Help a starving student out

[meresy]

Hey home skillets

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[_unhurt_]

PEPPERS? PEPPERS? meres, i don't think we can be friends any more!

(How did I got this far living alone without cooking much? The answer is I'm a bageltarian and you don't want to know).except, fine, this is too cute. i like you again

[meresy]

PEPPERS. Graaaaaaaaaah. And they just. Are in EVERYTHING. And freaking permeate the sauce/cheese/whatever with nasty. >:E

Omlette is...meh. I have to be VERY hungover to crave anything even fried-egg related. Except ooh! You just reminded me of quiche! With is easy and nom. No, don't even try to tell me it's not really different. It's about the frying.

Stirfry I might have to take a run at. I have habitually avoided it on account of peppers and onions. D:

Cheese = BEST.

And noodles encompasses pasta also. Nooooodles.

:D

[_unhurt_]

but NO meres! omelet (that i cannot spell, it seems?) isn't REALLY fried! is it? ok, i thought you meant fried eggs, whereas this is more... lacking oil? also can melt cheese on top! hmm. maybe c. can advise - she ONLY cooks eggs. *runs in case she sees this*

stir fry can totally be onion & pepper free if so wished. (you can slice carrots up really really thin, and courgettes/zuchinni, all sorts really)

my standby poor student pasta dish was: cook up some pasta (pretty much any kind); big handful frozen peas (cooked, obv.) maybe a handful frozen sweetcorn (ditto), toss it all up with a wee bit olive oil or butter, grate some cheddar or parmesan over the top, and season with freshly ground black pepper to taste (this part is worth the investment - makes many foods nicer).

[meresy]

It's the same effect on me! Fried, scrambled, omlettededed... I have to be maaaaad hungover and craving eggs. Currently, I don't even BUY eggs, because they'd get old long before I used them, if that's any indication of my meh about eggs.

Hmm, zucchinis....

But peas and pepper is DNW. :( (Yes, black pepper is included in the whole pepper... thing. Pleh.) But other frozen veggies might work.

My (other) main problem? There are Very Few cooked veggies which entice me at all. =/

[sansets]

This is my FAVORITE blog for the step-by-step cooking instructions, omg. The Pioneer Woman Cooks. Ignore how cutsey she can wind up being sometimes, and concentrate on the fact that the food is AMAZING, it is never very complex and she TAKES PICTURES OF EVERY STEP. Which, you know, gets increasingly HILARIOUS when it is just her cracking an eggs, but dude - I never knew what the hell zesting a lemon was before that blog. And now I know! \0/

[meresy]

Yay! I will search around on that blog and see what strikes me. (I know what zesting is about because I watch the Food Network! :D)

[sansets]

Also, Cook's Hideout is a pretty decent mostly Indian cooking blog. I have the wrong spice collection to make most of the recipes, but the ones that I've tried have been successful and nicely unambitious.

[ifreet]

I prefer baking over anything that would actually keep me fed. That said, I'm a big fan of cooking chicken on the stove top with random!spices. I... don't even know what the technique is called. Sauteing? Pan frying? Well, whatever it's called, I put just enough oil in the pan to keep the chicken from sticking* and shake whatever herbs and spices sound good that day onto the chicken before putting it in the pan. After a couple minutes, I flip it. When both sides look done, I check with a thermometer.

Heat up some veggies, and dinner's good to go.

I'm also a huge fan of salmon, which I either cook similarly (though I'm not likely to add anything) or in the microwave.

*That's about a tablespoon or so, and different oils taste different -- a cooking grade olive oil is my favorite, but any veg oil will work. Or butter, but you have to be much more careful about temperature or it will burn.

[_unhurt_]

oh, yes to salmon - or any oily fish - but, hmm, not sure how available that is in your [i.e. meres's, i mean!] part of the world? or how cheap? in the uk frozen fillets of farmed salmon can be pretty inexpensive (but all oily fish does great wrapped in tinfoil with a bit of butter and some salt & pepper & herbs - dried are fine; bung into a medium/hot oven for... 15-20 minutes? serve with potatoes, green salad, or whatever)

[ifreet]

It's not quite as cheap as living on chicken or pasta, but it's not outrageously expensive. Usually.

... now I'm getting hungry.

[meresy]

I like salmon! And we have Great Lakes salmon sometimes, and the supermarket usually has SOME sort. It's probably not dead fresh but my non-skills probably don't need the best of best. I haven't priced it, though.

[exeterlinden]

Two easy dishes that I cook quite a bit are:

1) Spinach (fresh or frozen) fried with onion, garlic, a bit of feta and a drop of cream/milk.

2) A tin of (drained) chick peas, fried with a bit of olive oil, ground salt, and fresh parsley on top.

Both very yummy, extremely easy, and relatively healthy as well :)

[meresy]

I have made roasted chickpeas, they are nom. Perhaps fried are for me, also.

[innocentsmith]

kitchenny_bits just got started up recently: a comm for people to share recipes/advise others on stuff to make without being embarrassed at one's un-cooking-1337-ness.

[meresy]

Ah! I shall check it out, tyk.