this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2024
269 points (98.9% liked)

Asklemmy

43940 readers
552 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy πŸ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I regularly bake sweet potatoes then add plain yogurt, salted peanuts, feta, nutritional yeast, and drown it in hot sauce. The dish has no name nor should it ever see the light of day. What goblin mode meals do you guys eat?

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Y’all are horrifying. That’s all I came here to say.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

I take pride in that remark.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd love to answer OP, but that description somehow made me forget everything I've ever eaten.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

And here I am, bookmarking this post.. I have meals planned for the next 3 weeks!

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I keep a bouquet of dry pasta on my desk that I absentmindedly munch on while I work.

Sometimes I'll eat a whole head of cabbage over a day peeling it leaf by leaf.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago

Are you a field mouse?

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Instant noodles, peanut butter, and sriracha. Crack an egg in near the end.

It's actually pretty close to pad thai, but screams of struggle meal

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Yeah I definitely started relying on peanut proteins during my years of unemployment.

Try chopping up a green onion and throwing that in. White bit at the beginning of the boil and the green bits at the end. They're extremely cheap.

load more comments (9 replies)
load more comments (6 replies)
[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Toasted bread with blue cheese, a fried egg, hot sauce and maple syrup on top.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago

Sounds like something I'd pay 16$ to have served by a malnourished hipster on a cutting board to a table lit by a bar bulb as an appetizer.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This sounded really good... until the maple syrup thing. Why? Why?!

Don't get me wrong. Maple syrup is great. On pancakes or so, but this? This truly is an abomination.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

Hobo salad: Canned kidney beans, canned sweetcorn, canned tuna, salad dressing. If I'm feeling fancy/not lazy I'll add some chopped shallots or scallions.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (8 children)

my special treat that my partner hates for me to make but gobbles up bowls of: White Rice, Ground Beef, and Cream of Mushroom soup (campbells can). White rice like you like it, Ground the beef and salt generously after draining grease (helps the beef pop out more in the taste), then I usually do half of the milk called for with the soup.

Bed of RIce in a bowl, ground beef on top, then pour the cream of mushroom soup on it. Such a warm and crazy good taste but I get looks whenever I bring it up so I don't make it that often unless it's just me for a few days.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

It sounds like a barebones beef stroganoff

load more comments (7 replies)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I bake a mean creamy chicken (like you'd find in a pot pie) but, for whatever fucking reason, I absolutely love that flavor spliced with white vinegar. I have a deep love of pushing tangy sour to the border of spiciness.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)

When I'm home alone, I'll sometimes revert to my "first apartment" mood and cook spaghetti with Campbell tomato soup in it, added with sautΓ©ed onions, mushrooms, hotdog sausages, and add cheese in it.

Is probably better than the crappiest thing I could come up with, but I wouldn't serve that too an adult. But maybe to children.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I haven't had this in a while but one if my lazy bachelor meals was baked potatoes with kim chee and sour cream.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am disappointed with all of you. Please go to your room.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Sorry dude, that room is the kitchen.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Pasta with ketchup instead of tomato sauce

Rice with ketchup

Ketchup with ketchup

I love ketchup

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You love tomato flavored sugar

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (7 replies)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Sandwiches with potato chips between them

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

That's not weird. Chips, fries, or tots can/should be in the sandwich.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Earlier this week I had curry on nacho chips because I made some really good curry and did not have the energy to make the actual nacho accoutrements that I had planned on doing

It was great

load more comments (7 replies)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Pan-fried canned chick peas with black pepper, butter, oregano, basil, and sometimes paprika, chili powder, and hot sauce if I want some kick.

I cook it when I'm in a rush or tired, it's done in 10-15 minutes, fills me up, and is packed with good protein.

But I would never feed it to anybody else, it's lazy bro/fitness food lol.

load more comments (9 replies)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

I knew someone who would eat a tomato for dinner with a few slices of carrots. Nothing baked, just a plain uncut tomato and slices of carrots.

I'm talking a functionnal human being, knowing the concept of cooking and the ability to walk to their kitchen with such a "dish" as they would call it. Not vegetarian either. They did like meat and whatnot. Saddest "meal" I've ever had the horror to laid my eyes upon.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

the carrots get sliced but the tomatoes is left whole???

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I don’t care much about the what but the how. Biting into a whole tomato WILL make a mess. Simply cutting it in half greatly reduces the chance of that. If they already had a knife why not use it on the tomato. People are weird.

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (6 replies)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cold baked beans straight from the tin, eaten with a spoon. I'm grinning thinking of my dinner guests' faces as they contemplate their tins.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I put ketchup on bread and microwave it

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

That is awful. Sorry

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

My invented dish I call "Scrumpy". You take fries or fried potatoes, equal amount lettuce broken up like for a salad, chicken, then top it with chicken or beef gravy and chopped green onions. To really take up the indulgence level you can add ~~southern~~ hot sauce like Frank's, and some Cajun seasoning.

It started because of my great love of poutine, and wondering how I could make it into a healthier full meal. I've done a million variations on it, too. Stir fried cabbage and onion instead of lettuce. Corned beef instead of chicken. Adding a fried egg on top... Very flexible weeknight meal.

I would absolutely serve this to someone if it ever came up, but it never has.

load more comments (12 replies)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fresh tomato and dry roasted peanuts.

Actually I might try it on someone ...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm trying to envision this. Is the tomato sliced or diced? Are the peanuts whole or crushed? Is this a spoon dish or do you use your hands?

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I sometimes open a can of vegetables and pour them in my mouth

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Guacamole with cottage cheese. The Polish side of my family loves it, but I wouldn't dare add it to my guac when making it for the Mexican half of my family.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Peanut butter out of the jar.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Two pieces of white bread, mayo, thick slices of tomato and a bunch of black pepper.. Not sure how terrible it is, but I don't generally serve it to others because it's very messy.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sourdough with chunky peanut butter, ground mustard, and aioli.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

rice and lentils. Bit to mundane for company.

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Not regularly, but my family was super poor for awhile and our delicacies then are my comfort food now.

We loved hot dog weiners in the Kraft dinner, which is a fair approximation because we couldn't afford KD back then. Ground pepper, and also ketchup when we could afford to be fully blasphemous.

Mom makes a wicked liver-and-onions, but I suspect it wasn't liver so much as tongue, as it was cheap as hell back then. My sister knows the truth and she will.not eat 'liver' again.

Blasphemy and lies, that's it.

load more comments (10 replies)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

When I'm really lazy I make spaghetti with butter and bread crumbs.

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Snack pasta (farfalle are the best). No cooking, just open the package and munch the raw pasta. I like how crispy it is.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Mustard bread. I'm dead serious.

Edit to clarify: just a slice of bread with a heap of mustard rushedly spread on it. I either go for honey mustard if I'm looking for a bit of pep, or whole grain Dijon for savouring.

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] oyenyaaow 11 points 1 month ago (6 children)

fermented shrimp paste, pickled bird eyes chili, soy sauce, fresh mangoes and plain white rice. topped with a heaping pinch of msg.

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Raw chickpeas. The small, black kind. I soak them overnight in cold water, and have them for breakfast along with a shot of espresso.

I got it from my dad. He used to have them with tea.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Cinnamon raisin bagels with lox and cream cheese

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Toast, mayo, fried egg, salt. Then a liberal amount of Dave’s ghost pepper sauce on top, like a teaspoon.

I’m the only person I know of who will eat this specific hot sauce. Other hot sauce lovers will not touch it, because it tastes like capsaicin extract and poison. But I’m weirdly addicted to it. I own better tasting sauces but they don’t scratch the itch the right way.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Mix 2 different instant noodle products, Carbonara Buldak and Neoguri and create a sodium overload saucy cheesy ramen. We only have it max twice a month though because it’s so high in sodium.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments
view more: next β€Ί