What weird food or dishes do you eat regularly at home that you would never serve to someone else?
What weird food or dishes do you eat regularly at home that you would never serve to someone else?
I regularly bake sweet potatoes then add plain yogurt, salted peanuts, feta, nutritional yeast, and drown it in hot sauce. The dish has no name nor should it ever see the light of day. What goblin mode meals do you guys eat?
Y’all are horrifying. That’s all I came here to say.
I take pride in that remark.
I'd love to answer OP, but that description somehow made me forget everything I've ever eaten.
Then you're ready to try all the suggestions here!
And here I am, bookmarking this post.. I have meals planned for the next 3 weeks!
I keep a bouquet of dry pasta on my desk that I absentmindedly munch on while I work.
Sometimes I'll eat a whole head of cabbage over a day peeling it leaf by leaf.
Instant noodles, peanut butter, and sriracha. Crack an egg in near the end.
It's actually pretty close to pad thai, but screams of struggle meal
I wouldn't serve instant noodles to guests either, but you have the gourmet version there.
Update: This was pretty tasty. I'll probably use just a spoonful of PB next time. I used half the ramen seasoning packet and added a little fish sauce as well. Scallions would definitely kick it up a notch, but that involves significantly more work.
That sounds delicious and I am going to make that.
We do the same thing! Had it yesterday for breakfast. We've been buying Ramen packs from Costco that are pretty spicy so we've been skipping the Sriracha though.
I wish my Costco had spicy ramen packets. I'll check again later today just to be sure.
Minus the egg, that's also a popular backpacking meal.
Toasted bread with blue cheese, a fried egg, hot sauce and maple syrup on top.
Sounds like something I'd pay 16$ to have served by a malnourished hipster on a cutting board to a table lit by a bar bulb as an appetizer.
This sounded really good... until the maple syrup thing. Why? Why?!
Don't get me wrong. Maple syrup is great. On pancakes or so, but this? This truly is an abomination.
Try some sweet jam on a sharp cheese. It's such a good blend. Some people mix mustard and jelly but I think you can skip that for blue cheese.
I used to work at a bakery and my favourite thing to do was bring home a fresh baguette and eat it with blue cheese.
Hobo salad: Canned kidney beans, canned sweetcorn, canned tuna, salad dressing. If I'm feeling fancy/not lazy I'll add some chopped shallots or scallions.
my special treat that my partner hates for me to make but gobbles up bowls of: White Rice, Ground Beef, and Cream of Mushroom soup (campbells can). White rice like you like it, Ground the beef and salt generously after draining grease (helps the beef pop out more in the taste), then I usually do half of the milk called for with the soup.
Bed of RIce in a bowl, ground beef on top, then pour the cream of mushroom soup on it. Such a warm and crazy good taste but I get looks whenever I bring it up so I don't make it that often unless it's just me for a few days.
It sounds like a barebones beef stroganoff
That does sound really good and sort of appropriate, like a curried beef or something. Idk why anybody gives you a look lol it's a protein in sauce served over rice, what's even weird about it?
I think it's a combination of things, like I'm making ground beef so your mind goes taco but you're getting a soupy bowl. Also, cream of mushroom soup is just one of those weird soups that doesn't look or sound good on most people's radar (see it mostly by itself or with a chicken recipe) but always kicks off a casserole or dish the right way. Then I bust out the rice and the confusion just sets in till they realize I'm already done lol.
...sounds like that'd hit the spot for sure...
I bake a mean creamy chicken (like you'd find in a pot pie) but, for whatever fucking reason, I absolutely love that flavor spliced with white vinegar. I have a deep love of pushing tangy sour to the border of spiciness.
A strong acidic zing is missing from a lot of dishes.
Generally I keep white vinegar around specifically for its chemical properties rather than its flavor, though.
Ever try it with malt vinegar?
Yup, that's also pretty good! I think it pairs better with white vinegar though.
When I'm home alone, I'll sometimes revert to my "first apartment" mood and cook spaghetti with Campbell tomato soup in it, added with sautéed onions, mushrooms, hotdog sausages, and add cheese in it.
Is probably better than the crappiest thing I could come up with, but I wouldn't serve that too an adult. But maybe to children.
This sounds like Guy Fieri got super high and wanted chef boyardee.
Id eat it.
Try it :)
Would.
...sometimes i do likewise, but for me it's either totino's cheese pizza with morningstar spicy black bean burger on top, or a box of uncle ben's long-grain-and-wild-rice mixed with kraft italian cheese blend and morningstar chik patties baked like a casserole...
I haven't had this in a while but one if my lazy bachelor meals was baked potatoes with kim chee and sour cream.
I'd eat that.
There's a banked potato spot in my city that sells just baked potatoes with like 50 variations on the menu. You can get a baked potato topped with anything from chilly to brisket, vegetables, etc
I am disappointed with all of you. Please go to your room.
Sorry dude, that room is the kitchen.
Sandwiches with potato chips between them
That's not weird. Chips, fries, or tots can/should be in the sandwich.
That is amazing.
Add some marmite in there and you have a meal fit for
a kinga dukea very small earleating.Pretty much the go to UK sandwich
Pasta with ketchup instead of tomato sauce
Rice with ketchup
Ketchup with ketchup
I love ketchup
You love tomato flavored sugar
Hey, be fair...
It's also got a texture that's different from sugar!
Guilty as charged
I grew up with pasta and ketchup at home.
It was my favourite dish.From one ketchup connoisseur to another, I started with and continue to eat crackers, cheese, and ketchup. Saltine crackers, like the crappy soup kind (don't get anything fancy), Cheddar cheese (mild works but sharp is a better hit), and then whatever ketchup but I tend to do heinz or store brands since it tends to have more of a vinegary taste.
...i despise ketchup but i still love five way...
Add ground beef and worcestershire
Earlier this week I had curry on nacho chips because I made some really good curry and did not have the energy to make the actual nacho accoutrements that I had planned on doing
It was great
That sounds baller and something you'd find in Texas hill country.
I live in Scotland so, uhh... guess we've got the hills and a general attitude towards the bigger country we're a part of? Not a lot else in common, but still
Pan-fried canned chick peas with black pepper, butter, oregano, basil, and sometimes paprika, chili powder, and hot sauce if I want some kick.
I cook it when I'm in a rush or tired, it's done in 10-15 minutes, fills me up, and is packed with good protein.
But I would never feed it to anybody else, it's lazy bro/fitness food lol.
I roast seasoned chickpeas for snacking like that. I'll top pan fried chickpeas with leftover rice and carrot then let those steam up with the lid on. It helps contain popping beans too lol
Dang, that sounds good, I'll have to try that lol.
Sounds like a pretty good snack to eat in front of the TV.
Cold baked beans straight from the tin, eaten with a spoon. I'm grinning thinking of my dinner guests' faces as they contemplate their tins.
I knew someone who would eat a tomato for dinner with a few slices of carrots. Nothing baked, just a plain uncut tomato and slices of carrots.
I'm talking a functionnal human being, knowing the concept of cooking and the ability to walk to their kitchen with such a "dish" as they would call it. Not vegetarian either. They did like meat and whatnot. Saddest "meal" I've ever had the horror to lay my eyes upon.
I don’t care much about the what but the how. Biting into a whole tomato WILL make a mess. Simply cutting it in half greatly reduces the chance of that. If they already had a knife why not use it on the tomato. People are weird.
The whole thing was so surreal that I never bothered to ask about it.
I was thinking that too, but maybe it was one of those hard, white-on-the-inside, unripe tomatoes.
If you are on a diet, this meal has very few kilojoules/calories. Fewer than a single slice of bread.
Wasn't on a diet. Thankfully, they ate more during lunch and didn't have any health issues due to eating weirdly but those "meals" were something else..
Honestly, can relate! Had a month-long period when all I craved were carrot and white onion salads with a tiny pinch of salt, a load of ground black pepper, and drowned in vinegar. Used to chop the carrots down into tiny strips.
In your case, you added something, it was a salad with pepper and salt during a time where you were craving something in particular.
What was crazy to me about the story I told was the poor tomato and carrots were unseasoned, bland, resting in the saddest plate I've yet to encounter, while the person eating it was considering what was in front of them a meal.
(Not sure why someone would downvote you for your comment by the way)
I put ketchup on bread and microwave it
That is awful. Sorry
… for what purpose?
...i think i ate that labelled as 'pizza' on the riverwalk in 1988, but it may have had easy-cheese sprayed on top first: worst i've ever had in whatever case, you win...
you absolute
morongenius, as a fellow ketchup enjoyer I need to try this, what type of bread do you use?usually Hawaiian sweetbread
Sometimes when I'm craving chicken wings but don't want to spend the money, I just eat toast dipped in wing sauce. It actually scratches the itch.
My invented dish I call "Scrumpy". You take fries or fried potatoes, equal amount lettuce broken up like for a salad, chicken, then top it with chicken or beef gravy and chopped green onions. To really take up the indulgence level you can add
southernhot sauce like Frank's, and some Cajun seasoning.It started because of my great love of poutine, and wondering how I could make it into a healthier full meal. I've done a million variations on it, too. Stir fried cabbage and onion instead of lettuce. Corned beef instead of chicken. Adding a fried egg on top... Very flexible weeknight meal.
I would absolutely serve this to someone if it ever came up, but it never has.
Ok this I sort of understand because I used to make Nacho Potatoes. Nacho Potatoes are baked potatoes but with the toppings of nachos. Lettuce is essential because it gives a crunch that enhances the texture of the dish.
Nacho up your fries, include full trimmings.
I’ve had this at pubs (in the US). It was called “Irish Nachos.” They were pretty tasty.
...that's - odd...
Fresh tomato and dry roasted peanuts.
Actually I might try it on someone ...
I'm trying to envision this. Is the tomato sliced or diced? Are the peanuts whole or crushed? Is this a spoon dish or do you use your hands?
Either slices cut in half or diced and the peanuts whole, in separate dishes. A half mouthful of peanuts followed by a half mouthful of tomato. Never mix the two together before eating! I prefer to use a spoon.
These are all questions I didn't know I had. OP, please indulge us!
Guacamole with cottage cheese. The Polish side of my family loves it, but I wouldn't dare add it to my guac when making it for the Mexican half of my family.
...my wife got some kind of weird notion that cottage cheese makes good tacos or enchiladas and she's soooo wrong but i don't have the heart to tell her...
Peanut butter out of the jar.
I love peanut butter but on its own it feels horrible in the mouth!
Skip your mouth and just shovel it directly into your gullet
Two pieces of white bread, mayo, thick slices of tomato and a bunch of black pepper.. Not sure how terrible it is, but I don't generally serve it to others because it's very messy.
I toast my bread, then do mayo or butter, thick slices of tomato, and salt. Some pepper sometimes.
Toasted tomato open faced sandwich!
But I would serve that to guests. I don't see why not.
...i used to do that with a thick layer of thinly-sliced colby cheese...
I would make something similar. Tomato salt pepper sourcream and potato chips(any flavour). Haven't had that in years, now in kinda want one and i have to go to the store soon
Not regularly, but my family was super poor for awhile and our delicacies then are my comfort food now.
We loved hot dog weiners in the Kraft dinner, which is a fair approximation because we couldn't afford KD back then. Ground pepper, and also ketchup when we could afford to be fully blasphemous.
Mom makes a wicked liver-and-onions, but I suspect it wasn't liver so much as tongue, as it was cheap as hell back then. My sister knows the truth and she will.not eat 'liver' again.
Blasphemy and lies, that's it.
My ex's family had this prized dish: you warm milk with pieces of bread chucked in there, add sugar. Then you put cinnamon on top.
It was this weird milky-bready cinnamon soup that actually tasted pretty great and was perfect on a cold day, or whenever she needed some TLC food
Sounds like an easy bread pudding :)
My parents had that as youth, they called it Milk Sop
That sounds somewhat like bread and butter pudding, but I'm not sure
...when i was a kid in puerto rico one of my friends brought a can of vienna sausages to our camp-out and i thought they were sooooo fancy, like seriously epicurean food...
...i think we ate them with little bottles of tonic water, like old canada dry with the peel-away polystyrene labels, you know, sophisticated like james bond in moonraker...
Canadian as hell.
I'm surprised beef tongue was cheap over there back then.
Beef tongue here is one of those "special delicacy meat" that I usually get to eat during really fancy feasts. It's probably a pain in the ass to cook, but the texture is really something. So is beef cheek, but that's a different topic.
Cinnamon raisin bagels with lox and cream cheese
Id visit.
I'd fuck that up
When I'm really lazy I make spaghetti with butter and bread crumbs.
Add garlic (powder), parmesan and chili flakes.
Now you're talking
That has to be a real dish. Those ingredients are so fundamental that I would be surprised if that wasn't keeping peasants alive for the last twenty two hundred years.
Raw chickpeas. The small, black kind. I soak them overnight in cold water, and have them for breakfast along with a shot of espresso.
I got it from my dad. He used to have them with tea.
...that's peculiar and i totally respect it...
Toast, mayo, fried egg, salt. Then a liberal amount of Dave’s ghost pepper sauce on top, like a teaspoon.
I’m the only person I know of who will eat this specific hot sauce. Other hot sauce lovers will not touch it, because it tastes like capsaicin extract and poison. But I’m weirdly addicted to it. I own better tasting sauces but they don’t scratch the itch the right way.
I love really spicy food but I just don't like ghost peppers. Is it just spicier than your other sauces?
It’s spicier than most, yes. They launched the sauce back when ghost was still the hottest pepper in the world, and went overboard using extract.
I love the taste of ghost pepper though. It’s a pleasant taste with a linear burn curve that hits straight on. Not like reaper, which lures you into having too much and then rapes you.
My overall favourite pepper is chocolate habanero. Its just the tastiest of them all.
Sourdough with chunky peanut butter, ground mustard, and aioli.
Hell no I’d rather starve
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Snack pasta (farfalle are the best). No cooking, just open the package and munch the raw pasta. I like how crispy it is.
I didn't know anyone else did this. I was just snacking on some bucatini. I recommend it! Long thin tubes of pasta that break up easily and have no risk of sharp bits.
I think it is a result of growing up in an "ingredient household". We did not stock snacks, and I was always too lazy to make a meal.
My biggest snack when I was a kid (and I sometimes still do this at 28) was dry ramen packets. I love crunching the noodles and the texture they have. And I keep the flavor powder for the next time I actually cool them, for extra flavor.
Mustard bread. I'm dead serious.
Edit to clarify: just a slice of bread with a heap of mustard rushedly spread on it. I either go for honey mustard if I'm looking for a bit of pep, or whole grain Dijon for savouring.
I used to do this as a kid, and would add cheese to make it a "sandwich".
Hate me if you will, but any source of protein on a slice of bread is a sammich to me!
Also, most definitely works, especially with some of the smoked cheeses which are common in our area!
My oldest brother used to put mustard on toast
Ooh, that's the fancy kind, I'm generally too lazy to wait for toast.
...sunshine sandwich!..
Dammit! Could've been a commercial star in the 80s had I been born in the 80s and, like... a different country...
rice and lentils. Bit to mundane for company.
Add a spicy condiment to that and that sounds great!
...delicious staple, love it with spinach leaves and coarse-chopped roma tomatoes on top...
its wonderful and I eat it all the time but don't make it for company.
fermented shrimp paste, pickled bird eyes chili, soy sauce, fresh mangoes and plain white rice. topped with a heaping pinch of msg.
This is the first comment on this post I actually winced at
I'm sorry, pickled what now? Is it some obscure vegetable I've never heard about? Or are they like actual bird eyes like from a chicken?
the wild varieties are really small compared to the cultivated ones, 2 cm or so in length.
...that's - incredibly interesting...
Variant on your dish: bake sweet potato, add cottage cheese and eat immediately. Add sweet or savory seasonings to taste. It's not something I'd bring to share, but it's definitely not something I'll hide. As far as quick and dirty meals, it's reasonably healthy, and probably not the worst suggestion for someone who struggles to cook for themselves.
Actual goblin food: canned black olives between two slices of bread, smush down to prevent them from rolling out.
Chunky tapanade.
Yeah, a few seconds with a fork, and toasting the bread or swapping to crackers and you're basically at something that's fit to give to others again.
Mix 2 different instant noodle products, Carbonara Buldak and Neoguri and create a sodium overload saucy cheesy ramen. We only have it max twice a month though because it’s so high in sodium.
Shin Ramyun + Easy Mac. (make with less water)
An entire loaf of French bread from the super market and a sobe (at least back when sobe existed)
What's sobe?
My dad and I used to eat an entire baguette on the way back from the grocery store.
idk how weird this is in terms of everything else in this thread, but peanut butter and pickles on toast is great
Refried beans, rice, sirachcha, and too much mayo. Sometimes I eat it with bread like a sad sack sandwich.
Throw a potato in whatever form you want and roll that up in flatbread. I'd eat that in a heartbeat.
Omelet composed of >60% frozen vegetables and seasoned with soy sauce.
It doesn't hold itself together at all and it looks disgusting.
I'm not going to put a bowl of lentils and hot sauce in front of a guest.
Spicy lettuce hotdogs! Cook them meat sticks up however you want, wrap in lettuce, place in bun. Top with ketchup and habanero Tabasco.
I've never even thought to put lettuce in a hot dog...
If someone made like a "cheeseburger" hot dog with lettuce, tomato, pickle, maybe even onion, with ketchup and possibly some mayo? I'd throw down. ETA: can't believe I forgot cheese
I'm Canadian so I could be wrong but I think that's a thing in Chicago, or at least similar to that. Or some other big American city.
Okay so I know this is a couple weeks old, but I can't stop thinking about this and you got me cooking.
Get some of those giant jumbo dogs by Nathan's, slice them in half and grill them up. Get some beef (I like around 70/30 myself), cook it up with some burger seasonings, maybe a hint of cheese or cheese sauce? Put the half dog in the bun first, flat side up so it creates a nice platform for the rest of the food and opens the bun. Then you put a nice portion of burger meat on top, then your toppings (lettuce, tomato, more cheese, etc.) and your sauces (ketchup, mayo, maybe some mustard).
Boom. Burger-Dog.
Chips with ketchup (as a dip) and burned mozzarella in a pan, rolled up, and dipped in honey mustard.
Cut up tortillas, fry them with some salt, when crispy crack two or three eggs in there and scramble. I grew up eating it and while it is delicious I don't think I would serve it to guests.
...that's essentially migas: people pay restaurant money for that...
That actually doesn't sound that bad lol
I love migas!
Yum! I do this with tortilla chips crushed slightly and let them soak in the melting butter in the pan while it warms up. Same thing in reverse mostly. Delicious.
Thank you for the suggestion.
I love this, my kids do not. They do love chilaquiles, but those I make fried eggs for.
One skillet, good egg dishes. Shakshuka you might like too.
Spaghetti Amoré (~$15 Serves 4-6)
- 16oz Box of Spaghetti
- 1lb Ground Turkey
- 1 Can Cream Of Cheddar
- 1 Can Cream of Mushroom
- 1 Can Tomato Soup
- 8oz of Shredded Mozzarella
- Spices: salt, black pepper, poultry seasoning, onion powder, garlic powder, oregano
Start boiling your pasta water, salt the water. Meanwhile, in a skillet start cooking the ground turkey till pink is gone. Once cooked, start seasoning with above spices to taste until satisfied, then move skillet to back burner on lowest setting to keep warm.
Preheat oven to 375. Once pasta water is boiling, add spaghetti and cook per instruction until al dente. Drain pasta in a colander, then return to pot.
While pot and spaghetti are still hot, add ground turkey and 3 soup cans to the pot and stir spaghetti until soups are evenly incorporated.
Dump contents of pot into a 9x13" casserole dish, spread contents evenly in the dish, then top with mozzarella cheese.
Bake in the oven till cheese has melted (about 5-10 minutes)
Remove from oven and let cool on stove for 5 minutes. Use a spatula to cut a square and serve warm.
So like a turkey ziti? This sounds pretty good.
If it serves 4-6 and you wouldn't serve it to anyone, who are the 4-6?
Me at lunch, me at dinner, me at lunch tomorrow, me at dinner tomorrow...
Me, myself, I, Am Him.
1 Can Cream Of Cheddar
I have never heard of this before. Huh.
What's your standards for food you'd make for other people?
I call it the cinco de mayo revenge: Laughing Cow cheese (it’s French) melted in a tortilla.
...my mother-in-law (and wife) do that with vietnamese french bread...
Scoop of peanut butter
My so called broccoli-potato-gratin with pork neck includes quite an amount of cream, salt, bouillion cubes and cheese. My wife doesn't know and it will stay that way.
...that sounds delicious and i've been vegetarian for thirty-five years!..
White bread with mustard, and those dried fried crisy onions sandwiched inside. Gets me through to next meal.
Mud
Cocoa powder, sugar, bit of cream. Mix until it’s gritty from sugar, it shouldn’t be too smooth. Extra delicious if some isn’t fully mixed and there are cocoa powder chunks. It could be a topping, or an ingredient in something delicious, but no - eat the whole bowl of sweet gritty chocolatey goodness straight up.
Ok this one is cursed. You win
Tamale pie- canned corn, chili (no beans bc blegh), canned tamales (really these are even optional despite the name of the dish), and Swiss cheese all melted together in ooey gooey goodness.
Also I love the raw dough from those biscuits in the can that pops
Sandines and kraut with mustard and caraway. I only eat it when I'm alone and have time to brush my teeth afterward. So good though and I'm full for hours.
You are the Polish version of the poster who said kimchi and sardines!
i would absolutely try this.
i eat a LOT of kraut, probably five days a week. also enjoy sardines and mayo on toast with capers. followed by kraut, which pairs well with the salty capered dregs left in the sardine tin.
Peanut butter, jelly, and Cheeto burrito.
This sounds like one of those dishes you learn about in prison.
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Wheat tortilla or are you using something more exotic?
I’ve done white, wheat, and the “Extreme Wellness High Fiber Low Carb” tortillas. They’re all about the same.
...so i grew up with what we called five-way in northern kentucky, and no, it's not cincinnati chili...
- spaghetti
- browned ground beef (or in my case since 1989, vegetarian substitute)
- diced onions (fresh / cold)
- dark red kidney beans (simmered / hot)
- grated cheddar cheese (annatto-colored)
- ketchup
...it's all layered up on a large plate in that order, bottom-to-top so the cheese melts nicely, cut into a grid pattern with a fork and knife, and then mixed together: i don't cook it often since moving out on my own thirty-five years ago but it so hits the spot when i do...
So poor mans bolognese. I remember reading when you heat up ketchup it denatures (probably not the right word but opposite of caramelize) and loses its sweetness and becomes pasta sauce.
...it definitely changes when used to top meatloaf...
I use ketchup instead of tomato paste quite often and fortunately it never really tastes like ketchup. Maybe that's why.
That sounds pretty good
That makes sense. It isn't really super different from a Cincinnati style five way.
Just white bread with a slice of cheese and spiced ketchup.
Take a slice of white bread and a single slice of American cheese. Microwave just long enough to make the cheese slightly burn… the phase just after bubbly will get harder when it cools. Top with hot sauce or spicy ketchup… but not too much. If you can find it, there is an Indian curry spruced ketchup that is awesome.
When I was pretty serious about powerlifting, I would wake up in the middle of the night and eat a giant spoonful of peanut butter with a big glass of milk, and then go back to bed. I certainly wouldn't offer that to a guest.
Guys will read this and say hell yeah
I don't lift a damn thing and regularly swipe spoonfuls of peanut butter.
Oh man, this makes me nostalgic. I used to do powerlifting, but I don't like peanut butter, and I remember cursing that fact
Baby swiss cheese is a pretty good alternative. There are 9 grams of protein per slice, and it has enough fat to balance it out.
I don't do it often, but pasta with a cream of mushroom or clam chowder soup.
Maybe not too weird, but that's probably as weird as it gets.
that's basically just a casserole without some extra ingredients. sounds great to me
Sounds kinda nice, honestly.
It tastes good, but i feel pretty guilty doing it
Butter beans with olives. Cover it in oregano, some garlic, some chilli flakes, and then drizzle a tiny bit of soy sauce and plenty of olive oil over the top.
It's dumb, but it's so tasty, quick, and easy.
Green olives?
I have no idea what this will taste like but I'm intrigued.
Black or green. I quite like green but my girlfriend prefers black so we usually have more black in the house.
Instant mashed potatoes with American cheese melted in, and a variety of seasonings, butter, toppings etc. It's a great, cheap way to make a bowl out of random leftovers, protein or whatever. But I wouldn't dare serve it to someone.
'quickadilla' I'll slap a tortilla on a cold pan, turn on the heat and build it right in the pan while it heats up with shredded cheese and left over meat. Takes 5 minutes and it's at least as good as Taco Bell, and actually warm and melted.
More of a meal I'd actually be willing to share, but not brag about because it's sort of a bastardization of cultures. But I'll often make a curry using Japanese curry blocks, and season chicken in a vaguely Indian style, then put it over rice. Really simple and delicious. I'm kind of proud of it but I wouldn't even know how to explain it to someone, much less actually serve it.
Peanut butter & white onion sandwich on white bread. Lazy meal.
Cream of wheat but then you put a gloop of fruit yoghurt on top. Delicious probiotic fruit gruel.
2nd place goes to microwaved potato
Do you eat it with or without the microwave?
Inside the microwave.
The gloop is the international standardized measurement for yoghurt
Take a sweet bun that has a curd filling, cut it in half like a burger bun. Spread cream cheese on both sides. Add ham, cucumber, salad leaf. Serve with tarkhuna. This recipe might doxx me to my friends, because I always say to try it but nobody ever does.
Kimchi and blue cheese quesadilla.
Kimchi and cream cheese on crackers is good, too.
Not super common but commen enough and just for a snack, but I like using tortillas if there's no bread in my apartment. I use them for things like peanut butter and mayonnaise wraps and peanut butter and butter wraps.
I also sometimes use tortillas for leftovers in general, depending on the leftovers from the night before. Last time there was leftover homemade mac and cheese and catfish, I heated them and had that wrapped in a plain tortilla with nothing else for breakfast.
On the area of Mexico that I grew up in, every morning (or every other morning) you would buy fresh corn tortillas for the family. We’d make a taco out of anything.
There is a macaroni salad (with lettuce, peas, carrots, etc.) served at weddings and special events people sometimes pair it with mole sauce and add it to a taco (tortilla) - the main dish is mole with chicken and rice and beans, but people in my region would not think of a Mac and cheese taco as too strange.
My mom also used to make a canned tuna mix (mayo, tomato, onion, lime, salt and pepper) that we would pair with a tortilla and it slaps. I’ve feed this to people from the US and they came back for a second and third taco.
We also would pair a rolled up tortilla with soups (chicken, beef, fish) and used it to push the veggies and meat into a spoon while taking a bite of the part that got souped up.
Corn goes surprisingly well with both sweet/savory (mole) and salty (meats, etc). I’ve never thought of pairing it with PB, but I can see how it might work. If you were referring to flour tortillas, those tend to have a slightly sweet profile, so it seems it could work.
Uuyyyyy me acordé de los taquitos de manteca con sal el fila de las tortillas. Que delicia!
...you're a bad person and you should feel bad, but i used to like tuna casserole when i was growing up which i think is like blue-box macaroni and cheese, canned tuna, cream of mushroom soup, frozen peas, and crushed ruffles baked together...
...maybe?..i don't think i've eaten it since the seventies since my stepfather hated it, so i might not quite be remembering it correctly...
I'll definitely throw a can of tuna on a box of Mac to get some protein in there. It somehow feels slightly classier than the cut up hotdogs of my childhood
Same here, a few more tips for tortillas.
Stack two tortillas and use for pizza crust.
Brown, brown beef, chopped up small and put in freezer. To use as a topping for burritos.
Layer the tortilla with refied beans. Add the frozen ground beef and cheese. Throw in a toaster oven for about five minutes and Add sauce. For a perfect burrito Or pizza.
Super easy and quick meal or snack.
I made Mac and cheese with Velveeta and ground turkey.
Mac and cheese with whatever random protein is like... A norm. Bacon? Hot dog? Chicken?
Yes.
S'fine for myself. I wouldn't serve Velveeta to a guest.
Yeah, this sounds like something I'd find at a diner.
Sliced tomatoes, raw chikory, hard boiled egg with home made mayo.
This sounds great!!
Your dish is called a jacket potato if I understand you right. What I like to do is boil rice then mix it with peanut butter and sriracha and just eat that like it is.
Bun, brat, mustard, sourkraut. If there is a pack of malt vinegar in the drawer, that too.
That’s just a hotdog, no?
I thought that it was fairly normal… until you got to the malt vinegar.
...malt vinegar krauts the kraut: sounds delicious...
Another delicious hit - chocolate sandwiches!
Two slices of white bread, fill sandwich generously with hot chocolate mix. Deliciously dry and chocolatey.
It's bending the rules, since it's a camping meal, but I have made it at home, too, since it makes a great depression meal. I got it from backpackers, who I'm pretty sure got it from prison inmates:
The Ramen Bomb.
Cook a crushed up packet of instant ramen noodles, maybe with a little more water than usual. Add like half a packet of instant mashed potatoes. You can also add a protein, like... chopped up Spam. Maybe some hot sauce or other fixings if you're feeling fancy.
I hated how much I enjoyed it. Granted, that was when I was really tired and hungry, but that hit the spot.
Also, I've heard meals like the ones in this thread affectionately referred to as "glop," by a fellow glop-enjoyer.
Mine would probably be my ghetto breakfast sandwiches. I usually throw a little shredded cheese, diced onion, and hot peppers into a coffee mug and crack and egg into it and then scramble it. Microwave that for a min while i toast an English muffin or bagel. Then put it together with maybe a thin slice of ham. Excellent breakfast sandwich. People think I'm nuts for making the eggs in a microwave, but it works well, has an easy cleanup, and is super quick in the mornings before work.
I make a meaty spaghetti sauce with various spices, but I cook the ground beef in the pan at a low simmer for about 2hrs before I even add the tomato sauce, in order for those spices to penetrate the meat.
I call it a nuclear time bomb because it tastes totally normal - very delicious, even - but about 10-15 minutes in, you are reaching for a hand towel to wipe away the sweat which is quite literally dripping off of you. And you have felt NONE of the hot spices on your tongue.
A much quicker dish involves Cæsar dressing, which I add copious amounts of garlic powder to (4-5 tablespoons), then prevent the dressing from solidifying by adding lemon juice, then wrapping up with freshly ground garlic. As in, a paste, *not chopped or minced._ For a salad using a single head of Romaine, the paste alone uses 15-30 garlic cloves depending on size. And this is on top of the garlic powder. Tastes amazing, but it can get garlicky enough to be barely edible. Think the same kind of burn when chewing down on a fresh raw clove. I sometimes get an “addictive overwhelming thirst” for this garlicky dish that has me gorging on it almost exclusively for an entire week.
I am in awe of your tastebuds.
Liver and ground beef in a skillet.
Easy post workout meal, easy to clean, only minutes to cook.
Nobody I know would eat liver
Lutefisk. Served with heavy cream and melted butter. And Potato Klub as a side.
I leave it the reader to google it - if they dare.
Sometimes I slice some red Leicester cheese on a small plate and microwave it for around 30 seconds, until it melts. Then I eat it with a teaspoon. I first had it when I was desperately hungry but that cheese was literally the only food I had in, and I liked it enough I did it again. (Red Leicester cheese is like cheddar, but it tends to have a distinctly nutty flavour to it).
I used to have chives growing on the windowsill and it always tickled me to sprinkle some chopped chives over the cheese puddle, because a chive garnish feels very fancy but this "meal" was incredibly trashy.
Raw jello powder, add a dribble of water to make part of it a super thick paste.
Blue cheese, and sweet condensed milk dip with tortilla chips.
Note: I might have more, but just woke up from a nightmare and its 2:30am. Will try to come back later.
Those sweet potatoes are close to Grandma Appalachia's traditional preparation that she got from a recipe her Irish aunt tore out of a magazine back in the 70s, but hers included a hoppy beer to balance the hot sauce
Garlic butter spread over bread (alentejano bread has a tiny bit of olive oil and it's preferred but it's the bread that's at hand, white form toast bread usually), toasted with filling of green olives, mushroom, dried tomato and peanut butter.
It's all preserved stuff so it's back up when you don't have fresh things and the sweet of the peanut butter ties in with the olives quite nicely, I only like black oxidated olives otherwise.
Raw tagliatelle. I love picking it apart and eating it, it has a satisfying crunch, especially when pieces directly overlap, but I'd be silly to just up and serve a plate of raw tagliatelle to someone 😂
Grits with canned tuna.
Grits with chili paste, fried egg, pork fu.
Sandwich of sardines and mayonnaise and raw onion.
OP, my sweet potato lunch is a Stokes Purple one frozen then baked, topped with goat cheese, pepitas, olive oil and fancy salt. I don't even like sweet potatoes but like that there's enough salty/sharp stuff
What are grits made of? I've never seen them in 40 years but hear about them
I don't even like sweet potatoes but like that there's enough salty/sharp stuff
I like sweet potatoes, but I get you. I don't understand this thing where people add marshmallows. It's already sweet! Now, bake a sweet potato, mash it, and add a little bit of salt and some hot sauce to preference, that definitely works for me.
I eat ketchup out of a plate with a spoon.
Instant sugar-free chocolate pudding made with Greek yogurt instead of milk, added de-fatted peanut powder and chocolate whey protein (unflavored would work better, TBH), and with peanuts, raw rolled oats, and sliced bananas.
It's a great meal when you're done at the gym and utterly exhausted by the prospect of making real food. It's high protein, no added sugars, and high in fiber. If you squint, it's almost healthy.
a rice cooker filled with lentils and nuts and other types of bird food. no seasoning or salt. brown rice.
a smoothie with raw kale/spinnach, broccoli, spirulina, a banana, almond milk. looks dark green.
actually, ive changed my mind. i would try to get someone to eat this.
I don't think there's anything that I eat that couldn't be served to anyone else. Even some particularly Brazilian dishes, such as cooked cassava or corn couscous with milk and butter are pretty much vanilla compared to some other local dishes which I dread - such as buchada (a brazilian haggis, made with rice and goat offals), sarapatel (just the cooked goat offals) or chouriço doce (a reduction of sugar, spices and pig blood).
Gnocchi cream and cheddar, with ham if I'm feeling hungry.
It's for when I don't have a lot of time but am really hungry.
Chickpea tuna salad. Drain a can of chickpeas, then mix with a can of tuna (drained, if it's packed in water), some olive oil, red wine vinegar, and salt. I add diced raw onion if I'm not too tired.