Great food for those who hate to cook, lack experience or time, or just like easy stuff

[iamkeri1]

Fantastic Potato Soup

Fry three to four strips of bacon. Cut or break into bite sized pieces. Add 1/2 cup chopped onions and saute till translucent. Scrub four good sized potatoes, then cut unto very small chunks - 1/4 to 1/2 inch. Add potatoes to pan, (this can be done at any time, the onions don't have to be done.) Fry and stir until potatoes are mostly cooked- about ten minutes. Add 1 to 2 cans evaporated milk. (regular milk works too, but the soup will not be as thick.) Stir and scrape all the good stuff off the bottom and sides of the pan. Add pepper to taste and a couple of shakes of paprika (parsley if you want it) Cook for about another ten minutes. Eat and enjoy. This is for 4 servings. Just cut it in half to make less. It keeps well in the fridge for a day or so, but can't be frozen.
Variations:
1) Add an undrained can of whole kernel corn or 2 cups of fresh corn you have cut off the cob.
2) At the same time you add the milk, add an undrained can of clams for delicious clam chowder. (You can do this with or without the corn.) Once served in the bowl add a pat of butter.
3) At the same time you add the milk, add two cups of cooked and peeled shrimp, or actually any sweet cooked fish that you like, to make a yummy seafood gumbo.
4) a vegetarian version can be made by frying the onions and other ingredients in butter, but it burns easily, so it requires closer watching.To thicken any version, add instant potato flakes, or thin with milk.

Italian Tomato Spinach Soup

Three cans Campbell's Tomato Soup
Three soups cans full of milk
One 16 oz can whole tomatoes
One package frozen chopped spinach
1/4 cup chopped onions
1/2 tsp basil, oregano, garlic powder or 1 clove chopped fresh garlic.
1/8 cup grated parmesan cheese (out of the can is fine)
Optional 1 pound ground beef

Saute the onions and spices (and the ground beef - if you include ground beef, you don't need to add buttter or oil) in butter or oil till transluscent, Add spinach, add tomato soup and milk, heat and stir till smooth add 1/8 cup grated parmesan cheese and stir till just starting to boil. Put in bowls. Just before serving, sprinkle shredded mozzarella cheese on top of each bowl and serve. This serves four to six hearty servings.

Stay warm.
Smooches,
Keri

[PearlsNLace]

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the above linky loo is for a cookbook you might be interested in. Its called A man, A can, A microwave.

A few ingredients, quick prep, and easy meals.

You dont have to be a gourmet cook to stay out of the drive through.

[DressyFemme]

You will need

1 pack of 2 shoulder or roundbone lamb chops
packet of rosemary
1-2 tsbp. olive oil (I use a capful)

Take chops out of package, rinse meat in warm water, put in skillet. Add capful of olive oil (about 1-2 tsbp.). Season chops with rosemary on one side, flip over with spatula, season with rosemary on the other side. Turn heat on high. Turn on stove fan, it can get a little smoky but the flavor is worth it.

Flip chops every 2 minutes until done (about 13 mins. for medium rare, 15 mins. for done).

That's it! and it's wonderfully flavorful!

[morningstar55]

Originally Posted by DressyFemme

You will need

1 pack of 2 shoulder or roundbone lamb chops
packet of rosemary
1-2 tsbp. olive oil (I use a capful)

Take chops out of package, rinse meat in warm water, put in skillet. Add capful of olive oil (about 1-2 tsbp.). Season chops with rosemary on one side, flip over with spatula, season with rosemary on the other side. Turn heat on high. Turn on stove fan, it can get a little smoky but the flavor is worth it.

Flip chops every 2 minutes until done (about 13 mins. for medium rare, 15 mins. for done).

That's it! and it's wonderfully flavorful!

HeyYYYYYY ya there dressy.......
nice to see you here...

ok gang not sure if i already posted this .......
fresh corn on the cob made easy

1 cob
peel husk back .. NOT off.....
take off that hairy stuff.... lol
ok now pull husk back over cob.. snuggly
place in micro wave for ahhh 4 minutes
WELLA!!!
peel back husk .. makes a great holder ... and season corn with what ever.

[key]

of the George Foreman (or other brand) Grill???!!!

That is how I cook everyday. It is sort of like cooking crockpot style only more immediate. I am about 95% vegetarian, so this is super duper easy.

Plug in grill set to high.

Get big bowl.

Chop up veggies of your choice: I like super foods like broccoli, zucchini, red peppers, onions, garlic, ginger.

Chop up protein of your choice: I like tempeh.

Spray cooking oil on bottom tray of now hot grill.

Dump in chopped up ingredients.

Spray cooking oil on top of chopped up ingredients.

Close grill.

Go have cup of tea and watch MSNBC.

When you start to smell the onions it is ready.

Unplug grill

Spatula up all cooked ingredients put back in bowl.

Squirt Braggs or soy sauce over top.

Yummy and done!

If you need a carb/starch I like rice cakes or a tortilla (which you can warm on the cooling grill) and make it a wrap.

[iamkeri1]

Key's post reminded me of a veggie meal that I used to eat frequently back in my young single days. I called it "walk-around salad"

Fix a salad any way you like it, stir in any dressing you like. Stuff it into an opened half pita bread, sprinkle the cheese of your choice on top, and enjoy. It is simple but delicious. And you can "walk around" and eat it. Great if you're on a quick lunch break and you watched "All My Children" too long before you headed back to work!
Smooches,
Keri

[DamonK]

I swore up and down I didn't like tomato soup.

MBE changed my mind.

1 big can of cambells tomato soup
3 - 4 diced italian tomatoes
3/4 container of parmesan cheese

Dump soup in crock pot. Add a can of milk and a can of water (from the soup can). Add tomatoes. Add cheese

Stir.

Turn on.

Done in about 3 hrs.

Yummy, fast...
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Another soup Mom makes me...

Hamburger meat (however much you want or none at all)
Onion
Few cans of mixed veggies
Few cans of tomatoes

Mom also would use leftover veggies for this.

Brown the meat. Drain. Dump in crockpot or pan. Dice onion. Dump in drained mixed veggies. Dump in cans.

Takes about 20 min to prep.

Cooks in crockpot all day.

[cinnamongrrl]

Originally Posted by iamkeri1

Key's post reminded me of a veggie meal that I used to eat frequently back in my young single days. I called it "walk-around salad"

Fix a salad any way you like it, stir in any dressing you like. Stuff it into an opened half pita bread, sprinkle the cheese of your choice on top, and enjoy. It is simple but delicious. And you can "walk around" and eat it. Great if you're on a quick lunch break and you watched "All My Children" too long before you headed back to work!
Smooches,
Keri

This is pretty much how my former roomie made Caesar salad pockets. Only thing different is grilled chicken strips...and Caesar salad mix....Caesar dressing of course...although I think I'd like to add that Greek sauce I can't spell...trader joes makes a good one...and maybe add some olives and feta...

[cinnamongrrl]

I have two contributions. I may have posted them elsewhere here. Sorry if I repeat.

Easy pesto chicken.

Put chicken breasts in a pan...I would put s tiny bit of water just because I hate dry chicken

Spread with prepared (or homemade) pesto

Top with sliced tomatoes (Roma are nice)

Sprinkle with cheese (mozzarella or any good Italian mix)

Cover with foil and bake til cooked through. I cook by smell because of stove variances..

I would want to add fresh spinach also...for color and extra veggieness



Shrimp

Melt a stick of butter in a jelly roll sized pan. It must have a lip of course

Spread a pound of uncooked shelled shrimp into butter

Sprinkle with dry Italian dressing mix

Top with lemon slices (one lemon)

Bake until shrimp is cooked through.

I think this would be pretty with linguine...maybe some veggies cooked in it...or its nice as an appetizer..

[iamkeri1]

Thanks, Chad, for bumping up the thread.

Here's another easy-peasy recipe. In a 9-10 in frying pan, sauté about 1 pound of ground meat (hamburger), with 1/2 cup chopped onion, pour off excess grease. Add an 8 ounce can of tomato sauce and one canful of water. Stir and heat till it boils.

In a separate bowl mix up Jiffy corn bread mix according to recipe (use any brand corn bread mix, but it has to be a sweet variety.) Turn your meat mixture off. Start dropping spoonfuls of cornbread around the outside edge of the frying pan and then fill in the center if you have enough. Bake at 350 until cornbread is cooked through, Because of the liquid mixture underneath, this takes a lot longer than the mix box suggests - usually an hour.

When you serve it, cut it and flip it so the sauce is on top. It's yummy. Serves about 6. I call this Upside Down Sloppy Joes.

Smoooches.
Keri

[catlady]

For breakfast I love to make avocado toast! Mash avocado on slices of bread and top it with seaweed pieces and nutritional yeast.

[iamkeri1]

Originally Posted by catlady

For breakfast I love to make avocado toast! Mash avocado on slices of bread and top it with seaweed pieces and nutritional yeast.

Hi catlady, Your post made me remember a veggie sandwich I "invented" in my sleep one night and woke up craving.

red pepper
green pepper
zucchini
summer squash (some may call it crook neck or yellow squash)
onion
avocado

Saute large chunks of red and green peppers, and slices of zucchini and crook neck summer squash and onion in butter, olive oil, whatever. I like it cooked till its good and brown. Slice up whatever yummy bread you have around. Place a generous portion of the pepper-squash mixture onto the bread and top with whatever cheese you like. My preference is Monterey Jack. Then top with avocado slices, or guacamole if you have some on hand.

This sandwich is unbelievably good. My kids loved it too. Don't think they ever figured out that it was veggie.

Smooches,
Keri

[catlady]

Originally Posted by iamkeri1

Hi catlady, Your post made me remember a veggie sandwich I "invented" in my sleep one night and woke up craving.

red pepper
green pepper
zucchini
summer squash (some may call it crook neck or yellow squash)
onion
avocado

Saute large chunks of red and green peppers, and slices of zucchini and crook neck summer squash and onion in butter, olive oil, whatever. I like it cooked till its good and brown. Slice up whatever yummy bread you have around. Place a generous portion of the pepper-squash mixture onto the bread and top with whatever cheese you like. My preference is Monterey Jack. Then top with avocado slices, or guacamole if you have some on hand.

This sandwich is unbelievably good. My kids loved it too. Don't think they ever figured out that it was veggie.

Smooches,
Keri

That sounds yummy! I'll need to try that.