Y’all are way too productive…
And lazy doesn’t necessarily mean quick either. Frozen pizza has gotta be the real winner here.
let it cool a bit and fold it over. eat it like a big sammich. don’t even have to dirty the pizza cutter.
Call it a calzone and suddenly you’ve circled back to fancy diner.
Who the hell calls a calzone “fancy dinner”?
Someone who would eat a frozen pizza all folded up.
Here’s my go go lazy meal:
*drinks water*
drinks coffee
Did you know caffeine is an appetite suppressent?
Open container, heat (optional), eat.
If it requires more, it’s not lazy enough.
I got this great lazy spaghetti snack recipe.
- Take out some pieces of spaghetti from the box.
- Eat it.
Italians would like to know your location
Italians are the laziest cooks. They took half their culinary tradition from Asia, and the other half from America.
Italians are the laziest cooks.
Someone never made pasta by hand.
New theory dropped, Italian cuisine is actually American (?)
America as in the Americas. Tomatoes came to Europe after Columbus.
Saying Italian cuisine is American because they use tomatoes… Is like saying American cuisine is indo-europ-africa-asian because they use pigs, cows and wheat.
Yes.
to make a lazy meal, first you must lazily create the universe…
This will potentially sound disgusting, but yesterday i chopped a red onion, broke off a 20cm piece of sausage and ate them with 2 pieces of bread for lunch. Couldn’t even deny I’m from Hungary🤣
Seems pretty normal to me. I snack on stuff like that though I’d probably have some mustard, mayo or hot sauce with it.
“this simple meal only requires about 5 minutes of prep work”
Proceeds* to list off atleast half an hours worth of shit to do prior to cooking
This is my kind of simple.
Step 1: Unwrap processed cheese slice and put in mouth. Repeat as necessary.
You’re spending time unwrapping? I refuse to buy the individually wrapped ones because that’s way too much work.
I just eat the wrapper.
[Camera fade in on a full-body shot of me standing in my kitchen, my hands tented smartly in front of me.]
Hi everyone, welcome back to my food channel. You don’t want to cook a full balanced meal every night, sometimes you just want something quick! So today I wanted to show everyone my go-to lazy meal.
[I rip open a bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips with my teeth and just start pouring them vertically into my mouth. Many of the chocolate chips do not go into my mouth, they just fall straight down, bouncing off the floor and out of frame. Some get caught in the folds of my clothing, occasionally rolling off onto the floor and bouncing out of frame. Most unsettling are the ones that fall into my mouth and then are carried out again by their own chaotic momentum, covered in microscopic flecks of my saliva, sticking to my shirt or splattering on the floor.]
[This continues for much longer than you’d think, as I empty the entire 1-pound bag without stopping.]
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Being a bachelor, I often chop an onion and end up with like 4 or 5 meals worth of onion chops, so a lot of “lazy meals” are “get some chopped onion out of the fridge.”
How much onion do you use per meal? I feel like I may be using too many, since everything in a grocery store that is sold in bundles or bags, is too much for me and it would likely go bad before I can eat it all, but onions (and plain yoghurt) are the exception. A 10 kg bag of onions lasts a week or less when feeding only myself.
Even when making larger batches of french onion soup, I don’t think I’ve ever eaten 10 kilograms of onions in a week.
There’s different levels of lazy. If you can’t bring yourself to chop an onion every once in a while, you probably just need to practice it a bit or something, because that shit isn’t hard.
I don’t think anybody says chopping an onion is hard, but it also means you’re going to be cooking for about an hour.
A lazy meal is like beans on toast, or something you slap in the microwave for three minutes.
Sorry, but it doesn’t take an hour to cook an onion. If you do it often enough you can chop an onion finely in less than 2 minutes. You can generally just throw onions into whatever container you are cooking in. Sharp knives are a must, and watch a video on how to cut veggies. Along with a cheap knife sharpener ofc.
Onions are the bread and butter for taste in my cooking. A quick web search for best herbs to add to whatever it is you are cooking will change how you cook and eat immensely. Buying a couple of jars of herbs a month and increase your repertoire bit by bit. I realise not everyone can do this ATM with the cash flow crisis that is predominant. But for those who can spend an extra £5-6 a month, it will change how you love your food.
My tea tonight(yes, its called tea where I live) - Chicken that is busy marinating in rosemary and thyme, with onions and peppers. Along with my own version of a Ratatouille that I made yesterday mixed into pasta. I am not a clever cook or anything like it. I just cook a small number of things very well.
The best recipe I have come across so far is lamb chops. Make a mixture of sage, rosemary, thyme, coriander and cumin (1.25ml equally for each one). Put them in a small glass and mix it up, then this will coat 3 lamb chops. Fry in Olive oil in a lidded frying pan.
If you have no lid for your frying pan, I would really recommend getting one. They are easy to buy from Amazon and save a lot of energy. They also keep a lot of the flavours in the pan. Add a couple of chopped garlic cloves while frying. At 3-4 minutes before removing the chop add finely chopped onions.
It doesn’t take an hour to cook an onion.
But unless you’re that guy from The Office, usually an onion goes with other things. And those other things are what takes the time.
I think we just have very different ideas of “lazy”.
Seriously, an onion is all you need to spice up a meal. No herbs or fancy stuff, stick an onion into your food as part of your 5/10/15 or whatever it is these now per day. BBC good food guide on the benefits onions.
- Rich in antioxidant compounds
- Contain anti-cancer compounds
- Are antibacterial
- May support heart health
- May support bone health
- May support gut health
- May help regulate blood sugar
- May support the respiratory system
- May protect the digestive system
- May help with weight management
I only mentioned herbs because they are a no brainer with exceptionally low effort.
- Gives wife crippling stomach cramps.
So I’ll pass.
I find the texture generally unpleasant, unless it’s crispy onions (and I mean actual crispy onions, not slightly burnt but still slimy onions), and I’ll assume the process of deep frying the fuck out of them and putting them on a burger nullifies any health benefits.
Obviously if a food gives you a reaction then don’t eat it.
I find the texture generally unpleasant
I am in exactly the same boat. I cannot eat onions unless they are finely cut. Onions that are finely cut give out more flavour anyways. It is all about learning how to cut an onions finely and quickly. This is similar to how I do it. I do downward cuts to the centre of the onion. I never do the horizontal cuts that I have seen a lot do. To me that is just asking for trouble. I also cut my slices very finely. I like the bit of leaving the end on the onion. That is a new one to me.
I don’t mind the chopping, washing and cleaning up is the dealbreaker for actually cooking for a lazy meal.
My lazy hot meal is usually something with noodles or rice, like jar sauce bolognese or egg rice. Bonus if you eat it straight out of the pot.
My advice: Eat the plates, man.
Why don’t you already have chopped onion in your fridge for when you’re feeling lazy? Be kind to your future self when you have the time and motivation. I chop a sweet onion or two every weekend and use it throughout the week on whatever. Gotta do peppers a couple times a week though. I put that stuff in everything.
Why don’t you already have chopped onion in your fridge for when you’re feeling lazy?
I don’t have a pre-chopped onion in my fridge for the same reason why you probably don’t have 20 different kinds of pen refills, inkwells and nibs to go with your collection of dozens of various pens. I do a lot of writing. I don’t do much cooking.
I’m not sure I know how to cook anything that doesn’t start with a chopped onion.
Your pudding must be weird.
I think this person is upset that other people are less lazy about cooking in general than he is
Not really, he is just explaining that some veggies add a lot of taste for very little effort. People watch cooking programmes and think that you have to spend an hour cutting stuff up to make it worthwhile. Or that you have to spend a fortune on herbs to make it taste nice. When the reality is that just adding a single vegetable can do wonders for the taste. Onions are just the most versatile and one of the quickest to prep/cook.
Almost everything sauteed or simmered starts out with at least onions, sure. I interpreted it, though, as “this person saying he takes no effort but they’re chopping vegetables and cooking something vs throwing some stuff in the microwave”. Hard to know with no context.
