You could easily add whatever you want to this but to make it as straight forward as possible all I did was add a bag of frozen “stir fry” vegetables, making this meal take all of 10 minutes to come together without bringing out any chopping board. It does take 2 pans (one to boil and one to fry in) but you could probably do it in one large sauce pot if you were really lazy.
Category: make ahead
Recipe: Pancakes
A super basic pancake recipe where the batter take just a minute or two to come together with things you probably have hanging around the house on any morning that you find yourself in need of a little bread that is kind of also cake-like.
Pancakes
Adapted from All RecipesRecipe: Stovetop Chocolate Pudding
Stovetop pudding comes together easily in a couple of minutes and can be made to look extremely fancy for an easy dinner party treat. Top with whipped cream, pieces of fruit, or shaved chocolate for maximum effect or simply eat it right out of the bowl. Also you can sieve all the ingredients to make sure it doesn’t have any lumps at all or you can be like me and take your lumps where they happen.
Chocolate Pudding
Recipe: Salmon and Leek Quiche
While I do have a perfectly good quiche recipe already posted, this combination of things is completely out of this world and deserves it’s own recipe. Also in this one I used the shortcut of freezer puff pastry which creates a light vehicle for this but you can make your own crust or even use a pie crust if that’s how you want to do it.
Salmon and Leek Quiche
Adapted from Things I Made TodayRecipe: Carrot Cake
I thought for a while that I didn’t like carrot cake but after some careful considerate I think I just don’t like the overly sweet commercially made carrot cakes. For this one I doubled the amount of spices to give it an extra kick too.
Carrot Cake
Adapted from The Gourmet GourmandRecipe: Cucumber Tomato Salad
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.
Cucumber Tomato Salad
Adapted from Budget BytesRecipe: Vegetable Pad Thai
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!
Vegetable Pad Thai
Adapted from Pinch of YumRecipe: Taco Rice Bake
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.
Taco Rice Bake
Adapted from EpicuriousRecipe: Funfetti Cake
Who doesn’t love funfetti!? Basically a funfetti cake is just white cake in which you dumped a bunched of sprinkles (aka colorful sugar) in to. It really only make the cake better! This is one I did for Gravity Falls party hence the colorful buttercream and fondant designed but you can do whatever you like on top.
Funfetti Cake
Adapted from Sweet Peas KitchenRecipe: Lentil Falafels
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!