Rice with a can of fish. I just dump them both in the rice cooker and put broccoli on top of I have it. I season it when I’m done because I usually give a plain bowl to my dog.
Salmon is a good option. Specifically: lemon pepper salmon fried in a cast iron pan with a little bit of olive oil and then drizzled with chimichurri and partnered with plain white rice.
my go to is pretty basic, spaghetti or some kind of pasta with garlic butter and parmesean cheese. i also just like making basic marinara sauce and spaghetti. i'm a very lazy cook a lot of the time which ends up being meatless without really thinking about it.
When I was a kid, my parents covertly watched a chef and copied his recipe. Our Salmon pasta is kind of like vodka sauce, but using wine and cream makes it richer. And now I buy the fancy pastas that hold sauce in their curls.
for a long time it was just steamed rice and a little too much sea salt. but lately i’ve been trying to find the right ratio of canned tuna, mayo, bacon bits, and onion powder for a halfass tuna salad
If I could weigh in, your tuna salad sounds promising and might fully come together with just a bit of acidity, like a little lemon juice or lemon pepper. Happy experimenting 😊
Ours is pretty close with making a butt-ton of salmon onigiri: precooked salmon, rice, kizami nori, and salt, then shape with wet hands. Leftovers are tomorrow's lunch lol.
For lazy nights, a basic curry with fried halloumi and spinach. When I feel like a little razzle-dazzle, homemade pizza. I've got the dough process down pat so the effort-to-family-appreciation ratio is pretty good.
Spaghetti or a riff on Chicken Marsala I just call Mushroom Chicken
Spaghetti: sweat onions & garlic; add salt, pepper, basil (I measure w/ my heart), a can of tomato paste. Stir then add a can whole tomatoes, more basil & a bit of sugar. Blend w/ handblender, simmer 10 mins & ladle over noodles.
Mushroom chicken: season chicken breast w/ SPG, sear in olive oil until golden brown top & bottom, set aside. Sweat onions & garlic. Add a lb of chopped up mushrooms & cook them until the liquid has been released & reduced. Add ~1.5 cups white wine to deglaze. Reduce, add cream, stir all together.
Add some dry thyme, stir again. Return breasts to sauce ensuring at least half submerged. Cover & simmer 25 minutes.
Make a 1tbsp butter, 1tbsp AP flour roux. Once chicken is done, transfer to plates & mix a bit of roux into sauce. Keep stirring & adding roux until sauce is desired thickness.
Simmer ginger in chicken broth, add frozen wontons/dumplings and whatever bits and pieces are left in the fridge. Fast, easy, cheap, filling and feels virtuous. Soup can solve a lot.
My go to when I really can't be bothered is couscous- (the sort you just add boiling water to for 5 mins). While it steams I microwave a handful or 2 of frozen mixed veg . Then mix it all with a small tin of sardines in tomatio sauce. Nothing fancy, only needs a kettle and microwave and 5 minutes.
I’m on the horn to the local Thai joint for a pad kee mao stat. If I need to make it it’s gonna be pan-fried steelhead and some sort of revived frozen veg w butter and flaky salt
either egg drop soup with pearl barley or diced potatoes and veg roasted with some kind of savory pastry smothered in gravy. Teriyaki salmon is a good one though.
Salmon with rice and some veggie, both of the latter cooked simultaneously in my rice cooker.
The salmon is seasoned with just salt and pepper, then pan seared in hella butter until the flesh is a nice colour. Pop it in the oven at 400 for 15 minutes after, hey presto supper is done. Super easy.
In the summer I make basil pesto sans parmesan and freeze it in small containers. It’s easy to unfreeze in warm water and add the freshly grated parmesan for a delicious and comforting pasta dinner year round
mines a beef and broccoli (usually, but whatever vegetables i have) stir fry with rice which i've been calling stir bry since 2020 when my partner typod it once
Pasta, frozen diced chicken reheated in a skillet with oil and spices, veggies (frozen mix heated with the chicken, leftover roasted mix, or fresh spinach). Everything tossed with olive oil, something acidic, and either Italian or Cajun style spices
air fried halloumi wraps with bell peppers and hot sauce. u can scale it up with basically whatever you have lying around - lettuce, spring onions, leftover bacon, chicken strips, corn nuts, whatever
Lemon and spicy harissa chicken roasted with peppers (you may call these bell peppers) and tomato’s. Crumbled feta and toasted pumpkin/sunflower seeds* sprinkled on top.
Served with, depending on what I fancy:
Brown and wild basmati rice
Potato wedges (thin ones)
or
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Other than that: Fuul mudammas with feta cheese, tomatoes and olives.
Or just a simple sandwich
Spaghetti: sweat onions & garlic; add salt, pepper, basil (I measure w/ my heart), a can of tomato paste. Stir then add a can whole tomatoes, more basil & a bit of sugar. Blend w/ handblender, simmer 10 mins & ladle over noodles.
Make a 1tbsp butter, 1tbsp AP flour roux. Once chicken is done, transfer to plates & mix a bit of roux into sauce. Keep stirring & adding roux until sauce is desired thickness.
kinda healthy stew, and about as hard to make as a box of kraft macaroni and cheese
Or failing that, a rushed plate of mince n' tatties (if you know, you know)
The salmon is seasoned with just salt and pepper, then pan seared in hella butter until the flesh is a nice colour. Pop it in the oven at 400 for 15 minutes after, hey presto supper is done. Super easy.
They're very quick to whip out and DELISH!
Winter: Tim Walz's Turkey Trot Tater Tot Hotdish (with generous in-home variations)
Idk how I'm still alive
Served with, depending on what I fancy:
Brown and wild basmati rice
Potato wedges (thin ones)
or
Freeka
**not if having wedges
I think mine would be sushi. I can seriously just tear up a spicy tuna roll.
that's it! eating it RN. so good.