Variant on your dish: bake sweet potato, add cottage cheese and eat immediately. Add sweet or savory seasonings to taste. It's not something I'd bring to share, but it's definitely not something I'll hide. As far as quick and dirty meals, it's reasonably healthy, and probably not the worst suggestion for someone who struggles to cook for themselves.
Actual goblin food: canned black olives between two slices of bread, smush down to prevent them from rolling out.
Refried beans, rice, sirachcha, and too much mayo. Sometimes I eat it with bread like a sad sack sandwich.
Throw a potato in whatever form you want and roll that up in flatbread. I'd eat that in a heartbeat.
I ate frozen fish sticks when I was a kid. Just took em out of the freezer and gnawed on them.
I'm not going to put a bowl of lentils and hot sauce in front of a guest.
Spicy lettuce hotdogs! Cook them meat sticks up however you want, wrap in lettuce, place in bun. Top with ketchup and habanero Tabasco.
Omelet composed of >60% frozen vegetables and seasoned with soy sauce.
It doesn't hold itself together at all and it looks disgusting.
idk how weird this is in terms of everything else in this thread, but peanut butter and pickles on toast is great
An entire loaf of French bread from the super market and a sobe (at least back when sobe existed)
I call it the cinco de mayo revenge: Laughing Cow cheese (it’s French) melted in a tortilla.
Chips with ketchup (as a dip) and burned mozzarella in a pan, rolled up, and dipped in honey mustard.
Tamale pie- canned corn, chili (no beans bc blegh), canned tamales (really these are even optional despite the name of the dish), and Swiss cheese all melted together in ooey gooey goodness.
Also I love the raw dough from those biscuits in the can that pops
Peanut butter, jelly, and Cheeto burrito.
This sounds like one of those dishes you learn about in prison.
Scoop of peanut butter
Cut up tortillas, fry them with some salt, when crispy crack two or three eggs in there and scramble. I grew up eating it and while it is delicious I don't think I would serve it to guests.
...that's essentially migas: people pay restaurant money for that...
Spaghetti Amoré (~$15 Serves 4-6)
Start boiling your pasta water, salt the water. Meanwhile, in a skillet start cooking the ground turkey till pink is gone. Once cooked, start seasoning with above spices to taste until satisfied, then move skillet to back burner on lowest setting to keep warm.
Preheat oven to 375. Once pasta water is boiling, add spaghetti and cook per instruction until al dente. Drain pasta in a colander, then return to pot.
While pot and spaghetti are still hot, add ground turkey and 3 soup cans to the pot and stir spaghetti until soups are evenly incorporated.
Dump contents of pot into a 9x13" casserole dish, spread contents evenly in the dish, then top with mozzarella cheese.
Bake in the oven till cheese has melted (about 5-10 minutes)
Remove from oven and let cool on stove for 5 minutes. Use a spatula to cut a square and serve warm.
Instant mashed potatoes with American cheese melted in, and a variety of seasonings, butter, toppings etc. It's a great, cheap way to make a bowl out of random leftovers, protein or whatever. But I wouldn't dare serve it to someone.
'quickadilla' I'll slap a tortilla on a cold pan, turn on the heat and build it right in the pan while it heats up with shredded cheese and left over meat. Takes 5 minutes and it's at least as good as Taco Bell, and actually warm and melted.
More of a meal I'd actually be willing to share, but not brag about because it's sort of a bastardization of cultures. But I'll often make a curry using Japanese curry blocks, and season chicken in a vaguely Indian style, then put it over rice. Really simple and delicious. I'm kind of proud of it but I wouldn't even know how to explain it to someone, much less actually serve it.
Butter beans with olives. Cover it in oregano, some garlic, some chilli flakes, and then drizzle a tiny bit of soy sauce and plenty of olive oil over the top.
It's dumb, but it's so tasty, quick, and easy.
...so i grew up with what we called five-way in northern kentucky, and no, it's not cincinnati chili...
...it's all layered up on a large plate in that order, bottom-to-top so the cheese melts nicely, cut into a grid pattern with a fork and knife, and then mixed together: i don't cook it often since moving out on my own thirty-five years ago but it so hits the spot when i do...
Mud
Cocoa powder, sugar, bit of cream. Mix until it’s gritty from sugar, it shouldn’t be too smooth. Extra delicious if some isn’t fully mixed and there are cocoa powder chunks. It could be a topping, or an ingredient in something delicious, but no - eat the whole bowl of sweet gritty chocolatey goodness straight up.
White bread with mustard, and those dried fried crisy onions sandwiched inside. Gets me through to next meal.
Sandines and kraut with mustard and caraway. I only eat it when I'm alone and have time to brush my teeth afterward. So good though and I'm full for hours.
I don't do it often, but pasta with a cream of mushroom or clam chowder soup.
Maybe not too weird, but that's probably as weird as it gets.
My so called broccoli-potato-gratin with pork neck includes quite an amount of cream, salt, bouillion cubes and cheese. My wife doesn't know and it will stay that way.
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