On the phone with Jeaniene Frost
Me: I haven’t done anything for a whole week.
J: I hear you. Dragoncon was a lot.
Me: I might take the next week off too.
J: This is so unlike you. I’m starting the new project next week.
Me: But why?
J: List of reasons that make sense.
Me: No, don’t work!
J: I need to start it so I at least have something…
Me: No, be lazy with me!
J: This is highly ironic coming from you.
Clearly I need more time off. My body and mind are not ready. Nope.
Also Satisfactory 1.0 hit, Gordon and I playing Wow – Dragonflight is pretty awesome, so we are starting there, and I have read 2 books last week. If I can gather together enough willpower, I will clean the kitchen. Or I might not. I might just be lazy.
I think I ran out of whatever it is that makes workaholics function. I seem to have misplaced it. Maybe it’s in my craft room, around the yarn stash somewhere. I should really go look there.
Look at this cute doggie!
I still have to make some kind of a dinner. What is your favorite lazy meal? Please share and save me from having to let go of my laziness.
Happy Friday, everyone. I wish you the best weekend.
Single serve tuna packets on bread or crackers.
My favorite is the tuna with buffalo sauce. But I have to share with the cat who won’t let me eat it unless I distract him. So I cut open the packet and tape it to the floor so he can lick off the juice while I quickly eat the tuna before he notices.
He never jumps on the table EXCEPT when I try to eat the tuna.
Apparently he doesn’t care that buffalo sauce is spicy.
Jacket potato, cheese and beans!
My usual go to’s for quick lazy meals:
-tortellini with sautéed onions & bell peppers served coated with pesto
– potstickers made in a frying pan with a side of thin slices red cabbage and soy sauce
-basic ramen package with green onions and a lightly boiled egg
-box of mac and cheese with that little can of roast green chilis and maybe some onions (cracker-barrel box if you go deluxe)
-a bag of spinach paneer over ready made rice (use a rice maker and real rice if less lazy. The paneer is in most US grocery stores in the box meal/Asian section)
” …whatever it is that makes workaholics function” = boredom, incompetence, and the need to see what’s next.
“What is your favorite lazy meal? ” browned meat, tomatoe sauce, diced tomatoes, red beans and McCormick chili spices packet all mixed together and takes less than 15 minutes to fix.
Hope you get your writing bug back again soon. I love your books. 😀
Crock pot or insta pot meals. I consider these dump meals.
Take your protein source, add drained canned or frozen veggies, onion, garlic, maybe tomatoes, seasons to taste and cover cook all day on low or according to insta pot directions.
Pork chops, onion and sour kraut are great for this. So are southwest flavors.
Happy lazy day to you! My favorite lazy meal is breakfast for dinner. Scrambled eggs, faux sausage, toast with butter and jelly. Maybe some berries or cantaloupe. Maybe some cherry tomatoes sautéed with a little soy sauce, balsamic vinegar and maple syrup added. Alternatively, you can get hubs to cook!
Tuna sandwiches. I love macaroni with tomato sauce and tomato juice(but the hubby does not eat it).
Super lazy meal: A bowl. Might have cottage cheese and a bunch of fresh fruit. Might have yogurt and fruit and Ezekial cereal with nut butter.
Might have pasta and tomato juice (a real comfort food from my early childhood).
Favorite lazy meal? Probably frozen spinach-and-feta pie from a local bakery. Just stick it in the oven, and it’s so delicious. ‘Course, that requires already having one in the freezer.
My new favorite lazy meal is Miso salmon. I Marinate it whenever I get around to it. Then I just put rice in my rice cooker and cook it for like 5 mins in the toaster oven. It sounds so fancy and healthy.
My laziest meal is nachos with a little rotisserie chicken in the toaster oven. Salsa. Sour cream.
Loving satisfactory too!
have someone else hunt and gather while you enjoy tea and read.
https://www.wskg.org/arts/2022-06-09/americas-test-kitchen-pasta-with-burst-cherry-tomato-sauce-and-fried-caper-crumbs-ep-2208
This is my favorite all time dinner, and the second best is overnight waffles
https://www.wskg.org/episodes/2021-02-04/1063113
Lazy dinner from last night: Two chicken breasts in the air fryer, boiled noodles, steamed broccoli, avocado ranch dressing. Mix, done.
CHILI MAC
1 pound hamburger
1 can diced tomatoes drained (fire roasted or with green chilli’s are nice) or add small can of green chillis drained
1/2 diced onion
1 can chilli no beans (I hate beans but you can add a can with beans or black beans)
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
2 big handfuls of crushed tortilla chips
1/2/ cup cook rice (I use left over or instant rice)
1/2 bag of any kind of noodles except sphagetti type (I like shells or penne)
cook and drain noodles
In a large frypan cook onions and then hamburger, salt, pepper and any other spice you like and drain. Then add chilli and rice, diced tomatoes and any thing else you throw in ( sometimes corn, left over veggies, etc.)
Then add contents of fry pan to noodles add cheese and tortilla chips.
This can be a clean out your fridge type meal but that’s the jist of it. It’s comfort food which we like when we don’t feel like putting a lot of effort into a meal.
Loosely based on the cookbook “Comfort Food Diet by Readers Digenst
Enjoy TKV
You’ve worked hard! Enjoy the laziness – you need to relax and recoup and be rejuvenated before getting back to writing.
My favorite lazy meal is actually my husband’s creation and it is just delicious. It’s a stir-fry dump meal sort of situation.
Ingredients:
Beef Sausage/Polska Kielbasa/preferred sausage – cut into medallions
1 onion – chopped
1 pepper – chopped
Canned black beans – rinsed
Canned tomatoes – drained
Spices – salt, pepper, oregano, cumin, etc; generally mexican flavors
Toss everything into a skillet and cook together until it becomes tasty mush. Plate and add shredded cheese, and you’re good to go!
Also add canned corn – drained! Forgot that bit.
I highly recommend the book “Laziness does not exist” 🙂
Frozen dumplings or frozen steamed pork buns are 2 very lazy ‘meals’ that just barely count as a complete meal.
Wait, what? Adorable pictures of pets IS meaningful content.
Word.
Lazy meal: Cacio y Pepe pasta made with chickpea pasta (automatic protein)!
I just dump sweet potato fries in the air fryer. Salt and eat. That’s it. And that is a very cute puppy.
Favorite lazy meal – starts with Uber eats! Lol. I think you all should invest in a housecleaning service . I think sometimes , if you have so much work , it’s ok to let someone else do the manual work such as deep cleaning kitchens and bathrooms
Agree. Unless you love to clean, which I cannot imagine anyone actually doing. Working for yourself, You’re paying a rather high hourly rate to clean your own house.
Hmm, my favorite lazy meal. Mostly, a simple charcuterie these days with a cheap but delicious glass of white wine). Also radish and/or cucumber sandwiches. My mandoline is getting a workout it never had before
Grilled cheese and tomato soup certainly seems to be popular 😂
I think I have a different idea of lazy than some of these cooks tho …
I’ve started stocking “emergency food” things like canned chicken, frozen veggies, etc. And my latest almost-no-effort meals are what I call “rice mess” (I have 4 different kinds of rice in the pantry atm 😆)
I’m experimenting with one pot meals in the rice cooker – set it and forget it type things
Basically chop an onion, throw in bottom of pot, added prepared meat(not raw!) then rice, then seasoning, then frozen veggies, water/broth close and cook (I have a basic rice cooker, cooking options are brown or white)
It works best when you make sure to layer the ingredients (onions first, meat, rice, Frz veggies on top)
Successful combos I make a lot:
Chopped linguica, chicken broth/scoop of Better Than Bullion, curry-type spices(mix cumin, ginger,turmeric) dried cranberries, frozen butternut squash
Smoked heat-n-serve pork chops (remove meat from bones and chop, throw the bones on top last and remove after cooking), frozen kale.
I prefer brown rice over white, but it does take over an hour to cook like this.
For Must Have Food Now!
As my roommates called it “cheesy egg noodles”
Fast cooking pasta like angel hair, although actually ramen cooked as if it’s pasta(no spice packet) works best – mixed with shredded cheese (cheddar my fav) and a sunny side up egg cooked slowly so white stays soft. The egg yolk becomes your pasta sauce and the cheese melts into everything as you stir it up.
When in doubt- make pancakes. My favorite recipe is here: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/162760/fluffy-pancakes/
We quadruple it, freeze the leftovers, and have easy breakfasts or snacks for a few days. I have never regretted making pancakes.
Pictures of cute pets are always meaningful content!
My favorite lazy meals are what I call “pot mess”. Fry one of (ground beef, chicken thigh / breast, TVP) with onion powder, garlic powder, salt, pepper. Add one of (orzo, quinoa, protein pasta, rice, lentils, beans, barley, potatoes) with enough (broth, water, diced tomatoes) to cook properly. Add a flavor out of (gochujan, Italian seasoning, soy sauce + oyster sauce, sour cream). Add a bag of fresh or frozen veggies. Thicken if you want. The very fastest is TVP + orzo + broth + 2TB sour cream + spinach; I can make it in about 10 mins. There are a lot of options. You can make pot mess in the instant pot by throwing things in all at once. The best thing is that since you didn’t dice anything and you’re cooking everything in one pot, cleanup is super fast.
Korean cold noodles from the freezer section. Boil noodles, smash frozen broth in the bag with a rolling pen or a meat tenderizer. Add vinegar and anything you have in the fridge. Pear, green onion, cabbage, chicken or steak or no meat at all. Cut up noodles with scissors and you are good to go. Whole thing takes about 10 min start to finish
Favorite Lazy meal is Breakfast for dinner. eggs, bacon, fried potatoes, and pancakes or waffles.
Any more, can of Campbells chilli mac, dump in a glass bowl, heat in microwave for 3 minutes add crackers to taste. Serves 1. Do as many bowls as people need.
Lazy meal? Well, that’d probably be a frozen dinner/pizza…if you mean something you actually sort-of cook, I’d say make sandwiches, then put them on a pan and bake in the oven. Feels kind of like cooking, does make them better (although makes a bigger mess to clean up)
To be truly lazy, you pick up the phone and order pizza. You’re welcome. Have a great weekend
What Hubs and I call Burrito-ish Wrap Things: Use packaged taco seasoning as you usually would, but throw in defrosted/squeezed out frozen chopped spinach. Add some extra cheese or sour cream to stretch the sauce. Serve in flour tortillas. Use ground turkey and low salt taco mix if you are feeling virtuous!
Question: Are you going to play The War Within as well? Also, my easy lazy go to meal. 5-6 chicken thighs (or whatever chicken parts I have in the fridge), olive oil, onion soup mix, whatever veggies I have left in the fridge. Throw into a baking dish. Cook 375 for 45-50 min. You could probs also throw into a slow cooker. I haven’t tried that…yet.
My Lazy meal is definitely khichdi–cooking rice, and moong dal together with water, turmeric and salt in an instant-pot like thing and then doing a tadka/chanunk of ghee, cumin seeds, tiny mustard seeds and asfatedia (hing in Hindi). Hope you try it sometime!
favorite lazy dinner- Panera soups from Walmart cooked on stove top with French bread heated in oven from Walmart for 3 mins on 450. To be exact it’s my kids favorite dinner- broccoli and cheddar soup and French bread but if it gets them to consume decent amounts of carrots and broccoli ….lol
My best lazy meal is rice cooker white rice, peas, and fried hotdog bits (vegetarian in our case) served with the obligatory hot sauce. It’s an immensely satisfying and completely lazy supper which saw me through the recent lean years of divinity school and chaplain’s training.
When the rice is almost done, chop hotdogs into quarter inch bits and fry until crispy. While they are frying, heat a kettle of water. Pour boiling over your bowl of frozen peas. Once they’re hot through, drain dry. Pile peas and hotdogs bits atop the rice and apply hot sauce to taste.