You've got ten minutes to make a meal, what do you cook?

Soup. Water, bouillon cube, whatever vegetables you have.

pasta with a sauce made of mushrooms, green peppers, red peppers, paprika(very important in this recipe), tomatoes, garlic, pepperoni if youre into that sort of thing. it takes approximatly 10 minutes to cook the sauce and you can put whatever consistency of ingredients as you want.

If you have ten minutes to make a meal….How long do you have to eat then? I’d go with a sandwich….get the deli meats out!

Whip several eggs in bowl, add 1 T water and a few T salsa. Microwave 1 minute, stir, MW 45 seconds or so.

RAMEN!

I gotta second the pasta thing. It’s so quick/easy/filling/amazingly wonderful. God bless the noodle.

Bring the water for quick cooking rice to a boil and add the rice. Then add in chopped frozen broccoli. Either grate some cheddar, cube some Velveeta, or tear a few slices of American cheese in squares. Stir cheese into the hot rice-broccoli mixture.

Start heating a large can of canned baked beans. Dice some onion and 2–3 slices of bacon. Saute until bacon and onion are done. Drain. Stir into beans. Add 1 Tablespoon mustard, 1/8 c. catsup, 1 tsp. cider vinegar, and a dash of worchestershire sauce. Stir thoroughly and serve.

Make a fritatta. Beat four large eggs with a Tbsp of half and half and salt and pepper. Meanwhile, saute any of the following you have on hand: red bell pepper, onions, mushrooms, zucchini in an oven-proof pan. Pour the egg mixture over the vegetables. Add your choice of thyme, oregano, rosemary or basil. Fresh is best, but 1/2–1 tsp dried is fine. Cook over medium heat. Lift the edge of the fritatta and let the uncooked eggs run underneath working your way around the pan evenly. When the eggs are set underneath, sprinkle with your choice of cheese: parmesan, cheddar, goat cheese, feta, havarti, provolone, etc. Place under the broiler just until the cheese melts and the top is set. Delicious.

Vegetable substutions: artichoke hearts, asparagus (break in pieces), spinach, arugula, diced tomatoes.

Add-ins if desired: crumbled cooked sausage, diced ham, crumbled bacon, pepperoni, ground beef.

Other flavors: garlic, chives, shallots.

@marina you better have made enough to share with EVERYBODY! It’s 11:30PM here and I’ve got drool running down my chin…

@gorillapaws. Sure, anytime. Guests welcome.

throw a chkn breast on a hot forman grill with a sliced squash. Add garlic salt to the chkn while cooking. You have a quick easy healthy meal.

Mac and cheese and add a can of tuna or chicken breast.

Or a salad with a can of the chicken breast.

marie callenders fetuccini Alfredo tv dinner

I usually have rice in my fridge, ready to go, because it makes a lot of dishes easy to prepare, but I think you can get pre-cooked rice in packages now. I also store leftover items in my freezer which helps cut down on chopping in a hurry, including cooked meats. The recipes may taste differently if you use this method, but if you’re in a pinch then it’s the way to go. This dish, however, I make as vegetarian, substituting Quorn for the chicken. My husband is not a vegetarian so we eat about 50/50. When cooking vegetarian, I generally try to add some ingredient that necessitates more chewing.

Fast Chicken and Rice

1 8.8-ounce package cooked brown or white rice
1/2 cup frozen peas
1 pound chicken breast tenders, halved crosswise
1 tablespoon cooking oil
1/4 cup bottled stir-fry sauce
Packaged oven-roasted sliced almonds (I roast my own in a dry pan)

1. Stir peas into rice pouch. Heat in microwave according to package directions.

2. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, cook and stir chicken in hot oil over medium-high heat for 2 to 3 minutes or until no longer pink. Stir rice mixture into skillet. Stir in stir-fry sauce; heat through. Sprinkle each serving with almonds. Makes 4 servings.

I use a wok sauce that’s called Cilantro and Garlic, and at the end I throw in fresh, chopped cilantro. I also use more almonds because I like crunchy stuff.

This is, without a doubt, my favorite, fast preparation recipe. I subscribe to a daily recipe newsletter from Better Homes & Gardens and have probably saved a few hundred recipes, some of which I’ve made a fair amount of time. They have them categorized, I can’t recommend their site as a recipe source enough.

Tear up a lot of excellent lettuce (dry it first) on top of a pool of excellent olive oil in the bottom of a salad bowl, well mixed with a crushed clove of garlic, a bunch of nice grainy salt, and some black pepper – maybe some mustard if you like.
On top of the lettuce,
put diced fresh vegetables of any variety, and diced leftover chicken or roast beef or leg of lamb or deli meat, tofu, hard-boiled eggs, shrimps, bit of crab – anything you can make into little adorable pieces. Add nuts if you aren’t allergic. Add thyme, crushed in your palms, or savory, or tarragon. Toss. Toss a lot. Then and only then, squeeze the juice of l/2 of 1 lemon over. Toss
again. Eat with a delicious thick slice (each person) of excellent bread, with real butter, unsalted. Have a beer.

I just boil pasta, drain it, stir in some pesto, feta cheese, kalamata olives, and a little chili paste for kick.

whole wheat pita from Trader Joe’s (for some reason tastes so much better than other ww pita) with
– a yummy spread, eg tapanade, wasabi mayo, guac, or tomato pesto
– whatever cheese
– deli meat or roasted portobello
– thinly sliced red onion
– anthing else around… Roasted veggies etc
5 min in the toaster oven. Voilà!

- deli meat or roasted portobello

Spanish omlette… yum.

a meal for myself? Ramen.

instant rice, frozen broccoli (or other veggies) and cheddar cheese on top…all cooked of course :)

Grilled cheese. Yunmm. Or a cheese Quesadilla in my quesadilla maker.

What, praytell, is a quesadilla maker?

Huh? Whats praytell?

pray tell:
please do tell (about something)

Last night we had cuke and tomato salad with chicken and cubed mozzerella. It was yummy, an inspiration from eating out. We will eat this a lot over the summer.

Cut tomatoes, and cukes.
Throw in cubed mozzerella
Basil
cut cooked leftover chicken
and then pour Paul Newman’s Balmasic Vingerette over it.

(next time will try cubed garlic bread in the mix)

@ezra OH! Ive got this AMAZING quesadilla maker,!! You get everything together- I put grated cheese and then a little bit of butter on the outsides and I put the quesadilla in what looks like a waffle maker, ad wait like 5 minutes and wahhh la! Its a toasty, cheesy, buttery, quesadilla!

that sounds remarkable. can you make other things in it? pressed sandwiches, perhaps?

you know what… I went to go look at it and you can’t, there are little triangles in it sepcificaly to cut down the quesadilla. If there is an all in one sandwich toaster like that, I so want it!

oh, that is too bad. Ah! 1500! congrats!

oh snaps! Didn’t notice. Thanks E! :)

Big salad!

Tacos or taco salad