Cooking for one!

[Matt1986]

Well I live on my own and being a 20 year old male I am both lazy and talentless at cooking, I've done the hole student thing and have had enough of Pasta and take outs for two years and now I want to eat something with some flavour. So I put it to you lot to give me some simple easy recipies that can be easily cooked and satisfy my palet. I don't mind doing a big dish and freezing the rest from time to time, but I would prefer small easy to do but tasty stuff.

over to you.

Matt

oh yes and the best way to cooking a steak (very rare, almost alive is how i like it) and also i like spicy food, not just a curry.

[Matt1986]

Twincam16 said:

so they're easily justified if you're just cooking for yourself or two of you).

are you suggesting i am schizophrenic? good idea though. I have cooked lots of currys in the past but they have always been big dishes for lots of people and if i do say so myself, my currys are killer and best eaten when hot.

the bollognaise thing is good, i hadn't thought of it like that.

but still importantly. the best way to lighty cook my steak, it isn't something i have got right yet.

[Matt1986]

ali_kat said:

Twincam16 said:

Matt1986 said:

but still importantly. the best way to lighty cook my steak, it isn't something i have got right yet.

What kind of oven have you got? Most restaurants have huge fan-assisted things that cook evenly from all sides to a timer and it's difficult to get it right in a stove at home.

Which is kinda why I've given up on steaks at home until I can get a better oven

Hold on one cotton picking second here

STEAK in an OVEN ??????





Cook steak on an iron cast griddle, 2 mins either side for bleu

she is right, even i know to do it under the grill. so 2 minutes is enough? as long as it still bleeding and mooing it is perfectly cooked for me? more than that and it looses its flavour and then you have to drown it in peppercorn source, and thats just not cricket!