What is your favorite simple recipe?

The answers (in order recieved):

  • Beef stew with rice. Make some white rice, own up a can of Dinty Moore and pour it over the rice. Voila, food for the single man.

  • a bag of frozen mixed berries from kroger, a little sugar and a can of spray whipped cream - yum

  • My favorite new recipe is the bacon frosting (so simple!), but my favorite all-time is the open-face-cheese sandwich recipe. Place slice of cheddar on bread. Cook (in some fashion). Eat.

  • Um, I'm not really a cook, end of story. :)

  • Put a little salt and pepper on 1/2 chicken breast, broil until done. Serve over mixture of 1/4 cup hummus, 1/4 cup couscous.

  • My housemate's sweet potato recipe

  • peanut butter fudge :-)......ummmm......Rice Krispie Treats.....ummmmm.....Hamburger Corn Casserole.....but you know all of those - I wonder how that happened? 

  • 3 pints of sour cream
Taco seasoning (a couple of pouches of it, stir in and keep adding and 
tasting
until you like what you've got)
A large pouch of mexican blend shredded cheese
A small jar of your favorite salsa
Hot sauce to taste.

Mix it all together...and eat it with tortilla chips, it's good.

  • I made cinnamon bread a couple of times. It was so easy, even I could do it.

  • Cheese quesadillas with my quesadilla maker.

  • OoooOoooOoooo! I know this one! Wait, is this real recipes or are we counting cake mix from a box? Because if we are, the Kroger brand PB cookies are moronically easy and tasty too. If not, then my fave is a tomato sauce recipe from the Official Carnival Cruise Lines Cook Book. It's just about as moronically simple as the cookies and tasty too. But it doesn't taste like peanut butter.

  • Rustic apple pie: Pie crust, apples and brown sugar. Roll, the crust out, slice up the apples and crumble some brown sugar on them. Turn up the edges of the crust so the apples are in a little crust package and bake. Super easy! and really good.

  • Easy Mocha: a cup of STRONG coffee + a spoonful or two (to taste) of hot chocolate powder +whipped cream on top. YOU BET!

  • Wow, being a bachelor all I have is simple recipies.... Ramen cooked with vinegar instead of water, Marshmallow between two Town House crackers, or a Slab'O'Meat on George Foreman! (grill)

  • Tiramisu - no cooking involved, and lots of chocolate and Kahlua and espresso!!!

  • Vodka and orange juice... or coffee and donuts

  • Crock pot chili.

  • Anything that states: "Poke hole in film. Microwave for XX seconds."

  • Basil pesto! Throw some fresh basil, garlic, olive oil, and pine nuts in a blender, blend till a paste forms, and toss with pasta, potatoes, veggies... whatever you like. Yum! 

  • Nest Egg
  1 egg
  1 slice, bread
  spreadable butter/margarine

Cut hole in center of bread slice, large enough to contain an egg yolk. 
Butter bread on both sides, including removed center piece.  Brown one 
side of
bread, and both sides of center piece.  Add egg to hole in the bread (egg
white will spill over the rest of the bread).  Flip, and cook egg to 
taste. 
Season to taste, if desired.  Serve with egg side down, with center piece 
of
bread on top.


  • Finely chop a good amount of garlic (this could be 1 glove for the
tame to half the buld for the adventerous)
Chop an onion

Sautee in good quality extra virgin olive oil until the smell is right

Add a can or two of Muir Glen crushed tomatoes, some fresh ground pepper, 
and
an assortment of fresh herbs (could be a basil, organo pairing, or a 
theme,
sage rosemary kinda mix)

Simmer until it looks and smells right, adjusting seasoning to taste.

Pour over al-dente pasta

  • I like the dump-random-fruit-in-a-blender smoothie recipe, even though I don't use it enough. My blender is too wimpy for frozen fruit.

  • Mix bottled picante sauce with lowfat cottage cheese and eat with tortilla chips (preferably the lime flavored kind!)

  • Homemade quesadillas. Cheese, tortillas, chopped onion & tomato, canned chicken chunks, sour cream.

    My answer:

    The aforementioned peanut butter fudge. Microwave 12 oz of semisweet chocolate chips and 12 oz of crunchy peanut butter until chips have melted (usually about 2 minutes). Mix in 14 oz of sweetened condensed milk. Chill.
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