Time For a Change - Help! (Food Thread)

[Nuggs]

Hi All:wavey:

After 4 years of cooking myself pasta and stir-frys pretty much every week night, it's time for a culinary change!

Can anyone recommend any good recipies which are healthy, nutritious and above all, quick and easy?

I'm [i]fairly[/i] handy in the kitchen, but when I get home from work, all I want to do it eat and go!

TIA:thumbup:

[Munter]

Go out and find something along the lines of:
Grub on a Grant
or
The Student Cookbook

Designed for those of us with some idea of cooking but not technical at all! (Plus they have sections like "Dinner party for 4", and "Feeding the girlfriend".

[lil]

Beans on toast

Hehe.

[XM5ER]

The mockney tts' cookbooks are full of that kind of stuff. Check 'em out.

[staceyb]

Fajitas if thats how you spell it. Protein, veg (all the good stuff) and carbs from the wraps its delicious and only takes about 15 mins to cook.

Slice some chicken breast or frying steak or just veggies (if you that way inclined) into long thin strips.

Fry in frying pan til lightly browned.

Add in mixed spices (Uncle Bens or something similar)

Add in thinly sliced veggies of your choice (carrots, scallions, mange tout, sugar snaps are good)

Fry until veggies are cooked or crunchy depending on how you like them.

Warm wraps in oven or nuke them.

Add salsa, bbq sauce or anything you like and voila fajitas.



>> Edited by staceyb on Wednesday 28th September 13:27

[Nuggs]

XM5ER said:

The mockney tts' cookbooks are full of that kind of stuff. Check 'em out.

Following that suggestion, I've just come back from the shop with a packet of johnnies, last month's Razzle and the Tunnel Invaders II DVD as I was too embarrassed to ask for a Jamie Oliver book at the counter

[minornut]

Nuggs said:

XM5ER said: The mockney tts' cookbooks are full of that kind of stuff. Check 'em out. Following that suggestion, I've just come back from the shop with a packet of johnnies, last month's Razzle and the Tunnel Invaders II DVD as I was too embarrassed to ask for a Jamie Oliver book at the counter

I could email you a copy of his latest book if you're too embarrassed to waste £20 on it in the shops.

[XM5ER]

I always send the wife

[Munter]

Apparently Amazon have a whole "Quick and Easy" section.
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/271067/ref=br_dp_bl_2/026-2336333-5726823

[Bob the Planner]

I have a few easy curry staples. I found a new one last time that I was able to knock up in about an hour. See here. There are a few others on the Lime Pickle thread too.

Boiled bacon with salad and carrots is quick, easy and not too bad for you too.

[Nuggs]

Bob the Planner said:

...about an hour....

Thanks Bob, but an hour - I have places to go, people to see

[Bob the Planner]

The left overs only take 5 minutes to heat up though !

[jmorgan]

Chicken breast. Tin of tomato's and what ever herbs and spices you fancy and an oven proof dish. 40 mins at 180 or at least till cooked through.

[cotty]

I was going to suggest a couple of things but then I read

Nuggs said:

Can anyone recommend any good recipies which are healthy, nutritious and above all, quick and easy?

[cotty]

for healthy chips just cut some potatos in their skins into chip shapes about 1cm think, lob them in the oven with a bit of olive oil, sea salt and black pepper, perhaps bit of tyme if your feeling adventurous.

[cosmoschick]

Munter said:

"Feeding the girlfriend".

Mmmmm...chocolate

I'm a bit of a Lindt and/or Suchard girl, myself!

[Plotloss]

Very rare Steak and onion baguette
Cous Cous based dished, stuffed marrows etc.
Something like a Taboulleh salad perhaps.

Theres loads of options.

[vixpy1]

You need yourself a Woman in the Kitchen..

[cotty]

Plotloss said:

Very rare Steak and onion baguette

Try some watercress in that, lovely

[cosmoschick]

vixpy1 said:

You need yourself a Woman in the Kitchen..

The best chefs are men.

On that basis, I refuse to cook!