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"Cheat" recipes for those of us who can't cook / won't cook

Lotus

If you struggle with cooking, this thread may help you, and if you are a good cook perhaps you would be kind enough to contribute.

I find as I'm getting older I don't have the energy or inclination for cooking and I also don't like some foods I used to cook such as fresh meat and veg, due mainly to texture. So to avoid living on ready meals and pizzas, I've been trying to sort out recipes that are really easy using tinned, frozen and pre prepared ingredients.

Please add your own cheat recipes to this thread. I will start - mine are the what I would cook for 2 people.

My first one is a "Roast dinner"

Ingredients: Two roasted chicken breasts, frozen stuffing balls, frozen honey roast parsnips, frozen mini roast potatoes, Chicken Gravy granules.

Method: Heat oven to 200C. Fill one oven tray with half roast parsnips and half roast potatoes, and put the chicken breasts and stuffing balls in another oven tray.

Cook the parsnips and potatoes for 30 minutes, and the chicken and stuffing balls for 25 minutes (so put the chicken tray in 5 minutes after the veg one)

A few minutes before the cooking time ends, make gravy with chicken gravy granules as per instructions (I make up about half a pint for two of us)

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  • This threads an anathema to me, as I love to cook, which is just as well given all my allergies and intollerances. Didn't Delia Smith do a book on this stuff?

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Delia's book was called how to cheat at cooking, but it's quite old now and it's difficult and /or expensive to buy some of the ingredients. Plus you have to buy the book first unless you have a kindle subscription/borrow it from a library.

    I know you enjoy cooking, and I was hoping you would contribute an easy recipe?

  • in reply to Lotus

    OK this takes minimal prep and goes nicely in a slow cooker.

    About a pound/500g of sliced potato, two or three baking size ones do well.

    I large sliced onion,

    6 or 8 rashers of bacon

    1 pint of bechemel sauce either home made or from a packet.

    Layer potatoes, onion and bacon in alternate layers, starting and ending with potatoes in a caserole dish with a lid, or the dish or your slow cooker, add a bay leaf, a good grind of pepper and nutmeg to the sauce and pour over the layers of bacon and veg. Cover with the lid and cook in the oven on gas 5/180.c for about an hour or until a fork slides nicely through the layers, then serve with a green vegetable. I'd do it for at least 4 hours in a slow cooker. 

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  • in reply to Lotus

    OK this takes minimal prep and goes nicely in a slow cooker.

    About a pound/500g of sliced potato, two or three baking size ones do well.

    I large sliced onion,

    6 or 8 rashers of bacon

    1 pint of bechemel sauce either home made or from a packet.

    Layer potatoes, onion and bacon in alternate layers, starting and ending with potatoes in a caserole dish with a lid, or the dish or your slow cooker, add a bay leaf, a good grind of pepper and nutmeg to the sauce and pour over the layers of bacon and veg. Cover with the lid and cook in the oven on gas 5/180.c for about an hour or until a fork slides nicely through the layers, then serve with a green vegetable. I'd do it for at least 4 hours in a slow cooker. 

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