Favorite meal with minimal cooking

BeginningAgainMay14 wrote: »

Saute two or three cups of spinach in the barest wisp of olive oil, crack two or three eggs into the pan and scramble with your spatula, incorporating the spinach into it. Slide out onto a plate and top with goat cheese. Delicious, quick, and only one pan to wash.

Spread canned fat free refried beans into a whole wheat tortilla, fold both sides in to form a flat burrito. Bake in the oven for 7 or 8 minutes, top with salsa, greek yogurt, and lettuce (or sub avocado for the greek yogurt.) It takes only an extra couple of minutes to make 4 of them and sometimes I do that on the weekend and just reheat in the microwave through the week.

Put cod fillets on a baking sheet and sprinkle with chili powder, salt, and cumin. Roast in the oven at 450 for 5-6 minutes. Remove and squeeze lime juice over the fish. Meanwhile steam some veggies in the microwave (you can buy the steamer bags or just put a couple of tablespoons of water in a glass bowl with some carrots and cover them and steam.) If you have some extra time you can roast some cauliflower in the same 450 oven, just toss it in a bit of olive oil and roast until caramellized.

I like to make savory oatmeal sometimes: put half a cup of oatmeal in a microwaveable bowl with a cup of water and a pinch of salt. Microwave three minutes, then stir in some grated parmesan cheese. It's good as is, but you can also toss in some frozen peas or squeeze a little lemon juice over it. It's kind of reminiscent of a risotto but healthier and without all the stirring.

That savory oatmeal idea is brilliant. I'm going to use that! Thanks!

I think egg omelets with some light toast is one of my all-time favorite meals. Just toss in some veggies, cheese, lunch meat, whatever you like. So good! I also like making sandwiches heated in the oven--takes a little extra time, but it's worth it. It makes the bread nice and crunchy and melts the cheese and browns the meat a bit. I consider those to be pretty quick meals and ones I go back to pretty often. For breakfast I also go for oatmeal or cereal + protein powder or cereal and greek yogurt with some sort of sweetener.

I dip fresh fruit and berries into greek yogurt, then pop them in the freezer. Take out a handful and eat with breakfast or snack for a quick treat.
Grilled meats and coleslaw with apple cider vinegar, ff sour creams and smashed garlic is one of my favorite go to dishes as well.
I also prepare meals on Sunday for the week. Soups and casserole dishes or meat dishes that I can re heat while preparing veggies.

Salad. No effort whatsoever besides taking the greens from a bag and putting it on a plate and washing and cutting the fruit and crumbling on the cheese. Occasionally boiling a chicken breast or an egg. It really is fast food depending on what you put in it!

That and I always make some type of soup in my slow cooker. Carrots, onion, beans or lentils, potatoes, various seasoning, stock or coconut milk and just set it and let it cook for you.

I'm trying to think of some good fish/seafood recipes since you said you were pescetarian. As someone else mentioned, those are generally quick cooking which is great.

Sauteed shrimp can be turned into just about any type of a meal - feeling like Italian? Use olive oil, garlic, lemon and toss it with pasta and steamed veggies with a little pesto. Asian sounds good? Sautee it with an asian vegetable medley, add some soy sauce and orange juice and serve over some steamed rice, those Uncle Ben Ready Rice pouches are a go to in my house - they literally are done in under 2 min in the microwave and they have several flavors.

A lot of people are intimidated to cook scallops but they also cook really quickly and are really easy. You just need a very hot skillet, with a little oil, I like to season them with salt, pepper, lemon zest and minced fresh parsely - then cook about 3 min/side. You'll know when they are done when they "release" from the pan, if they are still sticking, they aren't ready to flip yet. I make those with pasta with olive oil, garlic, red pepper and more of the parsely for a really quick meal that looks really elegant.

I also like doing fish in foil packets - you can even include the vegetables in the same packet as well so it all steams together. One of my favorite combinations is salmon with orange slices, asparagus and sliced red peppers. Season it with salt and pepper, arrange the fish on top of the vegetables, put the orange slices and a little bit of olive oil on top, seal the packet well and bake in the oven for about 20 minutes. Serve it on top of orzo pasta.

This is bachelor cuisine at its finest but is nutritious, tastes good and could be prepared by a brain-dead monkey. You can use different types of stock for variation.

- put rice, a little oil, half a soup cube and water in rice cooker or pot
- cook
- mix with a can of tuna
- eat

a few Roma tomatoes;
small mozzarella balls ("pearls");
half or whole avocado, however hungry you are.

cut up the tomatoes and avocado, throw it all on a plate and drizzle olive oil and balsamic glaze on it... Maybe some sea salt.

Yum, I love apples in my chicken salad!

150ish cals - can of tuna, tbsp of soy sauce, tsp sriracha sauce, celery stick chopped in. Mix. Eat. Enjoy. All in about 5 minutes Still hungry? Have some Minute rice on the side, cook with a little rice vinegar to make it taste like sushi rice. One cup of rice takes just 7 mins in the microwave and you'll have leftovers for your next meal.

Steak, generally a ribeye and takes about 3 minutes a side. Or eggs, that takes less time.