Can't cook?

Question

Can anyone help me with some basic, very easy, simple recipes? I have a family of 5. My family saids my cooking is fine but my lack of confidence in cooking could use some help. Please post recipes below or I can give you my email address. THANKS!

Answer 1

Hamburger Helper makes a great meal.

Answer 2

Pot roast
Garlic Powder, onion powder, Ginger and Black pepper.
Rub all over the roast. Cube 4 potatoes, Cut up carrots into 2 inch pieces, and 3 stalks of celery. Put into either a crock pot with vegis on the bottom for 6-8 hours with 2 cups of red wine, and 1/8 cup of worcestershire sauce. Or into a roasting pan in oven for 2.5 hours on 325 degrees.


Garlic Pasta.
Boil pasta
In a skillet,
Add 1/4 cup of olive oil 3 tbsp of butter, 2 Red Onions sliced about half in sllices. 1 red pepper Julienned, and 1 green pepper. Add 3-6 cloved of fresh garlic.
Cook till peppers are just tender, toss the pasta in and heat through.

Dont be afraid of spices. Mix them up and play around, this is what make you learn and become a good cook!!

Answer 3

Here is an easy one!-
Spaghetti Pie
Cook enough spaghetti for 5 people. While thats boiling, cook some ground beef (2lbs). Drain them both. In a large casserole dish mix together 3 eggs, 1cup of Parmesan cheese, and 2 tablespoons of melted butter (or margarine) and the cooked and drained spaghetti.(I mix the stuff in a side dish then add spaghetti, easier to beat the eggs!) Heat a jar of spaghetti sauce. Layer ground beef, sauce, and mozzarella cheese on top of spaghetti. Bake for about 25-30 minutes at 350 degrees. Enjoy!! Nice twist on spaghetti. Good luck, you can do it! All things take practice!

Answer 4

I suggest buying a children's cookbook--really! they have simple, good recipes and even better, they usually have tips and tricks. just go to a book store and look through the kids section. some are really simple, but other books have stuff that you could cook to impress adults with, even pastries and desserts! i like these better because the recipes are good but don't require crazy ingredients like veggies u never heard of and stuff like the "adult" cookbooks. so check them out at the bookstore near you, there is bound to be a couple of good books, even for the adult, novice chef.

Answer 5

CHILI RELLENOS CASSEROLE

Original recipe yield:
6 servings
prep time 15 min
cook time 45 min
ready in 1 hr

2 (7 ounce) cans whole green chili peppers, drained
8 ounces Monterey Jack cheese, shredded
8 ounces Longhorn or Cheddar cheese, shredded
3 eggs, beaten
1 (5 ounce) can evaporated milk
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 cup milk
1 (8 ounce) can enchilada sauce
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray a 9x13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.

Lay half of the chilies evenly in bottom of baking dish. Sprinkle with half of the Jack and Cheddar cheeses, and cover with remaining chilies. In a bowl, mix together the eggs, milk, and flour, and pour over the top of the chilies.

Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes. Remove from oven, pour enchilada sauce evenly over the top, and continue baking another 15 minutes. Sprinkle with remaining Jack and Cheddar cheeses, put back in oven long enough for the cheese to melt. Once cheese has melted, remove from oven, let cool for about 5 minutes and serve.


BAKED HASH BROWNS

2-1/2 pounds frozen hash browns, thawed out
2 cups sour cream
2-1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
½ stick melted butter
½ cup finely chopped onions
2 cans cream of mushrooms soup
salt and white pepper to taste

Mix all ingredients in a large bowl. Place in a 13x9x2-inch baking dish.

Cover with foil and bake at 325 degrees for 2-1/2 hours.
Stir after first hour.
Remove foil for last 20 minutes or so.

Makes 8 servings without doubling.

Answer 6

Try the Betty Crocker Slow Cooker Cookbook....all you do is add ingredients and the slow cooker does the rest. The recipes are simple, if you can measure you can make them!
My favorite is the Gumbo recipe...yummy, my family loves when I make it and my mother requests it for her birthday...and everyone thinks it takes forever to make...it takes 20 minutes to put together!...you can email me if you'd like the recipe to try it before you buy the book...

Answer 7

chicken parmesan:
very easy to make
I take chicken breasts and slice them into two pieces to make a thinner breast which also makes twice as much for half the price
next get a bowl and put in flavored bread crumbs, another bowl
with 2 or 3 fork whipped eggs. a large frying pan with maybe a 1/4 in. of vegetable oil heat oil on stove. then take a chicken breast and dip in the eggs then coat with bread crumbs. take the breaded chicken and put in the oil and fry both sides till lightly browned. next you will need a baking pan take your pan and cover bottom with tomato sauce as you fry the breasts lay in the sauce one layer till all chicken is done and in the pan next cover the chicken some more sauce and top with mozzarella cheese either shredded or thinly sliced next
cover with aluminum foil and bake at 350 deg. for 45 min to an hour take out of oven and serve topping each piece with a little more sauce.
to tell you the truth I cheat.
I use canned hunts tomato sauce flavored with meat
progresso flavored bread crumbs
I've made this a lot and I think it"s as good or better than restaurant. sometimes i use shredded kraft italian mix instead of plain mozzarella. prep time gets shorter the more you make it. I can prepare and cook this for 28 people in 2 hours
so for five easy.

Answer 8

i dont use recepies, i usually throw thinsg together, im not much of a baker id rather cook on the grill but anyway i think you shodul get a cookbook, and start watchign cookign shows, i think cooking is pretty easy and it doesnt take a millon spices shipped from india to make good food, a few basic spices can lead to fantastic dishes, if you have friends that cook ask to help them sometime and they can show you alot, besides you will have a sidekick so your confidence will not be as bad

Answer 9

desserts that are easy are cherry salad.

INGREDIENTS

1 (8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 (21 ounce) can cherry pie filling

DIRECTIONS
Mix whipped topping, sweetened condensed milk, and cherries in a large mixing bowl. Transfer to a serving bowl, and chill

easy ice cream cake serves 16

INGREDIENTS

16 ice cream sandwiches
1 (16 ounce) container frozen non-dairy whipped topping
1 (12 ounce) jar chocolate fudge topping, room temperature
1 (1.5 ounce) bar chocolate candy bar, grated

DIRECTIONS

Place 8 of the ice cream sandwiches side by side in a 9x13 inch baking dish. Spread evenly with half of the hot fudge topping, then half of the whipped topping. Repeat with the remaining sandwiches and toppings. Sprinkle with grated chocolate bar.
Cover and freeze for at least 1 hour before serving. Keep unused portion covered and frozen

Now for main dish..

Pizza Casserole

INGREDIENTS

2 pounds ground beef
1 (1.3 ounce) envelope sloppy joe seasoning
2 (8.5 ounce) cans refrigerated crescent roll dough
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
1 (14 ounce) can pizza sauce

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Place the beef in a skillet over medium heat. Cook until evenly brown. Drain grease. Mix in sloppy joe seasoning.
Press 1 can of refrigerated crescent roll dough in the bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish. Layer with ground beef. Sprinkle mozzarella cheese and Cheddar cheese over beef. Spread evenly with sauce. Top with remaining crescent roll dough.
Bake 40 minutes in the preheated oven, until top is golden brown.

Answer 10

5 or more boneless chicken breast

2 cans of spaghetti sauce whatever kind you like

shredded cheese (Parmesan) or whatever

put spaghetti sauce and boneless chicken in oven at about 350 for an hour or so then add shredded cheese so that it melts over the top

Put chicken and sauce over angel hair spaghetti noodles

add some cheese or garlic bread and your all set!


My family love this!!

Answer 11

Here are some of my family favorites.

Pot Roast
simple..
ingredients
pot roast, potatoes-peeled and cut into chunks
baby carrots
canned whole green beans-optional
can of cream of mushroom
lipton onion soup envelope
soup can of water
place roast in roasting pan, place veggies around roast, mix soups and water and pour over roast and veggies. cook for about 1-2 hours, depending on size of roast. 400 degree oven. serve biscuits to sop up gravy... Can also cook this in a crock pot for 4-6 hours on low

Hamburger Pie
1# ground beef
1/2 c. chopped onion
2- 16oz cut green beans, drained
1- 10 3/4 oz condensed tomato soup
1/4c. of water
salt and pepper to taste
3 med potatoes, peeled and quatered
1 beaten egg
milk
1/2 c. shredded chedder cheese
Cook hamburger and onion till meat is browned and onion is tender; drain off grease.
Stir in beans, soup, water and season with salt and pepper.
Place mixture in a pan.
Cook potatoes in salted boiling water about 20 min or until tender; drain. mash while hot; stir in egg. Add enough milk to make potatoes fluffy, yet stiff enough to hold their shape. Season with salt and pepper.
spread potatoes on top of meat mixture. Sprinkle with cheese.
Bake, uncovered, in a 350 degree oven for 25-30 minutes.
makes 4-6 servings

This is quick and easy. A family favorite.
Saturday Chicken
5 servings
10 chicken pieces (or whatever you prefer)
(you dont have to use that many chicken pieces. Use how many pieces you want. the rest of the recipe stays the same.)
1 can condensed cream of mushroom (or cream of chicken)
1 cup of cream (dont cheat and use milk; the cream makes a lot of difference)(i have cheated and used milk lol it still was good but the cream does make a difference)
salt, garlic powder, and paprika- to taste
chopped parsley
Season chicken with salt, garlic, and paprika. Next, spread it out, in one layer baking pan. Dilute the soup with the cream; pour it over the chicken, and sprinkle parsley on top.
Bake , uncovered, at 350' for 1 hour or until juices run clear when chicken is pierced with fork.
Makes a delicious gravy. Serve with mashed potatoes or buttered noodles or rice.

Broccoli Chicken Casserole
2-3 boiled chicken breasts, diced into small chunks
(just boil the chicken for at least 10-15 minutes or until no longer pink)
Cool and then cut into chunks
1 pkg broccoli
1 can of cream of chicken
Pepperidge Farm Stuffing
1/2 c. mayonnaise
1 1/2 tsp. lemon juice
4 oz pkg mild cheddar cheese
Boiled the broccoli for 5 minutes, then drain. I was too afraid to put uncooked broccoli in the casserole, (thought i would ruin it).
Combine soup, mayonnaise, and lemon juice. Mix with broccoli and diced chicken. Sprinkle with cheese and stuffing mix. Bake at 350' for 35 minutes :0}