I need easy recipes and was curious if anybody has any of their own favorite easy recipes to share. Keep in mind I barely make boxed brownies correctly, so please give specific directions. Thanks in advance to anybody who shares some yummy easy recipes!  

Pasta with pesto and garlic


Garlic puree
Green pesto
Dried Basil
Fusilli (or other pasta - i prefer fusilli)
Olive oil
Salt


Boil some water in a pan, add salt, olive oil and basil, add fusilli and simmer until soft

Drain water and put pasta back into warm pan

Add pesto and garlic puree to taste

Stir like mad

Serve, add grated cheese or butter possibly


I normally make the pesto from scratch too, ask if you want the recipe

Scrambled eggs on toast

Nutritious and comforting.

Crack two or three eggs into a small saucepan - if you have one with a thick and heavy bottom all the better, but any small saucepan will do

Add about a small soup spoon full of milk and about an ounce of butter.

Small pinch of salt and pepper.

Place on a very low heat and turn the contents over and over so the eggs are thoroughly mixed up. Keep scraping the stirring spoon across the bottom of the pan so the eggs don't get a chance to stick and burn. Keep at this stirring. The eggs will gradually thicken and you should remove the pan from the heat just before they are completely set, as they will continue to thicken with the residual heat in the pan.

Have your toast ready and buttered so that you can eat it at once when the eggs are done.

Heap up the scrambled egg on top of the toast. A few thin slices of tomato on the side of the plate will make it look more interesting.

Some people like their scrambled eggs drier (more set) than others.  The most important thing is to keep at the stirring and scraping the set egg mixture off the bottom all the while so that it doesn't burn.

You might like to add a small amount of mustard to the eggs (at the beginning of cooking) if this is a taste you like- - quarter of a teaspoonful would be a good amount to try. .

Time: about five minutes.

Commonest mistakes: too high a heat so the eggs stick and burn, or and/or too long a cooking so the eggs become very dried out. Too much milk will stop the egg setting sufficiently.

Hope this helps!  :smile:

Stella

An easy way to avoid burining the pan: scramble the eggs in a microwave, it makes washing up so much easier!

Thank you!

One of my favourite meals here at University has to one of the simplest to make:  Jacket Potato, Baked Beans And Cheese.

1.  Heat oven to 180 degrees.
2.  Put in potato for about 1.5 hrs.
3.  Put baked beans into saucepan on hob for 5 mins.
(or 3.  Put baked beans into microwave for 2-3 mins).
4.  Grate as much cheese as you like.
5.  Put jacket potato on a plate, cut in half then put baked beans on top followed by cheese.
6.  Enjoy.

Delicious.

Can't go wrong with that, Chris!

Well actually Stella you can!

I know someone who did everything perfect for the recipe above except one thing.  They took the potato out of the oven and wondered why it hadn't cooked.

They'd forgotten to set the oven!!!

:grin:

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Tuna casserole

find a suitable bowl or ceramic food container big enough for about four servings of pasta.   It must be able to go into a heated oven.  Fill the container half full of dry pasta of your choice.  Boil a large pot of water and add a few shakes of salt.  When the water is boiling with bubbles add the pasta.  Cook the pasta until tender or whatever the package says.  

Put butter or margarine around the inside edges of the container.  If you forget this step it is no problem.

When the pasta is cooked drain out the water or drain it into a strainer in the sink.  Think about this carefully first so you do not burn yourself.  You want the pasta in the strainer or pot and the water in the sink.  

Heat the oven on bake to 350F or whatever is equivalent.

Put the cooked pasta into your container.  Add one can of cream of something soup (such as mushroom, broccoli, asparagas).  Mix.  Add up to one half can of water if you like your pasta very saucy.  Add one can of tuna (drained first)  Some other things to add:  canned mushrooms (drain first),  frozen peas, cooked carrots, chopped tomato.  
Put on a lid and put into the oven for about 20-30 minutes until it is bubbling.

Just remembered how to cook another easy meal:

1.  Buy a ready-made pizza.
2.  Turn on oven.
3.  Put pizza into hot oven.
4.  Wait until cooked, then eat.

Although I better warn you this is a very complicated meal to make as demonstrated by one of my housemates.  He forgot that he had put the pizza in the oven, and he ended up with a new topping - charcoal!!

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1. Buy a ready-made pizza.
2. Turn on oven.
3. Put pizza into hot oven.
4. Wait until cooked, then eat.

I always add in three extra steps.  
3a.  set timer      3b.  press timer start   3c.  listen for timer to go off

If I fail in these steps, step 5 will enact      5.  listen to smoke detector

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I burnt my stomach making frozen pizza before....lol!

" burnt my stomach making frozen pizza before....lol!"  

You should use a pan to bake the pizza, not your stomach.  Then put it on a plate when it is done.

I sometimes burn my mouth eating pizza.