What are peoples fast can't be bothered to cook recipes?

[Glaucus]

We all have those days we just can't be bothered cooking.
On these days do you reach for the oven chips/phone or do you have a couple of fast recipes you usually have the ingredients for?
Cooking time should be no longer than 20 minutes.

Mine is a fast Thai curry. 10 mins MAX

Ingredients
Turkey
Red/green thai curry paste
Can reduced fat coconut milk
Can water chestnuts
can bamboo shoots
can baby corn
ginger
chilli
fish sauce
pinch sugar

Brown the meat in a frying pan add the ginger, chilli and curry paste. fry for 1 min. Poor in milk and all other ingredients bring to full heat and reduce for few minutes. Serve with egg/rice noodles or cous cous. Anything super fast cooking..

Alternative on this is the same bulk ingredients but for the sauce.
Ginger, chilli, lemongrass, sugar, sherry vinegar, fish sauce, soy sauce, corn flour and water.
Gives you a very fiery sweet and sour sauce.

So what are your super fast recipes or do you reach for teh oven food/ takeaways?

[Belmit]

If I'm being really lazy I'll just make a fishfinger sandwich. When doing this it is imperative the fishfingers are microwaved so they become soggy - straight out the freezer, four of them take five minutes on high. Plenty of ketchup, white bread if possible (even though I don't usually have it). Make a strong brew while they're being irradiated and you're good to go. How's that for a slice of fried gold?

Alternatively, I'll simply boil up some Farfalle pasta in salty water, drain, and add pesto. If you've got some ham ends to throw in then all the better, but I'll happily eat it on its own.

Finally, good old beans on toast is quick, simple and healthy. Except for all that cheese I put on it.

[BBx]

Except for all that cheese I put on it.

Lol!

Another vote for fish finger sandwich - not in the microwave though - yuk! :p avec processed cheese and ketchup... mmm!!! :D

Then cheese on toast avec fried mushrooms and onions...mmmmm! (again NOT in the microwave)

Ok... with microwave... Heinz tinned ravioli avec grated cheese (good with chips) mmmm so good but sooo bad!!!

:D

BB x

[Feek]

I do the cheese on toast thing but I use the toaster.

Bread in toaster on 7, when it pops up, turn it round and put it back on 3.

Cut slices of cheese, when bread is toast, slap a bit of slime on it, throw the cheese on top and consume. Hey, it's not melted, it's not got anything with it. It's cheese. On toast. Which is what I said.

I am a bit partial to cheese. Belmit is an amateur!

[Belmit]

Belmit is an amateur!

:shocked:

On a skiing trip in France in 2005 the whole group of over fifty people went out for Raclette - a meal that is basically one giant cheese accompanied by a few cocktail onions and some wafer-thin ham. There were eight people to a table, each with one half cheese each. Our table had five, including a girl who didn't like cheese. We were the only table to finish the cheese.

Here's a picture of a heavily sunburned man called Gav, wearing a smile that unfortunately betrays his true feelings of cheese hatred by this point:

http://www.belmit.co.uk/ski/06.04.05/PICT0003.JPG

Let it be known that I am a seasoned pro at eating obscene amounts of cheese. I thankyou!

[Feek]

A mere snack. I feel a challenge coming on ;)

[Muban]

Low fat creamy pasta recipe -

Spaghetti
Oil spray
One large shallot finely chopped
Stock ( I use fresh stock frozen in ice cube trays for these very situations)
Philadelphia light (or similar own brand low fat soft cheese)
Bunch of soft herbs (choose one whichever is your favourite, Basil is mine :) )
Ground Salt and Pepper
A glug of Vermouth or Marsala (optional)

Spray a frying pan with oil, add chopped shallot and sweat gently until tender but not coloured. Add some stock (about half a cup) and a splash of vermouth/marsala (optional). Simmer gently for a minute or two and then add the cream cheese and stir in until smooth. Add a large handful of your soft herb and cook just long enough for the herb to wilt a little. Remove from heat and season with salt and freshly milled pepper and immediately stir into freshly cooked and drained pasta.

You can alter the amount of stock/cream cheese/herbs to taste. Measurements are a bit vague as I just go by eye. If you want to forget the idea of low fat this is also nice with some thinly shredded salami or chorizo sprinkled over the top before serving.

[lostkat]

Prawn curry in a hurry - Did it tonight.

1 onion, sliced
2tsp(ish) curry paste (I have rogan josh at the mo)
pack of raw prawns
tin of tomatoes
frozen peas

Drain some of the oil from the curry paste and heat in a pan. Add the onions and soften/brown. Next add the curry paste and sizzle for a minute in the middle of the pan before stirring into the onions. Add the tomatoes and peas and bring to the boil. Finally, add the prawns and cook for about 3 mins until they're pink right through. Serve with rice. Takes 10 mins. No cordon bleu meal, but it does us :)

Omlette is also a favourite for quickness. I usually put mushrooms, tomatoes, peas, peppers, onions... whatever I find lying around in mine really.

Oh, I do a pasta dish which I haven't done in a while actually. Fry off an onion and some chopped up bacon, then add a sliced leek and soften, adding some mushrooms partway through the cooking time. When it's all cooked, put in a few tbsp of low fat yoghurt, a tsp of balsamic vinegar, pinch of paprika and a handful of cheese and stir until coated. Serve with pasta & some chopped up fresh parsley out of the garden. Nom!

There are quite a few things I do in a hurry from stock cupboard/fridge ingredients because I just don't buy convenience meals. The most I ever get from the freezer department is frozen peas, the odd bag of chips and sometimes ice cream.

[killerkebab]

:shocked:

On a skiing trip in France in 2005 the whole group of over fifty people went out for Raclette - a meal that is basically one giant cheese accompanied by a few cocktail onions and some wafer-thin ham. There were eight people to a table, each with one half cheese each. Our table had five, including a girl who didn't like cheese. We were the only table to finish the cheese.

Here's a picture of a heavily sunburned man called Gav, wearing a smile that unfortunately betrays his true feelings of cheese hatred by this point:

http://www.belmit.co.uk/ski/06.04.05/PICT0003.JPG

Let it be known that I am a seasoned pro at eating obscene amounts of cheese. I thankyou!I hate cheese, but raclette is an exception. Anyone who doesn't finish their melted cheese is a hero in my book: it means I get their share.

Had raclette last night actually, when we go to france we bring some sliced cheese back (I can't remember what kind of cheese it is you need) since we have a machine at home to melt it. Goes well with potatoes and any kind of charcuterie - hams, salamis, chorizo, bacon, anything like that :D

http://www.kitchenkapersdirect.co.uk/images/pP000009438.jpg

There we go, we have one like that - cheese goes in bottom on a small plate to melt and once ready you pour it on whatever you choose. If it wasn't for the fact it is ridiculously hard to find raclette cheese in the UK, we'd eat it more often :(

Again, if we ignore potatoes that's a meal that can be prepared in 0 minutes. All you do is get the meat out and the machine heated, and put the cheese in when you're ready to eat :)