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8 Responses to “Cooking is Hard”

1. By Health Blog on November 25th, 2008 at 11:00 pm

   [...] Cooking is Hard I’ve decided that I want to cook dinner instead of grabbing fast food, heating up some soup or slapping something together real quick. I’m decent at baking so I figured cooking shouldn’t be too bad. Boy was I wrong. Tonight after talking to my Mom I attempted to fry some chicken and make potatoes with gravy. I ruined the gravy and forgot to cook the peas I wanted to have with it. The chicken wasn’t good but it wasn’t bad. All that hard work for nothing. Cooking is nothing like baking. Too much [...]

2. By Keira on November 26th, 2008 at 12:01 am

   Cabonara!

   Easy as:
   One Onion
   100grams bacon pieces
   2/3 tomatoes (depends home much you like them!)
   1 little pot of thickened cream
   mushrooms (optional, i dont like them so dont include them)
   crushed garlic
   spaghetti

   throw bacon, chopped onion & mushrooms into frying pan to fry.
   boil spaghetti.
   when spaghetti is ready and onion, mushroom and bacon is fried – drain the spaghetti, add all the ingredients from the frying pan plus the tomato into the spaghetti add some garlic and the thickended cream. mix together and heat up.

3. By dellsystem on November 28th, 2008 at 7:21 am

   How about pasta with tomato sauce? Only a few ingredients needed.

   ground beef
   tomato sauce
   any type of noodles you like (I love fusilli)
   worcestershire sauce for the beef, optional
   some kind of italian herbs

   Cook beef thoroughly, adding some worcestershire sauce as you do. Add tomato sauce, cook the noodles acc. to directions, add them to the beef as well, mix it all together and sprinkle some herbs on it.

   Salad is also easy to make, if you like eating it. So are tacos. And if you like Shepherd’s pie (the Québecois version), that’s easy as well: cook ground beef, put it in a casserole dish, pour some canned corn on it, make mashed potatoes using a package mix and spread them on top, then top it off with italian herbs. This takes a long time to bake, but it tastes good reheated so it’s a good leftover dinner.

4. By Sydney on December 1st, 2008 at 7:56 pm

   1 teaspoon prepared horseradish
   1 teaspoon dry mustard
   1/4 teaspoon salt
   1/4 teaspoon pepper
   1 pound ground beef
   1/2 onion, finely chopped
   1 egg
   2 teaspoons worcestershire sauce
   1 cup bread crumbs
   1/2 cup ketchup

   preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
   In a small bowl (optional) mix together the horseradish, mustard, salt, and pepper. Set aside (normally, i throw it into the big bowl..why waste dishes). In large bowl, mix ground beef, onion, egg, and worcestershire sauce. Add contents of small bowl and mix thoroughly. Add the bread crumbs and combine as well.
   Place mixture into a 1 pound loaf pan. Pour catchup over top and place in oven.
   Bake uncovered for one hour.

   Where’s my goodies?
   Love you!

5. By Sydney on December 1st, 2008 at 7:57 pm

   hehe. i spelled ketchup as catchup..what the heck!

6. By Kristi on December 9th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

   I found this site with recipes for one or two… doesn’t look too difficult, but this is coming from someone that opens the pantry and throws things together. Sometimes, all it is with cooking is putting together things that you like.

   http://homecooking.about.com/library/archive/blmisc73.htm

7. By Firefly on January 15th, 2009 at 7:14 pm

   Well…I end up cooking a lot of things for myself, but I don’t like to deal with mass amounts of dishes and such so I tend to cook things in one pan. Here is a personal favourite of mine I came across in a cookbook that I cannot remember the name of any longer:

   –Requirements
   ~Tilipia fillet(fish…you can buy them individually sealed at places like Walmart and food lion usually)
   ~olive oil
   ~Perogies
   –spices
   ~salt
   ~pepper
   ~cumin
   ~paprika

   Instructions
   In a medium sized frying pan put a bit of the olive oil, enough to go around the pan once. Heat to medium, medium high

   Toss two or three perogies in there

   Put some salt, pepper, cumin, and paprika on one side of the fish, put that side down in the frying pan and put the same combination of spices on the other side of the fillet. (I usually sprinkle a hint of each on the perogies as well).

   Cook the fish about three or four minutes and flip, cook around thre or four minutes on this side as well, you’ll probably also flip the perogies a few times during this.

8. By Lachlan on February 12th, 2009 at 1:05 am

   time: 20 minutes
   1. Bottle bolognese sauce
   2. 300-400 g mince
   3. frozen chopped onions
   4. olive oil spray
   5. linguini/fettacuni/spahetti

   step 1. put a medium saucepan filled with water on to boil
   step 2. turn on a frypan/skillet
   step 3. heat olive oil in frypan
   step 4. throw in frozen onion
   step 5. when water boils, throw in a hand full of pasta
   step 6. throw in a teaspoon of salt into pasta and cook for 11 minutes for linguini
   step 7. brown mince in frypan
   step 8. mix in bolognese sauce and water
   step 9. boil down bolognese until it’s how you like it and pasta is done.
   step 10. Throw on a couple of plates and enjoy. Throw left overs into a couple of containers and take to work for lunch.
   step 11. cover with parmasean or shredded tasty cheese

   time: 20 minutes
   step 1. heat oil frypan
   step 2. throw in a couple of beef or lamb steaks
   step 3. cook pasta or rice
   step 4. throw a packet of frozen mixed veggies in microwave and cook as per packet
   step 5. cook meat to preferred doneness
   step 6. serve and enjoy, cover with mint sauce or gravy

   time: 25 minutes
   step 1. buy a marinade, and marinade chicken
   step 2. throw in oven pre-heated to 180 C for 20 minutes. Also throw in some frozen potato wedges or chips
   step 3. throw a packet of frozen mixed veggies in microwave and cook as per packet
   step 6. serve and enjoy

   As for gravy, buy the gravy powder, just add boiling water to consistency and stir. You can also buy wet gravy you just microwave, but it comes in a big packet.

   Also try bangers and mash. Mash is easy, just boil cut potato, drain, mix with butter and milk, and mash. The sausages you can cook in an over, in a frypan, on a grill. Poke holes in the sausages with a fork to stop them from exploding.

   Burritos are easy. Buy an old el passo kit, and eat over two nights. You can buy a bag of precut mixed lettuce, use frozen onion, pre-shredded tasty cheese, a tomato, etc… Freeze any mince you do not use. Use left over salsa to make nachos for lunch the next day. Takes about 15 minutes.

   Stir fry is easy. Use the absorption method to cook a cup of rice, takes 12 minutes. Buy a frozen stirfry kit that contains frozen sauce and some precut stirfry strips of chicken or beef. Cook as per packet. Serve, takes about 15 minutes. Set aside some for the next day dinner and lunch at work. Aparrently you should use vegetable or peanut oil for Asian food, do not use olive oil.

   Butter chicken is easy. Buy a jar of butter chicken sauce. Brown stirfry strips of chicken. Stir in butter chicken sauce and some cooking cream. Serve with rice.

   The hardest part of the cooking is cleaning up, the simpler you keep it, the easier it is to clean.