Dinner Staples

[nvanprooyen]

I enjoy cooking, but often it's more like "how can I make something with minimal effort, that tastes good, isn't expensive, and has a decent amount of nutritional value"?

Enter this dinner staples thread. I've got a bunch that I make on the regular, but I'll kick it off with one of my go to's.

- Cut up like 2 lbs of potatoes in 1/4" slices.
- Put them all in a big glass bowl, and toss in like 2 tbs of olive oil and like 6 cloves of fresh garlic.
- Season well with salt and pepper (fresh ground ideal) and mix well.
- Cook in the microwave for 8 mins, stir, and cook for another 8.
- Move the potato mixture to a casserole dish, distribute evenly and then pack down to a layer.
- Pat down the cod to remove moisture and place on the layer of potatoes.
- Drizzle another 2tbs of olive oil on the cod. Salt and pepper. Thinly slice a lemon and evenly distribute slices on the cod.
- Preheat oven to 425 put the casserole dish in and cook for ~15-25 depending on the thickness of the fish. Thick cod pieces take a lot longer, thin pieces of fish are done in no time at all.
- Let it cool a bit and serve the fish sitting on a layer of potatoes with some lemon slices.

Super easy, cheap and tastes amazing.

I've made this like 50 times, and am about to do it again.

What do you have in your arsenal?

 

[HeHateMe]

Chicken thighs, salted heavily, pepper. Convection oven at 400 for 30 to 40 minutes.

Gets super crispy skin, serve it with some veg (I usually roast a bunch of beets, Brussels on Sunday for the week)

 

[HeHateMe]

Cottage ham and fresh green beans with a diced up onion, a bay leaf and low sodium chicken stock in a crock pot all day. Dash of ume plum vinegar at the end.

Serve it with mashed sweet potatoes or roasted squash.

 

[HeHateMe]

Pork belly, marinated in soy and honey. Convection oven at 400 for 30 minute.

Served with Kim chi and brown rice or ancient grains.

 

[nvanprooyen]

Chicken thighs, salted heavily, pepper. Convection oven at 400 for 30 to 40 minutes.

Gets super crispy skin, serve it with some veg (I usually roast a bunch of beets, Brussels on Sunday for the week)

We do that a lot, although no convection oven.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

I enjoy cooking, but often it's more like "how can I make something with minimal effort, that tastes good, isn't expensive, and has a decent amount of nutritional value"?

Enter this dinner staples thread. I've got a bunch that I make on the regular, but I'll kick it off with one of my go to's.

- Cut up like 2 lbs of potatoes in 1/4" slices.
- Put them all in a big glass bowl, and toss in like 2 tbs of olive oil and like 6 cloves of fresh garlic.
- Season well with salt and pepper (fresh ground ideal) and mix well.
- Cook in the microwave for 8 mins, stir, and cook for another 8.
- Move the potato mixture to a casserole dish, distribute evenly and then pack down to a layer.
- Pat down the cod to remove moisture and place on the layer of potatoes.
- Drizzle another 2tbs of olive oil on the cod. Salt and pepper. Thinly slice a lemon and evenly distribute slices on the cod.
- Preheat oven to 425 put the casserole dish in and cook for ~15-25 depending on the thickness of the fish. Thick cod pieces take a lot longer, thin pieces of fish are done in no time at all.
- Let it cool a bit and serve the fish sitting on a layer of potatoes with some lemon slices.

Super easy, cheap and tastes amazing.

I've made this like 50 times, and am about to do it again.

What do you have in your arsenal?

I’m legit doing this Tuesday

 

[CRM 114]

My dinner staple has got to be

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Oh man, I missed a great opportunity for a Swingline joke.

 

[DaaBears]

Grilled Cheese

 

[airtime143]

I enjoy cooking, but often it's more like "how can I make something with minimal effort, that tastes good, isn't expensive, and has a decent amount of nutritional value"?

Enter this dinner staples thread. I've got a bunch that I make on the regular, but I'll kick it off with one of my go to's.

- Cut up like 2 lbs of potatoes in 1/4" slices.
- Put them all in a big glass bowl, and toss in like 2 tbs of olive oil and like 6 cloves of fresh garlic.
- Season well with salt and pepper (fresh ground ideal) and mix well.
- Cook in the microwave for 8 mins, stir, and cook for another 8.
- Move the potato mixture to a casserole dish, distribute evenly and then pack down to a layer.
- Pat down the cod to remove moisture and place on the layer of potatoes.
- Drizzle another 2tbs of olive oil on the cod. Salt and pepper. Thinly slice a lemon and evenly distribute slices on the cod.
- Preheat oven to 425 put the casserole dish in and cook for ~15-25 depending on the thickness of the fish. Thick cod pieces take a lot longer, thin pieces of fish are done in no time at all.
- Let it cool a bit and serve the fish sitting on a layer of potatoes with some lemon slices.

Super easy, cheap and tastes amazing.

I've made this like 50 times, and am about to do it again.

What do you have in your arsenal?

Your quick and easy is light years beyond what I consider quick and easy.

Last night after I got home from work I kid you not, I opened a can of progresso chicken noodle soup and drank it from the can while standing over the sink.

 

[Warrior Spirit]

Your quick and easy is light years beyond what I consider quick and easy.

Same here. Throw a steak on the stove and a bag of spinach in the microwave. Done!

 

[nvanprooyen]

Your quick and easy is light years beyond what I consider quick and easy.

Last night after I got home from work I kid you not, I opened a can of progresso chicken noodle soup and drank it from the can while standing over the sink.

I guess my standard for "easy" is like 15-20 mins or less of active work (prepping, etc). This one is mostly slicing some potatoes, lemon, a bit of stirring, and then throwing that shit in the oven.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

Your quick and easy is light years beyond what I consider quick and easy.

Last night after I got home from work I kid you not, I opened a can of progresso chicken noodle soup and drank it from the can while standing over the sink.

You drank it cold?

 

[Burque]

I enjoy cooking, but often it's more like "how can I make something with minimal effort, that tastes good, isn't expensive, and has a decent amount of nutritional value"?

Enter this dinner staples thread. I've got a bunch that I make on the regular, but I'll kick it off with one of my go to's.

- Cut up like 2 lbs of potatoes in 1/4" slices.
- Put them all in a big glass bowl, and toss in like 2 tbs of olive oil and like 6 cloves of fresh garlic.
- Season well with salt and pepper (fresh ground ideal) and mix well.
- Cook in the microwave for 8 mins, stir, and cook for another 8.
- Move the potato mixture to a casserole dish, distribute evenly and then pack down to a layer.
- Pat down the cod to remove moisture and place on the layer of potatoes.
- Drizzle another 2tbs of olive oil on the cod. Salt and pepper. Thinly slice a lemon and evenly distribute slices on the cod.
- Preheat oven to 425 put the casserole dish in and cook for ~15-25 depending on the thickness of the fish. Thick cod pieces take a lot longer, thin pieces of fish are done in no time at all.
- Let it cool a bit and serve the fish sitting on a layer of potatoes with some lemon slices.

Super easy, cheap and tastes amazing.

I've made this like 50 times, and am about to do it again.

What do you have in your arsenal?

An easy one

20 hours before I want to eat turn on pellet pooper to 225. (30 seconds)

Rub a butt with mustard salt and pepper. (2 minutes)

Place on machine. (30 seconds)

Go to bed. (9 hours)

Check pellet level ten hours later and add temp probe. (1 minute)

Wait for notification to go off on temp probe for 203 degrees. (Varies)

Take pork off, wrap, and rest in a cooler. (2 minutes to wrap, approximately 1 hour to rest depending on how close to dinner time.)

Remove from cooler and shred. (5 minutes)

Eat. (Varies)

Total actual amount of work = less than 15 minutes.

Edit: maybe I should call it fifteen minute pulled pork. What do you think @HeHateMe ?

 

[airtime143]

You drank it cold?

Of course.
With my cave man palate that is a perfectly acceptable approach to any broth based soup.

Now, cream based soup needs heat.
I am a cave man, not a monster.

 

[nvanprooyen]

An easy one

20 hours before I want to eat turn on pellet pooper to 225. (30 seconds)

Rub a butt with mustard salt and pepper. (2 minutes)

Place on machine. (30 seconds)

Go to bed. (9 hours)

Check pellet level ten hours later and add temp probe. (1 minute)

Wait for notification to go off on temp probe for 203 degrees. (Varies)

Take pork off, wrap, and rest in a cooler. (2 minutes to wrap, approximately 1 hour to rest depending on how close to dinner time.)

Remove from cooler and shred. (5 minutes)

Eat. (Varies)

Total actual amount of work = less than 15 minutes.

Edit: maybe I should call it fifteen minute pulled pork. What do you think @HeHateMe ?

Pellets make shit so easy. But then I wouldn't have an excuse to sit outside and drink beer for 10 hours so I can "watch the smoker".

 

[Burque]

Pellets make shit so easy. But then I wouldn't have an excuse to sit outside and drink beer for 10 hours so I can "watch the smoker".

You don't need an excuse to sit outside and drink beer for ten hours.

 

[HeHateMe]

You don't need an excuse to sit outside and drink beer for ten hours.

@Urblock hacked your account?

 

[nvanprooyen]

Off topic in my own thread, but I think I might pick up another turkey post Thanksgiving and smoke it. They are cheap af right now. Might as well. Never done it before, but I'm sure some googling / youtubeing could get me pointed towards a solid result.

Edit - my man, Malcolm Reed

 

[HeHateMe]

Off topic in my own thread, but I think I might pick up another turkey post Thanksgiving and smoke it. They are cheap af right now. Might as well. Never done it before, but I'm sure some googling / youtubeing could get me pointed towards a solid result.

Edit - my man, Malcolm Reed

It's literally the cheapest protein out there right now. Maybe bugs are cheaper? I see 58 cents a lb. I'm gonna buy 4 or 5 birds and smoke them for lunch meat.