What is the Ultimate Bachelor Food?

Okay, so we are going to exclude pizza from this. We all know its tough to top that (Okay Sean, actually its not - just add pepperoni).

Anyway, I'm talking something you make that's pretty versatile. We don't need full recipes unless someone really wants them. I'll start off:

Sausage Casserole. Just sausage, hash browns, green peppers, onions, milk, cream of mushroom soup, & cheddar cheese. Bake it and bam you've got dinner. Now here's the beauty - the next day you get up, scramble a few eggs. Lay down a tortilla, throw the eggs on top, a little of the leftover sausage casserole, salsa if you'd like and then you've got a great breakfast burrito.

That's the type of thing I'm talking about. Something that can be three meals a day for the next week.

Anyone else? I've freshly regained my bachelor status and figure this type of thread might be useful to others out there.

-Keith

Ramen noodles. The ultimate college bachelor food.

mac & cheese?

Okay, so I shoulda put Ramen Noodles in with Pizza or something that comes right out of a box

Lookin for a liitle creativity.

Think of it as helping Tommy Suddard or Aaron Devine or Nelson's kids in a few years....

and Guiness....a meal in a bottle

Family Size Stouffer's Lasagna. Those things will feed a small family of four for several days.

I try not to eat the same things for so long, but a rice cooker with a steamer basket is one of my best friends. Cook some rice, through some chopped veggy de jour in the steamer basket, saute your dead animal of choice while the rice cooker's going to town, add in a little garlic salt where needed, and in 20 minutes you have a 3 course meal. If you cook extra rice, it fries up great the next morning.

Speghetti also works well for me. I get a jar of decent marinara sauce (Newman's Own works really well) and a pound of italian sausage (not links). Brown the sausage, dump the marinara over it, through in some red wine if you're feeling saucy, let that reduce while you're cooking the noodles.

ReverendDexter wrote: I try not to eat the same things for so long, but a rice cooker with a steamer basket is one of my best friends. Cook some rice, through some chopped veggy de jour in the steamer basket, saute your dead animal of choice while the rice cooker's going to town, add in a little garlic salt where needed, and in 20 minutes you have a 3 course meal. If you cook extra rice, it fries up great the next morning. Speghetti also works well for me. I get a jar of decent marinara sauce (Newman's Own works really well) and a pound of italian sausage (not links). Brown the sausage, dump the marinara over it, through in some red wine if you're feeling saucy, let that reduce while you're cooking the noodles.

Okay this is what I'm talking about....

South West Chili

Get the store brand crushed tomatoes, add a ton of ground beef, kidney beans, and whatever veggies/spices you have. Top off with lots of red chile powder and some jalapenos for that Fire breathing, roomies can't handle type of food. Gets better as it sits in the fridge.

Chili.....chili with beer.

Shawn

CamaroKeith wrote: That's the type of thing I'm talking about. Something that can be three meals a day for the next week. Anyone else? I've freshly regained my bachelor status and figure this type of thread might be useful to others out there. -Keith

This is going to sound rediculously simple and yet potentially dangerous, but I like to take black and kidney beans, through in some purple hull and blackeye peas, add sauteed onions, cilantro, red pepper and olive oil and throw it all in a bowl and shake (with a top on of course), heat for a few seconds in the microwave and have a rather tasty, fairly healthy dinner that fills me up. Just be careful, can cause pretty good flatulance. Probably not a good thing to eat before going out with a lady friend. Delicious though.

ramen and cheese, ramen with ranch dressing, ramen omlet.....

i could go on all day with ramen recipes..

microwave egg omlet.

bowel, PAM cooking spray, 2 eggs, cheese and your other fixin's, microwave until fully inflated (you will know what i mean) and enjoy.

The rice cooker mentioned above is GREAT, if you have a stove, get a good non stick smaller frying pan and cut some beef into thin strips (can usually get thin cuts at the market CHEAP), season up and stir fry! (HIGH TEMPS) experiment with veggies to your taste and try adding A1 steak sauce to your rice

cook rice, brown 1lb ground beef, add A1 and its good hearty chow.

beans ala pappa,

jimmy deans sausage, fry, add 2 small cans pork n' beans and one can kidney beans after the sausage is cooked (drain the kidney beans) (WARNING, GASEOUS ANOMALY POTENTIAL)

Corned beef hash, fry up with an egg or 2 thrown in and add ketchup when done.

GregTivo wrote: Just be careful, can cause pretty good flatulance. Probably not a good thing to eat before going out with a lady friend.

Sounds like a good way to perpetuate the bachellor status!

Man, I hope this thread takes off...cooking for one is a total PITA.

I ripped out my kitchen for a re-model and have been hitting the microwave pretty hard. When I'm impatient or in a hurry, I'll get the Easy-Mac going and toss in a can of tuna. I like it, and I think it might be marginally better than Taco Bell...though I'm not sure...

MikeSVO wrote:

GregTivo wrote: Just be careful, can cause pretty good flatulance. Probably not a good thing to eat before going out with a lady friend.

Sounds like a good way to perpetuate the bachellor status! Man, I hope this thread takes off...cooking for one is a total PITA. I ripped out my kitchen for a re-model and have been hitting the microwave pretty hard. When I'm impatient or in a hurry, I'll get the Easy-Mac going and toss in a can of tuna. I like it, and I think it might be marginally better than Taco Bell...though I'm not sure...

Its really not THAT bad, I swear...

1. my grandmother made a depression pasta meal they called pasta fagioli, but it was not like what they sell today. 1 # elbow noodles cooked, 1 strip of cooked bacon crumbled up, 2 cans of great northern beans drained, 1 can of tomato paste, salt, pepper, cooked onion, cooked garlic. bring together in a big pan and add water to make soup-like.

eat with sliced italian bread. cheap, hot, fills you up.

1. Bachelor Salad. I always thought a bachelor should eat over the sink with no dishes and wash it all down when he is done. cut a lettuce wedge and fill the inside with dressing and eat over the sink.

A crock pot is the best cooking utensil any bachelor can have. Aside from Chili, try this: saute a pound or two of boneless chicken pieces with a chopped onion, you don't have to cook them all the way through. Then put it in the crock pot along with a can of chicken broth, and a packet of taco seasoning. Cook on low for 5 or 6 hours, and pull the chicken apart with a fork when you're done. Refrigerate whatever's left after you eat and you have several days worth of filling for chicken tacos, quesadillas, pizza toppings, mix it with pasta, whatever.

Heated up Turkish bread served with homus and olives is simple/delicious/filling.

MikeSVO wrote:

GregTivo wrote: Just be careful, can cause pretty good flatulance. Probably not a good thing to eat before going out with a lady friend.

Sounds like a good way to perpetuate the bachellor status! Man, I hope this thread takes off...cooking for one is a total PITA.

That's why I started this....

Whole poultry. It's cheap, feeds for a week, and is very versatile for leftovers. I'm making a turkey right now, in fact. Just because you're a bachelor doesn't mean you have to eat Hot Pockets every day.

Josh wrote: A crock pot is the best cooking utensil any bachelor can have.

Yeah, I know. Unfortunately, the ex took it

MikeSVO wrote:

GregTivo wrote: Just be careful, can cause pretty good flatulance. Probably not a good thing to eat before going out with a lady friend.

Sounds like a good way to perpetuate the bachellor status! Man, I hope this thread takes off...cooking for one is a total PITA. I ripped out my kitchen for a re-model and have been hitting the microwave pretty hard. When I'm impatient or in a hurry, I'll get the Easy-Mac going and toss in a can of tuna. I like it, and I think it might be marginally better than Taco Bell...though I'm not sure...

Ah, life without a stove... I did that for far too long. While I did that my weapons of choice were the foreman grill with the swappable plates (grill, waffle iron, griddle) and a toaster oven. To this day I still don't own a microwave.

+1 on the tacos, though throw out that atrocious "taco seasoning" premix crap. If you want taco seasoning, it's REALLY easy: ground cumin, chili powder, garlic salt, pepper, and parsley flakes. I usually chop up an onion to cook with the ground beef, and the trick is to get the high fat ground beef and NOT drain it when you add the seasonings. Of course, you could always use fresh garlic and regular salt instead of the garlic salt. The key to that "taco" flavor is the cumin, though.

I've been doing the bachelor thing for the last couple of years now and without any decent cooking skills, or a microwave, I've had to learn quick. Here's a couple that I've come up with ...

Grilled cheese with bacon- fry up some bacon, then throw it in a cheese sammich and fry in the same pan as the bacon was cooked in.

XL chili dawgs - boil hot dogs, then take grinder rolls and fill with dogs, chili, cheese, whatever.

Chicken Nugget salad - one bag of salad, one bag of frozen chicken.. bake chicken, dice, then add to salad in bag, shake, serve.

And my personal favorite...

Dog Food - 1 lb ground beef, 3 to 5 hot dogs cut up, one medium sized can of beef gravy. cook meat, drain, add gravy, reheat. season, enjoy. Can also be made with adding rice as well.Gravy has been switched out for Cheez Whiz on occasion too.

If all else fails, I have a friend that owns a pizza joint..

instant brown rice, scrambled eggs, salsa. Mix in a bowl and if you really want to get crazy throw in some chicken strips

Dark beer is both filling and delicious...