Introduction
People today can be said to be “flying.” Many people have no one to prepare a meal for them when they return from a long day at work. Except for a few exceptions, the elderly tend to have a modest appetite. It should be quick and straightforward even if we have to make it ourselves. And we expect it to be delicious.
My wife used to handle most of the cooking before I retired, but she informed me that she was giving up that role. I thought she was joking at first. In our house, I’m the main cook. When I was a kid, my mom taught me how to cook, making it such that I enjoyed it. When the hobos would show up at the back door, we’d make some beans and hot bread and give it to them.
When no one was around, I once made some donuts. When my mom got home, she found a disaster in the kitchen. Then she instructed me on how to bake authentic doughnuts. What I didn’t get was the whole deep-frying business. I tried making doughnuts and got in trouble for it. Never! A poorer education would have been the result.
Some quick food preparation tips are as follows:
1. Buy Extra Supplies
It’s terrible to make anything to eat at 10:00 p.m. when there’s nothing in the fridge or the cupboards. Stock up on a few necessities.
For most things I buy, I do so in case lots. We have a case-lot sale every year, although we can always buy in bulk if needed. This helps me to save money. For instance, my wife’s favorite cereal is on sale for a dollar a box.
Canned vegetables and fruits, mushrooms, cooking soups like cream of mushroom and cream of celery, ready-to-eat soups which I adulterate, ready-to-eat soups, chicken broth, cake mixes, and frosting because my grandkids anticipate a cake every Sunday, and canned beef, chicken, turkey, and tuna are all staples in my pantry. I have everything I need to make healthy, delicious, easy meals.
Stupid me. I also regularly stock up on canned beef, chicken, turkey, and pork gravy cases.
I also stock up on enchilada sauce, Chinese vegetables, and stewed tomatoes. Noodles for making lasagna, spaghetti, country noodles for chicken and dumpling soup, and tomato paste because my wife is an olive fanatic. Several dough rolls, including cinnamon roll dough, are always in my fridge. Remember the tortillas! The corn variety is my favorite. You’ll require rice, onions, garlic, and various seasonings.
2. Whip Up Some Easy Soups
People often assume that rice must be cooked before it can be eaten. If you don’t cover it for 20 minutes, a monster will rise from the ground and devour you. You can cook rice any way you like for 20 minutes, as long as you use at least twice as much liquid as rice, but those are the only two necessities. The beneficial stuff can be added to uncooked rice. Cook everything you choose in a frying pan or a pot, whether onions, garlic, meat, veggies, soups, gravies, or anything else. Without any effort, you can create delicious meals. My better half always requests that I fold some shredded cheese at the end.
Making soup is a breeze.
Dumplings with Chicken
Chicken noodle soup is something you can tolerate, but it doesn’t mean you have to like it. It’s all about the soup, baby. I recommend cooking country noodles in chicken broth and cream of celery soup, adding canned chicken or turkey, mushrooms, and maybe even canned carrots. Sprinkle pieces of croissant dough on top once it has begun to boil. Hold the lid down and maintain a boil for 20 minutes. Wow! You can eat chicken and dumplings.
Delicious Cheese-Based Soups
I always have some cheese on hand. My better half adores it. Begin with any canned cream soup. Put some carrots in there. Blend in some grated cheese. Season with care. Yum!
Pureed Potato Soup in Cream
For convenience, I often use precut vegetables like tinned potatoes and carrots. Cream of celery soup and canned mushrooms will do the trick. Put in some garlic and onions, please. Do you enjoy eating Chinese greens? Toss into a can.
Chowders
Crab meat, clams, and shrimp come from cans or freezers. I usually throw them in a pot of cream of mushroom soup with some grated cheese, canned carrots, and canned sliced potatoes. So long! Oh, absolutely. Old Bay® seasoning should not be left out.
Three-Minute Mexican Cooking
Mexican dish or tacos
Put some water in a frying pan, add a clove of garlic and onion, and simmer some tinned chicken, beef, pig, or turkey. In that case, feel free to eat the meat you’ve already eaten. Just grab some tortillas. Throwing them into a hot skillet with some oil can rapidly soften them. I nuked them for a short period. Fill tortillas with the meat mixture and roll them up. Next, cover the dish with some hot enchilada sauce. That sure didn’t take long. Chopped olives are a favorite addition for my wife. Shredded cheese can be sprinkled over the enchiladas before they are baked, fried, or nuked to melt the cheese.
Simply stuff the beef mixture into tortillas and top with chopped lettuce and tomato for a delicious taco. Keep the cheese in mind. Is salsa on top? Why, yes, please do. Avocados? I don’t see why not.
Beans with Rice
Those enchiladas would be perfect with some rice and beans. For this recipe, I use low-fat canned refried beans or lintel beans. Spanish rice is prepared by simmering dry rice in flavorful chicken stock for 20 minutes. I’ll throw in some green tomatoes from the garden, some onion, and maybe some garlic. What you do is up to you. Fresh or canned green chiles are both fine with me.
Chilaquiles Soup
Add enchilada sauce and green chilies to your favorite soup recipe. Aye! Aye! Yes, indeed! Where did the heat come from?
4. Whip Up These Easy Dishes
Salsa del Chef
Slice up a few leaves of lettuce. Throw in some minced onion. Cut the ham and cheese into cubes. Toss them in. Use soft croutons instead of hard ones that may crack your teeth. Toss in some of your preferred dressing. This concludes the discussion. Then I guess we can agree to disagree on the toast. It’s time to make that orange juice and lemon-lime soda mashup. It’s a tasty beverage option.
Sandwiches made with hot roast beef or turkey
Get the bread toasting. I prefer butter. Toast bread and top with canned, packaged, or leftover meat. The meat could use a quick reheat in a microwave or frying pan. Mix in some hot canned gravy. If you have any tomatoes in your garden, cut them up. A can of Chicken Ala King is available for purchase. Yes, heat it first, then pour it over the bread.
Dishes Featuring Rice
People often assume that rice must be cooked before it can be eaten. If you don’t cover it for 20 minutes, a monster will rise from the ground and devour you. You can cook rice any way you like for 20 minutes, as long as you use at least twice as much liquid as rice, but those are the only two necessities. The beneficial stuff can be added to uncooked rice. Cook everything you choose in a frying pan or a pot, whether onions, garlic, meat, veggies, soups, gravies, or anything else. Without any effort, you can create delicious meals. My better half always requests that I fold some shredded cheese at the end.
Five. Spaghetti
The pasta is my favorite. Since my wife doesn’t like tomatoes, I often prepare them by slicing green tomatoes, which she doesn’t recognize. I was at the grocery store the other day and saw some fantastic fresh Italian sausage. I just gave in. Because I am a coward, I only bought the mild flavor. I got a sense of the heat because it had a few pinpoints of intensity.
First, I spent 40 minutes baking the sausage at 350 degrees Fahrenheit while I watched the game. The link was added after I had fried garlic, basil, onions, and green tomatoes. The sauce turned out great because my wife scraped the brown bits from the bottom of the pan as I cooked the sausage. The sauce ended up being made with bottled beef gravy. I threw in a little apple juice. After cooking the spaghetti according to the package directions, I drained it and tossed it with butter and Parmesan cheese.
Basil is a staple in my spaghetti sauce. There is never any oregano in my cooking. The vast majority of Italians avoid such fare. Cooking wine is an excellent addition to a sauce. Since I was out of wine, I substituted apple juice in the sauce. The pasta was perfect.
Tomatoes, tomato paste, and even stewed tomatoes or Italian stewed tomatoes are some of my favorite ingredients in a spaghetti sauce. Still, my wife forbids me from making them too often. She prefers her pasta with little more than butter. When I cook conventional spaghetti and her resistance to my sauce is strong, she is relegated to eating that. Layers of freshly boiled lasagna noodles are sandwiched between layers of cheese and spaghetti sauce (meat in the sauce) to make lasagna. It needs to be baked. Add cheese, ideally at the very end of the cooking time. Sorry, but neither Spinach Lasagna nor Eggplant Parmesan does anything for me.
At least you have something to work with now.
Last Words
(Taylor Jones, the Hack Writer) copyright2007 John T. Jones, Ph.D.
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