QOTW: What are your quick meal ideas?

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QOTW for September 28th - October 4th:

 

What are some of your favorite super-fast meal ideas?

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BillSF9c wrote

>>My pal in Wa just goes out and grazes on the

>>dandylions and weeds I'll never see nor remember.

>>She makes some sort of high protein meatless

>>thing, by developing the glutton somehow.

 

please ask her bec. I have a hard time getting enough

protein ... Joanna in Wash DC

 

 

 

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> QOTW for September 28th - October 4th:

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> What are some of your favorite super-fast meal ideas?

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Baked Beans:

Caramelize some diced onion then add some minced garlic.

combine in an oven proof dish with:

tomato paste

1/4 cup molasses

3 different cans of beans

1 tsp Ginger powder

1 tsp Cinnamon

1 tsp Mustard powder

1 tsp Paprika

Cayenne pepper to taste

Plus whatever spices strike my fancy

 

Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. The only time spent is

chopping/cooking the onions and opening cans.

 

Sauerkraut and Soy Sausage:

Brown the sausage and cut into medallions

drain quart of kraut and add to a dutch oven

Saute 1-2 cloves minced garlic

1 tsp Caraway seeds

1 tsp Rosemary leaves

1 tsp toasted mustard seeds

1/4 cup white wine

salt and pepper to taste.

combine all in dutch oven and heat for 30-45 minutes in a 350 degree

oven.

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Veggies and Dumplings

I save all of the cooking liquid from vegetables (except for veggies like

broccoli which doesn't make good stock), assorted mixed frozen veggies and

home-made Bisquick sort of mix (many recipes for this online).  If you don't

have homemade vegetable stock, use canned vegetable stock or cubes. If you don't

have that either, dice an onion and saute in melted butter, add to water and

cook veggies with a little minced parsley or whatever you like to give more

flavor.

 

Using a quart or so of vegetable stock, add mixed vegetables and cook according

to package directions, or till almost done. Mix 2 1/2 cups Bisquick mix with a

cup of milk (soy milk, cow milk). Bring stock and veggies back to a boil and

drop tablespoons of the dumpling mix into the hot stock. Simmer uncovered for

about 10 minutes, then covered for about another 10 minutes.

 

Beans and Rice

Can of black beans, kidney beans, pinto beans - whatever you like

1 cup rice

Minced onion (fresh or minced dehydrated)

Bit of finely minced hot pepper (more or less to taste) or 1 Goya chipotle

flavor cube (optional)

Part of a clove of garlic, minced, or powder if desperate

1 tablespoon olive oil

 

Since I use a rice cooker, you'll need to modify this for your style of cooking.

I saute the onion, then add the minced garlic (it burns easily, watch it!), then

mix the rice, beans (not even drained), and sauteed onion and garlic. Pour into

rice cooker, put water in the steamer part, cover and cook 20 minutes or till

done. Sometimes I make it with a small can of Rotel tomatoes (spicy alert for

tender tummies). You can dress it up with more spices or dress it down by

leaving the heat out. This makes enough for the two of us with enough left over

for lunch. Sometimes I add TVP, sometimes not. It really depends on what we have

on hand or feel like eating.

 

Storage foods dinner

Mashed potatoes from one of the complete mixes

Cans of whatever veggies you have on hand that you feel like eating

 

Last week I wasn't well enough to make dinner so Carl had to do it. His usual

manner of cooking dinner is a take out salad but I wanted something hot. We had

mashed potatoes mixed with some dried, minced chives, buttered beets and

asparagus (both from canned). I had an apple cobbler in the freezer, so all he

had to do was throw it in the oven. It took Carl longer to find the can opener

than it took for him to make the mashed potatoes. (On the counter, between the

coffee maker and teapot.)

 

Fast Fritatta

Basically just a potato omelet but for speed I make this with cooked tater tots,

diced sauteed onions and sweet red peppers, a couple of eggs (more or less) and

baked in the oven. If I don't feel like baking it, I mix it all together, pour

it into the buttered skillet, cover and cook over low heat till the eggs are

done. Done in the oven in a casserole dish, it makes a good take along dish that

you can dress up or down as you want.

 

All of these make up fairly quickly. We're having veggies and dumplings for

dinner. The grocery store had fresh broccoli florets on sale for 25 cents a

pound so we'll have those steamed and I'll use the leftover broccoli in a

medium white sauce for a cream of broccoli soup.

 

Fast food doesn't have to be carry out fat food. Jeanne

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Good ideas - thanks.

 

--- On Mon, 9/29/08, Jeanne B <treazured wrote:

 

Jeanne B <treazured

Re: Re: QOTW: What are your quick meal ideas?

 

Monday, September 29, 2008, 10:05 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

Veggies and Dumplings

I save all of the cooking liquid from vegetables (except for veggies like

broccoli which doesn't make good stock), assorted mixed frozen veggies and

home-made Bisquick sort of mix (many recipes for this online).  If you don't

have homemade vegetable stock, use canned vegetable stock or cubes. If you don't

have that either, dice an onion and saute in melted butter, add to water and

cook veggies with a little minced parsley or whatever you like to give more

flavor.

 

Using a quart or so of vegetable stock, add mixed vegetables and cook according

to package directions, or till almost done. Mix 2 1/2 cups Bisquick mix with a

cup of milk (soy milk, cow milk). Bring stock and veggies back to a boil and

drop tablespoons of the dumpling mix into the hot stock. Simmer uncovered for

about 10 minutes, then covered for about another 10 minutes.

 

Beans and Rice

Can of black beans, kidney beans, pinto beans - whatever you like

1 cup rice

Minced onion (fresh or minced dehydrated)

Bit of finely minced hot pepper (more or less to taste) or 1 Goya chipotle

flavor cube (optional)

Part of a clove of garlic, minced, or powder if desperate

1 tablespoon olive oil

 

Since I use a rice cooker, you'll need to modify this for your style of cooking.

I saute the onion, then add the minced garlic (it burns easily, watch it!), then

mix the rice, beans (not even drained), and sauteed onion and garlic. Pour into

rice cooker, put water in the steamer part, cover and cook 20 minutes or till

done. Sometimes I make it with a small can of Rotel tomatoes (spicy alert for

tender tummies). You can dress it up with more spices or dress it down by

leaving the heat out. This makes enough for the two of us with enough left over

for lunch. Sometimes I add TVP, sometimes not. It really depends on what we have

on hand or feel like eating.

 

Storage foods dinner

Mashed potatoes from one of the complete mixes

Cans of whatever veggies you have on hand that you feel like eating

 

Last week I wasn't well enough to make dinner so Carl had to do it. His usual

manner of cooking dinner is a take out salad but I wanted something hot. We had

mashed potatoes mixed with some dried, minced chives, buttered beets and

asparagus (both from canned). I had an apple cobbler in the freezer, so all he

had to do was throw it in the oven. It took Carl longer to find the can opener

than it took for him to make the mashed potatoes. (On the counter, between the

coffee maker and teapot.)

 

Fast Fritatta

Basically just a potato omelet but for speed I make this with cooked tater tots,

diced sauteed onions and sweet red peppers, a couple of eggs (more or less) and

baked in the oven. If I don't feel like baking it, I mix it all together, pour

it into the buttered skillet, cover and cook over low heat till the eggs are

done. Done in the oven in a casserole dish, it makes a good take along dish that

you can dress up or down as you want.

 

All of these make up fairly quickly. We're having veggies and dumplings for

dinner. The grocery store had fresh broccoli florets on sale for 25 cents a

pound so we'll have those steamed and I'll use the leftover broccoli in a

medium white sauce for a cream of broccoli soup.

 

Fast food doesn't have to be carry out fat food. Jeanne

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

As long as you're eating a well-balanced diet(whole veggies, grains, legumes,

lentils, fruits) you'll get plenty of protein.  Contrary to popular belief, we

do NOT need alot of it.  Only about 10% of our total caloric intake should be

from protein, although I think if you're getting it from plant sources it won't

hurt too much if you go over that a little bit.

Hope this helps.

 

--- On Sun, 9/28/08, Joanna Home <jharkinhome wrote:

 

Joanna Home <jharkinhome

Re: QOTW: What are your quick meal ideas?

 

Sunday, September 28, 2008, 6:48 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

BillSF9c wrote

>>My pal in Wa just goes out and grazes on the

>>dandylions and weeds I'll never see nor remember.

>>She makes some sort of high protein meatless

>>thing, by developing the glutton somehow.

 

please ask her bec. I have a hard time getting enough

protein ... Joanna in Wash DC

 

 

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Warm wheat tortilla, spread with crunchy peanut butter, sprinkle with

hemp but seeds and wrap this around a banana. It's delicious!

Donna

[Guest guest]

Dear Joanna,

I've made seitan or " gluten meat " from flour and it's a lot of work.

First you have to wash the starch out of the flour and then knead it

to develop the gluten. In some places a " mix " might be available but

in any place where gluten mix is sold, there is probably enough of a

health food/veggie market that you can also buy tofu and tempeh which

are much less work.

If those aren't available where you live or are too expensive,

combining beans and whole grains is a great source of vegetable

protein. Think refritos and tortillas; humous (garbanzo spread) in a

wholewheat pita or other bread; lentil soup with a hardy roll or

bread. There are lots of recipes in the archives.

Take care,

Shoshana

 

 

 

, " Joanna Home "

<jharkinhome wrote:

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> please ask her bec. I have a hard time getting enough

> protein ... Joanna in Wash DC

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