Comments on: IQ-tips: quick meals anyone? anyone?

By: Antonio

Antonio — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:46:00 +0000

Sincronizadas

These are like quesadillas, except they’re not folded.

Ingredients:
2 flour tortillas
1 slice ham
Mashed avocado
Cheese

In a skillet or pan over medium heat, place one of the tortillas. Cover with shredded cheese. Add mashed avocado. Add slice of ham. Cover mith more cheese. Top it with the other tortilla.
By the time you do this, it’s probably time to turn over.

By: Bri

Bri — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:07:00 +0000

If all you really have is ramen, but you’re sick of soup, I have the solution!

Need:
Ramen
Egg(s) (= to the number of packages of ramen)
salt & pepper (opt)
butter

Directions:
While cooking the ramen (nuking it, sans flavor package for 10 minutes or boiling water), scramble egg(s). If making more than 1 package you may add additional season packets to the egg but leave at least 1 aside. Put a pat of butter in a frying pan and warm the pan. When noodles are done cooking, drain the water (all of it) and throw the noodles in the hot pan. Pour egg(s) over noodles and empty the set aside packet over the whole thing. Flip as necessary to cook the eggs and lightly brown the noodles. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Voila. My ex-bf who taught me this dish called it egg foo yung foo as a play on egg foo yung.

By: Larissa

Larissa — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:10:31 +0000

Sometimes I get a total craving for chicken salad sandwiches. If you have rotisserie chicken available in your grocery store, you’re totally set!
You’ll need:
Bread
Cubed/shredded chicken
Mayonnaise/Miracle Whip/Mustard/etc.
Seasoning (I like cumin, seasoned salt and pepper, but smoke salt is good, too)
Grapes (opt.)
Pecans (opt.)
If you want to get fancy, or if you just like chopping onions, you can also add shallots or red onion. It’s pretty easy to customize.

I just eyeball my ingredients depending on the number of people to feed and their preferences for mayo and stuff. Mix everything from the chicken down together in a bowl, slap it on the bread and you’re done. Mmm!

By: heather

heather — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:05:29 +0000

Two words: Ramen Noodles.

Seriously though, my dad and I came up with this really quick and easy jalepeno cheese dip that takes, like 2 minutes.

You simply combine about a cup of shredded chedar cheese, a few forkfuls of canned diced jalepenos or chile peppers, and enough mayo to make it creamy. Add hot sauce and pepper juice to taste and chow down with tortilla chips. It makes a great midday snack (or even better, late night.)

By: frumpiefox

frumpiefox — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:20:25 +0000

One of the best quickie things I’ve ever had (it’s a variation on migas):

Need:
Canned beans (black, kidney, or pinto)

eggs

salsa

cheese

Optional:
crushed tortilla chips

sour cream

Crack the eggs (we usually use two per person) into a frying pan; scramble with about a tablespoon of salsa per serving. When nearly fully scrambled, add beans; cook until beans are hot. aout 3 min. Top with more salsa, cheese, sour cream, and crushed chips. (I usually leave off the chips.)

I’m always suprised at how quick this is to make, and you only need a pan and a spatula.

By: Courtney

Courtney — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:32:30 +0000

A quick little side that I look forward to using once I’ve flown the coup– Prepare rice (we use basmati) as you usually would, but substitute 1/3 of the water for coconut milk. (1 part coconut milk, two parts water.)

Goes great with lots, especially Jamaican Jerk chicken, holy crap. And it seems special even though it’s as easy as rice =)

By: Allison

Allison — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:07:30 +0000

Couscous is the #1 food for quick cooking. I usually get it in the boxes with the seasoning ready to mix, but I occasionally make it plain with chicken broth intead of water. Either way, its done in seven minutes. Serve it with some of those precooked chicken strips and a bag o’ salad and you are done in less than 10 minutes. Plus, couscous is just fun to say.

By: Ssquach

Ssquach — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:33:38 +0000

1 can Vegetable Beef soup
1 cup Minute rice

Dump the rice and soup into a bowl. Microwave 6 minutes. Season to taste (I like it with black pepper and garlic powder). Delicious and hearty.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:34:08 +0000

My favorite is rice, black beans, and salsa. Not quite as innovative as some of the above, but when you’re broke and a horrible cook, making rice and nuking some beans makes for a good dinner (usually with enough left overs for tomorrow’s lunch!). The salsa really makes it (my roommate was a genius….).

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:49:58 +0000

Microwave Quesadillas
2 flour tortillas, shredded cheese and anything else you can find in your fridge, (from olives to deli meat )
stick between the tortillas and nuke

great meal and very filling