Relic Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 (edited) So, 4 decades into this life ive decided that it's time to learn how to feed myself without outside help. Anyone got any lactose free recipes for healthy meals (that an idiot can make) to share? Edit - i currently know how to make - - tomato sauce from scratch - a decent beef with broccoli stir fry - friend chicken sandwich (not healthy) - lentil soup - toast (barely) Edited January 30, 2023 by Relic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raja Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 (edited) what kind of things do you eat already or enjoy eating? Would be easier to start that way And what kind of equipment do you have at home Edited January 30, 2023 by Raja Relic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relic Posted January 30, 2023 Author Share Posted January 30, 2023 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Raja said: what kind of things do you eat already or enjoy eating? Would be easier to start that way i love thai food, would live in thailand just for that reason. ummmm... pretty big on asian cuisine in general, really. I try not to eat too much red meat, and usually avoid grease, unless im hung over. I'm also open to trying new stuff, so if people want to leave a single recipe they think fits the bill it would def help my creativity when cooking. Edited January 30, 2023 by Relic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumHam Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 (edited) If you like pesto it's pretty easy to make and always better than the jar stuff. You just throw everything in a food processor, basically. Spoiler -2 cups fresh basil -1/4 cup parmasean cheese (the real stuff not the kraft green container) -1/4 spanish pine nuts -7 Tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil -pinch of salt -3 medium cloves of garlic -tablespoon of butter You realize that because you posted this in "Entertainment" you now have to do a cooking show for us where you make all these things. Edited January 30, 2023 by RumHam Shit, cheese is lactose isn't it. kissdbyfire, Relic and Larry of the Lawn 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 (edited) Potato pancakes are fairly easy to make. Only thing you can mess up is being too stingy with the salt. Since the base variant is merely Potatoes, onions, eggs, some flour, salt and pepper it should be lactose free. Thai cuisine. If you are fine with using a (ready made) curry paste (whatever you do, just stay away from Green Curry Paste, Green Curry is just disgusting), then cooking a thai curry in some shape or form is not that difficult either. If you want to prepare the paste yourself (which is doable) then the workload (and nuisance) increases. Edited January 30, 2023 by A Horse Named Stranger Relic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 (edited) The greatest cooking tip ever 'don't fry cheap bacon without a top on'. Edited January 30, 2023 by BigFatCoward hauberk and Wade1865 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 (edited) Hum, no. The greatest cooking tip ever is, clean your hands thoroughly after handling dried chilli peppers. If you fail to do so and touch your face in proximity to your eyes... Trust me, that's no fund at all. Edited January 30, 2023 by A Horse Named Stranger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanteGabriel Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 The first vegan recipe to become part of my regular dinner rotation (I do most of the cooking in my house), red lentil dal: https://www.noracooks.com/red-lentil-dahl/ Very easy, simple ingredients, completely satisfying. We like a lot of carrots, peas, and spinach in ours, eat it over brown rice. Even my son, who would have tacos and burgers every night if he could, enjoys it. Relic, kissdbyfire, Soylent Brown and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbunting Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 6 hours ago, A Horse Named Stranger said: Hum, no. The greatest cooking tip ever is, clean your hands thoroughly after handling dried chilli peppers. If you fail to do so and touch your face in proximity to your eyes... Trust me, that's no fund at all. Or take a piss after chopping fresh jalepeno's to make salsa. Holy dumb ass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbunting Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 I'd recommend a recipe site, I use allrecipes.com Tons of searchable recipes on there and you can read comments to see what alterations have been made. Of course learn to ignore the ones who literally change every part of the recipe but still give it 5 stars! Relic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 1 hour ago, dbunting said: Or take a piss after chopping fresh jalepeno's to make salsa. Holy dumb ass. Been there done that. Trust me capsaicin + eye contact was worse. Fortunately it was just one eye, but fucking hell. Reminder capsaicin is also used in pepper spray... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 11 hours ago, Relic said: So, 4 decades into this life ive decided that it's time to learn how to feed myself without outside help. Anyone got any lactose free recipes for healthy meals (that an idiot can make) to share? Edit - i currently know how to make - - tomato sauce from scratch - a decent beef with broccoli stir fry - friend chicken sandwich (not healthy) - lentil soup - toast (barely) That's a solid list. Thought I don't know what a "friend chicken sandwich" is. I've been making meat sauce with ground turkey or chopped-up chicken breast (depending on how prices fluctuate), which should be a pretty simple mod to your tomato sauce from scratch. It won't brown the same as beef, no matter how much oil you use, but It's much less greasy. Chicken thighs in the oven are great. At once the most economical and best tasting part of the chicken. Bone-in, skin-on, S+P or season as you like, 40 minutes at 450, then fire up the broiler and baste them in 3-4 minute intervals till the skin is crispy. The last bit might set off your smoke alarm if you overdo it. I can do enough that I eat a few and containerize the rest and stick 'em in the fridge. The hardest part is cleaning the tray. Youtube is a fantastic resource for this stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, Deadlines? What Deadlines? said: Chicken thighs in the oven are great. At once the most economical and best tasting part of the chicken. I prefer to cook them under a hot grill, mix then with a bit of honey to help the caramelization process and add whatever flavour rub/marinade you want. the tastiest meal i can prepare with the least effort is (feeds 2) fry 4 rashers of chopped bacon, when starting to crisp add 2 chopped chicken breasts, when chicken is cooked add dessert spoon of red pesto, one of green pesto, 2 dessert spoons of crème fraiche, juice of half a lemon, some halved olives, salt and pepper and hot sauce to taste, serve with your favourite dried pasta. about 15 minutes from start of prep to putting it in your face. i also recommend making basic sauces then freezing them flat in freezer bags, i always have a basic indian, sri lankan and thai curry sauce in my freezer that i can defrost and be eating in the time it takes to cook some chicken, rice and veggies. this is the recipe i use for the sri lankan curry, i upscale it and make 8-10 portions at a time of the sauce then just add the chicken fresh. https://www.gousto.co.uk/cookbook/chicken-recipes/aromatic-sri-lankan-chicken-curry Edited January 31, 2023 by BigFatCoward Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentat Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 I've also been trying to learn how to cook over the last 5 years. Here are some things that have worked for me. - Find something that inspires you to cook, whether a YouTube channel you subscribe to (these are some I follow: 1, 2, 3, 4), a recipe book (Rukmini Iyer's "The Roasting Tin", which is all recipes which consist on putting stuff in a baking tin and popping it in the oven for half an hour is one of my favourites, and I think works great for starting out), or a writer in a newspaper (The Guardian is free to read online and has many writers which I like a lot and will put out a recipe once a week, like Rachel Roddy, Nigel Slater...). - A cook is only as good as their produce. Scour your neighbourhood for butchers, fishmongers and greengrocers that look good. Find specialist shops that will sell you the kind of ingredients you need to cook Asian food (or if impossible, you can get stuff from Amazon). Investigate little delis and farmers markets. Establish a rapport with the owners if you can, as anyone who sells ingredients knows about and is interested in food. - Cooking for a single person is often annoying, as many recipes are geared for 2 to 4 people. Leftovers are inevitable, so also learn how to preserve and re-heat food properly (often not as straight forward as popping it in the microwave for 2 minutes). Relic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Also, buy a good knife. It makes everything easier. Relic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matrim Fox Cauthon Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 There are some fairly decent channels on YouTube for instructing neophyte cooks or that demystify cooking, such as Chef John (Food Wishes) or J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. If you are interested in Thai, there is Pailin's Kitchen. 16 hours ago, RumHam said: If you like pesto it's pretty easy to make and always better than the jar stuff. You just throw everything in a food processor, basically. Hide contents -2 cups fresh basil -1/4 cup parmasean cheese (the real stuff not the kraft green container) -1/4 spanish pine nuts -7 Tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil -pinch of salt -3 medium cloves of garlic -tablespoon of butter You realize that because you posted this in "Entertainment" you now have to do a cooking show for us where you make all these things. Building on this, there is a really simple one pot pasta dish involving pesto. It basically just involves adding cut potatoes into salted boiling water, then the pasta at the right time, and then green beans at the right time. Reserve some pasta water. Drain. And then mix everything with the pesto. Relic and Deadlines? What Deadlines? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorshach Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 14 hours ago, A Horse Named Stranger said: Hum, no. The greatest cooking tip ever is, clean your hands thoroughly after handling dried chilli peppers. If you fail to do so and touch your face in proximity to your eyes... Trust me, that's no fund at all. Dunno, I'd watch that show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Rorschach - 2 said: Dunno, I'd watch that show. Not much of a show. My left eye just shut (blink reflex), opening it = proper red, unpleasent feeling and a teary eye, and my eye lids very much wanted to shut down shop again on that eye. After spending 5-10 seconds contemplating what happened and what to do about it, I concluded that some capsaicin found its way into my eye (probably some sweat brought it down from my forehead) I settled for washing my eye out in the bath room (with water obviously). That solved the problem, my eye was still proper red, but the burning sensation was gone and I no longer needed to counteract the blink reflex to keep both eyes open. Cooking and dinner proceeded without any further calamities. And yes, basically I managed to pepperspray one eye without pepperspray that day. Luckily it was just one eye not both. But I am not particularly eager on a repeat. Edited January 31, 2023 by A Horse Named Stranger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrddin Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 (edited) Greatest cooking tip: A falling knife has no handle. Having sharp blades is a must. If cooking is something you're serious about, invest in at least one good 8-10" chef's knife and a good paring knife. As for recipes? I rarely use cook books anymore because it's so easy to look up a recipe online. Sometimes I just think about what I would order if I was at a restaurant and then look up the recipe. Cooking is pretty easy, really. Just follow the steps. Carne Asada with Aji Picante salsa is pretty easy. 1 beef Strip Steak Boneless 1 inch thick, trimmed (about 10 ounces) 1 large clove garlic minced 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt black pepper to taste 3 scallions, cut into 1 inch lengths 3/4 cup beer Rub garlic all over meat then season with salt, cumin and black pepper. Place in a shallow dish and pour the beer and scallions. Refrigerate and marinate 3 hours or so. To broil, place steak on rack in broiler pan so surface of beef is 3 to 4 inches from heat. Broil about 3 minutes on each side for medium rare to medium. To grill, heat the grill and oil the grates. When hot, grill over medium-high heat about 3 minutes on each side for medium rare to medium. To cook in a skillet, Heat a skillet over high heat and let the skillet get very hot. When it's hot, spray with oil and cook the steaks about 3 minutes on each side for medium rare to medium. Let stand 5 minutes or so. Then slice thin (1/4") across the grain. Top with the salsa and enjoy. We like to eat this with white rice too. ETA: Tip when juicing lime or lemons: before cutting, roll them under the palm of your hand on the counter to soften. Easier to squeeze out the juice. Edited January 31, 2023 by Myrddin Relic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Has anyone ever been able to get poaching eggs in a microwave to work? They always come out confused and weird to me. Or the yolks explode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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