The Official Professional Bachelor Food Suggestion Thread

[nuggetz87]

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- Bags of chicken + veggies + sauce (they have stir fry, oriental and other varieties)


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QFT, you dump it in a pan and cook for 20 minutes for a healthy + super awesome 2 meals. the ones i buy (i think lean cuisine or something) have rice, chicken, veggies, sauce.

-turkey sandwich ingredients (tomato, onions , lettuce, turkey, swiss cheese, olive oil + vinegar)

-pasta and tomato sauce

-baked potatoes

-pizza, i actually like making my own

-oatmeal

[tuq]

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tup,

"or if you can get crappy chicken-apple sausage at Safeway"

Safeways in California carry Aidell's sausage. Their chicken-apple sausage is awesome, perhaps my favorite around. I think it's about $5 for a pack of 4. Not sure if that's a national brand or not.

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Good tip, and pretty dumb of me to say Safeway, since I do 80% of my shopping there anyway as there is a really nice one about 150 yards from my place. I just meant "regular chain supermarket", because the high-end grocer I referenced charges about 2X as much for most meat. I worked for them ten years ago and can attest that they get a premium product.

[dizong]

scallops should be thawed. if you don't use toothpicks, then tie the bacon into a knot or something

another easy meal:

Take 3 pieces of canadian bacon and 3 eggs, throw them in an oiled pan. Cook until eggs are done (kinda scrambled and a bit moist). Sprinkle on some white truffle oil. it has to be white truffle oil. not black. not sesame. it's expensive but damn well worth it.

while waiting, make some english muffins with butter and your breakfast/brunch is set.

[Aloysius]

Jman / Others - if you guys like Japanese-style curry, this is an easy curry dish.

Cube meat of choice (beef, lamb, chicken), cut up some veggies and starch (carrots, onions, potatoes whatever). Stir-fry in large skillet. Add this:



Or this:



Simmer in skillet 'til curry sauce thickens, dump over rice or egg noodles and you are done.

Also second the rice cooker / steamer as great, versatile appliance. I just splurged on a fuzzy logic rice cooker, and while it was pretty expensive, the fact that it handles multiple grains of rice (even brown rice, which my previous, cheap rice cookers failed to cook through), as well as cooking steel cut oats, oatmeal, pudding, and acting as a steamer, was worth it in my mind.

-Al

[mj12]

Almost all of my meals I make involve sauteeing some green peppers, onions, mushrooms together. Then throwing in some meat i have handy ( sausage, chicken, steak) and get some cheese melted in then some pasta sauce or some hot sauce or whatever. WHen its all nice I dump it over pasta or in some fresh bread for sangwich ( grilling sandwich after makes it like 10x better)

[viciouspenguin]

im a starving student who can barely cook. what i eat often is:

ground beef tacos. buy a package of ground beef, taco shells (or tortillas), one of those packets of taco mix, and whatever you want (salsa, sour cream, lettuce... side note i prefer caesar salad salad mix because its so easy) then follow the directions on the packet. takes like 20 min

pasta. hot water, salt, olive oil. put pasta in. get a can of prego or something. ready in like 30 min. easy and surprisingly tasty

[adsman]

My favorite quick and easy meal.

Veal sccalopine in white wine.

A couple of nice veal cuts. If they are too big cut them in half. Heat a dollop of butter and some good extra virgin olive oil in a non stick pan.
Lightly coat the veal in flour. Place in the pan on a high heat. You need to cook it hot and quick. After only two minutes it should be turning brown. Flip it over. You mustn't cook this too much, less is better if unsure. Cook for another 30 seconds or so, then pour a cup of white wine into the very hot pan. Instant sauce due to the flour. Cook for another 10 seconds or so then serve with a tossed green salad.

It doesn't get easier or tastier than this.

[nuSFwck]

onthebutton made the great suggestion of a rice steamer. takes like 20 minutes to cook the rice and you can make enough of it at once to last you 3 days. also, rice goes with practically anything.

you can rough chop some veggies (onion, potato, squash, any kind of mushroom, carrot, etc), toss them with some olive oil + salt/pepper, and put them in 350 degree oven for 30 mins or so. so tasty.

either one of these suggestions with a Foreman grilled or pan seared chicken breast is simple and very delicious. one more thing- start marinating chicken breasts in the morning before you go to work and they'll taste wicked when you're ready for dinner at night.

[punkass]

My broke food go-to:

Make rice.
In sauce pan, scramble 2 eggs with salt/pepper. Add rice. Cook a bit. Add another egg and stir until that egg is fully cooked. Put in bowl. Add some soy sauce and sesame oil.

The first 2 eggs will result in big chunks of egg. The 3rd egg that you stirred in will result in much smaller bits of egg and making a creamier consistency with the rice. Soy sauce and Sesame oil taste very good.

All told, cost of meal is like ... 40 cents? Probably not that healthy, but it's not unhealthy.

[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.