What's your go to recipe when you don't feel like cooking?

A cup of instant rice with a scrambled egg and green onion cooked together in a frying pan then topped off with ketchup. Sometimes I'll add chorizo or canadian bacon to it too if I have it. Totals about 350 calories. Not bad at all for a 5 minute meal that tastes remarkably like Chinese take-out!

I've got a much higher tolerance for cooking so my typical "lazy" meal is some baked sweet-n-savory salmon with steamed broccoli and rice. I've got a rice cooker with a built-in steamer so making the rice and broccoli is dead simple. The salmon is usually some fresh salmon, placed on an aluminum foil covered baking sheet greased with low-grade olive oil, coated in either jarred teriyaki sauce or an equal parts olive oil/coarse ground mustard/honey marinade, and then baked for 20 minutes at 425F. Sometimes I'll swap chicken thigh pieces for salmon.

This might be a lot of work for a "lazy" meal to some, but my typical weekday meals usually involve quite a bit more effort (at least for the prep) than this so it seems pretty lazy to me.

bootyrubsandtacos wrote: »

Shrimp stir fry. I keep fully cooked shrimp in the freezer. I just dump 6 ounces in a pan with a bag of frozen veggies, simmer for like ten minutes, throw in two bags of shirataki noodles, pour into a big bowl and drizzle some stir fry sauce over it.

Yes! Shrimp is so easy and quick to make! It's done in literally 5 minutes (the cooked kind!)

Eggs, eggs and eggs. If very hungry, I just make an omelette. If I have 20 mins, then I make a batch of egg muffins - whip eggs, onions, zucchini/tomato and add to muffin trays. Thank me later

Grub Hub.

I usually do a veggie or turkey burger or packaged lentils and pita bread. Both take less than 10 minutes.

acpgee wrote: »

Spaghetti aglio olio. Dead easy and made from store cupboard ingredients. It also makes me feel a bit beau monde because it is the favourite late night snack for young Romans who have been out clubbing all night.

Put some water to bowl and salt until it tastes of sea water. While spaghetti is boiling; chop, press or grate 1-2 cloves of garlic per person and fry in some olive oil with a sprinkle of red pepper flakes in a pan big enough to hold the drained pasta. When the garlic starts to colour toss in a ladle full of starchy pasta water to stop it from burning. Let some of the water boil off at high heat. When spaghetti is still a little undercooked, drain and toss in the oil/garlic/pasta water emulsion to finish cooking. Serve with parmesan grated at the table.

My family eats this every Christmas Eve. :-) You can also add finely chopped walnuts or black olives to it.

I do the rotisserie chicken quite often. Put the chicken over a green salad, make chicken salad with it, or sandwiches.

Or avocado toast is yummy and filling, too.

Also, now that it's summer, tomato slices stacked with fresh mozzarella, fresh basil, and a drizzle of olive oil. Grilled zucchini is pretty good hot or at room temperature - you can even make roll-ups with the zucchini and the chicken, maybe with a sprinkle of feta or blue cheese in there, if you like that. And you can do things like hummus or guacamole and dip raw vegetables in them.

Or tabouli made with quinoa. And Mediterranean-style chickpea salad. If you make a few kinds of summer salads and keep them in your fridge in single serving containers, you can grab them throughout the week, and be eating within seconds.

Grilled cheese and tomato soup. Quesadilla with black beans or shredded rotisserie chicken. French bread pizza and a salad kit. Eggs and toast.

I'm keto, so I keep frozen homemade turkey burger patties in the freezer. I take one out, thaw it in a baggie in some water, bake until done, broil for a minute with cheese on top, and serve with lots of lettuce, pickles, etc. I also enjoy tuna salad with avocado on the side, a 3 egg omelette with diced ham and real melted queso on top, or something as simple as cheese cubes, a few berries, and some rolled up lunch meat with a side of veggies and homemade dip.