give me your favorite easy/lazy recipes

so my mom weirdly, despite being a great cook herself, hasn't bothered teaching me to cook so ive just kinda been left to figure it out myself. ive been finding easy stuff on insta, but I'd like to see if anyone has some easy recipes they'd like to share :>

ive used this cookie recipe like 1 million times

Cut potatoes, lightly oil them, chuck them in the air fryer.
Cut onions, lightly oil them, chuck them in the air fryer also like 6 minutes before the potatoes are done cooking.

Voila, chuck any sauce you want on it and enjoy.

Tuna melts. You drain as much water as possible from canned tuna, add mayo, then salt n pepper. It's important to really drain the tuna because it can make the bread kinda soggy. You then make a grilled cheese, but also including the tuna mixture. If I'm feeling fancy, I toast the bread in garlic and butter. I pretty much survive off of that and eggos.

Just going to throw crepes in here

I AM LIKE. THE CONCOCTION EVER. I LOVE PULLING RECIPES OUT OF MY ASS!!!

pastina soup is one of my favorites. boil chicken broth with butter and then pour in your serving of pastina. season it with more butter, salt, pepper, oregano/italian seasoning, minced garlic (or garlic powder). chives can also be put in it. so can cheese if you like that

ramen is genuinely a savior meal sometimes when i want something filling. put in a slab of american cheese (like the fake plastic one). use chicken broth and milk as well as water when its boiling. put in minced garlic/garlic powder, onion powder, PAPRIKA! if you have slim jims or any kind of beef jerky stick you can cut it up and mix it in with the ramen

my comfort food as of recently has been tortellini alfredo. i eat it at least once a week. just boil some water and throw in tortellini, and in another pot heat up a bit of alfredo sauce from the jar. there's ways to make homemade alfredo sauce but i dont like it too much. you can season the alfredo sauce too!!! i love putting paprika in mine

if you can get your hands on chicken breast, my mom makes this really good chicken. just marinate in in paprika, salt, pepper, and lemon juice. it's really good in salads and on sandwiches 

speaking of chicken, i love buying frozen popcorn chicken and heating it up in the oven. you can cut it up and put it in salads, OR! you can eat it with mashed potatoes. i season my mashed potatoes with butter, salt, pepper, and paprika 

breakfast foods like french toast, pancakes, and waffles (if you have a waffle maker) are also super easy! for french toast, just dip your bread in milk/egg/cinnamon concoction and cook it on the stove with butter. for pancakes and french toast, there's a lot of recipes out there for simple batches. if you have blueberries or even chocolate chips, you can put those in as well!!!

sorry if this is a lot of information LOL i just enjoy cooking. also sorry about the paprika mention i love putting it in my food

im not sure if this is your jam but its super customizable, its essentially just a jersey mike's bowl:

- chop veggies; like lettuce, onion, tomato, pickles
- slice / roll deli meat (my fav is turkey)
- add salt, pepper, garlic powder, italian seasoning
- add any dressing, i like italian oil/vinegar dressing AND creamy french dressing together
also, croutons!! but usually i just shred a slice of bread lol

i prepare it in a bowl and use a plate to shake it all upp, heres a visual: (not my pic)

You're a terrible cook? Me too! 

Here's a stupidly easy recipe for drum sticks. Make some rice or some salad or something to go with.

Lemon Garlic Roasted Chicken Drumsticks

Ingredients

·      10 Chicken Drumsticks skin removed

·      1 large lemon juiced and zested

·      1/4 cup olive oil

·      2 teaspoons garlic powder

·      2 teaspoons salt

·      1/2 teaspoon pepper

·      1 teaspoon paprika

·      1 teaspoon dried oregano

Instructions

1.            Pat chicken dry and place into a 1-gallon Ziploc bag.

2.            In a small bowl, whisk together remaining ingredients. Pour over chicken and seal the bag, squeezing out as much air as possible. Massage marinade into the chicken. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or preferably overnight. (If all you have is 30 minutes, that's fine - just remember the longer the marinade time, the more tender and juicy the chicken).

3.            When ready to cook, let chicken come to room temperature (about 20 minutes). Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Arrange chicken on a foil lined baking sheet. Bake, uncovered, for about 25-30 minutes. Flip chicken pieces and cook another 15-20 minutes, or until chicken reaches an internal temp of 165 F and is no longer pink.

Here's peanut butter cookies in three ingredients. 

Literally three dang ingredients.

Peanut butter cookies

1cup sugar

1cup peanut butter

1 egg

Mix, roll into roughly 1” size balls, put on greased baking sheet (I use a cooking spray), flatten them a bit, bake at preheated 350 degrees for 6 to 8 minutes (your time may vary).

here is a personal favorite:

1 get some liver pâté

2 spread it on bread

3 cut onions in small pieces and put them on the bread

4 enjoy

Tuna rice is something that I make rather often and is super loved between me and my partner!

If you'd like some more recipes that are more put together, I totally recommend watching Life Of Boris' cooking videos! His stuff has built my confidence in cooking like nothing else. His food is always delicious, and he shows that you don't always need perfect equipment or perfect measurements, and that improvisation is invaluable in cooking.

Here’s a taco rice casserole dish that’s really easy to make. The hardest part is cooking the hamburger meat. Just cook a pound of ground beef over high heat in a large pan/skillet until it’s all browned and you don’t see any pink. You can use tongs and paper towels to mop up the grease out of the skillet once it’s done cooking.

Ingredients:

1 lb cooked ground beef

2 cups instant minute rice

1 packet of taco seasoning

1 16 oz jar of salsa

2 cups of beef broth

1 8oz bag of Mexican blend shredded cheese

1 16 oz jar of white queso

Instructions

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
  
• In a 9x13 baking dish add ground beef, rice, taco seasoning, beef broth, and salsa. Mix all ingredients together.
  
• Cover your baking dish with aluminum foil.
  
• Bake for 30 minutes.
  
• After the 30 minutes remove from oven. Carefully remove the foil.
  
• Top with shredded cheese and your favorite queso or cheese sauce. Place the foil back on and bake for additional 5 minutes.
  
• serve over tortilla chips or on a tortilla. You can add sour cream if desired
  

ez chickpea mash (cheap too)

Ingredients

• 1 can of chickpeas 
• 2 pickles 
• Half a red onion 
• Mustard
• Mayo
• Onion powder 
• Garlic powder 
• Bread / wraps 

Directions

- open the can of chickpeas and rinse the chickpeas in a strainer using cold water. (Wash until the bubbles are almost gone). 

- while the chickpeas are drying, cut up the pickles and onion until they are in tiny pieces. 

- once chickpeas are dry, put into a bowl and mash them. I like mine completely into mush, but my partner likes some of them to still be whole.

- add about one - two spoons of mayo, and a little bit of mustard. Then sprinkle in onion and garlic powder. Mix it till its all coated in. Give it a taste and see if it needs more tang or cream. If you want more tang add more mustard, if you want more creamy add mayo. I'm sorry this is hard to explain. But it's all about taste. 

- then stir in the pickles and onions.

- I normally put it between two sourdough bread slices. But my boyfriend does wraps. It's better whenever it's a little cold too. So if you want to store it in the fridge and put it in a sandwich.

Honestly it probably sounds gross as hell. But I lived off this whenever I was in university, and now its my go to recipe for hiking. Also the longer you wash the chickpeas for the less chances of getting toots! 

Easy hot cocoa:

Equal parts cocoa powder to sugar (like 3 spoons cocoa powder 3 spoons sugar, do this to taste. I usually do 3 to 3 or 4 to 4)
2 cups milk
A splash of vanilla extract
A pinch of salt (this is key)

Shift the cocoa powder to get rid of clumps but you honest dont HAVE to if ur lazy but careful. Mix all in pot over stove and whisk thoroughly until everything is combined. Heat to preferred temp(I find heating until its About to boil perfect). 

Been doing this for years my family loves it. Works with milk substitutes too. Tastes like brownies to me. Can add a touch more sugar if needed. My favorite thing to make even on days my back hurts.  

I hopped on this viral feta pasta train late, but I’ve been loving it for a couple of years now. Super easy. Some recipes make it more complicated than it needs to be. I throw tomatoes, feta, some garlic cloves, and seasonings in like a Pyrex “pan” and after I bake it I smash it all with a fork. Add pasta. Done. Lol. Eat the leftovers for a few days.

https://insanelygoodrecipes.com/tiktok-feta-pasta/

this is really basic snack kinda thing but

* bread. dont matter what kind

* cheese. dont matter what kind. put on the bread

* oregano. put that on top of the cheese 

* (opt) tomatoes. cut them up 

toast it if you want :)

a scourge on italian culture but really easy to make if you like cheese and bread and oregano with tomatoes. so uh. yeah!

I will have an easy recipe for you tomorrow. In the meantime, check out Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything. If memory serves, he has a section on the basic foods and cookery you will need.

My favorite lazy meal when I don't feel like cooking or doing much for a decent taste is actually scrambled eggs in the microwave :)

I do know it doesn't sound appealing at first glance but I promise it's nice. 

- Get a microwave safe bowl (i usually use thick walled glass or glass bowls) 

- Crack two eggs and mix them up.

 
- add sliced carrots, cilantro (only if you like it), green onions, and grated garlic (if you don't have it, then chopped and/or garlic powder will work). At this point you could add more veggies like small pieces of broccoli, tomato, onion etc. and you can add protein like ham, bacon, turkey, chicken. Just make sure they're pre-cooked and small pieces.

- season it to taste: basic taste will be salt and pepper. i actually forgo the salt for a splash of soy sauce, sesame oil, mirin, and rice vinegar and occasionally japanese curry powder. You don't have to be fancy with it. 

-  put it in the microwave for sets of 30 seconds. after the first and second 30 second mark you will want to mix it around. It shouldn't take more than three sets. And you're done! 

I typically have a small sauce made for my eggs and a bowl of rice with it. But honestly you can just eat the eggs. It's my fastest and safest meal I eat when I have no energy to make even pasta haha.