Food Australia

Bread is easy to do in a pan. I once had a very small kitchen and tried to do one-person meals with a single pan and minimal prep or washing up.

I would cook a few fried eggs then push them over to the side (moving that half of the pan a little off the flame) and fry the unbuttered bread on the open part directly over the heat. Toasting the bread like that soaked up the leftover oil from the eggs for easy cleanup and kept everything warm. Cheese is a good addition, but salt and pepper (and maybe dead horse) is enough.

You can also microwave a potato til soft and roughly chop it up. Serve with butter and seasonings (salt, pepper, and paprika), or a little tin of tuna drained of oil. Or fry the pre-zapped pieces to brown them and push them to the side to do some eggs.

If you’re careful you can cut and stir/flip with only a fork, season the food in the pan or bowl, and eat straight from what it was cooked in. Leaving you to wash only one pan and one fork.

Also try frypan toasted sandwiches https://aussie.zone/post/9662764

Bacon and rice.

• Chop up bacon in microwaveable bowl and season. I like to do cajun but salt and pepper works.
• Cover bowl with paper towel or anything to prevent splatters (twisting the paper towel from the center makes a nice inverted cone that sits inside the bowl easily). Cook for 1:30 minutes or more, to desired doneness.
• Add cooked rice on top, preferably leftovers. Microwave again to heat up the rice.
• Garnish if desired, maybe furikake rice seasoning, sushi vinegar or kewpie mayo.
• Mix and enjoy the flavoured bacon grease coated rice.

Red beans & rice. Soak beans overnight. Fry onion& garlic. Add beans, bay leaf, pepper, thyme, stock cube. Boil rice. Add diced green capsicum at last minute..done.

bean fryup:

can of drained mixed 4-5 beans

chuck in frypan high heat

add sliced mushrooms, some sliced cherry tomatoes too if desired

add half a pack of Mexican taco spices

optional: add some spinach leaves if on hand and let them wilt in

make a hole/gap in the mix. crack and egg and cook until it's done to your perfection

serve on its own or on toast

Easy pasta

Pasta Olive oil Salt pepper Lemon juice (bottle) Sundried tomatoes

Not that complicated, just cook the pasta with a bit of olive oil, oil and lemon juice as a dressing, coat thoroughly. Sal and pepper to taste (: can pair with bacon etc for protein.

All my recipes are minimal effort (and require even less skill), but I think these 2 are the simplest of all.

Garlic Fish Pasta

The recipe is for Garlic Salmon Linguine, but I often use canned Mackerel, ordinary cheapo spaghetti and dried parsely as it's what I most often have on hand. You could probably substitute any fish, meat or veggies in it, and most types of pasta. Use whatever you have. It's stupidly easy to make, fast and tasty. Good olive oil makes a difference. Aussie EVOO for the win! 😉

2 Ingredient Homemade Ice Cream

This ice cream recipe astonished me that it came out as good as it was with virtually no effort. I expected yuck, but got yum. Add whatever you want to make it whatever flavour you want.

I make these mini cheesecakes with 3 ingredients

1 block of philly cheese (I use Aldi's Manhatten)
1/2 jar of lemon curd (about 175g)
8 butternut snap biscuits

Leave the cream cheese out of the fridge to reach room temperature. Place it in a bowl and mash until smooth then add lemon curd. Stir until mixed through. You can do it by hand, with beaters, a processor or a stick blender.

Place one biscuit right way up into a muffin size patty pan. Repeat with the other biscuits and fill them equally with the mixture. Refrigerator overnight. The biscuit will soften and the mixture with firm up.

You can also use jam instead of lemon curd but it may make the mixture brown so you can add a couple of drops of food colouring. You can also experiment with different biscuit bases.