Insanely easy dinner ideas

[Anonymous]

Or sources. I need to get out of our dinner rut, but I really hate cooking. My family hates my cooking too. So I don’t want to chop and stir and simmer and anything hard. I’m talking easy like:

Baked chicken thighs, boxed rice, roasted broccoli.

Quesadilla, cherry tomatoes, whatever fruit isn’t moldy.

What are your go to meals that are really, really not hard? I need to expand our proteins and get some new vegetables in there. To be clear, my kids won’t eat the vegetables. This is just for me to feel like I tried.

[Anonymous]

This is where some of those TikTok recipes come in handy. Tomato feta pasta (halve cherry tomatoes, add garlic, toss in a baking dish surrounding a block of feta, drizzle olive oil over everything, bake, boil pasta and dump it in and stir ). Rice cooker chicken and rice - rice in the bottom of the rice cooker, toss ginger, garlic, white pepper, scallions over, put chicken thighs on top (marinate in soy sauce, garlic, ginger ahead of time if you’re ambitious) cover in chicken stock and soy sauce, hit the cook button. Sheet pan dinners.

These take some time, but not with you at the stove, prep in under 10 minutes and just bake. Also, roast vegetables in the air fryer.

[Anonymous]

Make ramen. Add rotisserie chicken. We add celery and carrots to ours. You could do that, or broccoli.

Black bean nachos. Chips on oven safe plate. Canned beans, shredded cheese. Broil 2-3 mins.
Avacado and tomatoes on the side.

[Anonymous]

Naan pizzas—spread some pesto, add some prosciutto, mozzarella, and halved cherry tomatoes. Bake at 375 for about 15 minutes. A variation is to spread tomato paste straight from the tube, and some cooked sausage and peppers (leftover from a sausage and peppers tray bake—another super quick meal).

[Anonymous]

broiled Aidell's chicken sausage with sauteed spinach with garlic

[Anonymous]

When I need to o quick I just got back to the old school protein, carb, and vegetable equation. I mix up the marinades or prep so it's not boring in terms of flavor, but the 3 item equation stays the same.

Example:

Garlic marinated pork chops, yellow rice, roasted carrots and onions

Baked cod with asparagus, cherry tomatoes, and yellow squash with lemon butter over couscous

Grilled steak, garlic mashed potatoes, sautéed spinach/kale

Stuffed chicken breasts (red pepper, cheese, spinach, whatever) salad, bread

Shrimp scampi pasta with tomatoes and spinach, side salad

Harissa chicken and potatoes sheet pan meal with herbs and yogurt sauce. Roasted broccolini

Lamb chops, orzo with herb mix, roasted tomatoes and onions

[Anonymous]

Look up sheet pan dinners for ideas

Get a crock pot and make a Mississippi roast, chili, soup

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look up sheet pan dinners for ideas

Get a crock pot and make a Mississippi roast, chili, soup

Or Mississippi chicken

[Anonymous]

beans on toast
scrambled eggs on toast

[Anonymous]

Crock pot shredded BBQ chicken or pork - use bottled sauce to make it extra easy. Serve on rolls or over rice. Frozen veggies or bagged salad.

[Anonymous]

Meat sauce and pasta. Sauce comes from a jar.

[Anonymous]

Frozen meatballs, add jarred tomato sauce. Side salad.

[Anonymous]

These are all too hard. Go to Trader Joe’s. Get an air fryer. Done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I need to o quick I just got back to the old school protein, carb, and vegetable equation. I mix up the marinades or prep so it's not boring in terms of flavor, but the 3 item equation stays the same.

Example:

Garlic marinated pork chops, yellow rice, roasted carrots and onions

Baked cod with asparagus, cherry tomatoes, and yellow squash with lemon butter over couscous

Grilled steak, garlic mashed potatoes, sautéed spinach/kale

Stuffed chicken breasts (red pepper, cheese, spinach, whatever) salad, bread

Shrimp scampi pasta with tomatoes and spinach, side salad

Harissa chicken and potatoes sheet pan meal with herbs and yogurt sauce. Roasted broccolini

Lamb chops, orzo with herb mix, roasted tomatoes and onions

What is wrong with you? None of this is "insanely easy." Not OP, but when I want to make an easy dinner I'm sure as $h!t not stuffing chicken breasts. FFS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look up sheet pan dinners for ideas

Get a crock pot and make a Mississippi roast, chili, soup

I make this in my oven in a dutch oven, so you don't even need a crock pot to make this.