Lazy Gourmet - What have you come up with that's too easy and too tasty at the same time?

drmoroe30 · 2 years

Put cream cheese and fresh chives in your eggs before you start to scramble them. Fan-freakin-tastic.

foodthinkers · 2 years

Bruschetta! tomato+basil+balsamic+bread = hot or cold yum

We recently made bagel chips which were a real hit - http://www.foodthinkers.com/2009/11/salty-snack-satisfaction/

taromsn · 2 years

1 mayonnaise packet 1 hardboiled egg

Squirt mayonnaise packet into mouth, followed by entire hardboiled egg. I call it a mayon-egg

aubbey · 2 years

I like to take a little bite of extra sharp white cheddar and then pop a red grape in my mouth. It's fantastic.

istara · 2 years

Frozen grapes. I couldn't believe how great they were, they're almost like mini-grape-sorbets.

If you served them alongside some kind of dipping sauce, or actual ice-cream, they would be a brilliant dessert course.

hgielrehtaeh · 2 years

A little more complex than what I'm seeing here, but amazing for the effort:

Cook some pasta and reserve some of the water (about a cup).

While it's cooking, put some bacon in the microwave and get it crispy. Take about 1 T of the bacon grease, and put it in a pan. Set the bacon aside, crumbled. Now, put onions and peppers in the pan with the grease. I used a frozen mixture of the two that I'm sure most people would use to make fajitas. Or you can use fresh, if you feel like chopping. Okay, put it on medium and get those things all soft and caramelized. Salt em. Okay, now take a hunk of goat cheese. Crumble about half of it into the onions/peppers. Thin things out with some of the pasta water. Around this time, your pasta should be al dente. So drain it (keep some water just in case!). Add it to your sauce. Stir, let it absorb some of the delicious sauce. If it's still underdone, add more starchy water. Now, pile it on a plate, and top it with the rest of the goat cheese and the crumbled bacon.

It's so easy, with few ingredients, and can be thrown together about as fast as you can cook pasta. And it's still so delicious that people will be impressed if you serve it at a party.

daminafenderson · 2 years

Cut up some onion, throw in a bowl, coat in olive oil, season with salt and pepper. Put them right under the broiler in a cookie sheet for 5-10 min or until they start to char. Best damn thing ever.

Also, even better when cooked on a grill.

tbandit · 2 years

Get to the bottom of a bag of cereal. Slice up some fruit, coat fruit slices in a bit of peanut butter. Toss the fruit into the cereal bag, shake the bag. Enjoy.

Lynettles · 2 years

Omelet in a bag. toss everything you would want in your omelet, meats, veggies, cheese, whatever..including the eggs and milk into a ziploc bag.

close the bag and smoosh with your hands for a bit..

put the ziploc bag in a pot of boiling water to cook. Remove the bag with tongs and the omelet will slide right out.

best part is you can toss the bag right out, and other than the plate you use.. no dishes!

othermatt · 2 years

Cream Cheese + Graham crackers = mini cheesecake.

haireball · 2 years

MAGICAL COOKIES, includes only 4 ingredients: 1 c peanut butter 1 c sugar 1 egg 1 1/2 Tbs of cinnamon

preheat oven to 350, mix all ingredients in a big bowl with a wooden spoon place on greased cookie sheet, any size u would like press an X shape with fork and place in oven for 12-15 minutes depending on how crunchy u like them :)

by far the most delicious peanut butter cookie i have ever made, and its extremely simple, sometimes i add some chocolate chips or more cinnamon with a bit of brown sugar. i just finished culinary school and had alot of different recipes for cookies in my pastry/bakery class, and these r amazing, and easy to make,

ENJOY!!!!

TheBananaKing · 2 years

Well, there's always my famous "oh god, there's no pasta sauce and the pasta is cooling" sauce.

Heat a spoonful of olive oil in a saucepan. With a fine cheese grater, grate in a few mushrooms and a clove of garlic. Throw in some oregano, fry off for about 20 seconds. Add sour cream and a little balsamic vinegar. Heat through, toss pasta, serve.

drmoroe30 · 2 years

Jambalaya Rice, kielbasa, some shredded sharp cheddar cheese and hot sauce to taste. Freaking fantastic.

frecklefaerie · 2 years

chew up a saltine cracker and spit it out onto another saltine cracker.

heliosxx · 2 years

Sausage and grapes with balsamic vinegar. The recipe is from cooking light magazine.

Just brown some Italian sausage on all 4 sides, put in about a pound of grapes, salt and pepper. Cover and cook for 5-10 minutes, add 1/4 cup of balsamic vinegar, cook for another minute or so, and done.

Much better than it sounds.

d0n7p4n1c · 2 years

Doughnuts

I usually do this when we are camping, doughnuts are so much better when you are in the middle of the woods.

I use Pillsbury Buttermilk Biscuits, the one's you find in the refrigerator section in a tube, as a starting point.

Start by heating 3 to 4 inches of oil (I like Peanut) in a pot to about 360 degrees. You want to cook at about 350, but the temp will drop when you start putting the doughnuts in, so you want it a little high to start with. I find the secret to frying is good temp control, for this I use a nice candy thermometer that clips to the side of the pot so I can always see what the current temp is.

While you oil is heating up start prepping you doughnuts. you can quarter them for doughnut holes. You can use a plastic bottle cap to punch out the center and made a traditional doughnut plus a hole. Or you can fry the biscuits whole to make a filled doughnut after cooking.

Once your oil is ready, start frying the doughnuts in batches, taking care not to overcrowd the pot. In between batches allow the oil to come back up the to correct temp. To lower the doughnuts and remove them from the oil, I use a round wire mesh spatula thing that I bought for like $2.00 at an Oriental market.

When the doughnuts are done, you can just coat them in cinnamon and sugar, or powdered sugar. For the ones that you fried whole, use a knife to poke a hole in one side of the doughnut and make a cavity inside. Then use a zip lock bag with a corner snipped off to pipe in what ever filling you want (pudding cups make great filling, so does jelly). Basically use you imagination at this point and make what ever doughnuts you've always dreamed of.

SeymourLevov · 2 years

i pour granola in the container of yogurt when it is almost empty, saves me having to clean a bowl.

lazy and delicious

i've been known to take bites off blocks of cheese and then put a cracker in my mouth, rather than go to the trouble of cutting up the cheese

i steam my asparagus using the steam from water i'm using to boil pasta....makes the pasta a little green

i had a girlfriend who would eat the entire apple....stem, core and all, in what i think was an attempt to avoid having to throw something away....

jmikola · 2 years

I've gone through a lot of trial and error with salad, and finally settled on this one:

bowl of mesclun
half a chopped tomato, maybe some sweet onion
handful of walnuts and some dried fruit, or just trail mix
crumbled blue cheese
drizzle some honey and lemon juice over it, maybe a bit of real, syrupy balsamic

Washing and drying the mesclun probably takes the most time of anything.

kern_that_shit · 2 years

This was born out of necessity but now I make it quite a bit.

1 can of tuna

diced red onion

feta cheese

chopped tomato

dash of olive oil

black pepper

Serve on toasted bread or, my favorite, Triscuits.

TheBananaKing · 2 years

Fresh dates. Remove stones, pop in microwave for a handful of seconds, until hot (but not cooked). Pour over fresh cream. Stupidly good.

brosenau · 2 years

My own personal artery-clogging, all-too-easy, all-too-good favorite:

Melt lots of butter in a frying pan. Halve a bagel (Not Lender's. Not Thomas's. A real New York style bagel.) and add it to the melted butter, bread-y side down. If you've frozen the bagels (as I often do so that a dozen can last long enough to go through them), you can do this directly from the freezer--no need to thaw. When the bagel is sufficiently toasted/buttered/fried for your taste--I like some browning to go on--pull it out of the pan and, while it's still hot, spread with cream cheese. In the same pan, add some more butter (since the bagel's probably soaked up most of what you put in earlier). Quickly fry two eggs, over easy (bagel and runny yolk are an amazing combination). Turn the eggs out over the bagels, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and break out a knife and fork if you value the front of your shirt.

bcvr · 2 years

Oreo Double Stuff cookies topped with cream cheese makes an instant bastard bite of cheesecake.

TheBananaKing · 2 years

This isn't the same level of lazy, but the deliciousness:effort ratio is through the roof. It's basically braised lamb in a capsicum (ie. bell pepper) sauce.

You hack up a couple of big red peppers, throw them in a pot with some onion, garlic, chilli, salt, a splosh of balsamic vinegar and half a pound of cubed lamb. Cook, covered, on a medium heat until the loose moisture is gone (a good half an hour or better). Stir hard a couple of times to reduce the peppers to a rich sticky gooey sauce. Serve with rice.

killbrad · 2 years

cut potatoes into wedges, toss in olive oil, lay on a baking pan, sprinkle on salt, paprika, cayenne (if u like spice), and anything else you like.
bake. eat.

we3bus · 2 years

A lightly salted and quickly microwaved button mushroom. Pop out the stem and cook it top side down. It makes this delicious tiny bowl of mushroom broth.

employeeno5 · 2 years

My favorite lazy desert:

Cold pancakes topped with any of the following: yogurt, cottage cheese, fruit, cinnamon-sugar, ice cream, chocolate sauce, etc.

Make pancakes with instant pancake batter mix. This will take you 5 minutes to both mix and cook. Put pancakes in refrigerator. Serve pancakes chilled with any number of delicious toppings.

Pancakes really do taste very different when cold and it highlights how much they really are a desert-like creation of mostly sugar rather than an ideal breakfast. My personal favorite is to spread on some vanilla yogurt, then in the middle put on glob of cottage cheese mixed with fruit and sprinkle cinnamon-sugar over the whole thing. People freaking love this. It's sugary, buttery and tangy and is all out-of-the-box style prep. It's also unusual which is exciting to people.

Lazier desert:

Ice cream. I've never seen someone unhappy with a bowl of ice cream.

dothedre · 2 years

PANCAKE IN A CUP

Spoon in pre-made pancake batter in a coffee mug, add your liquid(should be half full of batter), stir, microwave for 3 minutes.

Take mug out and stab a deep hole down the center of the cake and poor in maple syrup.

manateetanam · 2 years

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stacy75 · 2 years

bacon squeeze:

make crispy bacon in your preferred method
take the crust off a slice of wonderbread
wrap the soft wonderbread around the crispy bacon strip and squeeze a bit so the bread forms around the bacon
eat & repeat

HookerBot5000 · 2 years

Something not so good for you....take some semi-sweet chocolate and peanut butter and melt it slowly in the microwave. I dip pretzels in it.

luciferin · 2 years

My favorite sandwich in the world:

Sliced RIPE tomato (don't even bother if it's not ripe, you will hate this sandwich if it's a grainy, under-ripe tomato). Toasted white bread. Mayonnaise.

Takes about 2 minutes, and is the most delicious sandwich I've ever had. With more time you can vary it: put a cheeseburger on there, or make it a full blown BLT (with mayo).

akzidenz · 2 years

Crispy tofu:

Heat oil in a pan, 1/4" deep or so
Slice tofu into small pieces, roughly 3/4" cubes
Fry tofu up on one side until it starts to get crispy
Add in some soy sauce (you don't need a ton, be careful)
Flip tofu over and let it finish frying

Result is blackened tofu pieces that are cripsy and salty on the outside, soft and warm on the inside. The saltiness of the soy sauce really comes out after you fry them. Goes great with udon noodles or rice.

afungi · 2 years

Home cooked popcorn.

Heat some oil (corn oil is great) on high heat in a pot, pour in popcorn kernels and place a lid on the pot.

Add as much butter and salt as your arteries can handle.

If you've never had popcorn like this before, it's like losing your virginity.

briantech · 2 years

I call them cold burritos.

Get a tortilla. Mash up 1 whole avocado, with a bit of salt and pepper. Smear it on the tortilla.

Throw on a handful of shredded cheese.

Throw on a handful of crushed up tortilla chips

Throw on some black olives.

Couple douses of taco bell sauce. Wrap that motherfucker up. Eat it.

DELICIOUS

EverythingisMe · 2 years

Banana bread:

Preheat hotbox to 350 degrees F

Mash 3-4 overripe, mushy bananas with 0.33 cups of butter until smooth-ish. Mix in 1 cup of sugar, 1 teaspoon each baking soda and salt, then 1.5 cups flour. If you're a pro, you can spice it up with some cinammon, ground ginger, cardamom, etc.

Glop that goo into a buttered loaf pan (4x8) and throw it in for an hour or so.

I usually hate baking (too precise, don't like to measure stuff), but this is super easy.

[deleted] · 2 years

Two things:

Refried Pasta: Any tomato based pasta the next day put little bit of olive oil in a pot/pan and dump in leftover pasta. Heat up and mix up until you sear 30-40% of the pasta. Eat & die from happiness...
Insalata Caprese: Alternate tomato slices & fresh mozarella slices around a plate. Drizzle with Olive oil and balsamic, some salt ( reg or Knorr is what I use), some basil leaves on top. Get a bit of each in your bite and again, die from happiness...

sasscrotch · 2 years

Spaghetti Sandwich!

Make some spaghetti and put it between some wheat bread. ta-da!

om nom nom nom!

PanTardovski · 2 years

Avocado-rice smash:

~1 1/2 c. cooked white rice
1-2 hard boiled (or freshly poached) eggs
1/2 avocado, sliced into strips
1/2+ c. fried and crumbled chorizo or spicy italian sausage
lime juice
your preferred hot sauce (Sriracha and Frank's-style are both appropriate, depending on mood)

Put rice in a broad bowl, topped with sausage and generously sprinkled with lime juice. Add eggs (sliced if hard boiled) and avocado strips decoratively. Add hot sauce to taste. Stop and admire the pleasing meal you've prepared. Then take your fork and mash the egg and avocado into it, reducing the whole thing to a spicy-tangy-buttery mess. Enjoy. (Primarily "simple" because I'd make up eggs and sausage and rice at the beginning of the week; it'd take less than five minutes to heat the rice and sausage while I sliced the rest.)

thingsofinterest · 2 years

wasabi+ scrambled eggs + ham or bacon in them on toast = best sandwich ever

ginnygingin · 2 years

Easy, tasty pasta sauce: In deep pan melt a large chunk of butter. Add mushrooms and cook till juicy. Add cream, or milk with flour stirred in. Add cream cheese and any grated cheese - I like parm. Lots of pepper and simmer till thick.

[deleted] · 2 years

Tuna, mayo, capers. Put on some toasted foo-foo bread.

plasticfrog · 2 years

A quick mini-dessert that is reminiscent of a Mounds bar:

a heaping spoonful of unsweetened baking cocoa
a spoonful of unsweetened dry ground coconut
sweetener: I use a few drops of concentrated liquid artificial sweetener, but I imagine that any type of real or fake sweetener should work
just enough cream to turn this stuff into a paste

Stir together and enjoy. I eat it with a tiny baby spoon to make it last longer.

ddigby · 2 years

I ran out of bread crumbs so used crushed Wheat Thins to bread a chicken breast instead. Combined with a toasted almond gravy, it actually turned out quite well.

w000t · 2 years

Tomato shots.

Whenever I'm making something that needs just the fleshy part of the tomato, I save the seeds in a bowl while I'm doing everything else. When I get to a break, I've got a mouthful or two of explosive fresh tomato flavor waiting. From one medium tomato, you'll get about an ounce and a half of seeds and liquid. I've done several simple variations:

Straight up or just a touch of salt and pepper (still my favorite)
With a bit of basil oil or just basil and olive oil
With a tablespoon or so of a nice vodka or gin (not too much, this is just for flavor)
With a teaspoon of good olive brine
With a few drops of garlic juice - which you will have on your board anyway if you're also mincing garlic - just scrape up with a knife and drip onto the bowl of tomato seeds
With couple of drops of bacon grease if you're working with bacon - liquid B(L)T
With a few drops of lemon or lime juice.
With a couple of drops of onion juice (which you can get in the same way as the garlic juice)

Basically, whatever you have at hand. But don't skip trying it plain first if you've never done this before. Just stick to the liquid additions though, as solid additions (like cheese) disrupt the instantaneous, whole-palate experience.

Morally_Inept · 2 years

Bacon in the oven. Add more cooked bacon to the top. You'd be surprised at how delicious it is.

DrCollosus · 2 years

fry up an onion, some garlic, a can of tomatoes and some salami - perfect on toast or with pasta.

hamachi · 2 years

tuna sashimi, sriracha and rice.

foole · 2 years

Salmon with pesto. Put some pesto on salmon filet, salt, pepper, top it with some parmesan cheese, cook in oven until the fish is done. I usually mix the pesto with some chopped chili (or sambal) and a tiny bit of lemon juice.

Serve with bulgur and diced feta cheese. Pasta also works.

cgrd · 2 years

Use a tablespoon each of prepared and grainy mustard to coat chicken breasts, dredge in breadcrumbs and roast in a 350 oven until done. Garnish with a dusting of paprika. Under 5 minutes of prep and they always turn out tasty and moist.

You can also use pork with great success.

Bananagram · 2 years

I made the best gammon Xmas dish ever.... - wrap ham in tinfoil (rind & fat facing up) - bake for 20min per 500g on medium heat (the number on the dial have worn off so I don't even know how hot the oven was, but you don't have to look at the oven til the time is up) - open up foil - cut off the rind (comes off really easy & score the fat (diamond shaped cuts) - mix 2 table spoons brown sugar, honey & sherry and spread over fat - grill for about 20min or till golden brown - EAT

rboymtj · 2 years

Slice of Baby Swiss Cheese
Srirachi Sauce
Triscuit Cracker

valadil · 2 years

Creamed spinach, 2/3 cup of cous cous, and a bit of salt.

bovril · 2 years

You will need:

Double Choc Chip Cookies

Cheap Sherry or other suitable booze

Whipped double cream

Very Briefly dip the cookies into bowl of sherry Thickly butter each cookie with the cream and stack into a horizontal log.

Take remaining cream and coat the outside of the stack to completely cover.

bib4tuna · 2 years

Carbonara. I can make it with one hand and it's sooo good. I eat it far too often and it never gets old.

YazTheKarrott · 2 years

For those in France: When boiling your pasta put a Maggi cube of beef broth in the water. No need to salt and you can reserve the water for the creation of a flavorful sauce or vegetable accompaniment.

mjstone323 · 2 years

Balsamic vinegar reduction with cream whisked in over steamed broccoli rabe. I came up with this on my own before I learned about wine and vinegar reductions as sauces. Too bad I wasn't born hundreds of years ago - I could take credit for its discovery ;)

paper_parade · 2 years

Bagged spinach, cranberries, walnuts, yeast flakes, light ranch or balsamic viniagrette. Shake in tupperware. Nom nom nom.

scrumbud · 2 years

2 packages of spicy Italian sausage, cut up
3 red bell peppers, diced
6-8 potatoes (or however many it takes to fill the crock pot), cut into large chunks
cup water
Cayenne pepper to taste

Put everything in a crock pot on low in the morning, have an amazingly delicious dinner ready when you get home.

didyouwoof · 2 years

The other night I was going to make some guacamole, but when I cut into the avocado I discovered that half of it was rotten. I cut out the good parts, cubed them, and looked into the fridge to see what I could supplement them with. I chose some sour cream and some crumbled bacon. It was great!

carinda · 2 years

stuffed mushrooms:

preheat oven 350F.
take the stem out of a bunch of mushrooms.
put goat cheese (you can use "plain," some of the herbed goat cheeses out there, or mix in your own fresh or dried herbs and spices. i like to add Montreal Steak Seasoning to give it a little bit of a kick.) in the holes.
sprinkle with bread crumbs.
put in oven about 10 minutes.

Delicious!

charlesgrodinfan · 2 years

can of drained salmon, 2 eggs, 3/4 stack of saltines, salt, pepper, sriracha sauche. mash with masher, make patties and grill.

infuriate coworkers when reheating the next day.

Pipvault · 2 years

Buffalo Chicken Salad. Get some pre-breaded chicken, nuke it to death. Chop it roughly. Toss it in a container and hit it with sour cream, texas pete's or frank's, some sriracha and pre-crumbled blue cheese (or ranch). Put on Lid and shake. Eat straight up, or put on EVERYTHING. (additional suggested herbs/spices: garlic powder, cumin & cilantro). I made a ton of it today in literally 5 minutes and I will eat it for the majority of the week, it's that good.

flippinkittin · 2 years

http://www.reddit.com/r/tonightsdinner/comments/9lkyr/spicy_peanut_sauce_with_noodles_sorry_to_the/

I love this peanut sauce recipe. It is relatively fast, and super delicious. A lot of the ingredients can be omitted to cut down on cook time and it is still great.

unsharp · 2 years

bacon wrapped potato

slice a large potato into 1/2 inch thick discs (you may want to zap the potato in a microwave for a few minutes to pre-cook)
wrap each potato disc with a strip of bacon
bake in a (toaster) oven until both potato and bacon are cooked

nipuL · 2 years

Pasta
Chick Peas
Sun Dried Tomato Pesto
Grated Cheese

[deleted] · 2 years

Baked fresh cranberries in cold vanilla yogurt; with or without almonds or walnut halves. (slurp)

HookerBot5000 · 2 years

Thought of another thing I like to do! Frozen grapes...I like to use green grapes. They taste like mini popsicles.

HookerBot5000 · 2 years

Peanut butter/banana smoothie:

1 or 2 bananas

about a TBS. of peanut butter

Soy milk (or regular milk) I don't measure it, I just add a little and add more if it is too thick.

About 2 tsp. of honey

1 tsp vanilla

Sometimes I'll add a little wheat germ for the extra vitamins.

Just throw it all in a blender, and thats it. If you want more of a shake, freeze the bananas first. It's yummmy, and healthy!

brownox · 2 years

I have been making pecan bark by melting ghiradelli 60% choc chips in the microwave (stir every 15 seconds till just melted) crushing toasted pecans with my hands and throwing them into the chocolate. Spread out on freezer paper and refridgerate. Voila. I rationalize as my ass gets bigger that the dark chocolate has anti oxidants and pecans have been shown to reduce cholesterol. I call it antioxident bark.

MacHeath · 2 years

In Germany there are these lovely little things called "Erdnuss flips". They are the consistency of cheetos but peanut butter flavored.
Simply dip those in Nutella for a crunchy Reese's substitution.

ark47 · 2 years

3 things:

Grain (either fresh or frozen rice, or something quick cooking like quinoa, etc)
1 jar of salsa
1 can of beans (black beans are my fav, but TJ's Cuban Style black beans are the best - already seasoned with onion, garlic, etc.)

Throw together in one pot, heat and eat (top with cheese if you swing that way).

Delicious and healthy.

jaggederest · 2 years

Man, I have to say bacon egg cheese biscuits at home.

The biscuits can be a lot of work, but the bacon egg and cheese only take about 5 minutes on a plug-in electric griddle. So make your biscuits (or buy them... ew) and then freeze them, thaw them a couple at a time...

It's terrible for you... but delicious.

littlemissemperor · 2 years

I make arroz con pollo all the time...so easy, and you can substitute like crazy. My ex called it rice-n-stuff, and that's pretty much what it is. I got the recipe from the Los Barrios cookbook, but google turns up plenty of results.

bacon wrapped potato

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