and this then is the thread where we post our most pathetic recipes

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I can't cook for shit.

Please post your most pathetic, bachelor-pad-eques recipes here. Try to come up with an over-the-top elegant name for your concoction. Bonus points if it's a food you LOVE to eat but which you would never reasonably expect anyone else to touch.

Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 13 October 2003 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

What I had for lunch today:

Vermicelli With Raw Alfredo Sauce

Cook some angel hair pasta -- you can handle that much, can't you? Try to pay attention to it so that it doesn't clump together or get entirely soggy, but if something more interesting than cooking comes your way (like, say, fooling around wtih your bass) then don't worry about it, life is forgiving.

When the pasta is ready (or possibly a few minutes after that) drain it and add several pats of butter. Add a few shakes of "Italian Seasonings" and stir. Then add sprinkle cheese -- you know, Kraft parmesan cheese. Maybe there will be some romano in it; everybody loves romano. If you have crushed spicy pepper stuff, sprinkle some of that on too.

Eat. Once you can't taste the sprinkle cheese any more, sprinkle on another heap of it. Read a magazine while you eat it so you're less aware of what you're putting into your mouth -- hey, there's the new Atlantic Monthly!

Yum.

Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 13 October 2003 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

this is hilarious - click on each recipe card and remember to read the comments - polynesian snack and "snappy" mackerel are my particular favourites!

http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html

"snappy"!

jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 13 October 2003 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Arroz de Minuto con Frijoles y Verdes

Cook Minute Rice, add a can of kidney beans and frozen package of greens. Nuke. Add Cohula sauce and if you feel fancy, cheese. Eat.

A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Monday, 13 October 2003 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Jed: You're familiar with lileks.com, right? http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html is what that site is ripping off.

Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 13 October 2003 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Kraft Macaroni & Cheese & Stuff

cook box of mac & cheese. add curry power. tear chicken off ot the half-chicken that you still have in the fridge. mix. shove in your gob.

Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 13 October 2003 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm, curry powder in mac and cheese, interesting...

Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 13 October 2003 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

chris nothing i have seen here tempts me as much as jellied tomato refresher though... in a brandy glass.

jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 13 October 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Baked Beans (canned, cold)

Take one large can of baked beans. Open can, ensuring lid is fully removed. Serve with spoon. For best results use a teaspoon as a larger spoon may not be suitable for scraping bottom of can.

David (David), Monday, 13 October 2003 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Lebanese Bread Pizza

1. Take piece of Lebanese bread.
2. Smear bread with tomato paste.
3. Put sliced (who has time to grate?) mozarella cheese on top of tomato paste-spreaded bread.
4. Add oregano (if you want to be pretentious about it.)
5. Bake in oven until brown crust forms or you can't be arsed waiting any longer.
6. Eat.

More amusing food.

lint (Jack), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Mozzarella and tomato sauce

Unwrap hunk of mozzarella cheese. Open jar of tomato sauce. Find the appropriate angle for ripping cheese so that the cheese-striation allows for strips of cheese. Because you wouldn't possibly want to dirty utensils. Dip cheese in tomato sauce (out of jar, naturally). Eat.

Mozzarella and mayo sandwich

Peer in fridge. Extract Mozzarella cheese and bread. Tear off some mozzarella and arrange on bread. Puzzle over other possible ingredients. Despair at lack of pickles, then notice mayonnaise. Lament the need of silverware, retrieve clean knife. Spread mayo on bread, put sandwich together. Eat.

Energy Bar with peanut butter

Unwrap energy bar. Taste. Make distorted annoyed face. Get peanut butter out of fridge. Sigh and find a clean knife. Spread thick layer of peanut butter on energy bar. Taste. Spread more peanut butter on, creating a very thick, even layer. Eat.

It scares me that I can relate to the Baked Beans post.

JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Arborio Rice With Two Fried Eggs on Top.

Cook Rice with one added mushroom stock cube. Fry Two Eggs and add to the pile of rice. Eat with hands because all your cutlery is in the sink, you dirty bitch.

Nellie (nellskies), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)

We've come this far and no-one's mentioned tomato sauce sandwiches?

colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Fresh Veggie Pizza

Buy a frozen cheese pizza. Chop up some red onion and green pepper, possibly some mushrooms. Put the veggies on the pizza, dumbass. Cook it, loser.

oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

What about potato crisp sandwiches?

lint (Jack), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

cook box of mac & cheese. add curry power. tear chicken off ot the half-chicken that you still have in the fridge. mix. shove in your gob.
Similar recipe:
Warm up creamy mushroom soup. Add one or more spoons of curry powder. Drop in pieces of cooked chicken. Then add 150 ml of cream. (This can only be eaten 1235876 times. After that: gag reflex!)

nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Do not be dissing the crisp sandwich! May I suggest Cheese & Onion crisp sandwiches (preferably Golden Wonder) as being the perfect too-drunk-to-drink snack.

Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

American Dumbass Who Watched Tampopo Too Many Times Ramen Soup

Boil water. No sweat so far, right? While the water's boiling, instead of staring at it like a dumbass, dice (aka "cut into little pieces") some green onions and mushrooms. When the water has come to a boil, add the veggies, the ramen noodles, and accompanying spice pack (preferably "spicy chicken, bitch!"). Listen to one Ramones song from beginning to end, then remove the pot of goodies from the heat. Eat the noodles & veggies with chopsticks, slurp (eventually chug) the broth. Booyah, you be eatin' noodleses Tampopo style, biyotch.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Late Night Skillet Burger

Grab a big ol' wad of ground beef. Squish into a vaguely burger like shape. If you drop it on the ground, don't worry, we call that "cajun style". Throw it in a hotter-than-fuck skillet. Flip it over after awhile, I dunno when man, just figure it out for yourself. Squish down on it with a spatula every once in awhile; when the juices coming out are clear and not pink, your burger be done. Slap that mofo on two pieces of bread (NO BUNS) with a slice of cheese (or cheese-food-product) and slother mayonnaise all over it. Shove into your face. Enjoy!

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

beans + microwave = edible beans

the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Take two slices of bread.

Stick them in a device called "a toaster".

Press magic toasting lever.

The bread will let you know when it's done.

Serve "toast" with peanut butter.

Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Tuna & Pea Smash

Make a bowl of Smash. Add some microwaved peas and a tin of tuna. Mix. Eat.

Tuna & Pea Smash Fritters.

As above, but before eating, shape into little burgers and fry.

Fishfinger sandwich

4 fishfingers (fried) between two slices of no frills white bread with a good slathering of mayonnaise.

Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Chicken Noodle Casserole

Combine 1 cup of rice with one can of Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup and one Campbell's Soup can of water. Bring to boil, then reduce heat to medium and simmer until rice is fully cooked. (If crispiness is desired, bake in oven at 350 for 10 minutes after rice is cooked.)

I invented this dish when I was 13.

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

chocolate chai suprise

go to neighborhood coffee shop (preferably owner-operated). get one large cup (16 oz.) chai soy latte. add one "bitesize" bar of Hershey's Special Dark. drink.

gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

buy beer

drink most of it

lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Ice

Get some water, either from the tap or from a bottle or from the morning dewdrops on your windowpane. Place it in a container. Put it in a freezer. Wait.

Wait longer.

YOU HAVE ICE!

NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Drunk Off Your Ass and Starving To Death Four AM Surprise

Reach into a drawer in your fridge for whatever the fuck is in there. Grab handful. Shove in mouth. Repeat until the room stops spinning.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Veal Stew in the Style of Ossobuco:

buy beer

drink most of it

lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Bean Quesadillas

Place flour tortilla in hot skillet. Sprinkle cheese on one half, and spread refried beans (straight from the can) on the other half. Wait until cheese is melted and beans are warm. Fold in half. Serve. Hot sauce is optional.

o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I think my lurker friend Colin pours hot water over Top Ramen. I mean, the guy doesn't even cook it!

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

You can do that with ramen, you just have to cover it and let it sit instead. That way you don't dirty a pot with noodle-remnants.

Potage de poulet crémeux, froid hors du bidon

Open cupboard. Remove can of cream chicken soup. Dig through drawer for can opener. Open can, find spoon (preferably clean), eat soup from can.

(that French might be entirely wrong, but it looks cool)

JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, that reminds me of the great ramen trick - astonishingly simple, yet always satisfying - in order to turn ramen noodles into something approximating a real meal: simply break an egg into the boiling water along with the noodles and powder - et voila, ramen egg-drop soup!

o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ps- It's u&k to break up the egg with a fork so that you end up with small pieces of cooked egg, rather than a big lump of half-cooked egg.

o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I've done that. That works out well. Scarily, I just thought of how you can even eat ramen raw if you need to. It's crunchy, but it's okay. I don't remember the occasion on which I learned this.

JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my college roommates used to do the following as a snack:

1. Open one end of a ramen package. DO NOT TEAR THE PACKAGE.
2. Shake the flavor packet out of the ramen package.
3. Open the flavor packet and pour it back into the ramen package.
4. Scrunch up the ramen package, crushing the noodles.

VOILA! Instant mildly-exotic snack.

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

(haha xpost with JuliaA)

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Musicians on Tour Who Spend All Their Money on Drugs Hotel Room Ramen

Put ramen where coffee grinds would normally go in hotel room coffee pot. Put water in it. Push the "on" button. Remove the noodles from, um, nook or whatthefuckever you want to call it, place in broth. For an added optional treat, when you're done, chuck the coffee pot out the window, cuz fuck it's fun throwing things out of hotel windows isn't it?

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

You can do that with ramen, you just have to cover it and let it sit instead.

oh, I don't think he covers it. and it's not cooked properly when he eats it. Also, the pan is barely dirty from Top Ramen, I mean just give it a soapy once-over.

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Get a snack-size bag of Fritos. Crush them up a little in the bag. Brown some meat. Put the meat in the bag with the Fritos and shake the bag. Add cheese and salsa. Eat out of the bag, either with a fork or by tilting the contents into your mouth = Walking Taco.

kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Kirsten that is just beautiful in its simplicity. However if you then added some tomato, shredded lettuce and sour cream, you'd be in business.

suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

a good substitute in Kirstens recipe is Ritz crackers. I call it Walking Taco: putting in the Ritz.

lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Lawrence, I kiss you with guns.

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm gonna be smiling for hours off those last two posts. Thanks guys.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

From the recipe book of aforementioned lurker-Colin:

1. take hot dog from fridge
2. put in pot of cold water
3. turn on water
4. get 1 slice of wonder bread
5. mustard bread
6. watch pot until boils
7. take dog from water, wrap in slice of bread
8. Enjoy!

Colin Saunders (csaunders), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)


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