook it all together in a pot till it gets thickish and serve with rice.

Awesome leftovers too.
 
I think Jamie is great he helps people like the school dinners program.

Gordon Ramsay is AWESOME I love watching him shout at people.
 
Rice & beans are generally the most versatile. Pasta too...but try not to make that a habit.

Check packages for MSG. Even if you're fine with eating MSG, its usually a solid indication that you're doing something wrong. The flavour should come from the food itself, not a chemical. OT: MSG is originally a seaweed extract.

cerebus said:
leave out the packet 'flava'
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...and use it as a weed killer. /jk
 
I'm bachelor'ing it up now too.

Easiest and cheapest things I find to make are:

Hake/fish fingers + oven bake chips. Chuck it in the oven for 20mins and done.

Stirfry: Buy premixed "french/hawaiian" stirfry from Spar, buy a 4/6 pack of chicken breasts and freeze it. Use 1/3rd of a stirfry pack with 2 chicken breasts that you cut up yourself. (This is enough to feed 2 people - or supper/breakfast :D) Use olive oil and soy sauce in a pan / wok. fry the chicken until it's not raw anymore, then chuck in the stir fry.

Buy white rice / jasmin rice and flavoured-pasta-packages. Cook the rice (I still suck at getting it 100%) and the pasta separately. Water + margarine + milk + pasta-sauce-powder = win! Serve pasta on rice.

For days when I'm lazy the chinese restaurant up the road sells takeaway Cashew-nut & chicken + white/egg rice for R28. It's overfilling.
 
Skilly Skilly

1. Tin of Bully Beef
2. Tin of tomatoe stew
3. Tin of Bake Beans
4. Put all in pot
5. Heat up till hot.
6. Tuck in with bread or bread rolls

Note: If friends arrive, just add an extra tin of each!!
 
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