What's a low effort dish you like to make for yourself? What's about a high effort dish that you make as a treat?

I will be judging your answers based on your favorites

The dish i've used my pressure cooker the most for is salsa chicken. It's sort of a soup but kind of thickens after a while in the fridge and can then maybe be used as burrito filling. But I always just eat it with corn chips. Would probably freeze well too.

Olive oil on the bottom of your pressure cooker pot, then 3 big boneless skinless frozen chicken thighs (turn them over in the oil)
Add 16oz chunky salsa, I use a jar of Pace brand
Add can of black beans (don't drain)
Fill same can with frozen corn and add
Add 2 tbsp taco seasoning
Pressure cook for 12 minutes
Then let sit for 10 more minutes before releasing pressure
Mush the chicken with a potato masher after to shred it, it'll come apart easily
Eat with corn chips

I've also been really into caprese salad or sandwiches lately. Good mozzerella that comes in a log, roma or heirloom tomatoes, basil, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt, pepper, and baguette to serve with. Either all chopped and mixed and then eaten on toast, or sliced and layered on toast like an open face sandwich and drizzled with oil+balsamic

Ive been making this for dinner recently. and its bloody delicious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaCuMfY59u0

wandering_spaniel said:
The dish i've used my pressure cooker the most for is salsa chicken. It's sort of a soup but kind of thickens after a while in the fridge and can then maybe be used as burrito filling. But I always just eat it with corn chips. Would probably freeze well too.

Olive oil on the bottom of your pressure cooker pot, then 3 big boneless skinless frozen chicken thighs (turn them over in the oil)
Add 16oz chunky salsa, I use a jar of Pace brand
Add can of black beans (don't drain)
Fill same can with frozen corn and add
Add 2 tbsp taco seasoning
Pressure cook for 12 minutes
Then let sit for 10 more minutes before releasing pressure
Mush the chicken with a potato masher after to shred it, it'll come apart easily
Eat with corn chips

I've also been really into caprese salad or sandwiches lately. Good mozzerella that comes in a log, roma or heirloom tomatoes, basil, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt, pepper, and baguette to serve with. Either all chopped and mixed and then eaten on toast, or sliced and layered on toast like an open face sandwich and drizzled with oil+balsamic

Both sound pretty fucking good ngl

I'm not good at cooking, so I usually do just Velveeta shells and cheese or regular mac and cheese

Mashed potatoes! :3

chicken. fucking. curry.

lonelylucario said:
I'm not good at cooking, so I usually do just Velveeta shells and cheese or regular mac and cheese

I can tell you how to make a pretty good mac and cheese if you don't mind. It's only a little bit more difficult and expensive to make than the Kraft or Velveeta stuff

luke_goldie said:
Mashed potatoes! :3

Mashed potatoes are great and favorites aren't too bad so 9/10.

boolde said:
chicken. fucking. curry.

Fiance loves that stuff so 10/10

Once in a while I like to make pizza out of Donner/Gyros pita bread. I just put some raw tomato sauce on it, mozzarela, some prociutto and oregano and heat it all ij oven for like 7-9 minutes. Is fast and as low effort as possible and it tastes like a thin crust pizza believing or not.

Now, a more high effort I do is some "chinese chicken" with black rice. It requires a mixed sauce of pineapple juice, soia, tomato sauce, vinegar, sweet chilli, honey, a little bit of sriracha sauce and a little corn starch to make it a little bit thicker. The rest is just bell peppers with onions fried a little bit on a large pan mixed with cubes of chicken meat. I deffinetly recommend this food :D

wandering_spaniel said:
I've also been really into caprese salad or sandwiches lately. Good mozzerella that comes in a log, roma or heirloom tomatoes, basil, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt, pepper, and baguette to serve with. Either all chopped and mixed and then eaten on toast, or sliced and layered on toast like an open face sandwich and drizzled with oil+balsamic

you're the reason i ordered stuff for my groceries lmao

my mom used to make one with a bagel, cream cheese, slice of fresh mozzarella, some basil pesto, and a drizzle of balsamic. so fucking good.
one of my fave simple meals. if only the mozz wasn't so damned expensive aaaa

lasanga

I like making fresh pasta. Its pretty easy, and mostly pretty quick. You also don't have to be too accurate with the measurements. The recipe can be doubled if you want more pasta, just double the amounts.
Semolina flour (1 cup-ish)
eggs (1)
water (2 tablespoons-ish)
Place the flour in a ring and the egg in the middle, slowly mix together. Add water slowly over time while mixing. Boom, you have raw pasta. Cut it and chuck it in some boiling water and you're done, pasta. Simple, and definitely worth it.

For a treat? I'll make some steak! (Price may be a problem, but I can get a lot of steak for a good price at my local Costco). Filet is better, but sirloin is more affordable and is still really good. I rub the steak with whatever spices i want, usually Kinder's rubs, than I sous vide the steak for about 3 hours until about medium-rare, than throw it on the stove with some butter, garlic, and some rosemary until its Medium. It sounds very cheesy, but it is very good, even if it is pricy.

Back with an update: this week I've started bringing homemade just-add-water soup jars to work and they slap. Vermicelli noodles, whatever soup base you want, whatever veggies you want, and tofu (or shredded chicken or whatever if you have it). This week I did miso and dashi for the base and cabbage, carrots, and green onion for the veggies. In the future I'll probably mostly use preshredded coleslaw mix. You just add boiling water (after warming up your jar with warm sink water so it doesn't crack), shake the jar up, and wait 5 minutes and the noodles cook perfectly

I was poor growing up so my favourite has always been spaghetti and ketchup. I will fight anyone who says spaghetti and ketchup is a crime. Spaghetti and ketchup helped out a lot of poor families during the great depression. It deserves our respect.

i like steak 🥩

Cheeseburger steak on a skillet is fun and easy

Not for every day, but a good cordon-bleu goes a long way.
Take a schnitzel (thinly-cut pork loin), put ham and cheese on half of it and flip it over. If you're using smoked ham, a strong cheese will be best, for the cooked ham varieties a milder one is better.
Roll in flour, scrambled egg and then breading.
For breading you can get creative. Add parmesan cheese and paprika powder to the breadcrumbs. Or sesame. Or - I've been having that rather often lately - ground hazelnuts (best with a pinch of sugar that'll caramelize when frying.)
Get a deep pan with a lid and heat some grease in it. Classically clarified butter is best because of its heat resistance but I'd recommend common butter and lower heat for the fancy breading. Fry on one side at fairly high heat, flip, put on lid, let it sit on low heat for a while (I don't use timers when cooking, 15 min maybe? Depends on thickness of the package anyways.)
Once the vertical part of the meat seems done, lid off, heat up. Get that underside crispy again, flip, restore the first sides breading to crispy condition.
Done.
Goes well with fries and some veggies. I sometimes just throw some store-bought Knöpfle (small swabian egg-noodles) in the pan along it, they'll be great once the meats done.
As a side dish, you can mix up leftover breading and egg and just fry that along with the rest.

Another odd thing would be stacking boiled macaronis, grated cheese and smoked ham in a casserole (top layer cheese, on noodles), pour a sauce made of an egg, some cream, salt, pepper, powdered paprika, parsley and kummel over that, bake for 45min at 170°C.
Delicious.

Pizza, burgers, lasagna or steaks are also always welcome of course. For the lasagna, try one made with chili con carne instead of bolognese. I may have come up with that purely because I made more chili than my freezer could fit but it's great.

As an ultra-fatty but insanely good dinner, try some Gefüllte. It's potato dumplings (half cooked half raw is a common strategy used for the potatos) with a filling of (fried) ground meat and liver sausage, served with a sauce made of Speck (smoked and cured pork-fat, the kind without regular meat parts) that gets heated until it melts, then cream is added and boiled until this forms a coherent sauce. Season a little with salt pepper and parsely. Pour the sauce over the hot dumpling, serve with sauerkraut. Only acceptable with beer on the side.
Also works without the filling for the dumplings but that's less fun.

Philly cheesesteaks