Recipes?

So I’m trying to get away from eating so much processed, chemicallyt-enhanced food, not because of any strict dietary concerns but because too much of that stuff is just too much. However, I don’t have great knowledge of cooking, so I am limited in what is left to me.

Anybody have recipe recommendations? I’m not that keen on anything that requires too many steps or the existence of a whole chicken in my refrigerator, such as for making my own broth. I like recipes that involve frozen veggies, maybe rice or noodles, no tricks of heating or timing, but things I can throw together in a pot or two. I like soups, or baking things in bags, which I haven’t tried yet but it sounds pretty awesome.

So, any recs? ;_;

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crazyloststar

I WOULD LIKE THESE TOO PLEASE. <3
Inugrlrayn

oops sorry for the double comment
arcanewinter

UNACCEPTABLE
Inugrlrayn

Nuuuuuuuuuuuuu ;_;
Inugrlrayn

I do a crap ton of cooking. What kind of stuff do you like? I've got a super easy recipe for chicken and rice that's pretty good. It works better if you've got a roaster, but if not, put it all in a baking dish and cover it in foil.

1 C Rice (white or brown is fine)
1 can cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup
1 packet dry onion soup mix
1 3/4 cups water

mix everything but the chicken together and pour in the bottom of the roaster/baking pan. Put the chicken on top. Bake it all at 350 for an hour, take the lid or foil off and bake 15 more minutes and you're done. :)
boneless, skinless chicken (you can do with skin too)
arcanewinter

I like lots of things without onions (though onion soup mix is acceptable) or tomatoes (tomato soup is also acceptable). Dumb question, though: do I cook the chicken first? And uh, I cook the rice first, right? If I don't, this is the best recipe ever, if I do, I guess it's still an okay recipe 8D
Inugrlrayn

Here's a couple more. I dunno if tomato sauces are acceptable, but if so, this one is super easy. I usually make my own marinara sauce, but I subbed jarred here since it's way easier.

1 roll italian sausage
1 package pepperoni (optional)
1/2 box penne pasta
1 jar spaghetti sauce
1 bag shredded mozzarella

brown the sausage, cook and drain the pasta. Mix everything but the cheese in a baking dish, top with cheese and bake for 10 minutes at 350.

I also do Mexican chicken if you don't mind salsa with tomatoes in it. It's just boneless skinless chicken in a pan. Cover it with salsa and bake at 350 for 25 minutes. cover with taco cheese and bake for another 10.
arcanewinter

Ok, for my second dumb question, how do you brown sausage? Do you cut it up and brown the "discs" or . . . uh. 8D.

As for salsa it is one of my least favorite things, so I will probably be avoiding that one.

(By the by, you should join kitchenmonki.com! It's cute, you put your recipes in it, and then you can add them to a planner and get a shopping list based on the ingredients. And we can share recipes!)
Inugrlrayn

That's not a dumb question. Steve asked me the same thing. You do it like hamburger. It all goes in a pan and you break it up with a spatula and cook it until it's not pink. You can get rolls of it over with breakfast sausage, or they'll have it in packages in the meat section, either in what looks like bratwurst wrappers that you have to slice open before you cook them, or in flats already all ready to go. I like those better than the rolls. They're easier to break up and tend to cook a bit faster.

Haha, alright, no salsa then. I'll have to join that site, but then you will likely be subjected to all kinds of random stuff. I like sharing recipes. XD
arcanewinter

Oh ok, I tend to define sausage as anything that comes in a sausage shape, so it didn't occur to me that it would come not-in-a-tube.

The site is cool, you can just put up whatever recipes you want and then your friends can browse through yours and decide which they'd like to try, so it's not like you're bombarding them or anything! I'm on there, so is Lyns and Sky!
Inugrlrayn

Haha no. It's just throw together and bake. I make it for guests a lot because it takes like... two minutes to put together and it's epic delicious.
arcanewinter

Excellent. I love this. (I wanted to make chicken and rice soup at one point but it was a lot of "make the rice/chicken separately and then put it together," and I was like, no, and there was some nonsense about chicken stock, so I went and did something else). So yeah, this is the kind of recipe I like. I'm sure the sodium content in the soup mixes is a bit higher than making everything by hand, but it's got to be better than buying the whole meal already packaged, right?

If you have any other low-ingredient, few-instructions recipes, lay 'em on me. ;) I will feed myself yet.