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For the perfect fish finger butty (which I’m definitely having for lunch tomorrow) ….
Best to chuck the plastic cheese on the fish fingers as you finish cooking them to melt it, then into Warbies toastie smothered in proper butter then doused in ketchup 😃
What a bunch of prissy Sunday school attenders you all are.
Pan fried steak with al dente vegetables.
Prep time: 2 mins
Cooking time: 4 mins.
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Fried rice, fry up some veg, add some leftover rice, whisk up in an egg or 2 and add to pan (mix it in or clear a space in the pan and let it firm up first before mixing, let the mood take you!). And some soy and chilli flakes. Adapt to what is in the fridge.
That Hugh Fearley-****install abomination is possibly the saddest looking thing I’ve ever seen.
It looks like it tastes of tears and antidepressants
Slice and fry halumi.
Place onto slice of bread with lots of butter.
Cover in sliced jalapenos
Squirt of lemon juice
Cover with the other bit of bread with lots more butter.
This is looking more and more like a brazen attempt to win thread of the week.....
Not looked at that DIY pot noodle link above but, around fifteen years ago when I had an indoor job with access to a kettle my lunch consisted of a sandwich box, ready prepared with a sachet of the cheapest (9p I think) Tesco instant noodles, a cheap cream of veg cuppa soup and a teaspoon of curry powder....food of the gods!
One tin of these -
One packet of these -
Heated through in a pan, at grated pecorino or other hard cheese of choice and your favoured hot sauce.
Mmmm beany rice treat *chefs kiss*
I might have posted this before, if so apologies but this is a winter post night ride favourite, one pan - get in put it on to simmer, shower and it's ready...
Saucepan add following...
Drain a can of mixed pulses or mixed beans
Chop or slice about a 1/4 of one of a supermarket size chorizo ring
300ml boiling water/just enough to cover beans
One Oxo cube or bouillon powder beef, chicken or veg for the Oxo is fine
One large splodge tomato puree
1/2 to 1tsp chilli flake
Dried oegano and/or basil
Garlic if you can be bothered to chop something else
Simmer for 10 minutes or so
Makes a thick soupy/stew
May be served with cheese and / or bread.
Not haut cuisine but it's filling and warming and gives you just enough time to shower the mud off.
Every lunch has to involve home made soup. Sorted.
Best Polish Kielecki mayonnaise from Tesco
This one too.
Go to Morrisons.
Fill up a salad box until it barely closes.
Buy some chicken thighs, some cheap sliced wholemeal bread, some mayo and some hot sauce.
Toasted chicken salad sarnies are proof of a sane God.
Emperor penguin eggs poached in snow leopard bile with a side of sautéed ocelot spleens?
From the Ron Craggs recipe book?
A can of tomato and three bean soup microwaved in big bowl, a packet of microwaved rice dumped on top, black pepper and std Encona hot sauce.
Honestly you could serve in a restaurant it’s so good. It’s massive, healthy and less than £2.
As for the perfect fish finger sandwich-
It has to include Mayo and lettuce as well as the obligatory Tommy K.
Mexican "inspired" rice.
One of the saddest things about late stage capitalism has to be the "regionally adjacent processed product masquerading as food" There's like; 5 countries that have cuisine so recognisable that even oafs will be able to guess at the taste of it.
Chinese - Involves soy sauce (can be substituted for Japanese if upscale)
Italian- Involves either/both pasta and cheese
Mexican (alternative far away hot country that has spicy food, of your choice may be substituted) - Rice, spice
American - cheese, some sort of unidentifiable meat
Greek - Involves feta (Can be Turkish, or vague Middle Eastern if unsure of audience)
Cheesy beans on toast or baked spud , plenty of black pepper or a dollop of chilli chutney 😋
My studenty/I-haven't-bothered-shopping-in-ages lunch is:
Instant mash (Idaho buttery preferred)
More butter
Can of tuna
Salad cream
Mix it all together and a decent sprinkling of salt - it sounds and looks grim but has saved me many a time from reverting to deliveroo (or getting off my lazy ass and going to the shops).
Miso soup paste, water, noodles and whatever veg is in the fridge, ginger, chilli. Heat til noodles cooked. Lime juice...ooh look at me...
From my dim and distant student days:
Pasta of choice cooked and drained.
In the same pan grate as much cheese as possible. Add black pepper. Job jobbed.
Now, another, of this 'ere parish, is fond of Tuna, Smash and onion gravy, though I fear this fails the 'one-pot' restriction.
Bacon sandwich.
This. With a fried egg and cheese. Then fry the sandwich in the bacon grease.
it sounds… …grim
Corrrrect!
Saucepan add following…
Drain a can of mixed pulses or mixed beans
Chop or slice about a 1/4 of one of a supermarket size chorizo ring
300ml boiling water/just enough to cover beans
One Oxo cube or bouillon powder beef, chicken or veg for the Oxo is fine
One large splodge tomato puree
1/2 to 1tsp chilli flake
Dried oegano and/or basil
Garlic if you can be bothered to chop something elseSimmer for 10 minutes or so
Makes a thick soupy/stew
May be served with cheese and / or bread.
This sounds great.
‘one appliance or pan only’
TBH, if youve got an electric grill (George Foreman or similar) youre golden.
You can cook most things on it, and then put cooked components into a toastie and put it back on the grill if you fancy.
I bought a Thermal/insulated kleen canteen tub thing for work, that happened to be the exact same size as a nest of noodles from the super market.
uncooked Noodles at the bottom. Top it up with "stuff", dry.
Add hot water at lunch and seal it back up for 10 minutes and it was ready. The insulation component was crucial in keeping the water hot enough to cook the noodles, but it worked well.
Cashews, Spring onions and chicken bits. Winner winner.
‘What do we want’? ‘Toasters AND pans’! ‘when do we want them? ‘About 12:30 to 1pm. Ish’.
i enjoyed that.
Anything with an egg and potato. Currently on leftover chilli with left over potato and and a egg. All fried up add a egg. Lovely.
American – cheese, some sort of unidentifiable meat
May also not actually be cheese.
Best Polish Kielecki mayonnaise from Tesco
This one too.
So.. lunch is two jars of hot mayonnaise? I guess you can just pop the lids off and microwave them in their jars so ticks the 'easy' box as theres no washing up- does it get runny enough to just chug when its hot? No spoon?. This could win the thread. Not sure if the OP is going to come windmilling in with some kind of draconian after-the-event rule change though. You know what Binners is like.
You know when you just get something pop in your head that you really really fancy? Well, I'm definitely going for this today*
I shall be utilising the egg cooker, which I've championed many times on here as one of the best kitchen thingimibobs you can own. Perfect eggs every time 😀
* I was going to have a fish finger butty, but I'm cooking a Goan fish curry tonight and thats too much fish for one day
Just use the fishfingers as soldiers to dip in the egg.
Grilled cheese and ham sarnie for me today with pico de gallo on the side.
I really shouldn't have read this thread between 11am and lunchtime whole trying to be good and eat healthy/eat less. The next hour is going to last forever until lunchtime!
There's some leftover bolognese in the fridge from last night. Might be going in a Crimpit with some cheese and in the air fryer. But then it would also be nice with the spaghetti in a wrap. Or just on some seeded toast with grated cheedar on top. Maybe with a poached egg on the side.
Just use the fishfingers as soldiers to dip in the egg.
There’s like; 5 countries that have cuisine so recognisable that even oafs will be able to guess at the taste of it.
You missed,
Indian - contains curry powder.
My studenty/I-haven’t-bothered-shopping-in-ages lunch is:
Instant mash (Idaho buttery preferred)
More butter
Can of tuna
Salad cream
Mix it all together and a decent sprinkling of salt – it sounds and looks grim but has saved me many a time from reverting to deliveroo (or getting off my lazy ass and going to the shops).
That's basically reconstituted fish & chips.
A packet of dry pasta/tomato and herbs (other favours are available)
Add a tin of tuna, hot water, mix, microwave,eat.
1 pan cajun chicken pesto pasta today. omm nom
Tried the Bosh baked beans today - very nice, I'll adjust the amount of sugar down and chilli up
Tried the Bosh baked beans today - very nice, I'll adjust the amount of sugar down and chilli up. Yum.
I've just had a packet of these.
I've done something similar to the Bosh beans before but with a bit less faff because I used baked beans.
use the fishfingers as soldiers to dip in the egg
Next. Level.
WFH today so thick-sliced crusty bread, carefully bringing the loaf back to square and plumb after the gf cut the last slice off with a bent rusty double-handled two person pit saw or something, seemingly.
Butter on, then a good chug of mayo, sprinkled with cheddar and then a real good showering of chilli flakes, browned in the air fryer for bang-on-trend points and enjoyed whilst sizzling hot*.
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*and the lunch.
carefully bringing the loaf back to square and plumb after the gf cut the last slice off with a bent rusty double-handled two person pit saw or something, seemingly.
I feel your pain. I think MrsIHN uses a combination of two things to slice a loaf:
1) an axe
2) a blindfold
I ended up relying far too much on bread and crisps last year so I'm now trying various quick and healthy options, typically including any combination of the following (often sprinkled with a mix of midlife spices and/or flaxseed, chia seeds etc):
- tuna
- mackerel pate (homemade)
- scrambled eggs with ham/chorizo/anything
- stir fry veg and rice noodles
- mixed beans
Sometimes I use one of these...
as a base and throw in extras.
Have also started making some healthier sweet treats devoid of nasty flour/sugar/carbs, eg chocolate brownies, coconut and peanut butter energy balls etc
Trying to replace my go to habits with better options.
Back from a vile road ride in the rain, wind and puddles...
Semi-warm hard boiled egg, avo, lettice, toms, cuc, mayo and wholegrain mustard in a wrap
A lot of the above I would argue are surely just lunches, not really what you'd call easy lunches.
Pot noodle is easy, pan-fried sea bass on an Aga in a wrap with braised vegetables or whatever.... Isn't so much near that on the scale 😉
In my defence I thought I was just getting the credit for my toastie maker recommendation (Salter) and my assertion that the best toastie is corned beef, onion, cheddar and Worcester sauce
*cough* from @IHN 's thread:
binners
Full Member
Oh.. and @honeybadgerx is on the money about the best toastie
That there @binners is a cad AND a bounder. Though at least he knows what a pie is.
I'm just resurrecting the thread I started, with a confession....
*deep breath....*
Despite loving cooking and doing lots of it, and actually being reasonably good at, I have never actually cooked an omelette
There... I've said it.
So I've just rectified the situation with the 'how to cook a perfect omelette' guide on BBC good food. I kept it simple with lots of black pepper and grated emmental, served with beans (parp!). It was rather good for a first attempt, I thought 🙂
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#ratemyomelette
Looks OK to me binners, though there'll be folk hereabouts having palpitations at those beans touching the omelette.
As for recipe, it's not difficult. La Mere Poulard who was credited with cooking the perfect omelette in the 19th century was asked for the recipe. She replied "Monsieur Viel, Here is the recipe for the omelette: I break some good eggs in a bowl, I beat them well, I put a good piece of butter in the pan, I throw the eggs into it, and I shake it constantly. I am happy, monsieur, if this recipe pleases you".
Working from home today. Pack of chicken wings > Air Fryer for 30 mins
Small capful of Extra Virgin shared between 6 wings, liberal dosing with the salt and pepper grinders. Literally the best tasting wings ever - good dollop of Franks Hot Sauce on the side
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That is an inspired lunch!
Mrs Binners has recently discovered these beauties at Iceland, which are also the the lunch of champions. Just whack 'em in the air fryer
Oooh, bet they are utter filth (in a good way) fried
omelette.
As for recipe, it’s not difficult. La Mere Poulard who was credited with cooking the perfect omelette in the 19th century was asked for the recipe. She replied “Monsieur Viel, Here is the recipe for the omelette: I break some good eggs in a bowl, I beat them well, I put a good piece of butter in the pan, I throw the eggs into it, and I shake it constantly. I am happy, monsieur, if this recipe pleases you”.
Exactly. (Or should I say eggsactly! 😀 ) An omelette is simply beaten eggs cooked in a lubricated pan. Add any other ingredients you want, but it is pretty much the easiest of all things to cook, even easier than a boiled egg because you can see how it is cooking.
I also think it's difficult to beat a cheesy omelette with a good salad and chunk of crusty bread for any meal.
Got up early this morning to cook fried rice for breakfast.
Didn't sleep well last night as I drank too much coffee while working and got up early this morning hungry.
You had fried rice for breakfast? 😳
You had fried rice for breakfast? 😳
LOL! Yes. Rather common in some part of SE Asia. LOL!
Very easy fried rice ... a bit of garlic, shallots, spring onions, eggs, prawn, overnight rice, salt, soy sauce, sambal chilli, sesame oil and a bit of MSG. Hot wok and stir fried them all in that order. LOL
p/s: was going to have pitta bread with curry for breakfast but decided to have curry for dinner instead so I had fried rice. LOL!
#ratemyomelette
I'd give you a solid 8/10 for that
You had fried rice for breakfast? 😳
Sounds like a great idea
Chopped up chorizo, in a frying pan, fry for a bit, add butter beans, fry for a bit longer
Chopped up chorizo, green pepper, garlic, sliced red onion, smoked paprika, fried egg, brown toast, lots of coffee, slump on couch and sweat a bit.
Chopped up chorizo, in a frying pan, fry for a bit, add butter beans, fry for a bit longer
Also works with peas instead of butter beans. (Boil the peas separately first, of course).
Chewkw's breakfast sounds good as a lunch. Is overnight rice just rice cooked yesterday?
Can I quickly say that I’ve been a Heinz man all my life but have recently converted to Branston baked beans. Cheaper ,thicker sauce and not as sweet.
The king is dead, long live the king.
Spicy sausage tortellini with green pesto.
Prep time: 30s
Cooking time: 3mins
Chewkw’s breakfast sounds good as a lunch. Is overnight rice just rice cooked yesterday?
Yes, from yesterday. Never fresh for fried rice or it will be very sticky. If you cooked a lot previous day you can keep it in the fridge and use it for fried rice the next day.
Sambal chilli is optional but since I have some I just added it in. Sambal chilli fried rice is more M'sia style. For Chinese fried rice just exclude the sambal.
If you want to keep your fried rice longer exclude garlic, shallots and spring onions, otherwise it will taste weird the next day.
Very easy fried rice … a bit of garlic, shallots, spring onions, eggs, prawn, overnight rice, salt, soy sauce, sambal chilli, sesame oil and a bit of MSG. Hot wok and stir fried them all in that order. LOL
@chewkw - to be honest with you, that sounds absolutely fantastic!
The other day I had a bit of a trip down memory Lane. I’d forgotten these things existed, but I can gladly report that they are as awesome as I remember
Black pudding on top and a fried egg 😃
Instant noodles (our goto are Sainsbury's veg), with nutritional yeast, a knob of butter, a dash of soy sauce, and a little chilli oíl. A near perfect one pot lunch.
Black pudding on top and a fried egg 😃
Potato waffles with black pudding on top and a fried egg are brilliant too.
I still can't cook chips the way Fish & Chips shop do them no matter how I try. I am not sure if it is the temperature not high enough or anything else. I used the right potato (Maris Piper) but still the same soggy chips.
Not easy to cook chips the proper way. If I get some Fish & Chips I would know if the shop can get cook well because of the way the prepared their chips. If the chips do not taste good the rest will be the same.
1 pan, 3 timers for (in order)
Potatoes, trofie pasta, green beans.
Jar of pesto and some pecorino gives you
https://www.insidetherustickitchen.com/trofie-al-pesto/
Is 20 minutes too long? It’s not 20 minutes cooking.
Mr Binners had a new food processor delivered yesterday (our old one was older than the kids) so got a bit busy in the kitchen to christen it
So today I'm having rather lovely home made cheese and onion bread, toasted, with loads of butter and home made chicken liver pate 😀
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So today I’m having rather lovely home made cheese and onion bread, toasted, with loads of butter and home made chicken liver pate 😀
Tell Debs I would have hung around and helped clean the house if I could have had some of the cheese & onion bread 😉
having palpitations at those beans touching the omelette.
Put the Branston beans in the omelette - job, jobbed
Sausages and peas today, but dilemma time: mustard or HP to go with it?
Mid-morning crumpet-tastic snackage 😀
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I hope there's Marmite under that.