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Foodily Finds the Right Recipe for Your Diet or Picky Taste - Lifehacker. Dinner in Ten Minutes. StillTasty: Your Ultimate Shelf Life Guide - Save Money, Eat Better, Help The Environment. Food You Can Make in a Coffee Maker. Like so many before me, I was once hungry in college. With term papers looming and the dining hall already closed for the night, food had to come from somewhere.

That was the night I learned to make ramen in my coffee maker. At first I was nervous, pouring the hot water over noodles in my bowl, covering them, and letting it steep. Eventually, I became more adventurous: cooking the noodles in the carafe; putting the seasoning packet in the basket that normally holds the filter; adding an egg. This was cheap food prepared in as cheap a manner as possible. 1. Put two packets of instant oatmeal into the carafe. A dead simple recipe, but with the twist of adding a tea bag for flavor. 2. Fill a coffee filter with six broccoli florets. Clever coffee maker cooks will find a way to whip up a cheese sauce to go with this. 3. Put 1/2 cup of instant rice per person in the coffee maker.

Rice cookers are for squares. 4. Place the eggs in the coffee pot. 5. Place chicken breast in coffee maker. 6. 7. Back to Basics Cooking Lessons. Simply Prepared Quick & Easy Recipes, Menus & Meals on Epi. FoodPair | Ingredient Based Recipe Search Engine. Cooking Basics With Recipes for Beginner and Intermediate Cooks. Learn the basics and cooking becomes easy. – One of the biggest reasons I created The Reluctant Gourmet was so I can share what I have taught myself over the years with those of you just starting out. Like building any structure, you start at the foundation and build up. Here are a few of my favorite cooking “basics” that will help you on the road to becoming a better cook. Simple Shrimp Risotto Recipe When we need a quick and delicious meal, shrimp risotto to the rescue! Do you have nights where you haven’t planned anything for dinner but want to put a great meal on the table that everyone including the kids will enjoy?

In our house, that means shrimp risotto. Continue Reading » Basic Tomato Sauce A Simple Tomato Sauce Recipe One of the most important items I have on hand at all times is my Basic Tomato Sauce. Continue Reading » Basic Mushroom Risotto How to Make a Basic Mushroom Risotto Preparing a basic mushroom risotto doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice flavor. Continue Reading » Quick and Easy Recipes.