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[scriver]

Can you believe it's not butter?

[nenjin]

RIPasta.

[MrRoboto75]

RIPasta.

Always spaghetti, never forghetti

[gimlet]

You can bake pasta/spaghetti, right in the sauce if you're especially lazy like me.   Oven, toaster oven or microwave - I like it because I don't want to watch a pot and risk getting distracted so the timed cooking is a godsend.   It can take a little experimentation to get the timing right, but then it's pretty foolproof...

[MrRoboto75]

You can bake pasta/spaghetti, right in the sauce if you're especially lazy like me.

Isn't that basically what lasagna is?

[scriver]

pasta gratin

[Caz]

Coconut chilli split pea soup is my new favourite thing. Lots of onions fried with spices (crushed cumin, coriander, yellow mustard seed, chilli flakes, turmeric), tinned tomato as the cooking liquid, yellow split peas, whole habaneros for flavour. Coconut milk at the end.

Suspect it would be even better with some garlic and ginger root, but didn't have any on hand.

[nenjin]

This weekend I shall be making bog standard chili. But after temps in the -20s, it could be bad and I would still eat it. It won't be though.

[delphonso]

Rather than eating plain rice and a single boiled leafy green (vegetarianism doesn't exist here) for lunch in the cafeteria at work, I got a hotplate and a single pot. Time to get creative.

[Vector]

Coconut chilli split pea soup is my new favourite thing. Lots of onions fried with spices (crushed cumin, coriander, yellow mustard seed, chilli flakes, turmeric), tinned tomato as the cooking liquid, yellow split peas, whole habaneros for flavour. Coconut milk at the end.

Suspect it would be even better with some garlic and ginger root, but didn't have any on hand.

Ooh. This sounds both doable in terms of ingredients and in terms of my current energy level. I'm gonna make it.


This ... probably doesn't, or perhaps just shouldn't count, but I have upped my quarantine game from PB&J to sandwiches with cheese, chili sauce, and tomato :V

[Arx]

Rather than eating plain rice and a single boiled leafy green (vegetarianism doesn't exist here) for lunch in the cafeteria at work, I got a hotplate and a single pot. Time to get creative.

I once ordered a vegetable stir fry from a local Chinese place, about as Chinese as they come outside of China because of the big diaspora here.

"Vegetable" was correct. I got some indistinct oily green leaves, either bok choi or spinach I think, and noodles. Never made that mistake again, haha.

[Kagus]

Rather than eating plain rice and a single boiled leafy green (vegetarianism doesn't exist here) for lunch in the cafeteria at work, I got a hotplate and a single pot. Time to get creative.

I once ordered a vegetable stir fry from a local Chinese place, about as Chinese as they come outside of China because of the big diaspora here.

"Vegetable" was correct. I got some indistinct oily green leaves, either bok choi or spinach I think, and noodles. Never made that mistake again, haha.

Gai lan with garlic sauce is the bomb though! I grew up vegetarian and we used to get all sorts of tasty treats from the (American-)Chinese restaurants we bumped into along the way. Ma po tofu is also grand, although admittedly not particularly "green"


Speaking of such, my folks have found a good recipe for Peking hot & sour soup and we've been tweaking it to our preferences since then... Considering that was a big comfort food that I've seriously missed since coming to Norway, I'm very happy about this turn of events!

[delphonso]

Some areas of China just do wonders with veggies.

Where I currently live...I think they see vegetables as an obstacle to the meat... Some chefs cook vegetables with a level of malice I wouldn't aim at my greatest enemy. Apparently - the meat here is very good, though.

[nenjin]

My impression of asian (vaguely defined) cuisine is that they were more about vegetables than the West in general.

[scriver]

More than WW2-onwards western cuisine I guess... Before that it was all about veggies.

Well, in counting root fruits as veggies here in the case of Sweden.