Annnd there it goes, that was fast.
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You could always just let the mods worry about moderating the forums and carry on with your day.
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My partner and I started using one of those meal kit delivery things about a year ago, EveryPlate.
You do still have to work up the energy to cook them, which can be iffy some days, but honestly just saving the mental energy of deciding what to cook and making grocery lists makes it 100% worth it, and it’s pretty reasonably priced once you drill down into the per-meal cost.
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I love Gnews! My RP crew and I usually sit around and listen when we’re in town together. It’s one of the best RP events that’s been going on in MG for years.
Pandaria Fried cabbage & smoked sausage
This one comes with a warning for sensitive tummies. Large amounts of cabbage can cause gas/bloat discomfort. You can fill this recipe out with more shredded carrots to help mitigate ick.
2 cups cabbage sliced into 1/4inch shreds
1 cup grated or julienned carrots
Salt & pepper to taste
2 tbsp olive oil for frying. If you’re adventurous fry 2 slices of bacon in pan instead and skip olive oil, just use bacon drippings.
1 link of smoked sausage cut into bite sized pieces
Heat oil in deep bottomed skillet on stove. Put cabbage, carrot in pan before oil starts to shine and ripple. Oil that’s too hot can cause water to pop up & painful shamanic lava burst kinds of ways. AoE damage potential 25% per tick.
Saute veggies on meduim heat for 6 minutes. Add salt & pepper. Once cabbage wilts down and you have room, add in sausage. Stir, cover and cook an additional 7-10 minutes to heat sausage through. If you enjoy carmelized cabbage you might want to turn up heat at end of cooking add a little more oil and stir until edges of cabbage brown a bit.
Seafood Noodles of Plenty/seafood Scampi
This one is highly modifiable particularly in spice/flavor department. I’m giving the most generic butter/garlic combo here but creole seasoning is delicious too. You can make a creamy version of this by using a can of cream of celery soup. Cream of mushroom/chicken also works but the flavors sometimes over power the imitation crab. The celery is more neutral & mild flavor lets everything else shine through.
1 package Normandy Mix frozen vegetables
1 lb package imitation crab chunks
6 oz of pasta of your choice (we use tri color rotini)
4 tbsp melted butter
1 and 1/2 tsp minced garlic
2 tsp finely cut fresh rosemary (optional)
Salt & pepper to taste
Prepare pasta & steam veggies according to directions. Melt butter over medium-low heat in large deep bottomed skillet. Add in rosemary, garlic and warm herbs in butter until fragrant (usually about 90 seconds). Toss crab into butter mixture and stir to coat. Cover and put on low heat. Allow to warm 6-7 minutes. Meanwhile drain water off steamed normandy blend and pasta. Put pasta in large mixing bowl. Add veggies to pan with crab. Sprinkle pan mixture with salt & pepper to taste. Add crab/veggies to noodles and toss all ingredients to coat/blend with pasta.
If you’re making the creamy version: add soup to butter herb blend after warming herbs, stir, add crab & proceed.
That’s also an excellent resource Briselody. It can be a task just to think up what to make for dinner every day. I actually found dinner a source of anxiety until I started meal prepping seriously. Saturday I have my menu planned, Sunday I spend all day cooking. Usually I have a stew or chili in my crock pot, chicken, lasagna or some roast meat in the oven, and stirfry on stove. Pop everything into food containers when finished & clean up.
It’s so nice to have microwaveable meals ready to go all week & not have to do dinner dishes pots/pans every evening. It’s a one and done deal. Clean kitchen til the next Sunday rolls around. Run the dishwasher way less too.
I dunno if that’s a feasible plan for everyone, so faster recipes are what I’m looking at for posting. But ugh, typing it out on phone is a drag. Will add more later when I can get to my PC.
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Glad this worked for you, but be careful in how you frame it–
It’s more than “just work hard every day” for many.
How’s your slippery slope? We’re just talking about food. The game even has a cooking profession. Stay on topic please.
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I’ve a couple more microwave friendly recipes to toss in later, but this post could use more. Do you have any to share?
I’ve never used an air fryer, because I have a convection oven. Thus I have 0 idea how complicated clean up is. Our oven clean up is basically pop out bottom tray, wipe off crumbs, done. If there’s the occasional sauce splatter on wall of convection, it has a self clean mode that heats up to 550 and essentially turn stuck on food to ash.
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Fried egg, rice, soy sauce.
I mean, any fried rice in general is quick and easy but you fry up an egg, plain white rice with a drizzle of soy sauce on top of everything. Bonus points for adding some chili oil on top. Takes like 3 minutes to make.
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I highly suggest investing in a crock pot/slow cooker, there’s thousands of recipes for them. Less effort, many many many recipes that you literally just dump the ingredients in, put the lid on, turn it on low, and leave it alone for 6+ hours. Maybe stir once or twice if you really feel like it. And they usually taste pretty darn delicious. Plus, as summer approaches the northern hemisphere, they don’t heat up your kitchen/house like a stove or oven does.
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Rice paper (like the ones you use for spring rolls) put it on a frying pan with some oil, crack an egg on top and scramble it. Add srircha, japanese mayo and whatever else you want inside (lettuce, bean sprouts, pre-cooked meats, cheese) once scrambled egg has formed just fold it in half.
Another easy 3-5 minute meal.
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I do have a crock pot. My thing is dishes… Microwaving stuff I have very little dishes.
Idk I just have a real rough time washing dishes or getting the motivation to wash dishes.
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A mod closed the other one for some reason…2 hours ago. I didn’t even see any negativity in the thread either
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I’ll be completing my 3rd load of dishes in under 12 hours pretty soon…they’re never-ending 
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Fantastic suggestions Snik. I love spring rolls and how versatile you can make them. Blanched cabbage, a can of drained pickled beets diced, bean sprouts, a bit of chopped egg, chicken, pork or ham of you have it laying around, and little drizzle of balsamic vinegar dressing is a lovely fresh snacky-snack!
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Like if I have 3 dishes in the sink I get anxious and I don’t want to do them then they sit and sit and sit.
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You can get liners for the crockpot. They make silicone ones. Cook in it, dump anything left (sauce, etc), then put in the dishwasher. Easy peasy.
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I am seriously anti-dishes too. One heavy day of dishes, on Sunday. Pots, pans, crock pot that day. Then the rest of the week we quick rinse & load into the washer over time and run when full. Dishes feel like punishment for hard efforts after cooking. It’s annoying.
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Baked potato or Potato wedges are something you can cook up in a microwave. With some butter or not. And you can gussy them up with what ever toppings. Not much effort.
You can also cook up a corn on the cob in the microwave - not the ideal way but it can be done. And dress it up with stuff.
Stove top stuff can be pretty quick and easy to keep clean. I love some steamed veggies, mostly broccoli but any are good. Or briefly cooked in boiling water or broth, so they are nice and hot but still firm.
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My local supermarket sells meal kits ready to cook that take longer to make than dropping a piece of meat in a pan and ripping open a bag of frozen vegetables.
The healthiest meals to support anyone’s mind and body are prepared from basic ingredients.
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I may be a bane on planet earth but I don’t have many dishes.
Plastic spoons, paper plates and a dishwasher. Now I only wash pots and pans.
I ate the most delicious steak that I bought in bulk from a farm… On a paper plate. The juxtaposition wasn’t lost on me
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