I'm sooooo impressed, Jennifer!
*drooling*
(Tonight, I will be microwaving the other half of my burrito from yesterday.)

Edit: Smokinbluegrass...I see we're "dining" in a similar manner tonight. ;-)

A faux chicken patty and frozen french fries!

This is my first offical post at this website! w00t! ~.^

Im with Ann...eating healtier you have to spend a whole lot of money. So i stcik to Lean Cuisine's! But I actually cooked tonight grilled saute mushroom chicken with rice. Oh had to add some calories with that so i added beer with it.

This was take-out from yesterday that I microwaved to perfection.  Yum!  Sadly, neither my wife or I like to cook so we don't.  It's a life of eating out, take-out, or zapping frozen dinners.  Works for us!

No, I didn’t cook it.  I paid some nice man in a restaurant to make it for me. 

If I made dinner at home, it would’ve been cold cereal.  Or eggs.  Or that perennial favorite – Chinese takeout from the corner!

Descriptions are good mouthwatering fun, but it's the recipes for some of these tasty dishes that I'd like to see. Otherwise it's all just a tease...

Of course, I had a can of soup tonight so that I could get some research done... so I'll post my fav another day.

I never cook, I can´t. It´s far too complex for me, too many imponderables to handle. I can´t even handle ordering from a Chinese restaurant´s menu. The only thing I "cook" is tea and even that I burn. (But if you ever have complex business or financial processes to analyze, call me.)

Jennifer: I hate you for starting this mouth-watering threat.

Mental note to self: Never come back to this thread - at least not until the zero-calorie-diet is over - in a couple of years or so.

(Did I mention I had oysters last night on an empty stomach ? Zero calories. Oh, and it was a birthday dinner, thus, not really my fault).

Mediterranean Pasta
(Not as fancy as Jennifer's Recipe, but tasty)
This is a meatless recipe, but you can add the "meat of your choice" (if you wish).

2-3       Large Red Peppers
1          Large Onion
2          Heaping Teaspoons of Fresh Chopped Garlic
1          8 oz. can Tomato Sauce
½         Can of Water (4 oz. total)
1          Vegetable Boullion cube
2          2.5 oz. Cans Sliced, Pitted Black Olives
¼         Cup Olive Oil
¼         Parsley
1          Box of Penne Pasta

Clean and thinly slice peppers and onions.

Put in pan with all other ingredients except noodles and cook until peppers and onions are tender and liquid is reduced.

Cook and drain noodles.  Pour heated sauce over noodles and toss.

Serve hot with a sprinkle of Parmesan Cheese.

NOTE:  Cooking the main ingredients ahead of time and letting them sit in the fridge overnight adds intensity!

Well am too lazy to cook right now so toasted some brown bread, scrambled 2 eggs, and fried 2 Vienas (sliced thinly), topped the toasted bread with the eggs ans sausage, shredded some cheese over, placed in the microwave for a few secs, and viola, awesome snack :-)

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman" - Virginia Woolf

OOo, I like this thread!

Since it's cool enough to keep the windows open, I am going to make French Onion soup with fresh gruyere cheese and Italian bread tomorrow.  I need to get over this cooking guilt. 

You see, the last time I made French Onion Soup in this poorly-ventilated apartment my poor cat was traumatized.  As the onions were caramelizing, I sat at my computer: Probably surfing AfterEllen.  I looked to Xena, sitting to my immediate left on her cat-thing, squinting at me with her eyes full of tears.  It was like she was there just to stare at me wondering why I could do such a thing to her.

Very traumatizing.

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"If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact." - Jack Handey

I love to cook but don't often have the time/money to. This semester I've started taking over our weekly Top Model night as an excuse to make some sort of dish for all my friends, be it a full meal or dessert.

 But usually I'm just grabbing what's fast and end up eating some sort of concoction like this evenings dinner:

Post Banana Nut Crunch Cereal mixed with yogurt and chocolate syrup. Better if I'd bought bananas to cut up in it.

Here though is a favorite I like to make for a crowd, substituting veggie (faux)bacon comes out pretty well also:

 Gorganzola Cheesecake

To make 2 - 4" springform pans (double for 9")
 
Coat the inside of the springform with butter.
 
In a blender, puree 1/2 cup of bread crumbs, 1/2 cup of cheddar cheese, 1 clove of garlic and a bit less than a 1/4 stick of butter.  Press this mixture into the bottom of the pan(s).
 
In a skillet sautee 5 to 6 slices of fine chopped bacon, when fairly crisp, drain most of the fat, leaving a little for flavor and add fine chopped red onion (or green onion) and sautee until softened.
 
In a mixing bowl combine bacon and onion with 8oz of softened cream cheese with two egg yolks (I found that the whole eggs made it too quiche like, just yolks keeps it creamier) and 4oz of gorgonzola (or substitute roquefort) cheese crumbles and whisk until a smooth batter.
 
Pour mixture evenly into the springforms and bake at 300 degrees for about 45 minutes to 1 hour or until the middles don't jiggle.  Cool 30 minutes and place in fridge until ready to serve.

Another crowd pleaser that requires a little less effort- heat butter and olive oil in a skillet, slowly cook sliced up onion (with a bit of salt to bring out the natural sugars) until caramelized, about 5 min before it's done (I like to use low heat, so it takes about 35 min) add some rosemary and garlic seasoning.

Put this on some goat cheese on top of crackers. Yum.

I'm cooking up an excuse not to cook. ;-) 

~ Kisses are a better fate than wisdom ~ 

I'm very shocked to hear about all you women who do not cook!! How can you not cook? Or even worse, how can you live on microwaved food and take out???

I love to cook...I wouldn't say I am the world best cook, but I am not too bad either. It's fun, it's relaxing and most of all it is worth it not to have to eat crap.

Still, the only thing I love more than to cook is to have a hot woman cook me a nice meal....