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Rice with Rice

Lentil soup with rice. My wife calls it her favorite comfort food.

What I do is:

Preheat a dutch oven with a little olive oil over medium heat

Dice 2 small/1 large yellow onion

Chop (don't peel) 2 small/1 large yukon gold potato

Chop a couple of carrots and sometimes a couple of celery stalks

Start the onions cooking down first (sometimes adding just a touch of brown sugar)

After a little bit I add the rest of the veggies and a lot of cumin powder

Wait until all the veggies are getting a just bit tender/browned, stirring occasionally

Add a little bit of white wine and scrape off bits at the bottom of the pot

Add 4 cups water and 4 teaspoons Chicken Better than Bullion

Add more cumin, a bit a ground cardamom, ground coriander, and garlic powder

Let it boil a bit for the veggies to get even more tender

Add 1 cup red lentils and simmer

At this point I start cooking some white rice in my instant pot, takes about 15 minutes

Just about when the rice is done, the lentils should be soft, so take an immersion blender and blend until smooth (should still be a little chunky)

Salt and add bit of lemon juice and/or white wine vinegar to taste

Serve over the rice, garnish with some fresh parsley if wanted

Ok writing it out maybe not the absolute easiest dish -- but I think its pretty simple and most of it is totally on auto-pilot. Totally delicious and the leftovers are amazing too.

Black beans on the crock pot:

• 454g of dry black beans
• 1 onion, diced
• 1 teaspoon of garlic powder
• 4 bay leaves (big)
• 1 piece of dried kombu
• 2 carrots, sliced

Add everything to the crock pot, with 6 cups of water. Cook for 5 hours on high. Once it's done, add 2 teaspoons of salt and mix well.

I make this every Sunday, and eat throughout the week with fresh rice, salad, nuts, and some protein (tofu or soy in my case). It's delicious and nutritious.

Here to introduce you some of the easiest comfort Korean food: Kimchi Fried Rice!

Stir fry some leftover kimchi with some salt and some soy sauce and some olive oil(you can skip that tho). Put cooked rice after 1-2min and cook for another 3 min.

If you don't like Kimchi's strong flavor this is definitely the way to try. There's plenty of recipies online and honestly it's a recipie that just couldn't go wrong.

As a college student, I live off of that.

Fried rice. It takes a good bit of technique, but I was able to practice a lot and get good at it while living somewhere where I had a high temperature wok burner. Now that I have the technique down, I can manage pretty well in an ordinary skillet on an electric stove, and it's super easy and quick once you know what' you're doing.

In winter I find soups are great dishes with minimal effort. I chop up some root veg, roast it in the oven until it's soft then mix it with some liquid and blend it. You can use whatever you have on hand (carrots, squash, pumpkin, sweet potatoes) and you can vary the liquid as well. I usually use vegetable stock but coconut milk works well. Add some spices to the vegetables when roasting or just stick with some salt. Then just serve with the nicest bread you can get hold of and eat!

In summer, I always enjoy pasta dishes with some kind of pesto. All you need for a normal pesto is garlic, toasted nuts, oil, an Italian hard cheese and basil. Pine nuts are traditional but cashews are more readily available (and cheaper where I live). If you've got a lemon, squeeze some juice in as well. The last month or so has been wild garlic season so I've foraged for the leaves and used it in place of both the basil and garlic. Carrot, beetroot and radish leaves are good too (plus others I haven't tried that I'm sure will also work) or you can roast beetroot or pepper and blend them into the mixture. I just serve this with some pasta, vegetables and cheese (normally feta) and you can make the pesto quite quickly while the pasta is cooking.

Japanese curry is always a nice comfort food.

So. Much. Pasta.

Here are two more:

1. Cook spaghetti; drain and set aside
2. In pasta pot, heat generous amount of olive oil
3. Add sage leaves; fry until almost crisp
4. Add fresh chopped garlic; continue to fry until sage is crisp and garlic bits are brown
5. Remove from heat; spaghetti back onto pot and toss. Add salt to taste.
6. Serve

3 ingredients (excluding salt, olive oil, and water) and it takes about 15 minutes.

My second current favorite is cous-cous. You just use whatever you have handy. You just add in butter, raisins, almond slivers (or almost any combination of fats, sugars, and protein you have in the cupboard) and cooks in 5 minutes, with no fussing or stirring. The deliciousness-to-effort ratio is insanely high.

latte with oat milk + cig 👩‍🍳🤌

(suppresses appetite and tasty, honestly ditch the cig even, i haven’t eaten in days)

Kraft Macaroni and Cheese mixed with Ground beef. Not healthy, but very delicious.

Chilli is maybe not super super easy to make, but you can make a ton of it, freeze the rest and eat it every day / every other day in a different style, one day burrito, one day nachos, one day with rice, etc etc.

Cook whatever pasta you got. Throw some silken tofu, plant milk, nooch, salt, pepper, and some kind of fat in a blender, taste and add whatever flavor you feel like. Cook some garlic, throw sauce in, add spinach, tomatoes chickpeas, or whatever veggies you want and stir the noodles in. Add more pepper. Usually the sauce is ready by the time the noodles are done so its very quick. Plus its got a bunch of b12, protein, iron, etc depending on what you put in.

Slice up about a third of a can of Spam into slabs, and cook them in a pan until brown and crispy. Then cook up some basic ramen. After the Spam is done, make a simple over easy egg. Put it all together, and you've got a simple and pretty cheap meal thatll keep you full until Gabriel's horn sounds

Skillet Chicken Bulgogi is my go-to for a quick and easy meal. Cook some rice alongside it, and you have an easy way to make several days of food.

I’ll do a simple stir fry. Diced chicken breast or thigh (salted and peppered) I’ll stir fry them and lightly mix in some sauce (sometimes a Thai sauce or general Tso sauce). I’ll also add some veggies, mostly broccoli and mushrooms but sometimes peppers and peas. And also I’ll make some rice as a side dish.

Hamburger gravy over rice is good delicious comfort food and you can mix it up with add-ins pretty easy

The basic idea is:

• Brown 1lb of hamburger, 80% or 93%, your choice, but don't drain
• Dump in a can of condensed cream of mushroom soup
• Cook up 3/4c of white rice

Spread the gravy over the rice in a tupperware or pyrex container, stick it in the fridge, and later you can cut it out like a thick casserole and heat up. It looks gross but your tongue will love it. The hamburger gravy keeps the rice from getting crappy like it usually does in the fridge.

I like to double up the burger and rice but keep the single can of soup, and mix in a bundle of green onions, 16oz white mushrooms, 4 habaneros, a half a yellow onion, a couple cloves of garlic, and some celery or carrots or anaheim pepper slices or something for a little crunch. Still super easy to make but less salty, a bit of spicy kick, very yummy. Still will look pretty gross haha, but I swear it tastes amazing, your body will crave it.

Pasta salad!

You only cook noodles. Lol
Noods, vegetables (cucumber, onion, celery, raddish, carrots), and a mayo and salt&pepper sauce. EZPZ
For more flavor use chipotle mayo.
I like to also add tuna sometimes.

So tasty.

West Indian Red Beans and Rice. The cookbook it's originally from, Moosewood Simple Suppers, has a bunch of fairly easy vegetarian/pescatarian recipes. I use it all the time.

Simple burritos/tacos. Cumin and Chilli powder roughly 50/50 (makes a basic taco seasoning), and ground beef in a pan. Mix well while cooking and put on either hard shell tacos or inside a burrito with whatever toppings.

Rice with bacon, onion and cheese.

Cut bacon and onion into small pieces. First, cook the bacon and onions until the bacon is crispy and the onions start to brown. Then, add the raw rice, and make sure every grain gets coated with the bacon fat. Then add the water. Cook the rice normally (until all the water is gone). Turn off the heat, and cover for a few minutes.

Get shredded cheese (not from package; either buy at deli or shred it yourself) and/or cut mozzarella cubes. Sometimes I use both, since shredded cheese is salty and mozzarella is more bland.

For the leftovers, I will add a beaten egg.

For extra ease, you can replace raw onions with dehydrated onion and bacon with salami/pepperoni.

Here's a carbonara dish:

Ingredients

• 500g/1lb pasta

• 1 brown onion, finely diced

• 2-5 cloves garlic

• 1 capsicum

• 1 punnet white button mushrooms, thinly sliced

• 2 egg

• 1 cup grated cheese - plus extra for serving

• 1/2lb / 100g shaved ham (or bacon), roughly chopped

• 1 courgette, grated

Steps:

1. Bring a big pot of salted water to the boil (plenty of salt) Cook pasta in pot of boiling water for until just tender (depends heavily on which pasta, check back of pack for cooking time, and take a minute or two off then eat a test piece to see if it needs more). Reserve 1 cup pasta cooking water, then drain. Return pasta to put with a drizzle of olive oil to prevent sticking. Set aside.

2. While pasta is cooking, heat a little oil in a medium frying pan on medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic, and cook for 2-3 mins until softened. While onion cooks, remove core and seeds of capsicum and thinly slice.

3. Add capsicum and mushroom to pan with onion and cook for 2-3 minutes, until just tender. While capsicum and mushrooms cook, whisk egg in a small bowl. Add cream, salt, and first measure of cheese then mix to combine. Set aside.

4. Add ham and courgette to pan with mushrooms and cook for 1-2 minutes, until warmed through . Reduce pan heat to low-medium.

5. Add 1/2 of the reserved pasta water and cooked, drained pasta to pan and stir to coat. Add egg/cream mixture and mix well to combine. If you would like more sauce, stir through more pasta water. Allow sauce to gently heat through for about 1 minute - don't overcook or egg will go lumpy. Season with salt and a generous amount of black pepper.

To serve: divide creamy carbonara between plates and sprinkle over remaining cheese.

Personally I leave out the mushroom (no one in our house likes it) then cover in tomato sauce (kind of like ketchup). Probably some sort of crime to do this though.

the grilled cheese sandwich ease/pleasure ratio is hard to beat.

Mmmm Kraft dinner + tuna

just a simple chicken breast with a side of asparagus.

i like to marinate the chicken by slathering it with a mix of mayo and barbeque sauce, and letting it marinate for 12-24 hours. then I cook it on an iron skillet with those raised grill bits until it's done. I cook the asparagus next to it towards the end, along with some fresh-chopped garlic. (fresh/frozen mixed veggies also works). serve with some wine if you have it.

simple and cheap.

Chicken Rice pilaf. Dice 1 onion, brown it it in a big pot with olive oil. Cut 2 chicken breasts into bite sized cubes and add it to the pot once onion is browned. Shed 3 carrots and put them in the pot. Clean 2 cups of rice and put it in the pot, add water to just barely cover the rice. Add about 1/4 Tbs of salt and 1/4Tbs of pepper. Simmer for about 15 minutes. Peal 8 garlic cloves and insert them into rice. Simmer for 5 more minutes or until all the water is gone (be careful not to scorch the bottom)

This is a heavy modification of https://momsdish.com/recipe/222/uzbek-plov Uzbek people will probably lynch me for this 😅

Greek salad. Chop up cucumber, green pepper, olives, feta cheese and Greek spice. Maybe some bacon for fun. Lost tons of weight eating that for dinner and takes less than 5 min to make.

Spaghetti aglio olio

Usually wraps filled with salad, black or red beans, tomatoes, paprika and tofu.

Pan-fried tofu and garlic with a dash of soy sauce.

Mine changes every few months, depending on energy levels. Right now it's scrambled or boiled eggs with toast.

In the winter I was obsessed with making a cabbage & random vegetable soup. I just shredded the cabbage, cut up and sauteed various veggies in olive oil (carrots, potatoes, parsnips, celery root, etc), put in spices (pepper, thyme, paprika, bay leaf, and whatever else seemed fun), then added the cabbage and waited until it lost some volume, added hot water/stock, boiled for 30-40min. Towards the end I might add some bell peppers or broccoli or other vegetable with a short cooking time. After removing from the stove, I did a couple pulses with the immersion blender to thicken the soup while leaving whole veggie bit inside. Finally, I topped with lemon juice after serving.

Yogurt dill dip. I use this recipe. It's an incredibly flavorful dip, sauce, or salad dressing. I made a batch of six cups recently for a family & friends dinner where it worked as dip for pita chips, topping for meat, dressing for salad, and topping for broccoli.

I've got a simple recipe for meatloaf that I got from my dad, and he got from his mum. I'll lay it out below.

700g mince 5% fat

~45g oatmeal

1 large egg

1 medium red onion

1 pack streaky bacon

3 good squeezes of ketchup

10g brown or demerara sugar

A splash of olive oil

Fresh ground pepper to taste

Mix mince, egg, and chunky diced onion, add oatmeal to make the mix a bit drier, should be able to make a small ball and not leave any on your fingers. Line a metal loaf tin with the bacon so the strips hang half out over the edge. Pack the mince mixture in tight. Mix the ketchup, sugar, and olive oil. Spread half over the top of the mince, then wrap the bacon over the top and spread the rest ofthe ketchup mix. Crack pepper over top to taste. Cook at 170°C for ~30mins, probably less. Pull it out when internal temp hits ~70°c as residual heat will finish the cooking while it rests for 10mins.

Baked ziti. I'm a vegan, and cashew cheese sauce is super easy to make, and its very wuick to throw some sauce and pasta together snd chuck it in the over.