simple recipes with few ingredients please

Kyle - posted on 02/14/2010

I have the perfect recipe for you! You can find it on my blog weekbyweekmeals.blogspot.com

My blog posts meals planned out a week at a time. I'm a working mom with a young child and I need quick easy recipes to keep life simple. Hope some of these recipes help!

Look for the Red and White Pasta Bake. I posted the recipe in the past week or two. It's awesome, easy, and only a few ingredients. I even just made it for my in-laws who all said it was delicious too!

Jacqueline - posted on 02/13/2010

bake chicken (breast or thighs)

add salsa approx 4min before chicken is done

add cheese on top cook until the cheese has melted

fast delicious filling healthy and only 3 ingredients

JoDee - posted on 02/11/2010

Hey Julie I do Homemade Gourmet where you only have to add a few fresh ingredients and you are done and its fast and easy. You can go to my website and then click on the key to kitchen and put in what kind of meat and then it will give you all kinds of recipes, check it out: www.homemadegourmet.com/jodee1894 Hope that helps you!

Deborah - posted on 02/06/2010

Buy the prepared seasoning pckgs for about .50 at any market. You don't waste $$ on seasonings you will only use once or hate.

Zatarans yellow rice is a life saver. Add beef, chicken, pork and a veg for a complete cassorole. The other Zataran rices are a bit spicy so buy one at a time until you know if you like them.

Top Ramen, mushroom soup, peas, left over cut up chicken. Cook the Ramen, add the mushroom soup, mix, add the peas and chicken.

Pilsbury Pizza Dough in the biscuit section, pizza sauce, grated cheese, and meat. Pop the pizza dough open smush it onto a cookie sheet, spread pizza sauce, add meat, add cheese, and you have pizza for $3.

Cheli - posted on 02/05/2010

Chicken Tostadas

Rotesserie Chicken(it's already seasoned)

1 can of mixed veggies OR peas and carrots

about 1/2 cup of mayo

1 pkg. Of tostadas



Get the chicken and pull out the meat(make sure no bones) and pull apart so that the chicken is in thin strips. Kind of like pinching the meat apart. Add your can of mixed veggies(drain out the juice first), mayo, and gently mix with a fork(so you don't smash up the veggies)until it's

not dry and spreadable. Add more mayo if needed. Spread on dome tostadas and add some hot sauce on top for the adults :o) super easy and my kids love it!

Denise - posted on 02/04/2010

You can google anything. Try for example "meals with 5 or less ingredients" and you should be able to find sites to go to with lots of recipes.

April - posted on 02/03/2010

Pardon me, I meant loin. Just can't type well.

Connie - posted on 02/03/2010

take one pound ground beef, browed and drained and add a can of canned spagetti, mix well and serve with a side of veggies, and maybe a slice of bread. very good and quick.

Ashley - posted on 02/03/2010

Yesterday I bought a big container of ground turkey (only $5) and used half to make meatloaf, it was enough for dinner and leftovers. The other half I used to make a big batch of breakfast burritos (eggs are cheap) that I froze and can heat up each morning. Hope this helps!

ANGELA - posted on 02/03/2010

the recipes are very encouraging to try out.Thanks to everyone

Ashra - posted on 02/02/2010

1) Chicken Fingers

- 3 chicken breasts
- 2T oil
- 2T mustard
- 1C falaffel mix

- slice the chicken into strips
- mix mustard and oil
- dip chicken in oil mixture to lightly coat and bread with falaffel mix
- bake at 350 for 25 minutes
Not only is this fast and homemade, they have very little fat and no carbs.

2) Brocoli & Cheese Quiche
- 1C brocoli
- 1C cheddar grated
- 1 onion diced
- 4 eggs
- 1 1/2 C milk
- 1/4t salt
-two frozen pie crusts
- 1/4t pepper

-sweat onion
- steam brocoli
-combine eggs, milk spices and cheese
- seperate brocoli evenly into pie shells
- add onions to egg mixture
- divide evenly between shells
- bake at 350 for 40 min or until knife comes out clean

Julie - posted on 02/02/2010

Thanks. I don't have a lot of experience with cooking and when I buy the vegetables they end up going bad. I don't exactly like onions and peppers, but I do like other peoples food when they use it. The more I cook, I am sure I will use more ingredients.



ETA: I am going to check out the food network, and check out that book. Thanks.

Stacy - posted on 02/02/2010

i got a cookbook for xmas it is called six ingredients or less pasta and rice the author also has light and healthy, chicken, the two i have are great cause there isn't alot of stuff and they are simple, the author is Carlean Johnson. Hope that helps

Kornelia - posted on 02/02/2010

Fresh vegies and fresh herbs can do wonders for you and are healthy! You may want to look at that STUFF!

Paula - posted on 02/02/2010

Skye - do u peel the yams?

Paula - posted on 02/02/2010

These r great recipes! On Food Netwrok - Semi-Homade w/ Sandra Lee is a great site that I use. & now she also has a show where she makes 2 meals w/ one cut of meat. I have a hamburger dish my family likes: Brown hamburger (or u can used ground turkey, however much u want) w/ salt & pepper, chopped onions & garlic. Drain. In casserole dish add cubed spuds (again, however many u want, I keep skins on), cr of whatever soup (mushrm, celery) again 1-2 cans depending on the amount of the other igredients & mixed vegetables (we like frozen - can use any vegetable your family likes) 1/2- 1 can milk & meat. Stir & Bake 2 hrs. 350 degrees. Serve w/ french bread or garlic toast/ Enjoy!

Rebecca - posted on 02/02/2010

Its actually called a loin, not a lion...

Lori - posted on 02/01/2010

This one is very cheep and easy:

cooked hamburger, rice & corn all mixed together. I eat mine with ranch and hot sauce. Its so good!!!

TIARE - posted on 02/01/2010

I dont know if you watch food network or not but there is a show called 5 ingredient fix and all her shows and recipes are online @ foodnetwork.com.....i enjoy the show and tried a few things that blew my mind they were soooo good. Do you not buy onions,peppers, and herbs due to allergy or cuz no one likes to eat them? I found that if you dice real small and cook them well in to a suace that you dont notice the flavor so much and all those things really make a dish taste great. I dont care for onions by them selves either and they have to be cooked and small for me but its worth the experiement.

Joanne - posted on 02/01/2010

I have this really good recipe my aunt came up with when experimenting for dinner ideas..
Ingredients: Smoked sausage, shredded cheddar cheese, frozen hashbrowns(or hash em yourself) barbeque sauce. Its more like a casserole..you layer the 13x9 pan with the hashbrowns, barbeque sauce,then the cheese, and finally the sausage(which you cut the link in half) AND repeat til the pan is full.. Make sure you end with the hashbrowns as the topper...cook at 350degrees for about 45min-1hr....last 5 min...top with cheese.

Leslie - posted on 02/01/2010

Grocery stores usually have an abundance of rotisserie chickens around dinner time. My husband or I usually pick one up once a week on the way home from work. They are reasonably priced and ready to eat. We can usually get 2 meals out of it. You can just serve the chicken with sides like 2 veggies or bread. Another meal you can have is to put the chicken in tortillas and make your own wraps. Just put lettuce, tomato, carrots, or other salad ingredients in with it... don't forget your dressing. We like to also put Spanish rice (from a packet) blue cheese and buffalo wing sauce for a variation. We enjoy it. This way you can fix the chicken how the kids will eat it, plus fix something a little more to your tastes too. You can probably get pretty creative with this. Good luck

Skye - posted on 02/01/2010

Pork and Yams

1 - 2lb boneless pork roast (loin, shoulder, butt - the cut doesn't really matter)
2 - yams (about the length of your hand - fingertip to wrist)
1/2 cup brown sugar.

Cut up yams into 1½" cubes and lay in bottom of crock pot.
Put pork roast on top
Cover with brown sugar.
Cook on low for 8 hours.
Serve with your favourite side (rice, noodles, bread)

Tabatha - posted on 01/31/2010

~side dish ~



13x9 inch cake pan or glass pan if you want to make it in a smaller one a 8x8 or 9x9 or whatever you cut all of this in half



2 lb bag of southern style hash browns from OreIda



grease the pan then layout the thawed hash browns



dab 4 tbls of butter just here and there on the top of the hash browns



you dump the two cans of mush soup over the top

and spread it around evenly



bake for one hour at 350



the last 5 min before its done you pull it out put the shredded cheese on top toss it back

in the oven for 5 min or til melted then its done

Julie - posted on 01/31/2010

Thank you. These recipes are perfect.

Shae - posted on 01/30/2010

Chicken spegetti

1lb boneless chicken breast

1lb velveta cheese

1 can cream of chicken

1 can of rotel

1lb of pasta ( i like the spiral ones)



boil you chicken until well cooked, boil pasta until done,

cut up cheese in a small cubes in a pot, add cream of chicken soup, and rotel heat on stove until cheese is melted. chop up chicken into small pieces and add all the ingriedents together and serve.

Serves about 4 or 6

April - posted on 01/30/2010

Hamburger Rice
You'll need 1 lb of hamburger, 1 bag of boil n bag rice, and 1 pkg of taco seasoning.
Brown hamburger while boiling the rice. Drain burger then add taco seasoning and 1 c of water. Add rice to hamburger and simmer for a few minutes. Could be serve with topping of shredded cheese or on taco-sized tortilla.

April - posted on 01/30/2010

Pork loin

1 pork loin (whole or half) depending on size of family

1 can of coke or dr. pepper

1 bottle of BBQ sauce



Stick in crock pot and forget it for 8 hrs on low or 4 on high.

Really good and easy. Also tender.

Debra - posted on 01/29/2010

one more fast and easy

Steak and gravy



1 small piece of steak, 4-8 oz. will do. Cut up into small bite size, flour and fry in a small amount of oil till browned all over with a slotted spoon remove from pan set aside. In same skillet make a rue with drippings and 1 tbls or 2 of flour add milk slowly stirring constanly around 2cups or so to make gravey add salt and pepper to taste when it starts thicking return the steak to it.

Can be served with torn up bread or toast on plate, put gravy and steak over it or biscuts under it or on side ,or over rice or noodles

I hope these helpped some

Debra

Debra - posted on 01/29/2010

goulash

1 pound hambuger,tomatoe juice,elbow ,twists or sea shell noodles

Brown hamburger add salt and pepper to taste (can add Italian seasoning,garlic powder and onion or onion poweder if you have if not omit it)
Drain all rease of hamburger.
Boil noodles till done, drain water
add 1 can tomatoe juice and hamburger together with noodles
heat on med till hot enough for you serve and enjoy

Debra - posted on 01/29/2010

Tuna Noodle Casarole

1 can of tuna

2 cans of cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup

1 box of elbow maacaroni,twists or sm.sea shell noodles



1. cook noddles in pan of water till done to your liking then drain

2. add can of soup and same amount of water to the noodles stir over low till mixed up good.

3. drain tuna flake with fork add to noodles and soup mixture

4 stir it all together(add water if to thick)

serve and enjoy