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1 month ago10 points(+0/-0/+10Score on mirror)2 children
I learned to cook high protein, low carb recipes in my 20s and I never wanted goy slop again.
Here are my three tricks for family or single dinners:
1. Make them so shockingly simple that they can be prepared in less than 10 minutes, not including cooking. This makes it so quick and easy that it's welcoming even if you're tired.
2. Have a few five-minute recipes that you can make even if everything else has gone wrong. Frozen chili con carne in a cheese salad wrap or on toast / defrosted chicken and noodle laksa / chickpea daal served with thawed fetta cubes with naan bread and cucumber / oyster sauce chicken stir fry / fazool with Parmesan and garlic bread / etc.
3. Keep all of the variations of your recipes on the computer so you can adjust and perfect them over time.
We let the kids choose most of the weekly meals in advance and they almost never ask for take away because their favorites are home made meals.
The thought of eating a McDonalds intestine burger or a Taco Bell mystery-meat mexican chili makes me want to vomit.
1 month ago4 points(+0/-0/+4Score on mirror)2 children
* Chili con carne is super quick because mince only takes about 6 mins to fry. Fry the mince with some onions, add taco seasoning (or make your own with cumin, chili powder and garlic) and washed drained can of red beans and passata. Dice some lettuce or cucumber and you're done. Serve on toast, in a soft taco wrap, or on corn chips with cheese.
* Laksa: combine grocery store laksa paste in a pan with a little water and optional chicken stock. Bring to rolling simmer and add thawed chicken and noodles. Cook for about five minutes (depending on the noodles). Throw in some broccoli florets and baby corn spears and simmer for two minutes. Stir in coconut milk and heat and serve. Laksa is also delicious with microwave thawed rice if you don't want noodles.
* Batch cooking shepherd's pie is probably one of the nicest options, providing you're not counting cooking time because it takes a few minutes to prepare from frozen but about 25 mins in the oven to roast beautifully. Throw some olive oil sprayed carrot fingers in with the pie to roast for about 18 mins. Serve with the roast carrot, frozen peas thawed in boiling water and instant gravy. Add a slice of bread if you're not worried about carbs.
* Find a good, flavorful ramen noodle brand from your grocery store and just use the flavor sachets. Throw away the unhealthy highly processed seed oil fried noodles and replace them with keto noodles and thawed chicken, blanched broccoli, bell pepper strips, fresh bean sprouts or corn spears.
* Beef and broccoli stir fry is also super-quick because it only uses broccoli and onions and has a simple soy sauce based sauce.
* Find nice green thai curry paste and red thai curry paste in your grocery store. Usually you only need to combine it with coconut milk and perhaps stock powder and you've got a perfect base for other different chicken stir fries too.
* Cut up some peppers and broccoli. Use grocery store oyster sauce stir fry with thawed chicken with your thawed rice and you'll have a meal in under ten minutes including cooking time.
* I don't eat rice carbs, but if you do then know it freezes and thaws perfectly. Rice doesn't take long to cook from scratch, but if you want NO excuses then it's worth freezing some that can be thawed in the microwave in a few minutes.
* If you've never tasted red or green thai stir fry sauce then put that on tour todo list because they are delicious beyond measure.
* Light soy sauce, mushroom stock, chicken stock, white pepper and garlic is all you need to make your own oyster sauce the perfect way you like it.
* Find a good organic butcher who sells quality schnitzels. Learn how to cook them in the oven from frozen. Add some olive spray-oiled carrot fingers on the oven tray. Then all you'll need to make is some instant gravy and nuke some peas in water until boiling, then sieve and serve (with buttered bread if you're not keto or use a good quality keto bread). Not counting cooking time, you can prepare this meal for a family of four in five minutes.
* Try a chicken stir fry without noodles or rice for a healthy keto meal. It's surprisingly nice without the carbs and easy to get used to.
* Blanched diced cabbage also thaws from frozen perfectly if you dunk it in water. Nice as a side with a knob of real butter and shepherd's pie or in your stir fry.
1 month ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
Thanks, forgot onion powder exists. It's not really the taste of onions that I dislike, it's the...mouth feel? I can't stand biting into a piece of onion and then - for lack of better words - it feels like the onion is jizzing onion juice into my mouth.
Consider buying a thermomix (vorwerk makes it if i recall). It makes cooking super easy because it basically measures all the ingredients for you and even makes shopping lists.
1 month ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)1 child
It’s cheap too. I use four of the larger cans of tuna, and I like to add at least two boiled eggs per can. Salt, pepper, red onion, celery, pickled garlic, and sometimes olives. The celery is a must, and adds great crunch. Sometimes I’ll do walnuts, and cranberries in the chicken salad to mix it up a bit.
Here are my three tricks for family or single dinners:
1. Make them so shockingly simple that they can be prepared in less than 10 minutes, not including cooking. This makes it so quick and easy that it's welcoming even if you're tired.
2. Have a few five-minute recipes that you can make even if everything else has gone wrong. Frozen chili con carne in a cheese salad wrap or on toast / defrosted chicken and noodle laksa / chickpea daal served with thawed fetta cubes with naan bread and cucumber / oyster sauce chicken stir fry / fazool with Parmesan and garlic bread / etc.
3. Keep all of the variations of your recipes on the computer so you can adjust and perfect them over time.
We let the kids choose most of the weekly meals in advance and they almost never ask for take away because their favorites are home made meals.
The thought of eating a McDonalds intestine burger or a Taco Bell mystery-meat mexican chili makes me want to vomit.
* Laksa: combine grocery store laksa paste in a pan with a little water and optional chicken stock. Bring to rolling simmer and add thawed chicken and noodles. Cook for about five minutes (depending on the noodles). Throw in some broccoli florets and baby corn spears and simmer for two minutes. Stir in coconut milk and heat and serve. Laksa is also delicious with microwave thawed rice if you don't want noodles.
* Batch cooking shepherd's pie is probably one of the nicest options, providing you're not counting cooking time because it takes a few minutes to prepare from frozen but about 25 mins in the oven to roast beautifully. Throw some olive oil sprayed carrot fingers in with the pie to roast for about 18 mins. Serve with the roast carrot, frozen peas thawed in boiling water and instant gravy. Add a slice of bread if you're not worried about carbs.
* Find a good, flavorful ramen noodle brand from your grocery store and just use the flavor sachets. Throw away the unhealthy highly processed seed oil fried noodles and replace them with keto noodles and thawed chicken, blanched broccoli, bell pepper strips, fresh bean sprouts or corn spears.
* Beef and broccoli stir fry is also super-quick because it only uses broccoli and onions and has a simple soy sauce based sauce.
* Find nice green thai curry paste and red thai curry paste in your grocery store. Usually you only need to combine it with coconut milk and perhaps stock powder and you've got a perfect base for other different chicken stir fries too.
* Cut up some peppers and broccoli. Use grocery store oyster sauce stir fry with thawed chicken with your thawed rice and you'll have a meal in under ten minutes including cooking time.
* I don't eat rice carbs, but if you do then know it freezes and thaws perfectly. Rice doesn't take long to cook from scratch, but if you want NO excuses then it's worth freezing some that can be thawed in the microwave in a few minutes.
* If you've never tasted red or green thai stir fry sauce then put that on tour todo list because they are delicious beyond measure.
* Light soy sauce, mushroom stock, chicken stock, white pepper and garlic is all you need to make your own oyster sauce the perfect way you like it.
* Find a good organic butcher who sells quality schnitzels. Learn how to cook them in the oven from frozen. Add some olive spray-oiled carrot fingers on the oven tray. Then all you'll need to make is some instant gravy and nuke some peas in water until boiling, then sieve and serve (with buttered bread if you're not keto or use a good quality keto bread). Not counting cooking time, you can prepare this meal for a family of four in five minutes.
* Try a chicken stir fry without noodles or rice for a healthy keto meal. It's surprisingly nice without the carbs and easy to get used to.
* Blanched diced cabbage also thaws from frozen perfectly if you dunk it in water. Nice as a side with a knob of real butter and shepherd's pie or in your stir fry.
Or leave the onion out of the recipe and add diced raw red onion to the wraps / tacos when serving the chili for family members.
Leek is also good substitute for onion in cooking.
Add salt and pepper.
Or don’t.
I don’t care.
Add fried eggs to taste.
10 minutes done.
One thing I like to do every week also is make a batch of tuna salad/chicken salad every week alternating. I make enough for it to last four days.
*shakes fist* ... NOooooooooooooooOOO!!! WE HATES THE HOBITSESSSSS!!!!!