If you want to largely cook at home for any of ingredient control/health, taste, custom, but you're a busy person, it helps to have a mental list of 5 to 10 meals that really do take under 15 minutes to prepare.
Here's some that work for us. Most involve some pre-prepared food, I've marked where this is so. Also, we are omnivores and these involve meat.
Coucous. Boil 1 cup water. Take off heat. Add 1 cup couscous and a small amount of oil or butter (1 teaspoon to tablespoon, say). Cover for 2 minutes ish (see packet). Done! You can stir through sundried tomatoes and olives for couscous salad and it's an entire meal.
Take a barbecue chicken (pre-prepared) and place in a saucepan. Empty a can of cream of mushroom soup (pre-prepared) over it. Add some olives. Heat through. Serve.
Cream of mushroom soup from scratch. Fry mushrooms, add cream/sour cream/milk/..., reduce, serve. (There's various recipes online, we tend to just google and go for it.)
Wraps. Buy pre-prepared tortillas. Fry mince with onion. Place mince on tortilla with some combination of chopped tomato, lettuce, salsa (pre-prepared) and yoghurt. Fold wrap up and eat.
We also do a lot of stir-fries, usually red meat, purple onion, carrot, capsicum and baby bok choy. Flavour added with either coriander+lime+fish sauce (so, Thai-style) or coriander+kecap manis.
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Date: 2011-05-09 10:45 am (UTC)Here's some that work for us. Most involve some pre-prepared food, I've marked where this is so. Also, we are omnivores and these involve meat.
Coucous. Boil 1 cup water. Take off heat. Add 1 cup couscous and a small amount of oil or butter (1 teaspoon to tablespoon, say). Cover for 2 minutes ish (see packet). Done! You can stir through sundried tomatoes and olives for couscous salad and it's an entire meal.
Take a barbecue chicken (pre-prepared) and place in a saucepan. Empty a can of cream of mushroom soup (pre-prepared) over it. Add some olives. Heat through. Serve.
Cream of mushroom soup from scratch. Fry mushrooms, add cream/sour cream/milk/..., reduce, serve. (There's various recipes online, we tend to just google and go for it.)
Wraps. Buy pre-prepared tortillas. Fry mince with onion. Place mince on tortilla with some combination of chopped tomato, lettuce, salsa (pre-prepared) and yoghurt. Fold wrap up and eat.
We also do a lot of stir-fries, usually red meat, purple onion, carrot, capsicum and baby bok choy. Flavour added with either coriander+lime+fish sauce (so, Thai-style) or coriander+kecap manis.