I mean the one you do when you want something easy to do, but not when you’re tired at the point you microwave a frozen-meal, or just cut down a piece of cheese and put it in a bread
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Cook some rice in a rice cooker, top it with a runny sunny-side up egg, add some high quality soy sauce and a bit of butter. Sliced green onions if I’m feeling less lazy.
Looks like super easy and great, love the idea :)
Add some peanut butter for some real gourmet shit
Furikake to take it to the next level!
Pesto pasta.
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Cook a packet of pasta and drain
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Put in a bottle of pesto
Done.
Sprinkle goat or feta cheese on top and you’re riding high
This, pesto is just too good.
Thin the pesto with a bit of pasta water if you want to elevate it without any extra work.
This is my favorite too lazy to cook meal. I’ve eaten this regularly for like 20 years. I make it every few weeks. Great with ham or sausage and a bunch of sriracha.
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I have an electric kettle, so instant ramen. I live near an asian grocery store, so I also have a ton of ramen varieties
Poaching an egg as you’re cooking the ramen is probably my favorite life hack.
Yep, poaching an egg (or a couple) in the ramen as it’s about to finish cooking is one of the ways I add eggs to instant ramen. Another is a technique similar to egg drop soup: stream pre-beaten eggs while stirring the ramen (also just about the ramen is done cooking).
But I default to adding soft-boiled eggs. I cook the thoroughly washed eggs in the same water I’d cook the ramen on. I take the eggs off (put them into cold water if necessary, or I can just take them a bit early and let the residual heat take it the rest of the way), then cook the noodles. While waiting for the noodles to cook, I peel the eggs and then put them back into the noodles just before serving.
That’s a good one! One of my favorites is to order some hot and sour soup, and place cooked noodles in the cup
Absolutely, it’s amazing how far you can stretch a good soup base. Hot and sour soup has a lot of flavor.
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Bake some frozen chicken nuggets, toss in buffalo sauce, cut up some iceberg lettuce and throw it all in a soft tortilla with ranch.
or just cut down a piece of cheese and put it in a bread
You can’t just disrespect Germany like that…
Omelette. Ham and Cheese. Low carb and tasty.
I usually go with over medium eggs on toast.
Not low carb, but still tasty.
Boxed mac n cheese with tuna
1 blue box Mac, finished + 1 ramen pack, finished = ‘Hate Pot’ cause you’ll hate how much you like it.
Can be some dishes though, feeds two in a sitting, double to feed four, grab a fork and gather round the combination. Soul food for 90s latchkey kids
I like the Pasta Roni angle hair pasta with tuna. Cooks in 5 minutes, throw the tuna in the last minute, delicious!
I did the most half-assed version of this for lunch the other day. Leftover half box of Kraft Mac, a can of tuna that was in the fridge, and a little tangy BBQ sauce, I think McD’s brand. It was… passable. I think my stomach was okay with it. I’m still alive and not on the toilet.
Pasta and jarred sauce
“Every Day Dal” from Curries Without Worries 1 cup split red lentils Tbl ghee or butter 1-2 dried red chilies Tbs tumeric Tbs cumin 1-3 Tbs salt (to taste) 1 Tbs each minced ginger and garlic 5 cups water
Put in large pot bring to boil simmer 35+/- min stir it you want
Feeds 6-8 people & nice w rice
Quesadillas!
spaghetti ala bolognese is my lazy to cook recipe or chicken paprikás (or rather it’s less sour creamy version which is called pörkölt). if I make it from chicken, it’s done pretty quickly
or, chili con carne. it’s also in the super easy and quick category
bolognese a lazy recipe? takes me like 3 hours sheesh
it is, at max 35-45 mins.
obviously I don’t make it authentic so calling it actually bolognese is a bit further stretch I allowed myself than should have 😅
I use dry noodles from the store, prechopped meat, boxed/canned tomato sauce, dried spices… only thing that needs actual prep work is some onions.
- Turn on your oven at 200c, ballpark
- Trim any excess skin you don’t wanna eat off of a bunch of chicken thighs
- Chuck the thighs in a baking sheet skin up
- Wash some potatoes and cut em into wedges. You can peel em if you want
- Chuck em in the baking sheet with the chicken
- Sprinkle on some salt, and a bunch of other spices that work with chicken and/or potatoes. Garlic powder, pepper, paprika, fuckin dry basil or whatever, idk. Try to get it on both sides of the chicken but if you CBA just get it on the skin side
- Drizzle some sunflower or olive oil all over everything. Just a bit is fine
- Put the baking sheet in the oven. Doesn’t matter if the oven isn’t fully heated, it’s fine
- Come back in like 1h and check if the chicken’s done. Come back every 10 min after that until it is
- Once it’s cooked, you might turn on the fan to crisp up the skin and the potatoes a little more, or maybe not, whatever
It’s gonna be the most 7.5/10 dinner but it’s like 5 min prep, it reheats fine, and you can walk away and shower or take a nap. You can wash the baking sheet tomorrow, who cares? It was the first ‘recipe’ I learned how to cook in college, and it’s still my go-to lazy weekday recipe.
Throw rice, soy sauce, oyster sauce, onion, potato, chorizo, frozen peas, some spices and water into a rice cooker. Hit go, take 40 min nap, eat.
Sliced mozzarella (or whatever) cheese in a bowl, and some sandwich meat. Served cold.
A real cheat code here is when you truly can’t find it in you to cook, have some easy heat and eat meal or something and then plan + prepare tomorrow’s dinner.
Microwave burrito + take chicken out of the freezer for tomorrow
Crack open a tin of beans, smash them a bit with a fork. Salt, pepper, vinegar, and whatever seasoning blend is within reach. Put it on top of whatever carb I have (toast, tortilla, crackers) is my go-to.
If I don’t have a tin of beans, I microwave some frozen peas to smash up.
Hummus also fits this niche but that’s not something I keep on hand in the pantry, unlike beans.
My favourite no-cook meal is a slab of semi-firm tofu served cold on a bed of spinach, pour over some soy sauce, spring onion and furikake. But that requires fresh ingredients I don’t always have on hand.
Instant noodles, with a handful of frozen corn, and a Nori sheet from the pantry ripped up in it. Tofu (or egg) if you can be bothered.
I’m on the hunt for a vegetarian alternative to a umami packed can of smoked Tuna. I miss smoked Tuna. (I’m allergic to nightshades and haven’t found a allergy free fake fish on the market)
Another great lazy meal is hummus. process together a drained + rinsed can of chickpeas, a couple tablespoons of tahini, the juice of half a lemon, salt + spices, and however much water it takes to get the texture you like. Smear it on a plate, maybe add a puddle of olive oil with some herbs sprinkled over, and wipe it up with pita.
