Ultimate lazy meals

[MamaMaiasaura]

Mine is chicken casserole:

2 carrots
1 onion
1 or 2 courgettes
1 carton of tomato passata
1 500g pack of fresh chicken thighs (frozen)

I chop veg and put in large casserole pot, tip passata over and then frozen chicken on top. Put in at 160/170 for 4 hours

Serve with pasta and sprinkle grated cheese

I sometimes add wine/pepper/garlic. But even without its yummy

Hmmm, that poverty pasta looks lovely.

Has anyone suggested pain au fromage yet?

Toast bread. Add good quality mature cheddar, plus a few dashes of worcestershire sauce or chilli sauce (Cholula best IMO). Shove under grill. Eat in front of the telly with a cold beer.

DH and I do this when we can't be bothered to cook - about once a week once a month...

DH made this for dinner last night.

Fry some onion, garlic and maybe some leek if you have it
Shred some cabbage and add to the pot
Open a can of white beans, drain and throw in
Add water, a bit of a stock cube and maybe a chilli if you are up for it.
Bring to boil

Let it cook for 5-10 minutes

Voila fart-in-a-bowl (as it is known in the slug household)

Put uncooked pasta in ovendish(handful for each person) empty on 2 tins of tuna, tin of Sweetcorn and tin of tomato soup, fill soup tin with cold water and tip in too. Stir well, sprinkle on grated cheese and put in oven for forty minutes. Easy.
I may have overdone this to the point my dc won't touch it anymore

MamaMaisaurus, can you cook chicken from frozen? I alwys thought you couldn't. You are evidently alive and posting after eating it. Life is about to get a lot simpler for me.

Aubergine bake -
Chop aubergine into slices, put in big oven dish. Chuck 2 cans of good quality tomatoes on top and add some herbs. You could add some pesto if you have it. Cook for 20 mins. Then add mozzarella on top and cook for 20 more mins. Boil pasta and mix with sauce(with parmesan if you like) Yum!

You could also have gnocchi instead of pasta or that ready made polenta that comes in a block.

sin I think because I cook it for 4 or more hours it's ok. Lovely and tender and if I put it in defrosted it goes a bit dry. Loving all recipes here and plan to work thro them

Need easy puddings next! Lol

Thanks Mama I guess the long cooking time does it.
Didn't mean to cast nasturtiums on your cooking

I have recently learned the secret of always having a fast meal ready. Frozen bagels!

Slice and toast bagel twice while cooking bacon and an egg.

Combine with cheese.

Done!

bake at home french bread stick, cut on length, fill with tinned tuna and sweetcorn, and spring onion if available, top with cheese, put in oven.

stale french bread stick, cut on length, spread each side with tom puree, put dried herbs next, then various hard cheese, and what is in fridge, bake in oven.

Fry chopped onion, red pepper and whatever else you may have languishing in the back of the fridge - chicken breast, bacon, mushrooms. Add eggs. Omelette! With salad or oven chips. Also love frankfurters in these.

Roast some asparagus with a bit of olive oil and a bit of balsamic vinegar. Shave some parmesan over it. Eat with good bread, or in an omelette or chucked on top of a load of rocket and some finely sliced red onion.

Otherwise get nice wholemeal bread, toast it and put Whole Earth peanut butter on it.

Chopped bacon or pancetta cooked in garlic olive oil. Cook pasta. Mix two together and eat

Same as brighthair but creamy - put pasta on to boil, and while it's cooking, fry up some leeks and lardons - tip over some double cream and a handful of parmesan. A minute before the pasta is done chuck some frozen peas into the pasta pan. Drain and mix with the creamy leeks and lardons, salt and pepper and more parmesan to taste.

put pasta on to boil.
crush 2 cloves garlic and cook in a big blob of butter.
chuck in a 300ml tub of half fat creme fraiche (half fat is for texture reasons)
add the zest of a lemon, little squeeze of the juice, and a packet of basics smoked salmon trimmings. warm through. makes enough for 2 adults and 2 dc
serve mixed through the pasta and topped with some parmesan, and rocket if you can persuade anyone to eat the latter because i bloody can't

Ooh crumpets are fab too
Make eggy crumpets by dipping them in beaten egg then cooking in a pan. Good with bacon
Crumpets with cheese/beans/fried egg/marmite any combo

some great recipes here! I think 90% of my meals are lazy meals, but here's one where I think the tastiness is way out of proportion with the amount of effort:

• Chop leeks/peppers/mushrooms/whatever other veg is hanging around.
• Mix with olive oil, squeeze of lemon, glug of white wine, salt, pepper, mixed erbs, put in a roasting tin. Chuck in couple of garlic cloves, unpeeled.
• On top, place chicken breasts wrapped in pancetta.
• Shove into oven for 40 mins.
• Serve with couscous and a blob of natural yoghurt maybe.

It's not the laziest of lazy recipes, but damn it's delicious.

Today's lunch was onions and garlic, fried for a few minutes. Then add tinned toms and marscapone and basil. Then spinach at the end. Add to pasta (though we used gnocchi)

Done!

Then there's my favourite: Cabbage and bacon. Fry onions and bacon bits, add loads of butter, add shredded cabbage. Cook until the cabbage is soft. Serve with bread.

DH adds other stuff, like mustard and pepper and garlic when he does it and admittedly, it is nicer, but mine is quicker and lazier.