i am hungry.

[maria_sputnik]

do you ever prepare a big mess of food, and then eat it over several days? i am trying to think of good recipes for the lazy-except-once-a-week cook -- stuff you can pull out of the fridge and be eating ten minutes later

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[serrano]

Huge green curry stirfries! Make a whole lot of quinoa (which is easier to get right than rice, and cooks in 15-20 min instead of 45!). Then chop up all the goddamn veggies you can get your hands on: onion, garlic, ginger to start, then potato, carrot, then zucchini or leafy things like kale and collards which can keep a long time in the fridge. Also mushrooms (which'll be soggy), peas/edamame add nice texture if you add them at the end, broccoli is always good--just add what you have! Things like beets are strange, but turnips are okay... I dunno what you do if you're adding meat, but usually I cook tofu or seitan separately beforehand, using a lot of oil so it's nice & chewy. Okay, so spices though: you usually have to buy green curry mix unless you've already got a really amazingly stocked cabinet, but then you can take a spoonful of it and stir it around in a can of coconut milk and voila! it's dissolved. Then once the carrots and potatoes are cooked, and the others have been fried a little, add the coconut milk and let simmer a while... When it's done, you can add sesame seeds or crushed almonds for more texture if you want. Anyway, this lasts a long time and is basically what I've been eating for the past five years. You can opt for bean threads rather than quinoa/rice, and they cook in about 3 minutes.

If you're totally on the ball, huge salads are awesome. Mine are super-foofy with avocado and strawberries and dried cranberries and lots of nuts and sprouts and shit, but once you mix things like that in, they start to go bad quickly so you have to be super committed to eating them every day!

[maria_sputnik]

"lasts a long time and is basically what i've been eating for the last five years" is awesome.

i always cook white rice mash-ups but should try quinoa sometime. so far i have looked upon other grains with suspicion, but lo! this is going to be the summer of cooking experimentation.

p.s. spinach salad with pomegranate seeds in it A+++