Fast and Easy - food. (not fastfood)

[vic]

I have been dreaming about this forum for years, so I believe I should contribute a little.

Here are 2 of my favourite fast and or easy dishes with pasta.

The first one was once given to me by Andrea, this is italian cooking when best.

Take a bunch of small tomatoes (usually 250 gr, is good for one person) Take the flower off and wash them. Pour a little bit of olive oil in a small pot, and put the tomatoes in and add a little salt. Cover the pot with a lid, and let it cook on low heat. After a while the tomatoes begin to "sweat" and soon they will pop open. Dont lift the lid, after about 20 to 30 minutes, the tomatoes are all boiled out swimming in their own juice. By now you should have your favourite pasta boiled ready. Take the pot with tomatoes and turn a spoon around in it a couple of times to mash the rest of the tomatoes. Pour it over the pasta, and enjoy.

The fast one.. This one is my own poor attempt to make a sort of pasta with bacon and cheese.

Take a handfull bacon dices, roast them on a frying pan. Pour cream over and let it boil. Add a handfull of grated cheese and stirr till the sauce is smothe. Eat on top of favourite pasta. This dish can be made in 10 minutes. for variation, try to add som whole spinach leaves to the sauce, or some frozen green peas. Tastes and looks wonderfull.

Remember to eat salad and bread with both dishes http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif

[Emi2]

This is from the back of the Stove top stuffing box. We use chicken but anything would work.
Put cut up chicken in the bottom of a casserole dish and add frozen veggies (peas and carrots are good). Mix one can of cream of mushroom soup with 1 cup of milk and spoon over top. Mix one packet of stuffing mix with one cup of water and spread over top. Cook at 375 for 40 min.
YUMMY and takes 10 min to prepare.

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow"
~ Anon

[vic]

Here is another easy recipe for well tasting food. I made this tonight and came to think of how tasty and yeat easy it is to prepare.

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Brændende kærlighed (Burning/passionate love)

first make a cucumber salad from 2, thin sliced, cucumbers soaked in a dressing of 1 cup winegar, 2 cups of water, ½ a cup of sugar and some salt and pepper - Prepare this a couple of hours before eating.

Boil potatoes until they are soft enough to be mashed (remember to boil a lot).
Cut bacon in thick dices and fry them till they are crisp. Save the fat for later.

Mash the potatoes, add butter and milk to make it smooth, and arrange it on a plate like a mountain with a crater in the top. Put the bacon dices in the crater and let the fat from the bacon run down the sides of the mountain.
Serve with the cucumber salad placed around the rim of the plate. You may add some diced pickled red beet into the crater too, on top of the bacon if you wish, but it is not absolutely necesary.
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Mmmmmm.
This is one of my old favourites, and it is a traditional couple of times a year dish, that have been served to me throughout all my life. If anyone should talk about comfort food, this would in my mind, be a certain candidate for the first price. You really feel good after eating this, and to me it brings out so many memories from both school and home :-)
You really need food like this, to trigger the old "remember when" switch from time to time.

[ohiochica]

emi, that was very good and oh so easy. the kids liked it. i used 3/4 a bag of mixed veggies, 3 huge chicken breats and a can of soup, i would recomend adding a bit more than 1 package of stuffing though, it just barely covered teh 9x13 pan i was using. but it was delicious!

any more kid friendly recipes???? lol

[betheny]

E-Z Pork Chops

Use 4-6 3/4 inch thick pork chops. Put them in a casserole in a single layer. Mix 1 can tomato soup, 1 Tbs. vinegar, 1 Tbs. brown sugar, dash hot sauce, salt, pepper. Pour over the chops. Cover, bake at 350 for an hour.

[Lshall82978@yahoo.com]

Here's a good easy soup recipe I have entitled:

5 Can Two-Bean Soup

3 cans of pinto beans
2 cans of white beans
1-2 beef boullion cubes
1 big can of tomato sauce

Mix together and let simmer. Sounds nsasty, but I PROMISE it's yummy!!!!! Plus it makes a lot.

[marmalady]

This is from the 'oh, it's stupid, sounds yucky' category - but it really is yummy!

SWEET/SOUR BBQ CHICKEN

1 chicken cut up
1 envelope onion soup mix
1 bottle red Russian dressing
1 - 10 oz. jar of apricot, orange or peach preserves

Preheat oven to 350; Mix everything and pour over chicken pieces in glass baking dish. Bake for 1 to 1 ½ hours; add water if sauce gets too thick. Serve with rice.