Cheesy beef and beanie potato (sorry it's dinner I)
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Date: 2024-11-08
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glltyt
Yes. Yes yes yes. Please normalize eating some stuff you had to put together to meet a need. As someone who loves cooking, it's very hard to sell it to other people without them thinking you either eat the same thing every day, eat extravagant complicated things all the time, or only make random slop from things you have on hand. It's a little of all of those things! Sometimes it's somewhere in between!
The mother of creative yummy mystery meals is hunger, a desire for your favorite thing that takes too much effort, and some concessions on what your idea of a dish should be.
I've just added ground beef to the black beans before. Is this chili Don't know, don't really care. It's meat and bean slop. Mmm yummy. Delicious with rice and cornbread. Good on tortilla chips. Made my black beans go further that week.
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Yes. Yes yes yes. Please normalize eating some stuff you had to put together to meet a need. As someone who loves cooking, it's very hard to sell it to other people without them thinking you either eat the same thing every day, eat extravagant complicated things all the time, or only make random slop from things you have on hand. It's a little of all of those things! Sometimes it's somewhere in between!
The mother of creative yummy mystery meals is hunger, a desire for your favorite thing that takes too much effort, and some concessions on what your idea of a dish should be.
I've just added ground beef to the black beans before. Is this chili Don't know, don't really care. It's meat and bean slop. Mmm yummy. Delicious with rice and cornbread. Good on tortilla chips. Made my black beans go further that week.
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Jikkuryuu
Halloween night I wanted something quick and easy that I could step away from if I had to. We tend to have a bunch of macaronis and canned fish in the cupboard so I grabbed those.
Boiled the pasta. Emptied the tuna into a bowl, and peppered the _heck_ out of it.
Eyeballed some olive oil, and around the same amount of lemon juice from the big bottle that lives in the fridge.
Found three herbs that smelled vaguely similar and shook them in.
Whisks were dirty so I basically rubbed a slotted plastic spoon side-to-side until it was mixed.
Divided everything between two bowls and inhaled the delicious lemon-pepper tuna pasta.
And truth be told, the sauce was basically homemade salad dressing. The whole recipe could be boil pasta, open can, add dressing.
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Halloween night I wanted something quick and easy that I could step away from if I had to. We tend to have a bunch of macaronis and canned fish in the cupboard so I grabbed those.
Boiled the pasta. Emptied the tuna into a bowl, and peppered the _heck_ out of it.
Eyeballed some olive oil, and around the same amount of lemon juice from the big bottle that lives in the fridge.
Found three herbs that smelled vaguely similar and shook them in.
Whisks were dirty so I basically rubbed a slotted plastic spoon side-to-side until it was mixed.
Divided everything between two bowls and inhaled the delicious lemon-pepper tuna pasta.
And truth be told, the sauce was basically homemade salad dressing. The whole recipe could be boil pasta, open can, add dressing.
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FineAndAndy
I love simple recipes like this. Elevated struggle food. Here's my go-to: dice an onion and sweat for a few minutes in olive oil. Add 1 clove minced garlic (or some garlic powder) and some good chili powder for 1 minute. Add two beans drained black beans and enough water. (How much Depends, how much soup do you want) It's basically ready to eat as soon as it simmers for a couple minutes. If I remember, I'll start some rice in a rice cooker at the very beginning and then serve the soup over rice, but it doesn't strictly need it if I'm feeling too lazy.
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I love simple recipes like this. Elevated struggle food. Here's my go-to: dice an onion and sweat for a few minutes in olive oil. Add 1 clove minced garlic (or some garlic powder) and some good chili powder for 1 minute. Add two beans drained black beans and enough water. (How much Depends, how much soup do you want) It's basically ready to eat as soon as it simmers for a couple minutes. If I remember, I'll start some rice in a rice cooker at the very beginning and then serve the soup over rice, but it doesn't strictly need it if I'm feeling too lazy.
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AReed030188
Perhaps my tongue is poisoned by the sugar rich standard American diet but I have never been able to stand the taste of cooked sweet potato, I either need to add salt to make it taste more like a potato or more sugar to make it taste like a candied yam (which I can only stomach a small scoop of at thanksgiving, too much. Sweet potato is in this odd no man's land where its not sweet enough but also just earthy enough to be offputting, pick a lane. Perhaps adding beans and enough spices might help, otherwise I don't think they're for me at this point.
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Perhaps my tongue is poisoned by the sugar rich standard American diet but I have never been able to stand the taste of cooked sweet potato, I either need to add salt to make it taste more like a potato or more sugar to make it taste like a candied yam (which I can only stomach a small scoop of at thanksgiving, too much. Sweet potato is in this odd no man's land where its not sweet enough but also just earthy enough to be offputting, pick a lane. Perhaps adding beans and enough spices might help, otherwise I don't think they're for me at this point.
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j0908v
Oh I just know I'm going to love this series. I absolutely love those stuffed baked sweet potatoes, you can even add more stuff to them. I usually like to add some red onion scallion and some chili peppers. Usually I also do it so I first do a filling mixture that I put in the sweet potatoes.
Also if you don't want to use oil for the 1st bake you can just put the sweet potato in the oven, cut side up for 45 minutes at 200 C.
I'll have to try and see how oil changes the skin texture and such
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Oh I just know I'm going to love this series. I absolutely love those stuffed baked sweet potatoes, you can even add more stuff to them. I usually like to add some red onion scallion and some chili peppers. Usually I also do it so I first do a filling mixture that I put in the sweet potatoes.
Also if you don't want to use oil for the 1st bake you can just put the sweet potato in the oven, cut side up for 45 minutes at 200 C.
I'll have to try and see how oil changes the skin texture and such
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commetcoment
i understand why it's called sorry it's dinner but it feels a bit too apologetic for what it is. you always say you feel sorry about contributing to the internet celebrity chef disease (i'm paraphrasing, but i really think downplaying normal, healthy, cheap meals as inferior dinners contributes to that as well! they're quick, easy, and hard to plate, but they're nutritionally complete weeknight meals, and should be celebrated, despite their banality!
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i understand why it's called sorry it's dinner but it feels a bit too apologetic for what it is. you always say you feel sorry about contributing to the internet celebrity chef disease (i'm paraphrasing, but i really think downplaying normal, healthy, cheap meals as inferior dinners contributes to that as well! they're quick, easy, and hard to plate, but they're nutritionally complete weeknight meals, and should be celebrated, despite their banality!
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linkodude43
Love this idea, and I love all your videos that focus on how intuitive, simple, and approachable everyday cooking can be.
I love doing a big, fancy, high-presentation meal as much as the next guy. But the recipes I make most often, are yours that just look tasty, filling, easy, and nutritious!
I will be making beany potatos tonight: ) And also loveddd the orange-tomato chicken before!
More of these please!
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Love this idea, and I love all your videos that focus on how intuitive, simple, and approachable everyday cooking can be.
I love doing a big, fancy, high-presentation meal as much as the next guy. But the recipes I make most often, are yours that just look tasty, filling, easy, and nutritious!
I will be making beany potatos tonight: ) And also loveddd the orange-tomato chicken before!
More of these please!
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Kevin-zd5bi
I eat unseasoned blackbeans from the can all the time. I aim to buy unsalted versions of basically everything that can come like that. My go to sides for food that can be loosely described as mexican themed is plain white rice and plain canned black beans. My kid will tear that up served alongside a quesadilla with sour cream.
I might jazz mine up with a bit of cilantro, but I'm also fine with it on it's own.
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I eat unseasoned blackbeans from the can all the time. I aim to buy unsalted versions of basically everything that can come like that. My go to sides for food that can be loosely described as mexican themed is plain white rice and plain canned black beans. My kid will tear that up served alongside a quesadilla with sour cream.
I might jazz mine up with a bit of cilantro, but I'm also fine with it on it's own.
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fahtjon
Read the title as Sorry, it's dinner, I- as if getting cut off or trailing off. The video is less apologetic than I expected.
But seriously this is awesome and will hopefully lower the mental barrier to entry for cooking!
Also There comes a point in hunger when I lose all hope and then lose the ability to feed myself should be on a poster I put over my computer like Homer's Do it for her picture board
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Read the title as Sorry, it's dinner, I- as if getting cut off or trailing off. The video is less apologetic than I expected.
But seriously this is awesome and will hopefully lower the mental barrier to entry for cooking!
Also There comes a point in hunger when I lose all hope and then lose the ability to feed myself should be on a poster I put over my computer like Homer's Do it for her picture board
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taejaskudva2543
I like what i call scavenger dinner. Put off eating, suddenly realize I'm too hungry to wait, and then eat any combination of things i can find quickly. Tonight was a veritable buffet: my child's unfinished borscht from their dinner, some baba ganoush with Triscuits, apple slices with peanut butter, greek yogurt topped with kimchi, and a bowl of Magic Spoon Fruity (with milk. I'm not a savage.
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I like what i call scavenger dinner. Put off eating, suddenly realize I'm too hungry to wait, and then eat any combination of things i can find quickly. Tonight was a veritable buffet: my child's unfinished borscht from their dinner, some baba ganoush with Triscuits, apple slices with peanut butter, greek yogurt topped with kimchi, and a bowl of Magic Spoon Fruity (with milk. I'm not a savage.
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luxurycardstore
Ha ha, the irony I was eating a cheese steak when I started watching this. Trust me when I say no cheese steak was ever made from ground beef. And for the love of God, please stop calling it a Philly cheese steak. NO one in Philly ever calls it a Philly cheese steak. It's just a cheese steak. We know where it came from. We don't have to remind ourselves And yes- I'm from Philly.
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Ha ha, the irony I was eating a cheese steak when I started watching this. Trust me when I say no cheese steak was ever made from ground beef. And for the love of God, please stop calling it a Philly cheese steak. NO one in Philly ever calls it a Philly cheese steak. It's just a cheese steak. We know where it came from. We don't have to remind ourselves And yes- I'm from Philly.
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floofyprawn6459
Reminds me so much of my early career dinners. One of my favorites that I'll need to try again someday is a quick chicken parm: cook a frozen breaded chicken breast, then add some marinara and a slice of provolone and put it back in the oven.
No idea how many hundreds of times I had that for dinner, but it always hit the spot and takes almost no effort.
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Reminds me so much of my early career dinners. One of my favorites that I'll need to try again someday is a quick chicken parm: cook a frozen breaded chicken breast, then add some marinara and a slice of provolone and put it back in the oven.
No idea how many hundreds of times I had that for dinner, but it always hit the spot and takes almost no effort.
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glubritz
I'm extra appreciative of cooking videos like this. A lot of the time, home cooking can be as simple as some boiled eggs to go with noodles or mixing some chopped veggies into mac n cheese. The somewhat fancy n' showy internet cooking we see most often really gives a bad impression on the more realistic complexity and affordability of cooking for yourself.
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I'm extra appreciative of cooking videos like this. A lot of the time, home cooking can be as simple as some boiled eggs to go with noodles or mixing some chopped veggies into mac n cheese. The somewhat fancy n' showy internet cooking we see most often really gives a bad impression on the more realistic complexity and affordability of cooking for yourself.
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nuckinfuts999
This is my kind of cooking. I don't cook to impress or be fancy 90% of the time. Like i just find something simple, easy, tastes good and only takes about 30 min or less. There are so many recipes out there that look great but the complexity(with gadget requirements or the extensive prep/cook time, i just don't have the time for these days
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This is my kind of cooking. I don't cook to impress or be fancy 90% of the time. Like i just find something simple, easy, tastes good and only takes about 30 min or less. There are so many recipes out there that look great but the complexity(with gadget requirements or the extensive prep/cook time, i just don't have the time for these days
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icegummi3177
i love that you're kinda just doing whatever and experimenting and continuing to change your style and format, it still works!
also, i've never heard anyone verbalize something that i experience a lot until lauren said it: after a certain level of hunger, i fully lose my ability to choose what to cook and my motivation to cook it
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i love that you're kinda just doing whatever and experimenting and continuing to change your style and format, it still works!
also, i've never heard anyone verbalize something that i experience a lot until lauren said it: after a certain level of hunger, i fully lose my ability to choose what to cook and my motivation to cook it
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kenmore01
I actually wouldn't have concerned myself with some beef contamination on the handle of the spoon. Anything that gets in the pot will be cooked and what doesn't is nicely on the spoon handle, not in the food. I would have given my fingers a rinse before handling it though, mainly because I don't want it to be sticky as I use it.
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I actually wouldn't have concerned myself with some beef contamination on the handle of the spoon. Anything that gets in the pot will be cooked and what doesn't is nicely on the spoon handle, not in the food. I would have given my fingers a rinse before handling it though, mainly because I don't want it to be sticky as I use it.
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bleutitanium6513
Thank You. I LOVE this. I do stuff like this all the time. Being Single. it's difficult to cook for just One. Meals like this may not be Gourmet, but they are satisfying and nutritious. Plus you can use various unused items left over in your fridge to make something totally different. Thanks for the Inspiration!
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Thank You. I LOVE this. I do stuff like this all the time. Being Single. it's difficult to cook for just One. Meals like this may not be Gourmet, but they are satisfying and nutritious. Plus you can use various unused items left over in your fridge to make something totally different. Thanks for the Inspiration!
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discgolfdoug6193
Love the video idea! The change in audio between Lauren talking while cooking and you sitting at the table is a bit jarring. Maybe looping the sizzling of the meat at about half volume behind you talking would meld the two sections together better Sorry, I'm an audio nerd so 90% of people probably think its fine.
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Love the video idea! The change in audio between Lauren talking while cooking and you sitting at the table is a bit jarring. Maybe looping the sizzling of the meat at about half volume behind you talking would meld the two sections together better Sorry, I'm an audio nerd so 90% of people probably think its fine.
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dukelornek
good enough, no but seriously going to try the sweet potato and beans, never would have thought of doing something like that. I'll have to figure out the season part of the bean situation because of stomach issues in the household do not tolerate onion or garlic which is in just about every seasoning in U. S. products.
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good enough, no but seriously going to try the sweet potato and beans, never would have thought of doing something like that. I'll have to figure out the season part of the bean situation because of stomach issues in the household do not tolerate onion or garlic which is in just about every seasoning in U. S. products.
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Rsmall103
I'm a professional chef, so I love this series. My sorry, it's dinner meals are 90% actual trash, 5% i took home leftover caviar from work and ate it with utz chips, and 5% i should respect myself more so I'm going to cook something that's actually vaguely food. Can't wait to add some of these to my repertoire.
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I'm a professional chef, so I love this series. My sorry, it's dinner meals are 90% actual trash, 5% i took home leftover caviar from work and ate it with utz chips, and 5% i should respect myself more so I'm going to cook something that's actually vaguely food. Can't wait to add some of these to my repertoire.
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