Skip the boiling and just poke the potato a few times with a fork and put it in the microwave for 7 minutes instead!
If I’m hungry and worn out or for some reason it’s late and past my usual dinnertime, my go-to meal is cereal and toast.
Amen to that. No fuss means with the least amount of dirtied dishes and utensils as possible. More like this:
Buy: pack of pre-sliced english muffins, jar of pizza sauce, pack of shredded mozarella, pack of pre-sliced pepperoni.
Pre heat oven to 425. Put a piece of foil on a cookie sheet. Lay out split english muffins face up. Use a table spoon and spread one tbsp of sauce on each. Put 3 slice of pepperoni on each. Use entire bag of mozzarella to cover them all. Bake 10-15 minutes and serve on paper plates.
All done with one dirty spoon.
Heat a can of brown beans with one or two chopped up hot dogs or cooked sausages.Pile a bunch of spinach and sprinkle a little nutmeg into a bowl and pour the Weenie-beanie mixture on top. Add cheese and a fried egg if you’re so inclined.
Peanut butter and banana sandwich…it’s easy, it’s filling, it’s tasty.
The warning label on these should be a pic of Elvis on his bathroom floor. :eek:
1 package of boxed mac-n-cheese
1 pouch of tuna
Handful of potato chips
Prepare mac-n-cheese according to box directions, toss in the contents of the pouch of tuna and and mix it up. Server on a plate with crumbled potato chips as a topping.
Quickie tuna casserole!
That’s only if you fry it up in butter.
Worth it though.
Slice off some salami, slice off some decent cheese, assemble cheese and salami on mustarded cracker. Repeat as required.
You don’t wash the cookie sheet???
Frozen waffles with syrup. Maybe microwave some breakfast sausage if I’m craving a protein. Dirties one plate, knife, fork and a microwave dish.
I do this, but with Stouffer’s frozen mac & cheese. Microwave for six-ish minutes, til it’s no longer a solid brick. Stir in a small can of tuna and a handful of frozen mixed veggies. Continue microwaving until all is hot. Potato chips are a nice touch.
Still, some of these things seem like a lot of work.
Here’s a quickie quesadilla: lay a flour tortilla in a pan, sprinkle some grated cheese on top or a couple of slices, lay another flour tortilla on top of that. Turn over when first side is toasty. Let second side get toasty. Consume.
Imitation lobster rolls:
Get a pack of imitation lobster.
Rough chop it.
Add a good squeeze of mayo and shake on a little Old Bay seasoning.
Mix together.
Makes enough for two good-sized sandwiches. I use club rolls.
Cheese roll-ups (not quite a quesadilla, not quite a burrito):
Spread a tiny bit of butter on a flour tortilla. Scatter some shredded cheddar top. Add any salsa* you like, then sprinkle with garlic salt. Nuke until cheese starts to melt. Roll up and chow down.
*I’m not the world’s biggest fan of Pace, but it works great on these things.
The Junior Girl Scout Handbook from 1963 had a similar recipe they called Campfire Stew. Brown the ground beef with chopped onion, drain the fat, add Campbell’s Vegetarian Vegetable soup (the alphabet version) and a bit of water, simmer for a few minutes. If you have some leftover rice, spoon some stew over it.
Much quicker is a can of tuna, a bit of onion powder, a couple of spoons of sweet pickle relish, and a blob of mayonnaise. Mix and serve with crackers.
Nope. That’s what the sheet of foil is for.
Um, sorry no. If it’s involved in the cooking, it gets washed. Stuff may get stuck on the sides, crud sticks to the bottom from the oven. I mean, c’mon.
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…it’s bread… a banana and… peanut butter? What are you talking about?
Yeah, I’m with you here – if it’s properly foiled, no need to wash. Just roll it up and throw it away. Hell, my neat freak mother and my finicky mother in law don’t wash trays most of the time when they foil them, unless they notice something leak through. I mean, that’s the whole point of foiling.
Curses, foiled again!
Yes! We called it Brownie Stew. It was of my mother’s go-to dishes after she was our Brownie troop leader one year around that time.