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I am looking for new foods to cook and eat, so was hoping to see some of yall's favorites! It is ever better if you have a certain recipe you use.

My favorite food is perlo. It is a rice, keilbasa, chicken, and peas...thing. Very cheap to make and feeds a lot of people! Recipe: http://avengetheangels.tumblr.com/post/45380534625/how-to-make-delicious-perlo-chicken-bog-to

Tell me why you like them if you wish. :3

Roasted anything.

Seriously. Everything from any kind of meat, to root veggies (esp. root veggies), is better roasted, and it's pretty much, oil/S&P to taste, throw a coarsely-chopped onion in with it (even with the veggies) if you're not going to be around people the next day, an unpeeled head of garlic, (shuck the loose, outer leaves, otherwise you will be fishing for them), set it in the oven at about medium-high heat (add a little water, if it's meat, and make gravy from the drippings -- don't add water if you are roasting veggies), wait till it is cooked through (a few hours -- you do need time for this -- the veggies usually cook in about an hour, depending how much you use and what size you chop them up) and done to your desired taste (for meat)/caramelized (for the veggies).

It is honestly my go-to meal when I have to cook for a crowd, and don't have time or motivation to get fancy. If I don't have or don't feel like meat, the roasted root vegetables stand alone very well as a single person's meal.

Did you subconsciously realize how basic of a cook I am? Because I only just started to cook on my own about a year ago. And I can say in all that time I don't think I have roasted anything. :| I'll have to find the least fatty meat to roast (maybe chicken and carrots, mmmmmm).

Chicken! Chicken is no-fail, here's how: Cook from fresh, never from frozen. Add one onion, enough potatoes to serve whoever's eating, carrots, and garlic to the pan, fill halfway up with water, set to 350C (convert as necessary), pull it out of the oven when the juices run clear (add more water if it goes dry), and watch your friends/family/enemies drool in envy. It is literally set it and forget it. Well, check every hour or so to see it's not boiled dry.

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Not to go all Julia Child on the other anon, but if you add that much water, it's not roasting, it's braising.

Easy roast chicken:

1 whole chicken (remove the bag of organs and toss it)
potatoes, (peeled or unpeeled, your choice!) cut into large chunks
carrots, peeled and cut into large chunks
onions, peeled and diced
garlic cloves, separated from the head but with the husk left on
olive oil
salt and pepper
thyme
Optional: more onion, lemon

Rub the entire chicken with olive oil, salt and pepper and thyme, outside and inside. If you want to get fancy, stuff the insides with diced onion and wedges of lemon, whatever herbs you like, etc. and then put the chicken in a large roasting pan. Toss the potatoes, onions, garlic, and carrots with olive oil, S&P and thyme. Pile them up around the chicken. You don't want to crowd the pan (or the chicken) too much, so think single layer.

425 F. for 45-50 minutes, or until the chicken skin is golden brown and the juices run clear when you poke it with a knife.

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Egg'n'avocado salad - can be eaten on its own or be used as a salad base or tossed in another salad or...whatever, really!

Dice a couple hard-boiled eggs.
Dice a ripe avocado.
Throw into a tupperware with a lid.
Add some lemon juice and salt to taste, and whatever spices you prefer.
Close up the tupperware and shake to mix.

It's really tasty and super-easy to make, especially if you've already got the eggs all boiled already. The only hard part might be actually finding good avocados, depending on where you are.

Also, if you can get your hands on rice vinegar (the kind used in sushi) but can't get/afford sushi rice, you can use regular white rice and toss it and some sushi fixings into a bowl with the vinegar. It's a sushi bowl! It's also pretty versatile, as you can really add anything to it. I think we had carrots, cucumbers, and avocado when we tried it, which was really tasty.

This is not my cup of tea, but my mom will LOVE this. The lovesssss avocados an ungodly amount.

Huh, I might have to try this. It sounds like it could make for a good lunch!

Still Roti Jala for me!

Unfortunately you need to have a special kind of pouring mold to make the lacy 'net' crepes but if you manage to get one then, well...

http://rasamalaysia.com/roti-jala-recipe-and-reintroducing-a1/

cook away!

Nnnnooooooo. :( Though, it looks like I could make something like that mold. I'd think a cup with holes in the bottom would work in a pinch.

That could work too, although the holes would have to be very small to make the crepes really lacy. Also, should be noted that this thing goes very well with curry, so make some up if you want to dunk something into. :)

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Um my favorite things to cook and eat are mostly simple things like pasta and rice-centric dishes like chicken adobo and stuff like that. Because they're easy to cook and there's relatively little chance of me fucking them up. Like, with pasta, pasta sauces are pretty easy to make, and then if you can boil pasta, you're set. Chicken adobo is basically just browning chicken and then cooking it in vinegar and soy sauce with garlic and onion. Or, like, chicken stirfries, those are really easy. Also meatloaf, and chili, and macaroni and cheese.

I don't really have any recipes to share because usually I improvise a lot off of a basic method. Like, I usually read a bunch of different recipes for ideas online, and then kind of just go with the flow. Which is probably why I only really cook simple things. I'm not a very good cook.

I wish I could improvise when cooking. I am also a not so good cook AND I have a really bad sense of taste. So I can't "season to taste" because by the time I get enough seasoning to really taste it, it might be too much for others.

Favorite food is my mom's breaded chicken or maybe her meat sauce, both of which are super basic.

For the chicken, it's just vegetable oil heated, then you take boneless, skinless chicken breast, dip it in a milk and egg wash, dip it in bread crumbs and then fry. I don't know why but it's so yummy.

My go-to dish at home, that my parents always ask me to make is chicken stuffing dish. Buy Stove Top stuffing (usually chicken flavored), put enough water to coat the bottom of the pan (I use a Corningware glass pan) and put about 4 Tbsp melted butter. Then sprinkle all the stuffing. Next dip the chicken in olive oil, coat the chicken in bread crumbs and lay int pan. We make enough that the chicken covers the entire pan. Then cover with foil and stick in the oven for 30 minutes at 350. Take the foil off and cook for 15 more minutes. Voila yum yum!

The chicken tastes the best because fried chicken is the best. :3

The chicken stuffing dish sound delicious. I have had both of those foods separately, never thought to eat them together (you do cook them together, correct?).

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I invented a thing that's prety easy to make: chicken tarts! With the variety ~*~*~Moroccan Chicken Tarts~*~*~ ooooh.

1. Take you some chicken breasts. Idk how many, how hungry are you? Put them in a pot full of water and boil 'em till they're cooked (aka not even a little pink any more)
2. Chill them chicken breasts.
3. Shred the chicken with yo fingers. You can chop 'em up with a knife but the texture is less pleasing.
4. Add cream cheese to the shredded chicken--idk how much, how much chicken do you have? Enough so that everything sticks together. Like, if you've ever made flakey pastry dough from scratch, how it holds together but is still a little dry and grainy? Kinda like that.
5. For REGULAR chicken tarts: add some dried parsely flakes (the form u can get from the spice section of WalMart yo), just to taste. Don't turn it all green, just give it some flava. Maybe add some praprika if u wanna go nuts. For MOROCCAN chicken tarts; instead of parsely, add cinnamon. Trust me, that shit will be delicious.
6. You could painstakingly make pastry, but ain't nobody got time for that; instead, buy some crescent rolls in a tube (pillsbury, Target brand, what have you. Just the ones that come as a sheet of triangles in a tube like whomp biscuits do)
7. Take two crescent roll triangles and pinch them together so they instead make a rectangle. Spoon some of the chicken stuff onto it, then fold and pinch into a little package.
8. Cook like the direction on the roll package says
9. EAT THAT SHIT omg so freaking good. They reheat really well too, so you can make a dozen of those little bastards and eat em all week.

I am doing these. Not just because they sound easy and delicious. But because your recipe delivery is hilarious.

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You can make some darn good fish/salmon in the oven. Just put a small fillet on a piece of aluminum foil skin-side-down (when I get salmon at the store it usually comes as one giant footlong fillet that I divide into 5 or so pieces); you can flavor the fish however you like. I usually mix it up--one piece has some lemon juice an paprika, one has pineapple juice and slices, one has maple syrup (the BEST, but you need REAL syrup!!). Fold the poil together so it makes a little packet--aka there's a bit of airspace over the fish. This makes it steam as well as baking. Put all the packets on a cookie sheet (so they don't leak all over your oven!) and bake until they're flakey. I make this every year on my birthday. :D

I am not a big fish fan, but all my family is. I'll have to make something for them. What fish type do you recommend?

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I just posted my favorite-ever chicken pot pie recipe up in the "How was your day?" thread. Some other things I make regularly:

http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/soups/sunday-night-stew/
http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/soups/sausage-potato-and-kale-soup/
http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/main-courses/chicken-with-coconut-lime-peanut-sauce/
http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/main-courses/five-spice-beef-stir-fry/

I would call them all pretty simple, although the first two require ages of simmer time and the other two call for some specialized ingredients which are totally worth it. All my other faves are either crazy complicated or are buried deep in my physical recipe file.

Thank you :D The beef stir fry looks delicious!

One of my favourite foods are things you can make in big heaps in a pan or wok. This is one of my favourites. You'll need: Diced chicken or turkey breast. Spinach (frozen or fesh). Chickpeas (canned, drained & rinsed is easiest). Diced toasted white bread. Very important: Sesame oil, best would be some hot sesame oil with chilli peppers but you could also use chilli powder. Some sour cream. Optional: Some roasted pine nuts.

Fry the chicken/turkey. Add the spinach. Add the chickpeas. Add seasoning (the usual - salt, some black pepper, some chilli powder if you want). Add sesame oil (that's the main seasoning for this). Add some sour cream. Once everything's in, add the bread and let it soak up the gathered liquids.
Serve with some roasted pine nuts sprinkled on top or without.

Oh no, I love things you can make in big groups too, hence the perlo. :P

I don't really want to nitpick (and your recipe really do look tasty), but I think that bigger green leaf is bay leaf, not basil.

I live semi-alone for a while now, and every year I cook a bit more. Not neccesary better, just more.

Today I will make "lecsó": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecs%C3%B3

It's pretty easy, fast and spicy, you only have to chop a lot, and stir it a bit after every added ingredient.

- I chop an onion, and start to fry the small pieces in sunflower oil, and I salt it a little.
- While it fries, I slice a small zucchini in not too thin slices, and when the onion is fried, I add them.
- I put the lid on the pan, and chop the paprikas/peppers in rings. I've been told, that the secret of this dish is in the variety of peppers. (By the way that's not true: The only secret of this dish is in the fresh, sesasonal ingredients. Everybody makes it differently.) For me it's a few rings of strong, spicy green pepper, one red and sweet pepper, and halves of different kinds of mild green peppers.
- I add the pepper-slices to my dish, and a small spoonful of powdered red pepper, from the milder kind.
- I slice up some smoked sausages/kielbasa, and add them too.
- I chop up a little mushroom, and add that too. (The original recipe doesn't contain mushroom, but I like it, so minde does.)
- I slice two tomatoes, add them, and now I only have to wait about 15 minutes to the veggies to fry.
- When the juice of the veggies start to fry away, I brake two or three eggs, salt and scramble them, pour it on my dish, and stir the whole thing until it (mostly) solidifies.

That's it. Chopping, stirring, eating, that's all.

OMG! THank you for telling me. How did I confuse those two. /facepalm

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