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I need help with University cooking. I'm final year - graduating in March and I've yet to make a bowl of Pasta that I've actually enjoyed.

Most of the food I make is very technical - like I only put in the ingredients which I need and keep everything healthy. Spices? No. Garlic? No. Onions? No.
Catch my drift?

I looked on the net, asked a few friends...but I either found crazy over the top Gordon Ramsey recipes (as in recipes which are so hard they make you swear a lot...like Gordon Ramsey) or they didn't know how to.

Basically - a quick, easy recipe.

P.S. This was the best forum to ask it due to the sheer randomness of the board.

Sugar and various mixes of fresh juice plus grenadine. (my favourite is pineapple juice, orange juice and cranberry juice in equal measures with a dash of grenadine) If you do it right it ends up with a traffic light style look.

Or, try one of these (replacing soda water with carbonated water)

incidently does anyone have any ideas as to what i could do with carbonated water? I don't drink alchohol and i can't make my own moonshine cola.

Damn. This thread's gone and made me hungry.

Another fav is chilli con carni, but with pasta instead of rice.


Quite a few ingriedients, but, to lower cost, buy them fresh or tinned. Plus most of this stuff will last over several meals.

You'll need:

Mince beef or turkey meat
1 tin of baked beans
Tomato sauce
Chilli powder
an onion finely chopped.
tomato concentrate (puree stuff found in jars)
cumin powder


Method:

Cook the mince until browned and throw in the chopped onion and cook for a few minuates.

add the tin of baked beans, add chilli powder (1 or 2 good teaspoons does the trick for me), tomato sauce, tomatoe concentrate and a dash of cumin and mix well until coated evenly. Taste again and add what accordingly.

Cook pasta. Just before serving, i like to throw in a handful of frozen peas into the chilli con carne to add my 5 a day. Serve everything piping hot.

It should only take 35 mins to do the whole thing. The best part of this recipe is that you can bulk produce and fridge it. It takes better in some cases aged.

Melt some cheese in a saucepan, add cream, salt, pepper. Or if you want something healthier. Blend up a tomato, salt, pepper, little cornflour, cook it down and chuck it on top. I suppose you could add some chopped ham to it as well. Pretty much all pasta dishes uses either a cheese or tomato sauce.

Pasta Bake, thats nice - could be found anywhere.

OR

Buy a jar of pesto, green or red and mix in a couple of teaspoons once pasta cooked and cover then add pepper + salt & finally

Enjoy!

Very Quick Very Easy!

I those cheap dry herbs in a lot of my cooking, along with onions and tinned tomatoes. Yes, I mostly eat curry, stewed things and pasta dishes, but I'm a crap cook and pretty lazy.

You can't live without herbs. Damn it, the stuff prechopped and in sprinkle jars for less then 50p and it brings lots of flavour to a bland dish.

RWIgnition wrote:
> Most of the food I make is very technical - like I only put in
> the ingredients which I need and keep everything healthy. Spices?
> No. Garlic? No. Onions? No.
> Catch my drift?

So you want to take out the healthy ingredients like Garlic and Onions?

ah, the student life. Pasta dishes, the only that i find simple enough to make is ironically gordon ramseys.

You'll need

Mushrooms
bacon
leeks
cremefreche
parsley and parmasan or any grated cheese (just get the stuff pregrated)
Quick cook pasta


Method:

Cut up all the vege and bacon. Lob the bacon first to cook and then followed by the veg. cook until softened.

During cooking of vegtables, you could be cooking your quick cook pasta.

Combine the 2 and mix cremefreche. Season with parsley and cheese.


NOTE: apart from the bacon, pretty much all the ingriendents are easy to pick up and buy.