Well, since I totally live on the type of cooking that you describe I'm sure I can come up with a few examples.
Pasta and sauce: easy, boring.
Veggie stir fry: Apply vegetables to wok. Fry. Apply noodles to pan of boiling water. Cook until bored. Add whatever sauce you feel like
Leek and potato bake (requires a food processor): Render leeks (onions if you have em), potatoes into very very tiny pieces. Stir fry them until they aren't poisonous any more. Whilst they are frying, cook a white(/cheese/mushroom) sauce. Apply the two to a pyrex dish and bake until bored or the cheese on top (if you added it) looks yummy.
Oniony Chickpeayey cheesey mix: Fry onion. Apply tin of chick peas. Add cheese until bored. Optionally, add lots of interesting spices.
Lentils: Cook in about 5-10 minutes, can add any sauce and any carbs and any veg that you feel like. I like spicy tomatoey lentils with pasta.
Pizza: Get pizza base, add pasta sauce, veggies, cheese and bake until bored.
Generally, I just pick a source of protein (lentils, chick peas, cheese are good), pick a source of starch (if you picked lentils or chick peas you've got a head start here, otherwise pasta and couscous are good ones to pick, as is a microwaved potato/sweet potato), pick some vegetables (whatever you've got to hand), pick some source of fat (cheese, olive oil), pick a source of flavour (sauce, tomatoes, spices, onions, mushrooms etc) and apply them to one or more pans in whatever manner seems appropriate.
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Date: 2003-05-28 03:50 am (UTC)Pasta and sauce: easy, boring.
Veggie stir fry: Apply vegetables to wok. Fry. Apply noodles to pan of boiling water. Cook until bored. Add whatever sauce you feel like
Leek and potato bake (requires a food processor): Render leeks (onions if you have em), potatoes into very very tiny pieces. Stir fry them until they aren't poisonous any more. Whilst they are frying, cook a white(/cheese/mushroom) sauce. Apply the two to a pyrex dish and bake until bored or the cheese on top (if you added it) looks yummy.
Oniony Chickpeayey cheesey mix: Fry onion. Apply tin of chick peas. Add cheese until bored. Optionally, add lots of interesting spices.
Lentils: Cook in about 5-10 minutes, can add any sauce and any carbs and any veg that you feel like. I like spicy tomatoey lentils with pasta.
Pizza: Get pizza base, add pasta sauce, veggies, cheese and bake until bored.
Generally, I just pick a source of protein (lentils, chick peas, cheese are good), pick a source of starch (if you picked lentils or chick peas you've got a head start here, otherwise pasta and couscous are good ones to pick, as is a microwaved potato/sweet potato), pick some vegetables (whatever you've got to hand), pick some source of fat (cheese, olive oil), pick a source of flavour (sauce, tomatoes, spices, onions, mushrooms etc) and apply them to one or more pans in whatever manner seems appropriate.