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Ladybug:
One of my favorite things to cook when I don't want to spend a lot of time on the dinner, but want something tasty, is chicken filet with cream cheese, with some salad and rice. I usually get a kilo or two of chicken filet when they are on sale, and keep them in my freezer, so I always have some lying around. What you need is basically this:

- 1 chicken filet, or 2 if one does not make you full
- Cream cheese of some flavoured kind, I use garlic
- Spices, I usually just use oregano, salt and pepper, but I guess other things could work
- Rice
- Salad, I mostly use your basic lettuce, cucumber, tomato, sometimes corn and whatever I have in the refrigerator

I usually cook the filet in a pan for a little while, just so it doesn't have to be in the oven for aages, and then I put the filet and a bunch of cream cheese and some oregano and various spices in aluminium foil, wrap it, and put it in the oven on 175ºC for about 15 minutes (varies, I guess, I just check whether or not it's done). This makes the chicken super juicy, and the cream cheese tastes really good when heated as well. This doesn't take too long, as I start with heating up water, put the filet in the pan, put the rice in the water, and let it boil while I put the chicken in the oven, and then let the rice boil/simmer until the chicken is done, which leaves a little while for making the salad in between. All in all it takes about 25 minutes, maybe?

DonInKansas:

--- Quote from: KvP on 10 Mar 2009, 13:39 ---We're not working at a fuckin' restaurant here. We're students. We have maybe an hour tops most days to prepare and eat our food.

I put up a quick and cheap veg chili recipe in yon cooking thread.


--- End quote ---

If he was wanting to eat like a student, he would have skipped starting the thread and gone back to the ramen noodles and Easy Mac, bucko.

Crock Pots are great for students.  Throw the stuff in in the morning, get home in the evening and it's dang near ready.  I was a student; I know how it is.  I still have the same Crock Pot from my college days 8 years ago.  It has made excellent chili, stew, and other tasty stuffs.

J-cob9000:
I don't know where the recipe or anything is but my mom makes this thing in the crock pot where she pours a can of coke around a whole chicken and it is amazing.

Found it!
http://southernfood.about.com/od/crockpotchicken/r/bl100c2.htm

It's incredibly easy. Try it sometime.

Fishboy:
I cooked for my family since I was thirteen, although there were only the thee of us (me mum and nick, my little brother) most of the time.

With both me and my little brother being teenagers for most of the period in which I was cooking ( from the aforementioned age until when I left home) I found that getting cheap cuts of meat, steaks in particular, marinading them in something (or pre-marinaded, we knew a cheap country butcher that sold these really cheap), then cooking and serving them with steamed vegetables and possibly something with potato was a great staple. There are so many different vegetables available to anyone living in a major metropolitan area that you can actually have this trio three times a week with little to no major variation. Also, snitchel is great and stupidly easy.

I find that with most cooking, timing is key, take a decent t-bone and cook it right and it can support the rest of the dish by merit of its juices alone.

Just experiment with different kinds of meat, taking a base knowledge of each kind of meat/cut from the net, you'll have a couple of flops but you learn fast that way.

yelley:
easy recipes that can be prepared quickly with normal ingredients.

1. honey pecan chicken
-chicken breasts, trimmed and pounded or sliced thin
-salt, cayenne pepper (important, do not leave out), onion powder
-a clove or two of garlic, minced
-olive oil, a couple turns around the pan for frying
-honey
-chopped pecans (or walnuts, i guess)

heat oil in skillet on medium, season the chicken breasts and fry them until cooked through. remove them from the pan and keep them warm. add enough honey to the pan to coat the bottom of it and the nuts. use a spatula to scrape up all the chicken and seasoning bits from the pan and mix everything together, cook until the honey is bubbly and your kitchen smells really good. pour the honey over the chicken breasts and om nom nom.

2. sugar soy salmon marinade
-salmon filets
-1/3 cup soy sauce
-1/3 cup packed brown sugar
-1/3 cup water or apple juice if you have some
-1/4 cup vegetable or olive oil
-1 tbsp honey
-lemon pepper seasoning, salt, garlic powder

season the salmon filets and put them in a ziplock bag with the rest of the ingredients. mix well and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. i like to make it in the morning and let it sit all day, or even make it the night before. cook the salmon however you like, in the broiler for a few minutes on each side, fry it in a skillet, toss it on the grill, whatever... it's good all three ways.

3. chicken casserole formula
-chicken breast, cut into chunks
-seasonings, pretty much whatever you have. i use garlic and onion powder, salt and pepper, parsley, celery salt, whatever is on the rack.
-2.5 cups uncooked pasta - i like to use the leftover boxes that have a stupid amount of pasta left in them
-1 can cream of whatever soup. chicken, broccoli, mushroom, whatever.
-about 2 cups of milk, might need more or less
-1 cup shredded cheese
-a couple cups of vegetables, i use frozen ones. corn, carrots, peas, broccoli, whatever is left in the freezer
-bread crumbs and more shred cheese for toppings

mix everything together except the topping stuff, the mixture should be creamy and slightly liquidy, add more milk if needed. pour it all into a casserole dish, sprinkle with bread crumbs and cheese, bake for 45ish minutes at 350F. makes a lot of servings, so be prepared to eat this for days.

i have some better recipes too, but they are not as simple as these ones. you wanted simple, right?

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