What's a good meal for a Novice cooker to make? And what would be a good desert to make with it?

Question

So far ive learned how to make..Porkchops, Baked chicken, curry chicken and i already know how to make rice...who doesnt... :) but ya thats all i know

Answer 1

"Madhatter Meatballs"

1 lb ground beef
1 can tomato soup
1 can chicken with rice soup
2 slices white bread
1/4 milk, cream, or half n half, whichever you have
2 eggs
1 green pepper
1 onion

Start by chopping onion and green pepper. Fry in a little bit of butter or vegetable oil until tender in a dutch oven (basically a large pot).
While that's cooking, get your meatball mixture ready by mixing together the ground beef, eggs, milk (cream or half n half) and the slices of bread torn into tiny pieces. You will have get in there and mix it with your hands! After it's mixed,set aside for a moment.
To the gr. pepper/onion mix, add the soups, and 1/2 to 1 can of water. Let it start to simmer, as it's cooking, take your meatball mixture and make meatballs by taking some of the meat and rolling into a little ball. Carefully (you don't want hot liquid to splatter you) drop into soup mixture. Cook for 30 minutes or so, until meatballs are done. You can take one out and test it to see if you're not sure.

This is really good served with mashed potatoes because you can put the extra sauce (the soup mixture the meatballs cooked in) over the potatoes.

This is one of the first things I learned how to cook when I was a kid, it came from a Betty Crocker children's cookbook.

Good luck!

P.S. I always add a dash of sugar to it to take away the acidity from the tomato soup. Also, if you like spicy foods, you can add some crushed red chiles to the soups.

Answer 2

How about a Lasagna. Pick up the Skinner Oven Ready Lasagna Noodles and Some Ragu sauce. Follow the recipe on the back of the noodle box (it will give you all of the ingredients you need to get). Make a salad and pick up some garlic bread. Your done! Quick, easy and oh so good.

Answer 3

Steak & Spinach Roll-Up Roast
Serves 4

Serve a salad with this delicious meat & veggie combo and you've got one of the easiest meals ever.


8 slices bacon
1 to 1 1/2-pound beef flank steak
3/4 tsp lemon-pepper seasoning
1/4 tsp salt
1 10-oz package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and well drained
2 Tbsp fine dry bread crumbs
1/2 tsp dried thyme, crushed
Dash salt


Pre-heat oven to 375F.

ln a large skillet cook bacon over medium heat for a few minutes just until brown but not crisp. Remove from skillet; drain on paper towels. Set aside.

Score both sides of steak by making shallow diagonal cuts at 1-inch intervals in a diamond pattern. Place steak between two pieces of plastic wrap or waxed paper. With a meat mallet pound steak into a roughly 12x8-inch rectangle. Remove plastic wrap (duuh) and sprinkle with 1/2 tsp of the lemon-pepper seasoning and the 1/4 tsp salt. Arrange bacon lengthwise on steak.

For the stuffing combine spinach, bread crumbs, thyme, the remaining l/4 tsp lemon-pepper seasoning, and the dash salt. Spread over bacon.

Starting from a short side, roll up the steak and secure with cooking twine. Roast for about 12 minutes for medium doneness, more or less to taste.



6 Minute Chocolate Mousse
Serves 4

If your liquid ingredients are very cold when you assemble this wonderful dessert your chilling time should only be half an hour or so.


1 6 oz. package semisweet chocolate chips
2 eggs
2 egg yolks
1/4 cup sugar
1 Tbsp. orange juice
2 Tbsp. coffee liqueur (optional)
1 cup heavy cream
Sweetened whipped cream


Melt the chocolate chips in the top of a double boiler over hot water. While they are melting, place all the ingredients except the cup of heavy cream in a blender and blend at highest speed for 3 minutes.

Add the cream and blend for half a minute more. Stop blender again and add the melted chocolate, carefully scraping all of it from the inside of the pan. Blend for 2½ minutes longer.

Pour into parfait glasses or large brandy snifters. Chill in the fridge if needed. Just before serving squirt on a dollop of whipped cream and top with a sprig of mint leaf or a sprinkle of shaved chocolate.

Um-m-m-m, so good!

Answer 4

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Answer 5

A very easy and delicious meal.....Chicken cordon blue....(basically stuffed chicken breasts with ham and cheese -or whatever you can come up with)....Put a slit in the chicken sideways-stuff it with a slice of ham and slice of cheese) stick a toothpick in it. dip it in a beaten egg then in bread crumbs...brown them only in some hot oil ...when browned on both sides...stick them in the oven 350 degrees for about 20-25 minutes. y Voila! Add your fav side dish...and you have a gourmet meal in an hour.

Answer 6

A good and simple meal I'd recomend is spagetti bolegnaise... bol..
... well, as long as no-one has to spell it, it's nice. It's easy.

You fry mince beef in a large frying pan. Put some spagetti in a large pan half full of water (if you put too much in, it WILL boil over), and boil it. Until the mince is brown all over. Or a kinda grey brown. Depends on your heat. Then for about 10 mins more, stirring it regularly. Then empty the liquid out of the saucepan into a cup. Add some ready made sauce ;) or use a recipy online (included one in my sorce).
Always add wostisher sauce (which I also can't spell), and a little bit of lemon juice. Really tiny amounts of both.
Cook that for a bit longer, another 10 mins before you can taste the meat and see how it fairs.

It needs a lot of attention, but really - it's hard to get wrong.

Another favorite is beef and tomato soup. put a little oil into your pan. Add some stewing steak, and fry gently for a few mins, make sure each side has soem tiem in the oil. Chop tomatos, add them. LOTS of them. Don't be scroungy.
Add your favorite herbs. Soup is not a precise science.
I always put a little milk in, and I'm frequently told that's a silly thing to do. I do it anyway.
And a bit of water, after the tomatos have had a little time. Mush them down a bit, while you're at it. put water in it bit by bit until it tastes about right. If you need to add more later on, boil it in the kettle before adding it.
Cook for a long time. Long time, low heat, is really the best option. No blasting.
Thicken towards the end with some cornflour. A heaped teaspoon in a cup, add cold water to it, stirr thoroughly, and then poor it into the soup WHILE STIRRING THE SOUP.

Practice this a few times before you offer it seriously.

Pancakes. Pancakes are simple, and quick. Get out a large mixing bowl. Poor in about 1/4 the bowl's worth of flour. Add an egg. Add a bit of milk. whiock it vigerously. stop. Leave it for 2 mins, see what happens to the bubbles. Do they stay in it? Good. You've got it right. Otherwise, it's either too thick or too thin, both of which should be obdvious from trying to whisk it.

Best served with the following: Lemon juice put on the pancakes, then sugar lightly sprinked on top.
Maple syrip.
Jam (jelly).

Salad.

Don't look at me like that. It's a truly skilled perosn who makes a NICE salad that looks good too.
Here's some hints:
-Make it completely semetrcal while you serve it.
-Cucumber tastes nice with a drop of vinager or lemonjuice.
-Grapes actually go well in salad, particularly with a dry cheese.
-You cannot go wrong with a bit of FRESH pinapple.
-Lettice is boring. Always make sure it';s got something chopped on top of it, or it's chopped up with something. But don't not include it, it is the staple.
-An egg makes a nice centerpeice.

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As for desert, my personal favorite is honeycake. IT's easy. Seriously. After the first time I did it it's not been wrong since. You can also coat it in icing/honey for a little extra something.

My personal recipy is this one:

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225g plain flour (ok, fine, use elf raising if you want to)
220-240g honey (half the jar. Don't be too fussy.)
1ts vanilla essence (optional)
2ts baking powder (if you desided to use self raising flower, don't add this.)
2-4 eggs (do NOT take them out of the fridge before using them, take them out the night before. They don't mix right if they're cold.)
114g butter/marge (also take this out the night before, or a few hours before, or whatever. Or it doesn't mix.)

preheat oven 180 degrees c, gas mark 3
grease a baking tin and coat in flower.

kneed/crush the butter into a semi-liquid.
Seperate eggs, one at a time, adding and mixing the yolk into the butter as you go, putting the white into another bowl. A big bowl. The one you use for pancake mix.

Add Vanilla essence, and honey, to egg yolk and butter mix. And mix.

beat the egg white until it's, well, white.

Seive half the flower into the bowl with the honey, butter, egg yolk, and so on.
Beat/mix.

Add the egg white.

beat/mix.

Add the rest of the flower, and baking powder.

poor into your tin.

cook for about 1 hour. Check at 50 mins. Then it starts to look like it'll be ready soon, give it 3-5 mins before checking. Have the oven open as little as possible. Check at 10 min intervalls if it doesn't look ready.

make sure it's cool before you serve it.
Or it'll collapse.

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Answer 7

learn how to do lasagna. A great and EASY dish that will fill up anybody, if entertaining, use a merlot.
A desert to go with...?
try doing a chocolate mousse.

Have fun

Answer 8

Fettucini Alfredo with chicken and broccoli. Fattening as it wants to be but oh so good. You can make your own alfredo or buy it like i do (Classico). I add broccoli to mine to kill some of the guilt of the alfredo sauce.

Answer 9

make chocolate chip cookies or cup cakes... i would make baked chicken with some angel hair pasta and a sald

Answer 10

Under "Technique", choose "Easy." Dessert is under "Food category." The rest is up to you. Good luck!