Nice and Simple recipes?!
Nice and Simple recipes?
I really enjoy cooking but I am struggling to find good simple recipes that are easy to make and don't require hundreds of obscure ingredients. As I live alone I don't like to keep in too many fresh ingredients as they go to waste and I don't have a great deal of time to spare. I'm sure there must be others in this predicament. Can you suggest any good veggie friendly web-sites or cook books?
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I know what you mean- I'm not vegetarian but I follow weight watchers and find that it's better suited to vegetarian food which I luckily really like!
This is a really simple recipe for vege curry that I made up:
Sautee:
1 onion
A few diced new potatoes
A couple of chopped carrots - basically, any veg you have to hand!
Add a can of chick peas(rinsed)
A can of chopped tomatoesHalf a pint of vege stock (stock cube)
1 large tea spoon of curry powder
1 dessert spoon on curry paste (I use Pattaks and it lasts months in the fridge)
That's it! Let it cook for about an hour with a lid on and serve with whatever you like! It'll make enough for 2 meals so freeze half.
Also, a very quick and easy recipe (if you can call it a recipe) is for red peppers with cherry tomatoes
Just halve a red pepper, fill it with cherry tomatoes, sprinkle with black pepper. Roast it for half an hour in a hot oven then another half an hour at medium heat to soften the pepper. Serve with couscous or rice.
foodnetwork.com is a good one.
they have a section with quick and easy dishes
There is a are cookbooks that tell you all kinds of recipes that only require 3, 4, or 5 ingredients. Go to amazon.com and search for 4 ingredient cook book. Hope this helps!
The other day Ray Mears was making stuff you can find in the woods. Stuff made with tree bark and the like, watch his program your bound to see something. Whats more simple than that.
Three Bean Chillie. A tin of three beans from Tesco, a tin of red kidney beans, a tin of chopped tomatoes. Put it all in a sausepan and heat through - pour a ready mix of chilli con carne powder mix. Cook some rice. That is your meal ready in 10 minutes. To top it off, grate some cheese over the top and put a big dollop of sour cream on the side. Yummy - quick, cheap and good for you.
Try www.BBCGoodfood.com
I love www.foodnetwork.com and epicurious.com
They are loaded with recipes that are easy to search for, and there are tons without a lot of obscure ingredients! (some do, I admit...)
They both offer a recipe box, too, so you can store your favorites and not have to search for them!!
This website is AWESOME, its one of the sites that inspired me to become a chef, the ideas are so cute and simple
http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf
they also have a FREE magazine called "Food and Family" that is sent to your house 5 times a year with easy recipies, the link iis somewhere on that site.
just buy Soft Tofu cake in Ralps for $1.19 0r $1.39 cut it into 1/4 slices makes you 6 or 8 slices all you have to do is Eazy'' place 2 or 3 slices in your mni bowl add 4 tsb.water and microwave it for 1 or 1/2 minutes.on HIgh.after that taste it w/ Pancake syrup like what i do or choco syrup add cinnamon if desire sprinkle it w/ peanuts and eat 2 slice bread this you have a good Lunch,when i ate 3 1/4 slice of soft Tofu cake and 1 pc.of bread from Ralps this morning whew''its 1:00 pm now im not Hungry this Tufu cake is Really good try it''here's another recipe for soft tofu cake heat pan add olive oil about 2 tbsp. crush 2 pc.garlic,1 string onion chop tiny chop half tomato diced,stir fry garlic &onion first until brown then add diced tomato until saucy add diced soft tofu cake from Ralps add 1 cup of h20 add soysauce until brown color not dark then mix 1 teaspoon cornstarch in h20 until dissolved starch pour it to your cooking turn heat to medium high let stand for 3 minutes or until sauce was thicker taste it if not salty then add a little salt & pepper it depends in your taste charararaa'' you have a chinese recipe soybean meal thats expensive in chinese restaurant
Alright, you like pizza--everyone does. Get a 5 pound bag of wholewheat flour which you can keep in the freezer, plastic shopping bag around it to prevent it sticking and ripping. Also some bulk yeast from the natural foods store--a dollar's worth will make many pizzas. I sometimes make a large portion of dough and make several pizzas in a week. It still rises well if kept in a plastic bag in the refrigerator.
In order to do this you need a large vessel to knead it in. A bread bowl is one possibility but the cheapest is a super large stainless steel bowl. These are pretty cheap--the bowl I have is 14-16" in diameter so its very large. Any other bowl this large will do unless it is too flexible. You need to get such a bowl but it will last a long time and so long as televison advertising has anything to say about it pizza will not be going out of style.
I am not going to give you an actual recipe for making and kneading the dough since they are all similar. Oh, you also need a pizza pan. I go the extra mile and pan toast some sesame seeds (they'll jump out of the pan--whee! Unless you have screen.) and some cornmeal to put on the pan under the pizza. Since it is whole wheat and therefore heavy, let it rise on the pan slipping the formed pizza into a plastic bag to keep it from drying out while it rises the second time and then it goes into the oven like that (without the bad of course). You can form the pizza right on the pan with some flour, leaving a slight pre-fab rim and then remove the flour and replace it with the cornmeal mixture which will be tasty where it sticks.
Whether your topping is tomatoe and cheese alone or also veggies, don't put the cheese on until the pizza is almost done or the cheese will be too brown. One last rule never use tomato paste or--worse--canned tomato sauce. The later has a metallic taste probably from the milling. Get whole canned tomatos (or use fresh which makes an entirely different pizza). I get the 16oz. cans for 53 cents and use half per pizza. I use garlic, basil, sometimes rosemary and oregano--sometimes I made it without any seasoning but salt and pepper and still liked it at least for a change. I get a piece of cheese for about $2.99 a pound and use maybe two ounces. So it is very economical but it takes a little effort to locate economical supplies and acquire the hardware. You can get WW flour to rise well using enough yeast and putting it in the oven already risen.
I also like to eat steamed vegetables on a bed of shelled edame with a piece of fermented tofu for seasoning. That's pretty exotic but definitely healthy.
Cranks isn't bad.
www.animalaid.org.uk
www.viva.org.uk
www.veganfamily.co.uk/
here are some class websites. another way is to just type "vegetarian recipes" into google
good luck
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