Anyone know of any SUPER simple meals?

[joycenalex]

for 2 people, turn oven on to 350 degrees to preheat. 2 -boneless mild fish fillets, like tilapia or orange roughy, 4-8 ounces each.
pull out 2 sheets of aluminium foil, slightly larger then the fish and lightly oil them , olive oil is good, crisco is okay (butter doesn't work for me)
place fish on the foil, pour 1-2 tablespoons of salad dressing like ranch, french, thousand island or italian over the fish, if you have fresh veggies like green beans, bell pepper strips, zucchini or carrot coins put those on top of the fish, close the foil, like a sandwich is wrapped and bake 18-20 minutes. fish is done when it flakes apart very easily with fork. i serve this with rice-a-roni and broccoil almost every monday night before i leave for bowling. dessert this month has been a torn in small pieces pound cake topped with mashed strawberries and topped with whipped cream.
i've done this with boneless chicken breasts too, but you bake it longer.
enjoy

[columbine]

Nuked Potatoes

Wash spuds (don't bother to peel) and cut up small. Put in microwavable bowl, sprinkle with salt, pepper, paprika, and rosemary, squirt with olive oil, stir. If these are to be an ingredient for something else, nuke covered until soft. If they're Part of Your Balanced Breakfast, nuke uncovered (stirring occasionally) until crispy!

Love, Columbine

[kt_luvs_kitties]

These recipes all sound great!

Thanks Shaismom - I signed up!

Jen- I made your tuna casserole tonight, and it was GREAT! I added parmesan cheese, and lays potato chips crushed on top! We are gonna have the leftovers tomorrow night! THANK YOU

[shais_mom]

Nuked Potatoes

Wash spuds (don't bother to peel) and cut up small. Put in microwavable bowl, sprinkle with salt, pepper, paprika, and rosemary, squirt with olive oil, stir. If these are to be an ingredient for something else, nuke covered until soft. If they're Part of Your Balanced Breakfast, nuke uncovered (stirring occasionally) until crispy!

Love, Columbine

I read that as Naked Potatoes.

[shais_mom]

Hubby wont cook...PERIOD! He cooked one time for me in the 11 years we have been together. And that was a frozen dinner, of salisbury steak, which I don't eat

then he wouldn't EAT in my house!

[jennielynn1970]

When my friend, Regina, got married and moved to Canada to be with her new husband (same one I got the Apartment cookbook for), she still wasn't a big cook.

One time she called me and asked how to make SCRAMBLED EGGS. I was like, um... you put eggs in a bowl, whisk them up, and fry them, lol. I just figured it was a no brainer really.

So, when she was leaving, all the librarians decided to have a going away party for her, and we put together a huge cookbook with all our favorite, and easy, recipes for her.

I also gave her a "gift". I bought her a TWINKIE cookbook, with a box of Twinkies to go with it; a MARSHMALLOW FLUFF cookbook, and a container of fluff to go with it; and a SPAM cookbook, and a container of spam to go with it.

I figured if she didn't use the cookbooks, at least she could eat the twinkies, fluff and spam as is w/out cooking, lol.

[Cinder & Smoke]

Nuked Potatoes

Put in microwavable bowl, sprinkle with salt, pepper, paprika, and rosemary,
squirt with olive oil, stir.

If they're Part of Your Balanced Breakfast,
nuke uncovered (stirring occasionally) until crispy!

OK ...

1) What Kinda taters? ... There's more tater flavours than I can remember ...
Whas'sa difference?

2) How long does "until crispy" take?
My nuke box doesn't have an "until crispy" button.

[Cinder & Smoke]

... MARSHMALLOW FLUFF ...

Pean-Butter an FLUFF ... sammich of my youth!

HAD to be "Skippy" pean-butter, KRUNCHIE style with "Real Peanuts",
soft white bread, and the Marshmallow FLUFF!
I think I ate those P-B & Fluff sammiches all the way through high school.

FLUFF was also great as an ice cream topping ... *sticky*, but good!

[shais_mom]

I miss tuna noodle casserole! But I'm now allergic to the tuna, and the peas, so it's a "never mind" now.

When I was a poor college student, a sometimes meal was pasta (whatever was on sale), a can of tuna, a can of mushrooms, and parmesan cheese. Yum. Now I have to do without the tuna part, and it's not as fun.

Oh - here's a quick and easy one!

Wash some spinach and tear it into smaller pieces. (Baby spinach you can leave whole). Put it in the bottom of a bowl.

Dump some grated cheese - room temperature - in with it.

Boil some pasta.

Dump the cooked pasta into the bowl, stir the spinach and cheese in, and then cover the dish and let it sit for a minute.

The heat from the pasta will cook the spinach just enough, and met the cheese.

Dump in some bacon bits - just microwave some bacon until it's crunchy and crumble in.

Stir and serve!

How much cheese and how much spinach and bacon depends on your taste!

I've done this before and fold in some ricotta cheese and garlic salt. And toss some grape tomatoes in right before serving..
and garnish with lemon juice. It just brings all the flavors together!

[kt_luvs_kitties]

What kind of cheese with the spinach?

When do I put in the ricotta?

Tonight for dinner I made McDonalds

[shais_mom]

What kind of cheese with the spinach?

parmesan

When do I put in the ricotta?

I like to put the ricotta in while the pasta is still hot, AND use a wee bit of pasta water mixed in with the cheese as your folding to help it be creamier and fold better. You just have to eyeball it. And you can dish it up and squirt a SMALL amount of lemon juice over each dish. Use sparingly to taste as you would salt.

[animal_rescue]

TUNA NOODLE CASSEROLE my all time favorite:

1/2 pound dry pasta (I prefer bow shapes)
1 can tuna, drained
1 can CONDENSED cream soup (ANY, cream of mushroom, celery, chicken, etc.)
milk

Optional:
shredded or crumbled cheese
bread crumbs

Boil pasta acording to directions until FIRM. Mix cooked pasta, tuna, soup and 1 soup can full of milk (and cheese if using). place in an oven safe dish. Sprinkle with bread crumbs OR cover with foil and bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

YUM YUM (I always double the recipe)

I do something similar to this but mine is kind of more simple. I just take mac & cheese, a can of peas, and a can of tuna. Mix it together on the stove, and voila I have Tuna Mac.

[shais_mom]

Another easy one is Stromboli.

Take the frozen Bread dough from the freezer section of the grocery. Thaw it completely.
PREHEAT OVEN TO 350.
ROLL it out with a rolling pin and grease it *I use spray Pam* This takes some practice but the practicing tastes just as good!
Spread with your favorite pizza sauce and your favorite pizza toppings whatever you like on pizza - PILE it on.
fold the dough over and PINCH it together to make a seam.
Place on a greased cookie sheet (I've discovered parchment paper and use it for EVERYTHING) SEAM side DOWN.
Spray with Pam again
and bake for 20-30 minutes until golden brown.
let cool for about 8-10 min before slicing.
you can serve extra pizza sauce for dipping if you like.

I'm going to try to get the stuff to make this as a Rueban tomorrow and make it for my dad since my mom is gone for the week.

[kt_luvs_kitties]

Now that sounds GOOD! I might make that on Monday Is their a name brand for the pizza dough? I know that sounds silly, but I have never seen it before!

[ChrisH]

Seared salmon.

salmon fillet
salt and freshly ground black pepper
butter
squeeze lemon juice

Season the salmon fillet on both sides with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Melt the butter in a frying pan until frothing, then add the salmon skin-side down and fry for 2-3 minutes, or until golden-brown. Turn the fish over, squeeze over the lemon juice, remove from the heat and allow the salmon to finish cooking in the residual heat.

Serve with whatever takes your fancy, with just new potatoes is good.