Your most reliable 20-minute dinner?
gentle-reed-30
Mine is pasta with anchovies, garlic, lemon and too much parsley.
copper-alder-13
Shakshuka on a Tuesday feels like a weekend.
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silver-sparrow-559 more
Canned fish is the most underrated pantry item there is.
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bright-lichen-524 more
silver-sparrow-55 wrote:
Canned fish is the most underrated pantry item there is.
Counterpoint: it depends a lot on how much time you have.
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woven-sedge-882 more
Small correction: it was the other way around, but the point still stands.
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pale-beech-101 more
Same experience here.
The second time went a lot better once I stopped rushing it.
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bright-beech-80
Could you share a photo of how it turned out?
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slow-willow-86
Agreed, and I'd add that it takes a while before it clicks.
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late-yarrow-28
rustling-alder-69 wrote:
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Honestly the cheap option was fine for the first few years.
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dusky-lichen-791 more
Agreed, and I'd add that it takes a while before it clicks.
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wry-thistle-74
Honestly the cheap option was fine for the first few years.
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wild-finch-70
Leftover rice fried with whatever's in the fridge, day-old rice is really the key.
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misty-alder-203 more
Batch cook components, not meals. Roast vegetables, a grain, a sauce, then mix.
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mossy-otter-912 more
misty-alder-20 wrote:
Batch cook components, not meals.
Small correction: it was the other way around, but the point still stands.
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mossy-otter-91 wrote:
misty-alder-20 wrote:
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bright-finch-36
Honestly the cheap option was fine for the first few years.
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still-heron-601 more
Salt the pasta water like the sea, it's the only chance to season the pasta itself.
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amber-otter-29
still-heron-60 wrote:
Salt the pasta water like the sea, it's the only chance to season the pasta itself.
I'd be careful with that advice, it worked for me but I know people it didn't work for.
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quiet-alder-313 more
Buy frozen spinach and peas. They're picked ripe and never go off.
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wry-thistle-742 more
Honestly the cheap option was fine for the first few years.
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misty-yarrow-351 more
I tried this last year and ended up somewhere completely different. Not worse, just different.
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hollow-sparrow-95
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copper-pine-38
Fried rice with whatever is left in the fridge. Day-old rice is the secret.
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mossy-otter-91
Freeze herbs in olive oil in an ice cube tray. Nothing goes to waste.
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wild-otter-95
A rice cooker frees up a burner and your attention. Essential for me.
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bright-lichen-52
Eggs. A good omelette is a full dinner in five minutes.