The New York Times has posted an article featuring 101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less [via]. It’s not really a list of detailed recipes, because the meals are straight forward and common sense to cook, but it’s a nice prompt for quick ideas when you’re feeling like something different but don’t want to dig out a cookbook.
Another good reference list is the lifehack.org article Over 100 Quick and Easy Healthy Foods. It’s a list of recipes they gathered from recipesia.com, categorized by course.
I didn’t want to go shopping tonight, so I made my own quick and easy meal.
Spaghetti with Crab and Parsley
Ingredients:
- Spaghetti
- Fresh parsley
- Crab meat (I used canned, but fresh from the deli would obviously be a million times tastier)
- Garlic
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Capers
- Crushed red peppers
- Pepper
- Salt
Boil the spaghetti in salted water until al dente and scoop out into a bowl. Mince a clove of garlic and gently fry it in some olive oil. Mix the garlic oil with the crab meat, a tablespoon of capers, red chili pepper flakes, and ground pepper. Toss the mixture over the pasta, throw on a handful of chopped parsley, and toss it all together.
My cooking skills are fairly basic. I have a few staple dishes that I do over and over, and I don’t really branch out much from those. Maybe I’ll start posting recipes on here as a way to experiment a little. Who knows, maybe there are cooks as green as I am who will get something out of it.
Sounds interesting, but I’d leave out the capers (not a fan). I’ll have to troll through my recipe files and see if I can pass one on to you to share.
My ingredient options were a little limited tonight. :)
It actually didn’t turn out too badly, though. It wasn’t amazing, but it worked.
As I had my kitchen removed (I really did) I am amazed by anyone who can boil water, let alone cook something they can eat….oh and welcome back!
Thanks!
Having you kitchen removed…that’s a novel idea. I could probably fit a pinball machine in here.