Bachelor food.
Two of my favorites:
Mama Cozzi’s frozen pizzas. $2 a pop, can’t beat that. Damn good, too. Can only find them at Aldi’s.
Chicken burritos. Cook 1 lb of chicken. Shred, add 1 pack of Mix Mate taco seasoning, 1 cup water. Simmer until water is gone. Put on burrito shell and eat. Yummy.
Nothing fancy, nothing expensive, nothing hard, nothing time consuming. Quick, easy, and damned tasty.
–Tim
My favorites:
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[li]The ubiquitous macaroni-and-cheese from a box. And now they now make Easy Mac, microwave mac’n’cheez![/li][li]Chef Boyardee ravioli[/li][li]English muffin pizza[/li][li]Egg and cheese muffiny things (melt the cheese, scramble the eggs and the cheese together, slap it on an english muffin)[/li]
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One word: Ramen.
Pizza-y thing made out of a club roll, with butter, oregano, mushrooms, and American cheese on each half,parmesan sprinkled on top, stuck under your broiler 'til they’re melty enough.
Microwaved fake-burger and cheese (I’m veg, bear with me) wraps-- about three minutes to cook. Bet this applies to the meat versions too-- Hot Pockets, anyone?
Seconding Johnny L.A. on the ramen.
Tombstone pizzas are the gold standard of frozen pizzas. But Freschetta puts out this pizza with sauce-stuffed crust which is just amazing. I get it whenever it’s on sale.
Hamburger Helper, the king of bach foods!
…beef pasta…potato stroganoff…rice oriental…cheeseburger macaroni…
poetry.
manna. nectar. and if you put bacon in it, birds will sing and angels will weep.
Damnit!
A thread tailor made for my stupid Hamburger Helper references and Poopah beat me to it.
I here-by relinquish all remarks Hamburger Helperish to Poopah Chalupa (yeah, like that’ll happen).
Poopah, you are one of the few that truly realizes that heaven can be found floating in a quarter inch of grease, with powdered sour cream on top.
Hamburger Helper is good. I like lasagna, italian, pizza, uhm… the meat/tomato/noodle based ones. None of that stroganoff shit for me.
–Tim
When I was in college I could eat all day for less than $2!
A box of Little Debbie Swiss Rolls (79 cents with a 10 cent coupon) and a six pack of Kingsburry beer($1.09).
Mmmm boy, those were the days.
Mmmmmmm…rice is nice…
Hamburger Helper stroganoff is the food of gods! (The next best thing being H.H. cheeseburger macaroni!)
Pasta Roni, the staple of my diet in my college years. Two boxes for two bucks, and you can cook it in the microwave.
1/4 pound hamburger…
catsup…or ketchup…or whatever you wanna call it…just enough to make it squishy…
one egg…
8 hamburger buns
combine all ingredients in a bowl…except for the buns…wash your hands…squish them all together with your fingers…feels so odd squishing dead cow flesh between your fingers…especially with the catsup…but i digress…mix it up good…
while you are doing this have your compatriate make your fav cole slaw…or if you have no compatriate…try to let go of the dead cow flesh…and do it yourself
when you get it all mixed up…spread it very thin on the buns…the white side…not the brown side…
broil just until the bread is just browned…top with the cole slaw.
serve with potato chips
yummy
I buy hot turkey breakfast sausage from the grocery. It comes in a frozen 1 pound tube and cost $1.45. I buy eggs at the 99 cent store.
Thaw and brown the sausage just as you would hamburger. Drain, leaving just a little grease with the sausage.
Beat six eggs. Pour over sausage and heat on low. Add diced cheese (swiss or cheddar) and pepper the hell out of it.
Cook till eggs are fluffy.
Enjoy.
Irvines Microwaveable Meat Pies $1.19 (NZ)
Frozen Oven Chips $2.50 to $4
Frozen Peas $1.50 to $3
Serve with lashings of ketchup.
Red Beans and Rice
1 can red kidney beans
1 can savoury tomatoes(ie with onion, celery & capsicum)
250 grams diced ham
½ cup chicken stock
Worcestershire sauce
Tabasco sauce
thyme, sage, a bay leaf
1 tbs cajun/creole spices
S & P
1 tbs cooking oil
1 tbs of cornflour mixed with 1 tbs of chicken stock
Cooked rice
Heat the oil in a saucepan and sauté the ham on medium high heat for about 2 mins.
Add the beans and stir for about a minute. Then add the tomatoes and other ingredients except the cornflour mixture and the rice. Reduce heat to low and cook for aboout 25 mins.
Remove from heat and add the cornflour mixture stirring it in. Return to heat. This will thicken into a decent sauce.
Serve on mounds of cooked rice.
Excellent for the winter months. Perhaps not so good for mixed company…
Buy a round steak.
one can of whole kernel corn
Instant mashed potatos
Fry in butter 1/2 the steak cook the corn and make mashed potatos for 4
Next day
Repeat
Canned corned beef hash. With lots of ketchup.
As for something from scratch, I usually like spaghetti Alfredo:
And for my favorite treat:
Take a nice piece of beef liver. Dredge it in bread crumbs. Saute in butter (Important: Cook only a few minutes on a side. The center should be pink when you’re don). Serve with canned lima beans. Heaven.
A nice piece of anykind of liver is a contradiction of terms.
Urp. Liver and lima beans? That’s Up-Chuck, RealityChuck! (Sorry, liver is one of the very few foods I can’t stand.)
Besides Ramen (toss the flavor packet; use tamari instead), red beans and rice and wraps, I love quesadillas: flop a tortilla into a lightly oiled skillet; toss on some grated cheese, shredded meat, veggies, whatever; top w/ another tortilla. Flip. Eat with lots of salsa.
A great, easy, artery-buster hamburger thing from my childhood:
Brown some hamburger; dump it in the bottom of a casserole dish. (Add onion, 'shrooms, whatever if you want.) Glomp on a can of 'shroom soup (or tomato, or whatever); spread out a layer of tatertots. Bake at 350 for an hour.
Okay, it takes a while to bake, but prep time is 10 minutes.
Veb
Microwave popcorn. I could live off of popcorn if i had to.