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Dessert: thinly sliced Fugi Apple drizzled with local honey.
Dinner: Sous Vide fillet mignon and corn on the cob. (No s&p nor butter, thanks)
Dinner: Melted gouda on a lattice of crispy bacon strips.
Dessert: Same.
Steamed broccoli with chopped bacon or diced chicken mixed in. Though it’s even nicer if you can add fried onions and/or toasted slivered almonds.
Tonight I had ice cream + coca cola. The wife had cherries (hand-pitted by her awesome husband) and powdered sugar.
Oh… that was dessert. For dinner, she had her cell phone + Dominoes’ number.
Take one chicken. Cover with water. Cook for a couple hours. Add salt & pepper to taste. You have soup.
I’m actually not being all that facetious with that answer. That would make a good enough soup that I’d eat it. I’d like to add noodles or some other carb to it, but if we’re counting water as an ingredient, then that’s what I’m going with.
Or you can have all sorts of soups if you include broth or stock as an ingredient. Broth + noodles = chicken noodle soup. Broth + roasted red peppers, blend, pass through a sieve if you’re feeling fancy = roasted red pepper soup. Broth (preferably ham) + split peas = split pea soup. And so on, and so forth.
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Boil pasta, slather in garlic butter. Enjoy!
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Toast thick piece of artisan bread, cover with yummiest cheese you have! Mmmmm, breakfast!
Cookies & milk. Or coffee. Dunk, eat, repeat.
Pasta and beans. I ate this a lot in my days of poverty.
Every morning of my life I eat cold cereal and yoghurt or hot cereal with raisins.
Lunch:
Package of egg noodles, boil according to package directions, drain.
Toss with soy sauce.
Yum!
Melon and prosciutto
Crank oven to 450. Slice potatoes with slicer so you have nice even slices. Lay out slices on a baking sheet on top of some non-stick aluminum foil. Spray with spray butter, sprinkle with garlic salt (those are free, right?). Bake for 12-15 minutes, flip, spray and sprinkle, and bake another 12-15 minutes, you should see some (but not much!) browning on some of the potatoes.
Optional, sprinkle with some parsley. Eat.
Or, just baked potatoes. Oven at 400, bake potatoes for about an hour, depending on the size. Cut and squeeze to open, top with butter and salt. If those are free and you want more, top with shredded cheese or sour cream.
Bacon and maple syrup
Come to think of it, I only used two ingredients for a couple of dishes this weekend:
Chicken Kebabs: cut chicken into cubes. Put the cubes into a ziploc bag and pour in some soy sauce, teriyaki sauce, what have you (I used Lawry’s teriyaki marinade). Let it soak a while. Then, put chunks on skewers, heat your grill, and grill them suckers, turning often and basting with more marinade to get a nice caramelized layer on the chicken. Serve.
Grilled pineapple spears: put pineapple spears on the hot grill and baste with Hawaiian marinade. Should only take about 8 minutes, flipping every two.
Dinner:
Beanie Weenies: Beans and sausage
Dessert:
Cheesecake Surprise: A cheesecake topped with another cheesecake.
Dinner: Fill Portobello or large button mushroom caps with Laughing Cow or Sonoma Jack (or other spreadable cheese,) spray with cooking spray, and bake until cheese is melty and mushrooms are hot.
Dessert: Same cheese as above (but plain variety) mixed with grapes. Poor man’s cheese cake.
Heat up can of soup with 1/2 can of water added to boiling. Add one cup Minute Rice or couscous. Let sit five minutes. Eat.
Grilled 8 oz New York Strip steak, a huge Idaho Russet potato [about 1 pound] baked. Salt, pepper on both, some butter for the potato. Turned it into half a potato and half the strip steak being eaten and half of each being tucked away in the fridge for another meal. Dessert was 4 very ripe yellow plums. Beverage was a cup of red wine.
I have always mandated that the best food is the best ingredients you can afford prepared properly. I don’t need foie gras, gold leaf and truffle slices to enjoy a hamburger, I need excellent quality meat that I grind myself, seasoned with salt and pepper formed into a patty, cooked on my grill and plated by putting in a good bun, some catsup and a slice of pickle, slice of ripe tomato and a few leaves of butter lettuce. A slice of a good extra sharp cheddar cheese if I am getting frisky. Add a handful of good potato chips, and a large ice cold lemonade and I am good.
Yes I do actually prefer cooking most everything from scratch - I have food allergies and have to read ingredient lists. If I make it myself, I know for certain that I am not going to get ambushed by something - perfect example, it appears that many frozen pizza and pizza type snacks are off the menu, they are formatting cheese with palm oil to make it melt better [putting me in the bathroom for a few hours with explosive shits … thanks guys.] I have found that my nutritionist is in awe of my ‘desire to eat healthy’ [new one, I moved and am seeing a different nutritionist now, I miss my old one] and didn’t understand that I have ‘simplified’ to a more [god I hate to call it this] paleo diet where I cook most everything from raw ingredients not because I want to eat healthier, but because I am avoiding allergens. I don’t give a crap about preservatives and additives, I just dislike crapping for several hours just so a food manufacturer either wants to cheap out or make something more ‘convenient’ [as if the cheese melting 5 minutes faster is any better.]
Beer … one ingredient … vegan too !!!
Steak dinner and roasted pears for dessert. That’s one ingredient each, not counting the heat.