What are easy things to cook?

So right now I cook once a week. and so far I've been cooking spgettegi once a week for 3 months. That's about the only thing I can cook right now, but I want to swich it up and make something else (but I want it to be easy). For the red sauce spgetthi, I've just been cutting veggies and putting ground beef in and sauce, so pretty basic. But what else would be easy (and cheap) to cook? A full recipe would be appreciated, so I won't have to be creative with ingredients.
 
 
 
Don't list instant foods like KD, -_-'. Thanks guys.

Call me a cheap-ass, but . . . burgers?  
 
Just throw a patty of ground beef on a Foreman grill or a hot plate? Maybe chop up some onions and mix it in with the meat?

Noodles?

I can cook rice and microwavable soups, as well as bacon on a hot plate, get one of those and you will be able to cook things, because so long as it's burnt, its cooked enough to eat.

Pasta is probably the easiest thing you can make. Just boil in water, drain, get some sauce and pour it over.

Pasta
Baked chicken-Seriously it is so simple, just make sure the meat is cooked all the way through.

Hamburger Helper is pretty easy to make.

Look up recipes for any kind of casserole.
 
Also wtf is KD?

Scrambled eggs.

Learn how to cook.  It's honestly not that hard.  It's fun, rewarding, healthier, and far more delicious.  :) 

" Noodles? "

hot dogs?

mix Eggs and some half and half (milk is too watery). Take bread (preferably stale and hearty) and soak both sides in the mixture. Heat skillet, add room temperature or clarified butter to it (these kind won't burn into a nasty mess i believe?) or oil. Cook soaked bread and you've got french toast.
 
/shrug
 
edit: try to think of some simple sandwich fillings. (ex. canned tuna + mayo + diced celery mixture) sandwiches can be very easy

Anything if you follow a long with a cooking show or recipe.

I want to recommend crock pot meals. The reason these are so easy is you basically just insert the ingredients.. and click to the time. I made chili today that is amazing and it was easy to do. Also it smells great cooking and you can make some pretty impressive stuff this way. 

You could invest in some simple slow cooker equipment/ingredients. Make some tasty stews, and it's relatively easy to do.

What's a good chili recepe?

Everything is easy if you simply follow a recipe.

Everyone's just about on the same page here. Pasta, eggs, burgers, hot dogs are all good. Try adding tomato sauce to browned, seasoned ground beef and add a side of rice to it. Try omelettes with tuna, cheese & different veggies. Meatloaf is stupid easy to make as well- mix ground beef, eggs, breadcrumbs, put it in a greased tray, let it bake & add ketchup or BBQ sauce on top.

I think what is more important, is what would you like to cook and eat? You can find a relatively simple recipe for pretty much any type of food, so what are your preferences?

make some frozen food. they are easy to make. just put it on the microwave or oven and let it sit there. they are great when you are hungry.

if you show off, risotto's and pasta with red pepper and tomato sauce is great
 
Risotto: Make instant rice. Saute onions, garlic and onions in frying pan, add rice and then chicken stock bit at a time and poof, yumtastic
 
Pasta: 3 red peppers, roma tomatoes and one garlic clove and bake it for 30 minutes. Mix. Bake another 30, add dashes of salt, pepper and a small handful of parmesan cheese with the pasta and mix.

Here are some:  
  
Cheese omelet: This is fairly easy, but add your own ingredients. Add lots of cheese, cook bacon and layer strips of whole bacon throughout the omelet. Before you make it, crack the eggs into a bowl, add a bit of milk and whip them. Then pour into the pan. There is a technique to making it "perfect". Also try adding green chilis, chunky hot sauce, sausage, sandwich meats, various cheeses, chicken or cooked onions. You can make omelets all kinds of ways and they are awesome! 
 
Cheesy Tuna Bake: This is a pretty easy but awesome meal. My roomates and bros. LOVED it. It's always been a favorite of mine but I only just cooked it for the first time and it turned out awesome. Recipe: 1 package medium wide noodles, 3 or 4 cans of drained Tuna, Chopped Onions if desired, 3 cans of Cream of Celery Soup, 1 Cup of grated chedder cheese or as much as you desire (I added TONS and then also layered slices of cheese, alternating American and Provolone), Salt/pepper. Cook noodles in boiling, salted water about 6-8 minutes. The noodles should be a little bit firm but not cooked "all the way" as they will cook more in the oven. Drain the noodles. Place the drained noodles, tuna, onion, cream of celery (I also used one can of Cheese and Broccoli soup) and cheese into large mixing bowl. Mix thoroughly. Add generous amounts of salt and pepper if desired. Pour into 9x13'' cake pan. Top with grated cheese and/or cheese slices. Bake in oven 20-30 minutes at 350 degrees. ENJOY. Feeds a lot of people and should last a few days for a group of 3/4, at least it did for us.  
 
The Romero Family Chip Salad: This is my family's custom recipe. It is NOT the "chip salad" you are used to or may have had. We do it differently down here in Phoenix! My grandpa btw, who's hispanic and speaks Spanish fluently, used to own a Mexican restaurant and that's in part where this recipe comes from, though my mom added her own twist. You need to make beans (the kind that you can "pour" although thickness is up to you, I prefer mine thicker but not too thick. But too thin isn't good either. My mom makes them from scratch), ground hamburger meat with cooked onions, and have grated cheese, lettuce, hot sauce of your choice (my mom makes her own that everyone loves) and homemade guacamole. You can also add sour cream. Now for the KEY ingredient. Buy a bag or two of Nacho Doritos chips. Crunch them up with your hands on a plate (just smash them, no method here, some people like them less crunched). Pour the piping hot beans on top of the Nacho chips. Add the freshly cooked hamburger meat on top (I love LOTS of hamburger on mine). Top that with cheese, then lettuce, then hot sauce, then guacamole, then sour cream as you so desire. ENJOY. I have NEVER seen a single person that didn't absolutely LOVE our chip salad. I ate it a ton as a kid and my grandparents used to make it every Saturday (literally, EVERY Sat for their whole freakin' lives. My grandpa is 80) so I started hating it. lol. But I do enjoy it now. I just had it last week at my cousin's house, she had my mom make part of it at my mom's and part of it at her house and we ate it with her husband who'd never had it before. lol. She loves it that much :P 
 
Chili Beans:   1-2 pounds ground beef, 1/2 onion chopped, one chopped onion if you use 2 pounds of beef, 1 small can chopped green chilis, 4 cans beans (chili beans,red beans), 6 small cans of tomato sauce or 1 large can or more if desired, Salt, garlic powder, pepper to taste, 4 Tablespoons chili powder. More or less to your taste, Cheddar Cheese (grated), sour cream, cheese Doritos chips or crackers. Brown the ground beef with chopped onion. When meat is brown add green chilies.Transfer meat to sauce pan and add all the rest of the ingredients. Stir. Bring to boil, then turn down heat to low and cook for an hour or 2. The longer the better. Top each bowl with grated cheese and/or sour cream. Dip crackers or chips in it. ENJOY! :) One of my favorite meals ever. Big hit with the roomates and lasts quite a while.  
 
Salmon Loaf: This LOOKS a lot more complicated than it is. Although it isn't a simple dish necessarily and the first time you make it seems really complicated and will take a while. But once you've made it once it becomes a lot easier and it will all make sense.  
 
 2-3 cans of pink salmon, 1/4 of an onion if desired, grated, 1/3 cup salmon juice from can, Juice of one lemon, 3-4 slices of bread (remove crust, break into pieces), 3 eggs, 1/2 cup White Sauce, salt, pepper as desired. Have the ingredients above read, but first you make the White Sauce. Make white sauce first, because you will add about 1/2 cup of the sauce to the loaf of salmon. White Sauce is REALLY easy but seems complicated and weird at first. You need to stir it A LOT for a long time. Like 10/15 minutes straight it seems like, and it'll slowly transform into a thick sauce before your eyes. The ingredients are simple, butter, flower and milk. Here's how you make White Sauce: 4 tablespoons butter, 4 tablespoons flour, 2 cups of milk, salt and pepper to taste. Melt butter on low heat in saucepan. Watch it because the butter burns fast. Stir in flour. Add milk slowly. Add salt and pepper. Usually takes quite a bit of salt. Stir on medium heat constantly till thick. Takes about 10 min. of stirring. Or you can do all this in microwave with microwave safe bowl. If doing it in micro. Melt butter in bowl. Stir in flour. Heat 30 seconds. Add milk one cup at a time. Heat 30 seconds at a time. Stirring after each 30 seconds. Add other cup of milk. Cook 30 seconds at a time, stirring after each cooking time. Do this till thick. Once you make it it'll all make sense and afterwards it's really easy. You'll use a bit of this white sauce in the Salmon Loaf, the rest is a topping. Now you need to make the Salmon Loaf itself. Open cans of salmon, sliding it out whole in a bowl. Break salmon in half lengthwise and you will see bones. Remove bones if desired, though you can eat them. Also take off as much skin as you can, but again, you don't have to you can eat it if you like. Save 1/3 cup of the juice from the can. Flake salmon with fork. Salt and pepper. Get a large mixing bowl. Add eggs, white sauce, onion, lemon, salmon juice. break up bread in little pieces and add. Stir up till combined. It will look quite nasty but trust me it will taste often when it's done. Pour into baking pan. Make a loaf with your hands. Shape it into a loaf. Cook at 350 for about 1 hour and 15 min. Take it out once it's done, cut it into pieces or take as much as you want of the loaf. Pour white sauce over it, add salt and pepper and enjoy the awesome meal! This also takes technique, you're first attempt will probably be burned a bit oddly or too much on the bottom. But it gets easier the more you make it.  
 
Creamed Eggs on Toast, Creamed Tuna On Toast: This meal is EXTREMELY easy. Remember the white sauce above? Make that and then add hard-boiled eggs that you've cut into pieces. Alternatively mix in Tuna instead of eggs. Toast bread, and pour this concoction over the bread. It tastes AWESOME. one of my favorite meals.  
 
ENJOOOOOY! :)

RASHERS

I used to make soft tacos all the time, probably start again since I'm eating takeout every day. Doesn't get much easier or quicker. Just get a lb of beef, a packet of seasoning (That's where the directions will be), and whatever you wanna add on.

Grenades.
 
Pull, wait, throw.

Crepes.   
1/3 cup water 
1/3 cup milk 
2 eegs 
two tablespoons sugar 
3/4 cup of all-purpose flour 
1 teaspoon vanilla 
1 tablespoon melted butter 
 
Beat the eggs, mix in the water and milk next, then flour, then the rest. 
You can probably eat the whole batch.

Omelette du fromage!

Stirfry is real easy, take your favorite vegetables and a meat of choice, fry them up and throw it on some rice, add sauce as desired and you have a filling and tasty meal.

What do you have to cook with?  If all you got is a poor stove the has trouble boiling water lots of things will be hard.  If you have a good stove with a decent burner, pan-frying most things are easy.  For example, take some boneless skinless chicken breasts, put them in a plastic bag with some Italian dressing for a few hours.  Heat up a non stick pan with a tiny bit of oil in it and heat it until the oil shimmers.  Put in chicken breasts.  Cook 2-4 minutes a side.  Eat.

Tacos.

Toast.

Ok.... Im gonna help you... I do this a lot... i change the ground beef for chicken sometimes because it can get boring. Experiment is the best way to learn! Im a born cook and have cooked for a looooooong time. Family tradition i guess. im only 25 -_- made myself sound 500 years old.
 
Rice is quiet simple too: (start doing this before the meat part)
 
1 cup of rice = 2 cups of water.  
Add some salt 
boil until the water disappears, but don't let it get stuck on the pan. 
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Olive oil (1 spoon)
Get some ground beef or chicken sliced in cubes.
black pepper (just half a tea spoon)
salt (half a tea spoon) 
Chopped onions 
chopped red or green peppers  
Sliced Mushrooms
Spaghetti sauce (any kind you prefer)   
1/4 cup of water 
 
Preparation: 
Put the one spoon of olive oil on a sauce pan or wherever you want to cook this. Let the oil get hot a little then put your chopped ingredients and mushrooms. Let them cook for around 5 minutes making sure you use a kitchen utensil so they don't burn in the pan, use the common sense here xD.  
Then add your ground beef or chicken, mix slowly with all the chopped and sliced ingredients already cooking, let it sit for 2 minutes.  
Take your 1/4 of water. Remember this is a small amount. Once you do this you going to put your salt and pepper and any other condiments you want to add. The water is going to allow the flavor to stay on the meat and make the food taste nice, some sauces are really thick so this water will help it be more smooth and liquidy.  Leave this to cook for around 5 minutes. Then add the sauce and then let that cook for around 5 - 10 minutes in slow flame or heat... depends on what sort of cooker you use.  After this youll be ready! :) 
 
Rice would be done right about the same time. :) SO VIOLA!! ready to eat! 
 
WALL OF TEXT!! O_O but this is simple and good... you can do the meat also with spaghetti :) if your not a fan of rice. And PM if ya want more help xD happy to do so.

" Look up recipes for any kind of casserole. Also wtf is KD? "

Put some meat in a pan

This site is pretty good for finding recipes, you can find a lot of simple stuff too. 
http://allrecipes.com/

Pasta a la Carbonara (I cook this all the time, it is super easy and very tasty) 
 
You could use almost any type of pasta noodle in this recipe.  I usually use gemelli or fettuccine. 
 
Ingredients: 
1lb of pasta 
6-8oz. Bacon (diced into 1/2" cubes)
1 egg  
1/4 to 1/2 cup of grated Parmesan, Romano or Asiago cheese. (use whichever you like or use all 3!)
1/2 cup Heavy Cream (totally optional) 
2 minced garlic cloves 
1Tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil 
 Flat leaf Parsley 
Salt 
Pepper
 
Preparation: 
 
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil to cook your pasta noodles. (Packaged pasta usually takes no more than 8 min to 
cook) Once cooked; strain the pasta, keeping 1 cup of the water you used to boil it, and set it aside. Do not rinse cooked pasta.
 
Set a large flat-bottomed high-walled pan to Med heat and add 1Tbsp of Extra Virgin Olive Oil. 
When you see a light smoke coming from the oil, add the 2 cloves of minced garlic and cook for about 1 minute. 
Add the diced bacon to the pan and let it cook stirring occasionally.   You don't want the bacon to be crispy you just want to  
cook it through.  Now add your pasta to the bacon and garlic mixture. Stir it around to coat the pasta.  Remove the pan from  
the heat and add the egg and grated cheese, stirring constantly.  The idea here is not to scramble the egg but to break it open  
and have it coat the pasta. The warmth of the pasta will cook the egg and that coating will help the sauce stick to the pasta. 
At this point you could add the Heavy Cream but that is totally optional.  Add some of the reserved pasta water and continue  
to stir. You can add as much of the water as you like; all this step does is help create a more sauce-like consistency. 
Add the parsley continue to stir.  Now just salt and pepper to taste.  I usually don't use any salt at this point because the 
cheese is quite salty on its own but I do use a fair amount of black pepper (i'm a pepper addict). 
 
Done and done.  Serve and enjoy! 
 
*You can also add cooked chicken or steak to this recipe.  Just cut it into small pieces and add it to the bacon at the same time 
you add the pasta to the bacon.*

I cook just about all the meals for my GF and daughter, especially on weekends.  Everything is as easy as you wanna make it!  If you already make spaghetti, Lasagna isn't too hard.
 
Cook your normal spaghetti sauce, though Keep it more simple with the veggies, usually I use ground beef, maybe some italian sausage mixed in, with some mushrooms and onions with the sauce.  Layer this in a cake/baking pan with uncooked lasagna noodles, ricotta cheese, and mozerella cheese, 3-4 times to fill the pan, top with ricotta and mozerella, cover with foil and bake at 350 for like an hour, maybe 90 mins.
 
Chili recipes are easy and usually taste great, there's thousands of them online, experiment.  Basically you put beans, meat, tomatos(Sauce, paste, diced, fresh, etc), and spices (cumin) in a pot and let it simmer.  Add other stuff to taste, like onion, jalapeno, spicier chili peppers, garlic, Cubed steak, beer, the list goes on.  Easy to put on the stove at noon and have for dinner later.
 
Chicken or steak fajitas are super easy, you slice up some meat, sautee it to get some color, add veggies(bell peppers and onions).  Throw it all back together and add seasoning to taste (McCormick Fajita seasoning isn't bad, or come up with your own).  Warm up some tortillas and go to town.  It really takes like 30 minutes, you can add lots of different toppings to taste(cheese, sour cream, Guacamole, Pico de Gallo, Fresh tomato, etc).  Makes great leftover chicken wraps for lunch the next day too.  
 
Of course, theres much more fancy stuff you can make, none of it is really 'hard', just takes more time.  :)  I made crab bisque one night, which was amazing, and lobster ravioli with white wine sauce, also great.  Find some online recipes if you dont like to experiment, most of them can be done quickly, estimate an hour or so total for more complicated dishes.

" Grenades.  Pull, wait, throw. "

Chicken breasts. Stick in the oven at 325 (F) for about 25 minutes and it's good to go.

Scrambled eggs, pancakes, baby fetuses.

My go to... Simple Mexican. Mix and Match any of the following for a good variety of meals :
 
Grilled Chicken, Browned Ground Beef, Grilled Steak,  Beans of any kind (refried or not), Diced Peppers (red, green, jalapeno, anaheim),  Rice, Onion, Cheese of any kind, Tortillas, Chips, Salsa, Canned Green or Red Chili, Lettuce, Tomatoes, Olives, other veggies to your liking.