do you have some favourite go-to recipes? i would love any of your recommendations!! xx
we eat the same few things on rotation in our house, as I do all the cooking, and I like a) one-pot meals, and b) pasta, preferably. most of these are fairly low effort but you get a lot of bang for your buck flavour-wise, and they're endlessly customisable!
also, listen, I don't do measurements. follow your heart and taste as you go.
the tiktok viral baked feta pasta from like 4 years ago
ingredients: plum or cherry tomatoes, a block of feta (or boursin if you're feeling flush), garlic, pasta
optional extras: spinach, cannellini beans, chili crisp
recipe: whack your tomatoes, sliced garlic, and olive oil in a big dish. nestle your feta in there. I like to add a tin of drained cannellini beans at this point to bulk it out/cut down on the pasta/make the texture confusing, but you don't have to. stick it in the oven at like 180-200C for half an hour ish. after half an hour boil your pasta. retrieve your oven dish, stir everything up to desired consistency (I'm a chunk girl). you can add spinach while you do this for extra greenery, or a massive spoonful of chili crisp for heat and crunch, but it's good on its own. add the pasta and some pasta water if you need. voila. you simply cannot go wrong.
gochujang and hummus pasta
ingredients: gochujang (this keeps forever in the fridge so it's a good kitchen investment), a tub of hummus, garlic, white onion, parm
optional extras: parsley
recipe: chop onion and garlic, sling them in a pan with butter and a splash of EVOO. when the onion is sufficiently sweaty and nice, add a dollop of gochujang (the bigger the dollop the spicier the end result) and stir it all in, followed by the whole tub of hummus. boil the pasta. add the cooked pasta to the pan, along with some pasta water, a shit load of grated parm, and garnish with parsley. my friend sent me a vegan version of this recipe about a year ago and I've made the non-vegan version roughly once a week since. it is so fucking delicious.
butter bean thing
ingredients: butter beans, garlic, red onion, tomato paste, cream/double cream/greek yog, lemon, sourdough/nice crusty bread
optional extras: parsley
recipe: throw chopped garlic and onion in a pan with butter and EVOO and really let them sweat it out. add tinned butter beans WITH THE JUICE. yes, I know. add in a few good squirty piles of tomato paste and stir, then let it all heat through. at this point start toasting your crusty bread of choice because I ALWAYS forget until the end and then I'm rushed. I recommend splurging for the good bread, slathered with melty butter. add whatever creamy thing you have to hand (the og recipe I saw said double cream, but I usually have greek yoghurt in and that does the job) to the beans, along with some lemon juice, garnish with parsley if you like and serve. use the bread as a giant spoon. you are welcome.
sausage soup/stew? casserole??
ingredients: celery, white onion, carrot, sausage/s, cherry tomatoes, tinned tomatoes, chicken broth, parm
optional extras: creamy thing of your choice, spinach, orzo
recipe: dice the celery, carrot and onion (mirepoix!), and throw it in a big big big pot with some EVOO. now: I get a pack of nice sausages and either mash or chop them depending on how much energy I have, but if you live somewhere with a butcher or whatever you can save your mashing arm and just get ground sausage. throw in the ground, mashed, or chopped sausage and cook for a bit. follow with a tin of chopped tomatoes and chicken broth. I usually put in about a litre. chop the cherry toms and toss them in. follow with a load of grated parm. if you have any parm rinds, throw em in and leave it to bubble away. this doesn't sound like much but it is so good. the longer you leave it the more flavourful it will be! towards the end I like to add in whatever creamy thing is in the fridge (double cream, greek yog, milk), along with lots of chopped spinach and a cup of orzo to really bulk it up. we can happily live on this for DAYS, especially if we have leftover fancy crusty bread from the gochujang pasta. oh and remember to take out the parm rind.
thai chicken curryish
ingredients: chicken (thigh/breast), garlic, ginger, yellow peppers, spring onion, cashew nuts, rice, coconut milk, chicken broth
optional extras: sriracha, coriander
recipe: I love this one cos it is SO quick and SOOOO easy. cut chicken into chunks and brown it in the pot. whip it back out and throw in the chopped garlic and ginger (I have a tube of ginger paste in the fridge cos WHO has the time?) with a big glug of EVOO, then a cup of rice. jasmine works, but I've also used risotto rice. toss in the chopped peppers, spring onion and cashew nuts (if I have the energy I'll chop the nuts, but you can put em in as-is), then add coconut milk (a tin's amount, be that an actual tin or some of the melted stuff that costs 1/4 of the price - thanks Asian supermarket!) and chicken broth. put the browned chicken back in, give it all a stir, cover it, and stick it in the oven for like 25ish mins. here’s the NYT recipe if you need liquid measurements/an actionable recipe that isn’t me riffing. (as always, 12ft.io/ in front of the address to bypass the paywall.) serve it with sriracha squirted all over it (HIGHLY RECOMMEND) and coriander if you like it.
delicious little rice waffle
ingredients: leftover jasmine rice, chili crisp, an egg, kewpie mayonnaise, sesame oil, spring onion, A WAFFLE MAKER
optional extras: furikake
recipe: full disclosure, you need a little waffle maker for this. mix the rice with chili crisp, a little sesame oil, and egg yolk. dollop it into the waffle maker and cook. garnish with kewpie mayo, sliced spring onion and some furikake if you have it, or just toasted sesame seeds if you have those, or neither! delicious little spicy umami snack, my beloved.
tuna melt of dreams
ingredients: you know what's in a tuna melt
recipe: swap the butter on the outside of the bread for kewpie mayonnaise and thank me later.
ADDENDUM: this goes without saying for me but sadly I know it does not for everybody: SEASON YOUR FOOD WITH SALT. IT WON'T MAKE YOUR FOOD SALTY IT WILL MAKE IT DELICIOUS. COOK YOUR PASTA IN SALT. WHEN IN DOUBT, ADD SOME SALT. THANK YOU.
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Im trying to learn to cook, do you have any good recipes for a complete beginner?
Hello anon I am going to link you my fav easy recipes that I've bookmarked over the years. You can also modify these easily for dietary restrictions (use other meat/vegan meat. Use coconut milk/cream instead of heavy cream. etc.). Also add things that make stuff easier for you too like instant rice/pasta!
Turkey meatballs
How to use crockpot/slowcooker drippings to make gravy
Sesame Garlic Pan Fried Tofu
Bison Chili (can use other ground meats & also use a slow cooker btw I've done it)
One pan baked fish & potatoes
Spaghetti Aglio e Olio
Easy chicken marinades
Parm crusted Tilapia
Roast chickpea cous cous bowl
Shrimp & Grits
Ricotta lemon spinach pasta
Super crispy tofu
Shrimp Scampi
Cheeseburger soup
Garlic & Butter shrimp (can server over many easy sides!)
Japanese Curry with Roux Cubes (you can buy any roux cube you like this guide helps you make the curries!)
Slowcooker/crockpot chuck roast
Coconut tofu curry (ive also made this with chicken!)
Cheddar Rosemary Scones (ive also replaced the rosemary with chives before to great success!)
Shepard's Pie (you can also use instant mashed potatoes to make this a lot easier!)
Roasted potatoes
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2023/2024 Soup Bucket List
Because a linked list posted publicly to your own tumblr is still the best way to keep an easily accessible collection of links on your phone. Complied from the links i liked the look of in the Culture Study Soup Extravaganza thread,
Chunky Soups
Ginger Garlic Chicken Noodle Soup Deb Perelman
Lemony White Bean Soup With Turkey and Greens Melissa Clark, NYT
Vegitable Soup (Vegan!) Cooking Classy
Smoky Sweet Potato Chicken Stoup, Rachel Ray
Dilly Bean Stew with Cabbage & Frizzed onions Alison Roman
Instant Pot Curried Cauliflower & Butternut Squash Foraged Dish
Lasagna Soup SkinnyTaste
Chicken Tortilla Soup What's Gaby cooking
Creamy Wild Rice Chicken Soup with Roasted Mushrooms Halfbaked Harvest
Chicken and Rice Soup with Garlicky Chile Oil Bon Apetit
Greek Lentil Soup
✓ Limey Ginger Chicken & Rice Soup Pinch of Yum (tbh, 2x+ the ginger)
Navy Bean Soup with Worcester
Vegan Coconut Lentil Bon Apetit
Instant Pot Wild Rice Soup
OTTOLENGHI Magical Chicken & Parmesean Soup
Red Curry Lentils w Spinach NYT
Chicken Stew with Olives & Lentils & Artichokes
Dishoom Daal in the slow cooker(?!?!)
North African Chickpea and Kale with Quinoa
Sweet Potato Chili with Kale
3 Bean Chilli from Pinch of Yum
Stracciatella (egg and parm and spinach) Martha Stewart
Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Chilli
Pureed Soups
Red Lentil Soup with Curry and Coconut Milk Vegetarian Times
Tomato and White Bean Soup With Lots of Garlic Ali Slagel, NYT
Creamy Thai Carrot Sweet Potato (Vegan!) Half Baked Harvest
Broccoli Chedder, Smitten Kitchen
✓Creamy Cauliflower & Chick Pea A Cedar Spoon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
✓Golden Soup (also Cauliflower & Chickpea) Pinch of Yum ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Tomato Harissa Coconut Bisque Dishing up the Dirt
✓ Carrot Soup with Miso & Sesame Smitten Kitchen SO GOOD
Bacon Cheddar Cauliflower GF! Iowa Girl Eats
Instant Pot Corn Chowder (vegan!)
7 vegetable and "cheese" soup (vegan!)
Jamie Oliver Sweet Potato & Chorizo
Roasted Butternut Squash Soup (NYT)
Curried butternut squash soup with Coriander
Pumpkin Soup with Chili Cran-Apple Relish Rachel Ray
Magic Mineral Broth Recipe
Paleo Soups
braised ginger meatballs in coconut broth Smitten Kitchen
Italian Sausage Stew Paleo Plan
NoBean Sweet Potato & Turkey Chilli
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The thing that a lot of American vegans dont understand is that vegan food that tries to imitate meat(Impossible burger, veggie 'chicken nuggets') sucks because its NOT meat, it doesnt taste like meat, we all know this, but its till sold as being indistinguishable from meat(even though it totally isnt)
Vegetarian/vegan dishes are best when they arent pretending to be or taste like meat: Mushroom risotto, eggplant parm, falafel, grape leaf rolls, drunken noodles(yea they can be served with meat, but often arent), pretty much any paneer dish from india(yea okay not vegan). All delicious and not one of them is claiming to taste like meat(because they dont)
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