Potato pancakes are one of the most basic food. The odds are very good you have a potato, onion, and eggs just hanging around your house so this is a great meal or snack for a night when you don’t want to make anything too fancy. The texture of these will change depending on which way you grate the potatoes. I just simply used a mandolin to julienne them but feel free to use a box grater or even get your lazy on and drop them in a food processor!
Just a quick and delicious salad that brightens up any meal and come together in 5 minutes. I love myself some green salad but sometimes you just need something a bit different.
Who doesn’t love Pad Thai? It’s the perfect Thai style blend of sweet, sour, salty, savory, and spicy flavors. I always assumed it was difficult to make but actually it only takes a couple of minutes! The hardest part is going to the store and getting rice noodles which is something I don’t usually keep on hand. You can make this easily vegetarian or vegan with a couple quick swaps but I like fish sauce too much myself!
All the flavors of a taco neatly baked in to a casserole. My only problem with this recipe is that because it uses cans you can’t halve it really neatly unless you’re making something with the other half of those cans and this really makes eight full servings of food and I tend to enjoy it the first three times and then get bored and it doesn’t freeze particularly well.
We first had spätzle in Germany, which probably surprises no one, and we quickly fell in love with it. It’s a very simple recipe that provides you with pillow soft egg noodles. You can make these with a Spätzlehobel (spätzle maker) OR you can push the dough through colander or you can try your hand at cutting them on the edge of a board which looked like all together too much work. Yeah the maker is a mono-tasker but for $5 it was worth it for me.
Cacio e Pepe is literally cheese and pepper and that’s all that’s in this. It’s hard to tell from the picture but basically you use a bit of the pasta water to melt the cheese in to a sauce that coats the pasta. This absolutely simple and stunning dish is the perfect crowd pleaser that involves little work. Simply perfect.
I love falafel. I love chickpeas and spices and the delicious tangy yogurt sauces that always come with it but what I don’t really like is lentils. So when I saw this recipe at first I was skeptical but even though I used to crappiest form of lentil they came out so delicious and so perfectly seasoned that I was nibbling them right out of the oven!
A simple staple that goes with all sorts of foods, this cornbread like most others, whips up in about 5 minutes of work and tastes moist and fluffy and delicious. Perfect with chili, soups, stews, or even as a quick breakfast with cream or jam.
This recipe uses extra vegetables so you can use less pasta. It’s really delicious and has a nice pleasing way of making you feel full (pasta, vegetables, and cheese do that though I guess). The best part about this recipe is that it doesn’t take much effort and if you have leftover cooked pasta around it’d be even less effort.
I love these pancakes and they turn breakfast for dinner in to a much healthier prospect overall. You can use store bought mix or any other pancake batter that you like as well as substituting any vegetables you like in to the batter. I like to use carrots and zucchini because they are both mild and a little bit sweeter than your average vegetable though.