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I'm a simple man. Steak and salad with balsamic and bread.
Anything grilled.
My own custom mix. I always eat it for breakfast and when i don't have to cook for others. I don't know what it's called. My wife refers to it as disgusting fuel.
100g of Quick oats, 200g of yogurt, 30g of protein powder.
Easy to make, easy to eat, decent macro distribution. Consistency and taste can be very easily altered with different ratios or different yoghurt or protein powder.
Cool. I might try that.
Tater tot casserole fucking rules.
Pasta Al Forno is nice. Minced meat, (canned) tomatoes, pasta, grate an entire cheese on top, then let do the oven do the work, chill for half an hour and there's enough to eat for 2 and a half days. I think it has quite a nice effort/tastiness ratio.
Pasta cacio e pepe.
Because restaurant pasta is all overcooked shit, regardless of price or Michelin stars.
I like eating tuna noodle casserole, but I don't make it. Hmm.
I guess applesauce.
It's easy (especially if you just core the apples and leave the skin in for texture, the way I do). Core apples, put apples in slow cooker, leave alone for a long time, come back, stir up and add spices.
It's hard to get comparable results from a store. Applesauce from a store tends to be thin and lack texture, IME.
I really like it.
And it's nice to eat warm, fresh out of the slow cooker, whereas normally I don't heat store-bought applesauce.
EDIT:
I like making casseroles because you can turn almost anything into a casserole.
My favorite nostalgia casserole is sombrero pie, from some Betty Crocker cookbook:
https://dinnerisserved1972.com/2020/09/03/sombrero-pie/
Think sorta beanless chili con carne topped with a cornmeal crust.
I tend to favor having more spiciness in it than it has stock.
That pieathalon link is something else! Cheers Tal, will dig through more of it later. And yeah, chilli con carne with a big tortilla on top sounds like a winner.
My "classic pie that went horribly wrong", and my mates still take the piss out of me now for how bad it was, was an attempt at "fidget pie". How bad can a pork-and-apple pie be? It can be a soggy undercooked bowl of slop, that's how.
Sounds yummy.
Rice and beans. Fast. Easy. Cheap. Throw in whatever random spices and seasonings speak to me. Done. Really. Go crazy with what you put in it. Mustard. Yogurt. Hot sauce. No one's going to know.
Grilled anything, it's easy, flavorful, and there's less cleanup.