The Official Professional Bachelor Food Suggestion Thread

[xCptMorganx]

I like to cook food for a few days all at once and then just eat the same thing for 3 days or so. Saves time and you can get a decent meal very easily when you need to reheat. One of my favorites and easiest to make is chili. This recipe usually gives me enough for 8 - 10 good sized and healthy servings. Great to expiriment with b/c you can add pretty much anything you want or change the amounts.

1 lb ground turkey
1 1/2 cups of rice
16 oz salsa
28 oz diced tomatoes
Can Pinto Beans
Can Cannellini Beans
Can Butter Beans
Can Kidney Beans
Can Corn
Chipotle Tobasco to taste
Chili Powder to taste
McCormick Chili Seasoning one packet (low sodium version if you want)

Cook Turkey in one pan with a little water
Cook rice in one pot
Add a little pepper and Tobasco to turkey as its cooking

In a big ass pot with low heat:
Add diced tomatoes
Add corn (after draining)
Add beans (after draining)
Add seasoning
Add pepper and chili powder
Add tobasco
Stir
Add turkey meat
Add rice
Stir and taste then season to perfection

EDIT: you can eat it right away but I like to let it cook on low heat for 20 - 30 min before storing it in tupperware containers.

Alot of the time I will also cook up 3 chicken breasts on the grill and eat one a day for 3 days. I cook them on the lowest heat for about 45 min and season them with pepper and seasoning salt at the beginning and flip them 3 or 4 times spreading a layer of barbecue sauce on them each time. Tastes great even reheated.

[ThaSaltCracka]

Also, I own two crockpots. One is full size, the other is some mini football concoction.

[Aloysius]

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Grilled pork roll and cheese on a hard roll, frozen fries with beef gravy.

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sam you're from NJ right? we do pork roll (and breakfast sandwiches) better than anyone!

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Pork roll = "Taylor Ham"?

-Al

[stabn]

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too many pasta dishes here.

One that I find very easy to make, and is quite delicious.

Fish Tacos

If its just you, cook 3 pieces of fish in the oven, 20-25 minutes or so.

Place in a tortilla with some cheese, lettuce(or cabbage) and some salsa. Very good, and a nice change from Pasta LOL.

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Mayo & lime juice is a pretty standard sauce for these as well. It costs more but smoked salmon is also a nice change from the standard white fish tacos.

[solids]

OP-

Great idea for a thread. I am also a young professional who is strapped for time, and I've enjoyed reading through these recipes so far. Here are a few of my favorite recipes that are simple and relatively healthy:

Garlic Tilapia:
Wash tilapia fillet, pat dry, and season with:
-Old Bay Seasoning
-Garlic powder
-Krazy Jane's mixed up salt
-Pan searing flour

Add olive oil to frying pan and cook on medium for around 3 minutes on each side. Once golden brown, serve over rice. This recipe is nice because tilapia tastes amazing and but is relatively cheap (around $5 for two fillets).

Chicken Caesar Wraps:
Wash and pat dry two boneless chicken breasts. Cover with Shake and Bake (original works fine, but Italian or Garlic Herb flavor works well, too). Bake at 400 for ~20 minutes. Slice the chicken and put it on a flour tortilla. Add lettuce, shredded cheese, and caeser salad. Enjoy.

Tuna Noodle Casserole:
This one was passed down from Momma Solids...
Salt water and boil a box of elbow pasta. Add:
-one can of tuna fish
-one can of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup
-a splash of milk

Mix, and salt and pepper to taste. Serve with peas. For an even easier version of this recipe, simply add a can of tuna to Kraft Mac and Cheese.

Fried Pork Chops:
Wash and pat dry two pork chops. Cover in flour, dip in a beated egg, and cover in bread crumbs. Add olive oil to a pan and fry on medium for roughly 3-5 minutes on each side. Add Krazy Jane's salt and serve with BBQ sauce.


I have a few others that I may add later on, but that seems like a pretty good start. Also, it only took a year and a half, but I finally hit 1,000 posts. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I assume I get a congratulatory gift basket from Sklansky or something, right?

[Big Poppa Smurf]

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Grilled pork roll and cheese on a hard roll, frozen fries with beef gravy.

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sam you're from NJ right? we do pork roll (and breakfast sandwiches) better than anyone!

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Pork roll = "Taylor Ham"?

-Al

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yes. Apparently North Jersey folks call it Taylor Ham and the South Jersey/Philly folks call it pork poll. North Jersey is clearly in the wrong here though; Taylor Ham and pork roll are like Kleenex and tissues.

[Matt Flynn]

For no effort cooking, pesto is a good standby.

1. Cook 3/4 lb noodles. Then cook 'em a little more. Noodles aren't supposed to be chewy.
2. While doing #1, thaw and warm up 1 large container of Armanino pesto.
3. Add a healthy chunk of cream cheese to the pesto.
4. Toss together. Add parmesian on top.


Bachelor instructions: How to cook noodles: Take a few quarts of water, add one four-finger pinch of salt, add a splash of olive oil. Boil. Add noodles (not egg noodles!), broken in half. Stir every 2-3 minutes. Cook to taste, 8-12 minutes. I don't time it though. Usually I avoid opening my first beer until the water's just starting to boil. When that beer's done, the pasta is ready.

[Matt Flynn]

A more complicated dish:

1 can corn (not sweetened), drained
1 can black beans, not drained
one four-finger pinch of finely chooped red onion (i like two)
chopped cilantro, about a small handful
one four-finger pinch salt
juice of one-half ripe lime (you may prefer a little less)
2 teaspoons or so cumin
shake of chili powder
healhy shake of garlic powder

stir, shove in fridge, eat next day

can be great once you get the proportions right. kind of like guacamole in that regard.

[gumpzilla]

Garlic powder works pretty well for things like rubs, where you actually want a dry powder. For something like this salsa that you're describing at the end, I'd rather just use a clove of fresh garlic. It doesn't really take too much time to bust off a clove, peel it, and then crush it and throw it in.

Cumin and lime do make a pretty awesome combination, though. I had success marinating thin steaks in lime juice, salt, cumin, a small amount of cayenne and a couple of cloves of crushed garlic for 20 minutes the other day and then cooking them in a pan (I think you're supposed to dry them off, first, which I didn't do. They were still tasty but didn't really brown that great on the surface.)

[ThaSaltCracka]

so just beans and corn??? what is cumin? I love a good dip and would be willing to try something like this.