Post your favorite EASY recipes!

This is my favorite, and it is E-A-S-Y to make:

• Buy a half-gallon of Blue Bell Rocky Road Ice Cream (other flavors may be substituted with caution).
• Spoon half of the container into a big bowl, reserve the rest for future use.
• Eat before it melts too much.

Good stuff! Though I can't have it any more.

Oooh a picture of my current diet.   At least I get the spongebobs in now and then....i hear variety is really important to healthy eating.

Yea that save the rest for the future part had me stumped too....don't think i've ever done that before!

Ooh, my recent favorite 'lazy night' recipe...

• Chop whatever veggies you like and toss them in a pan with a LOT of olive oil
• Toss in some italian seasonings, salt, pepper
• Chop some Roma tomatoes, set aside
• Chop some garlic, set aside
• When the veggies are soft enough, toss the Romas in
• When the Romas are starting to soften up, toss in the Garlic
• At some point, you should have made some pasta... I recommend Penne
• If you want meat (proscioutto, sausage or chicken would all work well), you should have gotten that ready too.
• Put the sauce over the noodles and the meat over the sauce and eat it!

Yum!

Wash a potato, cover in foil. Turn oven on, put potato in oven. Take steak from fridge. Place steak on top of stove so that it will warm up.

Go for a run - about 35-40 minutes ought to do it.

Turn on grill to preheat. If you're fast, take a shower.

put steak* on grill, apply heat as needed.

dump some salad on plate, add dressing of choice. place potato next to salad, adjust potato with 'fixins' as desired. Go get steak and place next to potato.

Eat.

Then do that ice cream thing...

*Recipe will also work with other meat, or meat substitutes.

Though I will admit not every episode is healthy - I just started the one I TiVo'd and it's "man food" - corn dogs & sliders... But still - good things to know how to cook!

Whole Wheat tortilla pizzas:

Take 2 whole wheat or multi grain tortilla pizzas (I like the south beach multi grain)
Cover with pizza sauce, cheese and any toppings that you like
Bake @ 350 for about 10 minutes

Easy, pretty healthy for pizza and satisfies that craving for Papa John's.

B!tchin Turkey Burgers:

• 1 pkg lean ground turkey (93/7 is as lean as you want to go)
• small handfull bread crumbs
• a few cranks of black pepper
• a handful of some sort of BBQ rub seasoning type mix
• a few dashes of Worcestershire sauce
• a few dashes of balsamic vinegar
• a couple tablespoons of vegetable oil

Slap 'em into patties and throw 'em on a hot grill (clean, oiled grate of course). About 5' per side. DO NOT overcook or they'll be tough and nasty.

Throw 'em on a whole wheat bun and steer clear of the mayo and you've got yourself a healthy meal! 

Ingredients:
2 pork tenderloins (3-4 pork chops also work)
1 package of shake and bake (pork)
1/3 cup of light italian salad dressing
2 good sized potatoes
1 sweet potato (equal in size to the 2 potatoes)
1 onion chopped
1 green pepper chopped

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

Cut potatoes and sweet potatoes into small cubes.  (1cm x 1cm)
Place in large ziplock bag or tupperware container.
Add onion, green pepper and salad dressing.
Seal the bag or container and shake until dressing covers vegetables.
Place mixture into a baking dish.

Follow shake and bake directions to coat pork.
Place pork on top of vegetable mix.

Bake in oven at 400 for approximately 45-50 minutes for tenderloins (chops would likely be a little less time)
When the pork is done the vegetables will be too.

Fresh tomatoes (3-4 romas will work nicely)
Fresh basil (10-20 leaves)
Extra virgin olive oil
Balsamic vinegar
a couple of cloves of fresh garlic minced
a cup of feta cheese crumbled
(edit to add) 1/2 tsp sugar
salt&pepper
loaf of crusty bread

chop tomatoes into 1/2 inch cubes
chop basil fine
put in big bowl with garlic, cheese,sugar, s&p
drizzle with olive oil and vinegar
toss
let stand in fridge for a little while
serve with bread to sop up all the juice

there are a ton of great cookbooks out there that can help demistify cooking for you.  My first job was in a kitchen gadget store and when it was slow (always) I would flip thru the cookbooks in the store.  I would try the recipes out at home for my Dad and sisters.  To this day my favorite cookbook is one called "Dad's own cook book" by Bob Sloan.  It's one of the first cookbooks I ever read and I still use recipes from it all the time.  It taught me all the basics and also has some very fancy recipes that are easy to make.  Rachel Ray's books are good also and there's another one called "How to Cook without a book" that I love!  Recipes are great to have, but if you have a basic knowledge of cooking to go with it, you will be able to throw things together and improvise.  That's a lot more fun!

2, very easy.

Honey Chicken

1 cup honey

1/2 cup melted butter

1/4 cup mustard

1 teaspoon curry.

Mix thouroughly until consistenly brown and fluid

Pour 3/4 of the sauce (save the rest for the plate) over 4 boneless chicken breasts in a tight fitting pyrex or other container, bake25 minutes, turn breasts (or baste them) cook another 15 minutes.

Server over or next to white rice

Sweet pork tenderloin (can substitute chicken or pork) *SO GOOD*

Cut tenderloin at about an inch (at angle for presentation), set aside 

1 cup of real maple syrup

1/2 apple juice.

Dice or slice the apples, set aside.

Pour syrup and juice into wide skillet pre-heated to medium high/high and reduce (stir) for 7-10 minutes - do not leave alone. After about 10 minutes of reducing, the mixture should be dark and semi-sticky. Add tenderloin, cook over same heat for 20 minutes, stirring/searing the meat. Add the diced apples, cook another 5 minutes and serve with Mashed potatos or egg noodles.

Get a subscription to Cooking Light.  Not every recipe is easy, but they're all pretty healthy.  They even have desserts that they've lightened up.  I don't think I've made one dish out of there that we haven't liked.

Oh yeah, they have a website too - www.cookinglight.com.  They just changed the site so when you search for recipes it brings things up form lots of magazines though so you have to look for the Cooking Light ones if you want to keep it kind of healthy.