The Official Professional Bachelor Food Suggestion Thread

[ahnuld]

Garlic shrimp is pretty easy and tasty. Just melt some butter in a skillet until it stops foaming. Then add in some minced garlic and shrimp. Cook it for about 5 minutes until the shrimp are fully pink. Then add some salt, lemon juice and chopped parsley or white wine, stir all that for 30 secs until its well mixed, and you're done. Goes well with salad or rice.

[Spellmen]

I don't have alot of time between classes, research, and work to eat well, but I will usually get 2-3 nights a week to cook so I will make enough to eat a couple meals or enough to freeze it. Here are a few things that freeze/reheat well

Stuffed Peppers:
Fresh peppers, 1 lb ground beef, 2 cans tomato soup, 1 can diced tomato (you can dice fresh yourself if you have the time), 1 cup rice, 2 cans tomato sauce

Brown beef and drain it. Add the soup, tomatoes to the beef and bring to a slow boil. Add the uncooked rice, add a little salt and pepper. Cook slowly until the rice is soft, usually about 15 minutes. While the rice is cooking cut out the tops of the peppers and get the seeds and junk out from the inside. When the beef/rice is done cooking spoon it into the peppers and put in a roast pan. Just toss the excess rice/beef into the pan. Pour the tomato sauce over the peppers they don't dry out in the oven. Cover roast pan and cook for about 45 min at 350 or until peppers are soft.

For some reason friends have found this recipe odd. I thought it was pretty normal but maybe its a PA Dutch or German type of thing. You can add some red peppers or jalapeno or something if you're in the mood for it.

Beef Stroganoff (need a crockpot)
1 lb beef cubes, 1 can cream of mushroom soup, 1 envelope lipton onion soup mix

Brown beef cubes in pan with a little oil, drain. Put the beef, soup mix, and soup along with about a 1/4 cup of water into crock pot. Set crock pot for 5 hours (not set in stone, meat should be very tender and almost melt in your mouth). Obviously this works best if you start it early in the day. Serve over some noodles or over some nice bread. Definitely add some parmesan.

You can make it without the crock pot, but your meat will not be very tender, I highly recommend it

[4_2_it]

Crock pot thread with some yummy sounding recipes.

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Percentage of bachelors with crock pots has to be under very small. Good thread though.

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Percentage of bachelors with crock pots has to be under very small. Good thread though.

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I agree. I never had one until I got married, but those things are easy to cook with. Most bachelors who can make Hamburger Helper could handle basic crock pot recipes.

[onthebutton]

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Crock pot thread with some yummy sounding recipes.

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Percentage of bachelors with crock pots has to be under very small. Good thread though.

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Dudes without one should get one. It's one of the easiest ways to cook ever, and you can cook in big quantities, which is always a plus for bachelors.

[guids]

individual boxes of chicken wings- take out of package, heat on a cookie sheet coverd with tin foil for 15 minutes, eat directly of sheet, NO CLEANUP!

Scrambled eggs, and breakfast sausages

Kosher dogs and wheat bread

Macadamias, cashews peanuts etc + Protien shake

Make a big pot of chilli, and buy about 10 small tupperwares, put 2 scoops in each one, throw in freezer, microwave when you want chilli


Buy a bunch of lean ground beef, spray some tinfoil with pam, make burgers, wrap burgers in tin foil individually, put in freezer, take one out before work to thaw when you want a burger

Frozen fish (salmon, cod whatever) usually can be found in individuual vacuum sealed packages, take some tin foil, make a little packet out of the tin foil, throw some lemons/oranges, lemon juice, cook in oven until done

the key is preperation, take 2 hours out of every week, 1 to go grocery shopping, and one to make the burgers, the chilli, etc to stick in teh freezer, I also during that prep hour BBQ a wide variety of [censored], sausages, turkey breast, chicken, etc, and throw it in individual tupperwares in the fridge, so I can take it with me to work etc. The only "side dishes" I have with any of this stuff is a can of veggies (mixed veggies, spinach, green beans, peas, etc)

[jzpiano]

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Crock pot thread with some yummy sounding recipes.

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Percentage of bachelors with crock pots has to be under very small. Good thread though.

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Dudes without one should get one. It's one of the easiest ways to cook ever, and you can cook in big quantities, which is always a plus for bachelors.

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I love my crock pot, I throw things in there before I leave for the day, come home and my meal is done and I usually have enough for 3 or 4 meals in leftovers

[NLSoldier]

Im guessing this has been mentioned, but my favorite easy meal is frozen chicken breast cooked on the george foreman.

I usually add some lawry's and some garlic salt and melt cheddar cheeze on top and then eat it plain or in a sandwich with just bread and mayo. Very quick, very easy, very tasty.

[SL__72]

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Percentage of bachelors with crock pots has to be under very small. Good thread though.

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You can get a crock pot for like $20... There is a lot more that you can do with it then what is listed in that thread, but my favorite (I think its listed in there) is to make a roast in there and then add carrots, potatoes and onions.

During the summer, if you like to grill, you can grill yourself more meat/vegetables then you can eat and then reheat them later. If you get good at grilling vegetables, they will still be delicious 2-3 days later. As for meat, reheated chicken breasts, brats/sausages and hamburgers are all pretty good. You can also make some killer sandwiches with cold, leftover steak.

Getting in the habit of cooking more then you can eat so that you have leftovers for tomorrow's lunch or dinner works really well if you can keep yourself from overeating the first time around...

For chicken or pork chops, a simple way to give them a bunch more flavor is to just marinate them in Italian dressing over night.

I don't think I've seen it mentioned, but instant mashed potatoes are really easy/good.

There is so many different ways to cook good things with potatoes and they are pretty much all easy...