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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Dinner recipes: Anyone want to share ideas with me?
I'm completely stuck in a rut when it comes to home-cooking. I have no idea what to cook but I don't want to eat out every night either. If anyone has some good, simple, healthy and inexpensive recipes which don't require a lot of imported ingredients, I would really appreciate it if you would share them with me! Thanks!
What kind of food do you like to cook? Western, Chinese, fusion?
I have a bunch of recipes that I found online. Check some online websites like taste.com.au they have a bunch of ideas, and you can search based on your ingredients. Good luck in the kitchen!
If you're talking about Chinese food, just go and pick up some oyster sauce, it goes with everything. Sliced pork, shaved carrot, onion, broccoli. Fry the pork a little, add the rest and cover for 5-10 (don't forget to salt), then finish it with a splodge of oyster sauce. Jobs a good'n.
I used to have tomato & egg for breakfast most mornings (til I found a correlation between tomatoes and my gout :( )
Simple - beat and fry eggs, then take out. Cut up 1-2 tomatoes, stif-fry, add a bit of salt (or MSG if your into that - I am), mix in, and then the eggs back in. Done!
For a twist, add a bit of meat (like bacon), and some basil (maybe some onion and mushrooms as well...).
Next quick and simple is what back home I'd call 'chop suey' . Stir-fry some meat til cooked, add various vegies (eg, onion, cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, carrot, bean sprouts, spring onion/shallots), add water (and maybe stock powder.. or just straight stock, but the powder is easier!), and let it cook. Maybe throw in some thin (vermicelli-type) noodles towards the end... done!
And, lastly, to try something a little more exotic... buy yourself a jar of Thai paste (I can get them here in my larger Century Mart, in the imports section). I prefer the red over the green, but it depends on your personal heat tolerance. Also, a can of coconut milk/cream. Some shops will have them.. if not, just buy the coconut juice drink in the black cans... they're normally everywhere. Cooking - cut up an onion (maybe garlic as well), and cook... throw in some meat stuffs - chicken or pork is best! Cook, and then add about 1/3-1/2 of the paste (maybe more, depends on your tastes).. Then, throw in the chopped potatoes (and, sweet potatoes go down good as well!) Once the paste has nicely cooked into everything, add water and the coconut juice/milk. (at least 2 cans of the drink stuff... normally 1x 440g can back home). A little sugar goes a long way (and, if by some miracle, you can get your hands on a Kaffir Lime Leaf, do it!!!) While you're cooking that, your rice cooker should be bubbling away using 1/2 water, 1/2 coconut milk/juice. It's not traditional, but it's a standard in Aussie Thai restaurants!
Cook some chicken legs and add some tomato and red, green or yellow bell peppers. Mmmmm
Not really a meal but a lovely supper if you have a grill. Slice up some cheese and put on a plate, add some onion and garlic and roast the cheese, meanwhile whisk up two eggs in a bowl, when the cheese is bubbling, pour over the eggs then put back under the grill. The mixture will rise (dramatically at times) collapse it back down once or twice and mix in with the cheese. When the mixture is a light golden colour (and cooked all the way through) divide up and put on your bread of choice, lovely hot filling.
Warning - this is not very healthy, but hey, at least it's not also immoral.
Hugh.G.Rection:
Well first of all you take some baby food from a pregnant cow, then you allow it to go so sour it goes lumpy, then you take those stinking lumps and.............
Err forget it, I'm not so hungry any more.
coffaholic:
I'm salivating all over myself right now! What kind of cheese do you use? I presume it can't be too soft or else it'll just melt too much.
Hugh.G.Rection:
Any type of Cheddar, I always used English mature cheddar for the stronger taste but any cheddar will do.
make French toast, beat egg with a little milk, dip bread slices to oat and fry them.
Beef (or cat etc) stew. I coat beef with about 1/4cup flour, fry beef, stir gradually add water so flour doesn't go lumpy, add potatoes and veggies, simmer for one hour. You can make a biscuit dough and spoon it on top to cook for dumplings. I drew a diagram of the tenderloin of beef to show butchers, all I ever got was shoe leather, only good for boiling.
Mostly I fried chicken and veggies and alternated potato, rice or noodle. the one time I found real swiss cheese, I cooked breaded chicken stuffed with cheese& ham, GF no like.
Shining_brow:
Dude! Seriously!!! If GF don't like - get a new GF! That's basically a Chicken Cordon Bleu (if you had garlic...), and is AWESOME!
TedDBayer:
It was fried in butter with garlic. I also put cheese on the breading while it fries. I served it with asparagus. Chinese don't like cheese.
Bake chicken drumsticks if you have an oven. First marinate, keep in the fridge and then put them on a baking tray for 50 minutes in 220C oven. It is healthier this way because you do not use any extra oil. Steam some vegetables like cauliflower or broccoli, add spices and some soy sauce. Bake potatoes as a side dish, add a little cheese on top of them and enjoy a nice, easy dinner.
here u go... when i feel cooking i go to videojug.com is the best
2 eggplants, 2 eggs, milk, 5 tomatoes, onion, garlic, olive oil.
Slice eggplant by length, not thicker than 2-3 mm thick slices. Slicing machine is very handy, if you have it, butt...I am using big, sharp knife.
Sauce: fry some onion and garlic till brown, add 5 chopped tomatoes, salt, red pepper powder, black pepper, and cook till you have pourable, spicy marinara sauce. Keep marinara sauce hot!
Back to sliced eggplant: dip them in the egg batter and bread crumbs. Fry breaded eggplant in oil till brown. Put fried eggplant slices on the sheet of paper, till you finish frying all slices, so paper can suck extra oil off eggplant slices.
Serve 2 or 3 slices of eggplant per person. Add hot marinara sauce over eggplants.
I like to add chopped garlic and parsley mixed in olive oil, before I pour marinara sauce over eggplants.
Eggplants can be served as starter or main meal. Leftover fried eggplant slices are excellent cold next day, too.
Bottle or two of (preferably) red vine is necessary with the meal. South of Italy.
You will not loose weight or money with this dish.