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Ugh, i gotta cook something for my department tomorrow, what is easy/cheap to cook?
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Phokus
Lifer
I stupidly promised an entree... maybe chilli would work, although ground beef will cost a bit.
FleshLight
Diamond Member
Cheetos
Kaido
Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
BBQ Root Beer Chicken:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=35390911&postcount=6
All you need is a crockpot. Everyone LOVES this recipe, it's the one I bring to all of my company functions. Then just get a giant bag of those mini soft rolls to make sandwiches out of.
dave_the_nerd
Lifer
Fake lasagna.
1 pound macaroni (Shells or Rotini work best imo. Or penne.)
1 pound beef
1 pound shredded mozzarella
48 oz. or so of tomato sauce. (1 1/2 large jars or four of the smaller cans.)
2-3 cups water.
Take macaroni and cheese, mix into baking pan. Break up the ground beef and layer that on top. (all this stuff is raw/uncooked at this point.) Then take the sauce, pour that out on top of the beef, and finally pour that water in too kind of wash the sauce down into the macaroni. How much water you need exactly will depend on how deep your pan is and how gooey/thick the sauce you bought is. If you have a clear baking pan, that helps gauge things.
Cover with aluminum foil and bake at 350 for about 60-75 minutes, depending on whether or not 350 in your oven is the same as 350 in my oven. The macaroni will absorb most of the liquid.
It won't be the belle of the ball, but nobody is going to outright dislike it.
1 pound macaroni (Shells or Rotini work best imo. Or penne.)
1 pound beef
1 pound shredded mozzarella
48 oz. or so of tomato sauce. (1 1/2 large jars or four of the smaller cans.)
2-3 cups water.
Take macaroni and cheese, mix into baking pan. Break up the ground beef and layer that on top. (all this stuff is raw/uncooked at this point.) Then take the sauce, pour that out on top of the beef, and finally pour that water in too kind of wash the sauce down into the macaroni. How much water you need exactly will depend on how deep your pan is and how gooey/thick the sauce you bought is. If you have a clear baking pan, that helps gauge things.
Cover with aluminum foil and bake at 350 for about 60-75 minutes, depending on whether or not 350 in your oven is the same as 350 in my oven. The macaroni will absorb most of the liquid.
It won't be the belle of the ball, but nobody is going to outright dislike it.
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dave_the_nerd
Lifer
Ooh... another reason I wish I had a crock pot. :'🙂wub:
Artdeco
Platinum Member
Baked ziti, quick, cheap, use Italian sausage instead of ground beef, you'll be a hero, trust me
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/26254/baked-ziti-iv/
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/26254/baked-ziti-iv/
Phokus
Lifer
Haha, this might not be a bad idea, i'm so lazy
BoberFett
Lifer
AznAnarchy99
Lifer
Roasted brussel sprouts with pancetta.
There's not much you can fuck up with that one.
There's not much you can fuck up with that one.
PottedMeat
Lifer
watered down gruel is easy to make, it also makes a bold statement about what you think of your coworkers
recipe for disaster / best for atot
recipe for disaster / best for atot
dave_the_nerd
Lifer
Transplant. I was raised elsewhere by somebody who was once Italian.
As a poor bachelor with no knowledge of this "hot dish", I arrived at that approximate recipe by cutting out all the expensive ingredients or complicated steps from my mother's lasagna recipe, and using a box of macaroni I had on hand (and gambling that it would sort of work like the no-bake noodles my mom used sometimes) instead of proper lasagna noodles. It worked well enough that it became one of my go-to forms of bachelor chow, and it reheats well enough to make people in the office say, "mmm, what's that smell?"
Tastes more like pizza to me than lasagna though.
You can also make something similar on a stove top with rice. (Cook rice separately in rice cooker, cook meat in sauté pan, pour in sauce, pour in rice, stir, top with cheese when serving.) You can get away with using less sauce, since the rice is already cooked, which is nice, but it lacks the one-pan simplicity.
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kranky
Elite Member
Baked ziti is great with sausage and couldn't be easier. :thumbsup:
Artdeco
Platinum Member
Eating supper now, I smoked some pork ribs and a chicken, wife & her daughter are really enjoying it. I managed to get a floral/citrus flavor in the chicken without any citrus 🙂 Cheated with the ribs and used foil for a couple of hours, spatchcocked the chicken.
Nograts
Platinum Member
If you're really that terrible of a cook...don't even attempt lasagna. While making lasagna isn't terribly difficult, making it right can be...especially if you don't know how to cook.
Just accept your failings and get this:
Hit the road old man. KFC sucks. Home-made fried chicken is the shortcut to heaven though. (Through coronary disease that is)
BoomerD
No Lifer
I don't disagree with you...but good home-made fried chicken requires some level of cooking skills...and apparently the OP haz none of those. (thus my recommendation for bringing store-bought crap food rather than taking the chance of killing all his co-workers with his "home cooked meal."