AAAAAHHHH I cant cook!!!

madkitty

Can anyone recommend some real easy but nice recipes – I really struggle with cooking and my boyf is moving in at the weekend!!!! Have seen some great ones on the Sainsburys site which look cheap to make and easy too, any other pointers / books / ideas would be great. Thanks x

gunsandbanjos

Buy a Delia Smith book - checkout charity shops they usually have them cheap.
Delia is idiot proof!

She is also online http://www.deliaonline.com/how-to-cook

madkitty

I used to have some awesome recipe cards that came through the door once and you subscribed monthly - they were real quick and easy meals, I just wish I had of kept them!

wanna-be-mortgage-free_2

madkitty wrote: »

Can anyone recommend some real easy but nice recipes – I really struggle with cooking and my boyf is moving in at the weekend!!!! Have seen some great ones on the Sainsburys site which look cheap to make and easy too, any other pointers / books / ideas would be great. Thanks x

Hi

I find some of Nigel Slater's recipes very quick and easy. Try the BBC food website where you can download all for free here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/chefs/nigel_slater

Good luck

asparagusnextleft

Women's magazines (the weekly ones) always have some easy recipes in them. I also second Delia.

If you just get yourself good at half a dozen things. Chilli con carne is a good one, easy peasy. Also you can always cheat a bit, use sauces in jars for things like spaghetti bolognese. Stir fries are also a good bet and pretty fool proof. If we have a lasagne, I always buy an 'Extra Special' one (I can make one from scratch but I find it's a pain in the bum) and get some Meditteranean roasting veg, a few roast potatoes, serve with a garlic baguette and that's quite a nice meal with no real cooking involved.

Doing a roast dinner is also pretty easy, roast a chicken (instructions on the packaging), prepare some vegetables and potatoes (you can always use frozen roast potatoes, I don't but plenty do!). Steam some carrots and broccoli (or whatever veg you fancy, obviously), cheat with the gravy (granules or ready made) and you've got yourself a roast dinner.

Hope this helps!

Angela

I have a suggestion and as he actually hasnt moved in yet,I suggest you take this on board immediately,as you will then not have the problem that I have had over the last 25 years with a man who doesnt cook.
Get him to cook a meal at least 3 times a week he can cook simple meals get HIM to search the internet for recipe suggestions instead of searching for free games/music etc etc and get HIM to cook them.
Nearly half your problem solved lol

Seriously tho my other half will do lots of other stuff hoovering, dusting, cleaning toilet and bathroom so I shouldnt grumble really,but it would be so nice for him to cook me a meal now and again.
I remember a few years ago I was quite ill and he went shopping,I couldnt believe how much he spent and the premium products he bought.

macma

Depending on what you like to eat invest in a slow cooker.They are very forgiving and there's loads of dead easy recipes online.I've had one years and bought s.i.l one for his birthday (my daughter doesn't cook )He's thrown together loads of "chuck it in " meals for the kids and hasn't had a failure yet.They're also cheap to buy and very cheap to run.:)

hermum

Another cheap & easy way of cooking is student recipes, student recipes.com is just one of many. I was looking for a recipe once & this was the site that came up & the instructions seem really simply done.

jemb

google student recipes as they're cheap and cheerful. Having been a student a few years ago you're best looking for past, potato and rice dishes to be quick, easy and good going. You're always on a winner with
Spag bol
Shepherds pie
Sausage caserole
Chilli
Chicken (roasted, in sauce with olive oil, onions bit of garlic and chopped toatoes)
Jacket potatoes
Salads with meat ie roasted chicken left over if you roast a chicken
Toad in the hole (yorkies are easier to make than folks let on)

richardw

Cooking videos http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/content/knowhow/

crazyguy

Pratice makes perfect !

There are loads of sites to look at : philidelphia have a lot of recipies , basic meals such as spag bowl are fool proof you can buy jars of sauce so very simple to cook, Roast dinner easy as you like,

Chicken depending on size approx 1.5-2 hours, put potatoes on to boil at same time and when par boiled still firm tip in an oven tray with either goose fat or oil and they take a good hour to cook well , once its got approx 30 minutes left put the veg on.

currys easy in jars again until you get used to them then make your own rice is microwavable now