Anonymous
03/19/2025 11:46
Subject: Easy meals
I make stir fries often. I use the bag of frozen stir-fry vegetable mix from Costco, firm tofu and store-bought stir fry sauce usually one of the Wegmans store brand sauces. I fry some dried chile peppers, crushed ginger and garlic and then add vegetables and tofu and sometimes diced canned pineapple. It just takes a few minutes in a flaming hot wok. Serve over steamed jasmine rice.
Anonymous
03/19/2025 11:41
Subject: Easy meals
I fry a bag of thawed jumbo shrimp (peeled snd deveined) with some crushed garlic and red pepper flakes in EVOO. Serve with a bagged green salad. Takes less than 20 min.
Anonymous
03/19/2025 08:51
Subject: Easy meals
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:For me a 20 min meal is about meal assembly with pre-made ingredients like making bowls with precooked chicken, microwaveable rice and veggies. Or quesadillas. Or a salad with leftover chicken. Sometimes it’s just frozen chicken fingers and fries. If I only have 20 min and want to cook protein, it will be a steak or burger.
I always see people mention tacos but tacos are not fast between browning the ground beef, making the sauce, warming shells and chopping/shredding toppings. Thats more of a 30 min meal.
I am trying to use my crockpot more but my teen-young adult kids aren’t crockpot meal fans.
You don't have to make any sauce, brown any shells, or shred anything for tacos! Any meal can be complicated if you complicate it!
What is sauce for tacos? I love tacos but have never had them with a sauce. Salsa? I buy jarred.
Anonymous
03/19/2025 08:07
Subject: Easy meals
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Quesadilla - can be with refried beans (from a can) and cheese, just cheese or make a pizza quessadilla eith tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese
Scrambled eggs (or sunny side up or omletre) along with biscuits (use Bisquik), while biscuits are cooking (9 minutes), steam veggies and cook eggs
Tacos - saute your meat (ground beef or turkey), add can of diced tomatoes, can of black or red beans, can or frozen corn. Add seasoning, serve in a tortilla, with chips, or over a bed of bagged lettuce (that's me eating the lettuce)
Start a pot of pasta and steam veggies. Thaw frozen shrimp and sautee with garlic and lemon juice, throw in parsley in the end, combine for am easy scampi
Bag of meatballs from Costco, jarred sauce, steam veggies and put up a pot of pasta
I tried a Swedish meatball from the sample person at Costco last week. At first the aroma made me realize I was hungry but eating it the excessive salt and mushy texture was horrible. I usually have a couple of prepared meals in the freezer for emergency purposes but I don't think I've ever had one that tasted satisfying.
The Amylou and Aidells chicken meatballs in the deli section are pretty decent.