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.
You deserve to take some time off! Take care of yourself and you’ll come back ready to go!
Favorite lazy, can’t think meal is sloppy joes. Brown hamburger, dump ketchup (about a cup), one or two squirted swirls of plain yellow mustard and brown sugar (about 1/4 cup) on top, cook until it smells good and dump on hamburger rolls. If I’m feeling slightly more ambitious I put a little lettuce or onions on top
Favourite lazy meal is an egg drop soup but made with the dry Lipton’s chicken noodle soup pack!
Salty goodness, swirl in an egg or two (fork scrambled) when the noodles are cooked. Dish it out and drizzle on soy for extra salty goodness. Open a jar or olives or artichokes if you need a veggie.
I love sloppy joe’s! Now I want one LOL
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Yum.
lazy meal – grilled cheese sandwiches or quesdillas if I have the tortillas.
I made Mr Mod R quesadillas for breakfast and he demanded grilled cheese for lunch hehe. Clearly, it’s in the air, something cheesy this way comes!
Lazy meals. Sandwiches with cheese and deli meat and fresh bread fron the bakery section.
Spaghetti from a box topped with spaghetti sauce from a jar.
Trader Joe’s frozen orange chicken.
A jar of olives, a sliced cucumber, feta cheese, rotisserie chicken, romaine lettuce, Greek chicken salad.
refrigerator salad. every vegetable in the refrigerator that can be eaten without heating it up in a big bowl. with half a bottle of my favorite dressing poured over the top.
One of my favs! We call it grazing.
Trader Joe’s frozen orange chicken is amazing. I try to always have a bag stashed in the freezer.
We do nachos when we don’t want to cook. Tortilla chips, preshredded cheddar, frozen taco meat from the freezer, nuke one minute then top with sour cream and salsa. Five minutes total.
I 100% agree, except knowing that TJ’s orange chicken is in the fridge makes me lazy…it’s the only thing that moves out of the freezer within a week of being added…
Must try. There’s a Trader Joe’s down the street I’ve never been in. So now I have a reason to scope it out.
What?! There’s a Trader Joe’s down the street you’ve never been in? My family would have starved to death long ago…Orange chicken is great, beef and broccoli is great, gyoza is great, steak and stout pies are good (excellent pastry, decent filling) but the shepherd’s pie is not. 🙂 Plus wine… Happy shopping!
Are your quesadillas done in the oven or skillet?
Charcuterie, just meat, cheese, and fruit eaten with a good book or in front of the TV. No fancy prep, just small piles of things from the fridge.
yes. I call this the smorgasbord. little piles of random tasty things. I was doing girl dinner for a decade before it got the fancy name 😆
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Oh yeah love grilled cheese but I also add a big bowl of Campbells Tomato soup (make with milk for a creamy flavor).
I love grilled cheese with a bit of habanero jelly (or similar) on the inside. So good.
The BDH is here for you! We will be lazy WITH you. No, no. It’s ok. That’s the kind of sacrificial caring we do.
Hahaha! I am so loved! I appreciate your sacrifice!
And now I’m thinking about what one sacrifices to the Deity of Laziness…
You sacrifice your planner, your Google calendar, your to do lists…
Nothing. The act of finding something to sacrifice is too much work. Deities will
appreciate the commitment to laziness the lack of sacrifice shows. Assuming they are not too lazy to notice.
Kick back in your La-Z-Boy chair, and to quote their ad “Long live the lazy!” 😀
Knit if you want, veg out on TV if you want, take a nap, or do nothing but sit in your chair with the feet up.
Yes, yes, it is an unimagined priviledge to throw myself on the sword of laziness for the honor of House Andrews! As soon as I get up off the sofa…
hahahaha
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I’m with you 100%! Already in pjs, on the sofa, under a blanket! And it’s only 3:15 pm here! 😄
As a Hordian I want to tell you to stay away from WoW. As a Horde Blood Elf I have to tell you that if you like Dragonflight you’re going to love The War Within and should definitely play it. Even if only for Mr Sunshine, the therapist spider.
Yes! Lazy all week. Lazy lazy lazy. We’ve got this!
Be kind to yourself! I make grilled cheese with tomato and basil soup from a container when I don’t feel like cooking.
My favorite lazy meal is something I put in the microwave. It is a cute picture of Mona’s. Sometimes being lazy lets you recover enough to be very productive when you start back to work. It’s a good plan.
My favorite meal is when someone else does it.
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Word. Lol.
Laziest meal: Chicken soup and rice. Literally make rice in the rice maker with the broth from a can of soup instead of water and then dump the veggies and chicken from the can in, too.
Also lazy: turkey burgers in the toaster oven and microwave a bag of frozen veggies. I’ve been on a cauliflower rice kick because I’m trying to cut carbs. The risotto medley from Green Giant is pretty good.
Ooh!! An adorable picture of Mona IS meaningful content!!
Lazy meal – scrambled eggs on toast with fruit salad and/or carrot and celery sticks.
**whispers so the sprites don’t hear: take another week to recharge; gaming and reading are good for you!!**
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My favorite lazy day meal is a tortilla pizza with whatever toppings I have in my fridge.
For my household my go-to for “I don’t wanna cook, nor pick up food or delivery” nights – frozen pizza! I keep at least one each of each person’s fav in the freezer and throw in the oven.
We call those ’emergency pizzas’ in our house! 🙂
We call them comfort pizzas! Comfy food for lazy days.
We call them rainy day pizzas!
We also keep frozen low carb pizzas in the freezer for lazy meals. I add some extra “ treasure” in the form of chopped capsicum( bell pepper), mushroom, salami, grated cheese and anchovies to my husband’s side, sliced tomato to mine. An easy meal for those days when you are too tired to prepare a meal from scratch.
+1 Even the Baylors do it!
Is it strange for you reading other books? What books do you find you can get lost in vs what kind just distract with what the author has had to go through to get to the published version?
We’ve got a cold and rainy weekend coming – doing nothing with the fire on sounds wonderful!
lazy food – Brotzeit, aka bread, cheese, some sausage. Grilled Toast, with tomato, ham, cheese. Or simply take away, Pizza or japanese.
I made this last night. chicken quesodillas, I used frozen grilled chicken strips and already shredded cheese. Dipped in salsa.
Homemade pizza is my fave lazy meal. I buy the pre-made crusts, put a bunch of yummy things on top and it’s all good. No brains required. And some nights there’s barely enough brains left to turn on the oven.
Relax, unwind, recharge. We all gotta do that every now and then.
I am not American and I have absolutely no idea what grilled cheese is! Read it a million times in books (well maybe not million, but feels like it).. and my laziness absolutely forbids me to google it, so I have a mental image.. but no idea really. Certain things are sacrificed on the altar of laziness and I will go forth and prosper without really knowing what grilled cheese is.
Relish the lazy!!
It’s a warm cheese sandwich lol. Tbh I don’t think I had one until I moved to the UK, my mom would make them like open faced sandwiches in the oven, with cheese and a slice of salami. Which would be more a riff on “cheese on toast” I guess.
Which btw- open faced sandwiches still stimy a lot of British people I met. I think Scandinavia and Eastern Europe join hands on that one hehe!
I grew up learning to make grilled cheese two ways:
1. Cheese between two slices of bread, buttered on the outsides, then fry it in a skillet on both sides until golden brown and cheese is melted.
2. Open-faced like ModR mentions. Two pieces of bread on tin foil, sliced cheese on top, no top bread. Broil until melted.
Thanks to advances in tech, there is now a third method. Cheese between two slices of bread, insert into toaster packet, toast a couple of times until melted and browned. Only problem I have with this one is that the bread I prefer to buy is taller than my toaster can hold when it’s in the sleeve, so I have to toast the sandwich then rotate the sandwich in the sleeve and toast the other half.
Where does everyone stand on using mayo instead of butter on the outside of the pan grilled sandwich? I’ve tried it and I’m not sure…
The grilled cheese I grew up on is two slices of white bread spread with Miracle Whip on the inside and several slices of Kraft singles, Butter the outside of the bread, Toast in a frying pan until both sides of the sandwich are nice and brown. If we were lucky Mom would put a couple of slices of ham lunch meat on it too.
what on earth is Miracle Whip?
It’s like mayo but tangy or zesty. It’s made by Kraft I believe and they call it a sandwich spread.
EVIL
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my favorite from childhood too! Still love them. Add some pickles on the side.
Nope!
Saw a recent well known Chef make a grilled cheese. Buttered the outside of the bread AND sprinkled Parmesan on the outside too. Looked delicious
No. The correct answer to mayo is no.
Fiiiiiiine. If folks want to mayo, I’ll keep my judgey face to myself and remind myself that all the Horde is fluffy and beloved.
I’ve never tried mayo. Might give that a shot.
I have been a bit daring the last couple of years by using 2 or 3 types of cheese and adding a little Horsey Sauce from Arby’s. Gives it a little bit of bite but multiple cheeses do make it really gooey and messy. Really good, but really messy.
It just ends up more eggy tasting, which eggy bread, French toast, pain perdu, whatever you want to call it, it’s definitely a thing! But sometimes I’m in my egg era and other times…bleaurgh. I get the egg ick and just can’t.
I get that ‘eggs yay!’ or ‘eggs? are you trying to make me feel sick’ thing. Nice to know I’m not the only person it happens to!
Definitely butter. I like mayo. But not warm mayo.
No, butter outside, mayo inside, but not too much. It increases the creaminess of the melt cheese.
I’m a firm “no” on the mayo. Maybe I did it wrong but it didn’t brown that well and it was no less greasy than one using butter. I am a firm advocate of using multiple types of cheese though..mix-n-matching cheddar, swiss, jalapeno jack, or even geuyere, gouda or whatever you like. I am firmly against the use of using processed or American cheese of any kind. I’m sure it’s some kind of sacriledge.
I’ve used mayo on the outside instead of butter. It’s good. It browns more evenly and gets crispier.
This is what my sons say, too. 🙂
The purist in me says no to mayo. Bread, butter, cheese. My former husband put mayo on the inside of the sandwich and butter on the outside. Not my thing.
It’s delicious. Think of it as an easy breading without the bread. Mayo is eggs and oil. You’d flour, dip in egg, then dip in bread crumbs and fry it in oil. You’re just losing two of those ingredients.
Full disclosure: I haven’t tried it on grilled cheese yet, only on a turkey reuben/rachel, and it was delicious. I have plans to try it on grilled cheese, though.
Hopefully I included the link correctly…
Best grilled cheese.
My husband and I watched this movie, Chef, and ran out to get the ingredients so we could recreate. 😋
https://youtu.be/gbdUGdxX7ww
NO to mayo. On anything. I don’t like it. You can have all my mayo. I’ll have your butter.
Me too!
Finally, someone else who doesn’t do mayo…thank you!
Agreed. No mayo period.
+1000, no one in my house will eat mayo. Not even on the outside. Butter 4Eva
Side note, I like to put sundried tomatoes in my grilled cheese, especially if I don’t have any tomato soup handy
Amen. Nasty stuff!
I have used both butter and Blue Plate mayo. I like either. The mayo is easier to spread than the butter . You can’t beat grilled cheese and a bowl of tomato soup for a lazy meal.
Butter ONLY. Butter is one of the basic stuffs of life (and eating, LOL)
Nooo … hmm, maybe. I think I will try that. Thanks for idea.
Mayo/miracle whip only belongs in the tuna fish that I add in if I want to turn my grilled cheese into a tuna melt
I don’t like it. I much prefer butter. It also made my pan hard to clean for some reason
Eeek no mayo only butter 😳😳😳😱😱😱. And in honor of this blog I’m reading today and the amount of family dinner I cooked yesterday I’m doing grilled cheese and tomato or ramen noodles for us tonight…yay lazy meal day
I have a metallic contraption, is like a grilling pan, square, you put the bread with the cheese inside and it has to sides that make pressure, so you cook it in both sides a couple of minutes and you have a sealed cheese sandwich.
https://www.bazargralsarmiento.com.ar/extra/tostador-sellador-sandwich-doble
I think there you can see the image.
It can hold any filling for the sandwich.
New Zealander have these in abundance and may use them to create this variant:
https://gabbypeyton.substack.com/p/spaghetti-and-cheese-toastie
(I haven’t had one since I was a kid but they are all over the show)
This is bringing up an interesting point I have never thought of before. The open faced cheese toast is definitely the more “grilled”- using the definition of term- of the two listed methods, but I would never consider it to be a “grilled cheese.” To southern American me, the pan-fried in butter step is absolutely requisite for the dish. You skip this step and you have made a tasty cousin dish, but NOT a grilled cheese. We should probably call it a fried cheese sandwich instead…
One more method, toast two slices of bread. After toasting place cheese slices between the toast. Microwave 30 seconds or long enough to melt the cheese.
Mayonnaise on the inside with the cheese is optional.
Thank you… haha …. I wasn’t sure about saying when I am tired and want something quick.
I toast the bread and nuke it to melt the cheese.
Not as good as fried in a skillet but very fast and easy.
I used to work in a sandwich/deli shop. The owner had a great imagination, one favorite was her version of a monte cristo:
Using a panini maker
Put two slices of apple bread buttered on the outside
Inside mango chutney, thin sliced turkey breast, swiss cheese, close up and let the panini work its magic. To die for, yummy!
That does sound yummy!
NO to mayo. I have to admit, I was raised with Miracle Whip and prefer it. Or butter on a sandwich, truth be told.
My favorite grilled cheese sandwiches require special bread and cheese. My local supermarket has a pretty good bakery, and they generally make a few artisan breads. Among those are a loaf with rosemary, and one with Asiago cheese (I live in a part of New England with a large Italian-American population.) Both make excellent grilled cheese.
Then I use a good sharp domestic cheddar on it, NOT “American” cheese (shudder). Doesn’t have to be expensive cheddar, but…cheddar. Vermont or Wisconsin cheddar, usually. Butter the outside, toss it in the pan….yum.
Yum, my favorite is actually rye bread with a good sharp cheddar. So delicious.
That sounds good, too!
Wow!! Open-faced sandwiches are our go-to, both growing up & now for my kids! No one else seems to have heard of them…. But I’m Canadian so I guess it makes more sense that it’s a thing in Britain 🤗
Her Grandma taught my daughter how to make a grilled cheese when she was 7. I asked her how and she told me she made toast and peeled 2 American cheese singles, put them between the bread and then microwaved it until it melted. Real grilled cheese sandwiches are much tastier but Grandmas’ method was safer for a kid to make. We had already taught her how to operate a microwave oven.
Tuna Casserole- Kraft Mac and cheese . Can of tuna, can of green peas
I’ve never had warm tuna, or the tuna cheese (or any fish and cheese) combination. And I pride myself on my food adventurousness, but somehow that’s the combo I’m scared of! 😀
Mod R – tuna noodle w/cheese casserole is A Thing here is the US. Many variations pending on what part of the US you live in. My go-to recipe is canned tuna, Velveeta cheese – cubed, can of cream of mushroom soup, noodles (store bought) and crushed potato chips on top. Bake til bubbly. Yum!
One of Mom’s favorite dishes was tuna casserole with pearl onions and green peas in a cream sauce. It was the most disgusting creation on earth. I have always hated green peas and pearl onions and the tuna casserole made that hatred even worse. I love a nice tuna steak but put it in a casserole and I’m going to gag.
Totally agree with both that exact tuna noodle casserole (what were our mothers thinking? Yuck) and a tuna steak.
Our favorite lazy meal is peanut butter, butter, and raspberry preserves on homemade bread with a big side salad. You put thin slices of butter on one slice of bread and then add the preserves on top. It takes PB&J to the next level.
Homemade is my favorite kind of tuna casserole. Honest, Mod R, it is quite good. Dry sherry is the key, IMO.
Don’t be scared! Lol. I found a recipe about 10 years ago and thought, “no”. I made it anyway. I, obviously, like it as I continue to make it.
I find it to be a truly upsetting combination. I know a lot of people love it, but I just can’t.
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Not personally a fan of tuna noodle casserole but tuna melts are amazing!
I mix diced dill pickle, a bit of onion, mayo and a can of tuna. Spread over a couple slices of bread. Add shredded cheese and bake until the cheese is golden and melted. So yummy.
Tinned tuna (especially flavoured, like lemon-pepper or tomato-and-basil) is one of my pantry staples. Can be eaten cold, but as a student when seasonings were expensive and cooking skills were minimal, you could cook rice or pasta, then do a basic white sauce and tip in the flavoured tuna and whatever veggies might come to hand, which allowed for a more varied menu while still only using one basic recipe. Grated cheese, being expensive, could be added for special occasions, or to convert the dish into a pasta bake.
If you ever want to try a tuna-and-cheese combination, my personal go-to is lemon-pepper tuna with a mild cheese like Edam – in warm foods, in toasted sandwiches, or just directly on bread. I am not a food adventurer though (cough cough understatement), so I admit I probably wouldn’t have tuna in my pantry if it hadn’t been a childhood food!
That tuna, veg and white sauce combo was a classic of my student years too, and I still make it from time to time. I make the white sauce by sprinkling the flour on to softened onions so the flour can’t clump so you actually get an onion sauce for a bit more veg. Lovely and made in the time it takes the pasta to cook.
The Kraft Mac & cheese with tuna ( with or without peas) is an inexpensive way to up the nutritional value of the Mac & cheese &/or make more servings. I’ve had it & it’s not my thing. I like Kraft Macaroni & cheese without these additions.
When I was growing up, canned tuna was still packed in oil. I became stuck on the ‘it looks like cat food, it smells like cat food, therefore it misses cat food’ bandwagon & I never really left it, even when they started packing it in water.
For most ‘tuna’ recipes you an replace the tuna with canned chicken.
my dad used to love tuna and hard boiled egg sandwiches. drained tuna, hard boiled eggs cut up, mix together with mustard and mayo, salt and pepper, and put on toasted bread.
I haven’t had one since he passed over 40 years ago but recalled they were really good.
Maybe I will make one right now. sounds good
That’s too close to something my mom used to make called turkey tetrazini (sp?). I hated that growing up. So I won’t put tuna in my mac ‘n cheese, but I do often cook polish kielbasa along with it.
Got through my senior year of college having this to eat in the dorm — but no peas, please.
I had that at a friend’s house as a kid. I wasn’t a fan. But my mom didn’t make casseroles really. I wonder if it’s kind of an aquired taste. 😊
Fridge rummage usually results in partial full tins of baked beans (tomato or molasses sauce ); roasted potatoes or rice (reheated in microwave); kimchi; cut up veggies and opening tin of wild salmon or spicy tuna (brand Dong Won) from Korea.
Your brain and body want you to rest a bit more 🙌
Order pizza and forget about cleaning or cooking!
You deserve a break!
The BDH will just have to chill! 🙂
Any Kevin’s meal over brown rice. Add some frozen mixed vegetables into the skillet and it’s a balanced meal. https://www.kevinsnaturalfoods.com/products/korean-bbq-style-chicken
What is a Kevin’s meal?
Search for Kevin’s Natural Foods, clean eats available at Costco and local grocery stores. Yummy stuff for the BDH & HA.
Thank you!
This sounds amazing! I’ll look for these!
With the start of school (we start late in oregon) I’ve been doing lots of lazy meals too lol. At least twice a week we’re having sandwiches right now, turkey or chicken with cheese and veggies and the pre-cooked chopped bacon from the store so it’s extra tasty with no effort from me 🙂 slightly higher effort recent lazy night fave is prepping the baked chicken meatballs from pinch of yum, and on lazy nights I throw those in after baking with a premade Indian sauce instead of making something from scratch, patak’s brand isn’t as good as homemade by any means but it’s perfectly edible! Throw some rice in the rice maker and heat naan and call it good.
Or salsa chicken in the instapot or slow cooker, shred that over rice or in tacos with whatever easy toppings I feel like. All of those have made an appearance in the last two weeks! Hope you both enjoy some well earned lazy days, the work can wait a while longer for you <3
I was going to mention salsa chicken because it’s a relatively healthy, but zero effort, meal. Boneless chicken breasts or thighs in a crockpot, add a jar of any type of salsa – red, green, hot, mild whatever – and a bit of garlic powder. Cook on high 2 hours or low 4 hours. Shred. Serve over rice or with tortillas.
my favorite lazy meal is grilling. Just put it all on the grill. if weather is bad, I pop out one of the soups I froze and heat up some bread. there is always salad. sometimes it just hits the spot.
I make pasta fagioli if I want something easy. Only takes 20 min and it’s still real food. Although since it’s Friday, I highly recommend just getting pizza and relaxing. You deserve it.
You deserve to take time off, you’ve more than earned it! As for lazy meals…I like marinated chicken with potatoes. I put the marinade of choice in a bag, slap the chicken in there and let it go for a half hour to a few hours. Then unceremoniously dump it with some potatoes of choice on a sheet tray, give it a toss and throw it in a 400 ish degree oven til done.
Take out
costco sells a two pack of cheese tortellini, refrigerated but I freeze it.
Boil water, add a little salt, dump in the frozen tortellini, when they start to float (2-3 minutes) I dump in frozen peas, cook for one minute and drain. drizzle with a little olive oil or cream after I serve it.
Open a can of pears. can have all it together or separate.
carb/protein, vegetable, and fruit in less than ten minutes.
And you have one pot to rinse out after.
Buitoni pasta isn’t bad, either. I usually cook the pasta then toss it with pesto sauce and sun-dried tomatoes, maybe add a bit of cream or the pasta water to the sauce. I cook enough for leftovers and it’s good cold or reheated in the microwave.
Take the time off and relax your body will make you if you don’t!
My super lazy meal a one pot meal.
Rosemary Lemon Chicken
1. Preheat oven to 375F. Using chicken thigh with skin on pat dry and season with a lemon butter (I use Kinder) or citrus seasoning of some sort.
2. Heat an oven safe pot( I use a Dutch oven) with olive oil in the bottom just enough to coat bottom. Put chicken skin down into hot oil and let cook for 4 minutes.
3. While chicken is in oil cut golden potatoes into quarters or smaller depending on what you like.
4.Pull chicken out and throw potatoes in to brown each side. Put more of the season you used on chicken onto potatoes as they cook.
5.When brown put in 1/2 cup of chicken broth ( I use Knorr Pollo it comes in seasoning form and you mix with water).
6.Then lay chicken skin side up on top of potatoes add more seasoning already used and then put 2 rosemary sprigs or put some dried rosemary in.
7.Put lid on pot and put in oven for 45 minutes. After 45 minutes take the lid off and turn on broil. Broil until skin is crispy.
8. In a small bowl melt half a stick of butter in the microwave, grate lemon skin into the butter and squeeze as much lemon as you like into the butter. Drizzle over the chicken and potatoes and enjoy!
Ps. I have also added in onion, garlic and kale which was very good but my kids like it the original way better.
Favorite fast/lazy dinner is broccoli pasta. Tasty and easy. Enjoy some time off.
This is an easy one, cheese on toast or beans on toast, because I’m a basic British b*tch! No effort, all the comfort.
I am the kind of person who can’t clean in their own home, but I go to a friend’s and can’t help doing things. Even in my work is easier to do those things.At home I can’t avoid procrastination. Also cleaning at work is procrastination, so…
Not the point!
You are awesome, and you deserve to have lazy days, or weeks.
We will w*it, p*tiently, and know, that for us to enjoy your work is necessarily that you are well.
Wishing you all the happiness from the other side of the world.
My current favorite lazy meal is chopped summer sausage I sear in my cast iron pan & put into the cacio e pepe Goodles noodles. Boxed dinner ez mode but not totally garbage.
It’s still too hot in Texas, but a pot of chili is my go-to weekend/football season meal.
I’m glad you are taking a break. Your body and mind are telling you to rest.
Toasted Rye bread (scandinavian staple) with butter and soft boiled egg or pasta carbonara, if no eggs or bacon then pasta bianco -only cream and parmesan
Being part time workaholic/protestant work ethics i am pondering a sentence i heard the other day.
The less i do the more i can recieve… 🤔
Please recover some more
Sometimes you just need bacon.
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Fav lazy meal – DoorDash😆😆
😊❤️ got that right! Friday nights!
YES!
Mona IS adorable. Sometimes we just hit a stage in our working life where we just need a break. So take a break! Soon you will be bored with not working and your brain will be ready to go back to work! My favorite lazy meal is pizza delivery. Second favorite lazy meal is meatloaf with a baked potato. Fifteen minutes of front end prep and an hour in the oven. Easy peasy.
Tacos made with whatever leftovers I have in the fridge.
Nachos used to be it for me until I became lactose intolerant. Now it’s fresh baked sourdough from Wild Grain (baked yourself from frozen) and Progresso tomato basil soup.
Happy, well rested authors write pleasing narratives! Rest! Relax! Rejuvenate as nature intended- seasons weren’t a mistake, though you may miss the point in the hellscape of hot where you chose to live, but a guide for all life. Follow the guide. Order pizza. Lubricate your brains with the grease of ease until they are ready to spin again.
Lazy meal: tater-tot casserole. 1 bag of frozen tater-tots, 2 cans of cream of “something” Campbell’s soup, and whatever is found in the fridge or pantry.
Favorite – tator-tots, cream of broccoli soup, broccoli (if already in fridge) mix together and cook according to tater-tot bag instructions; top with cheese and put back in the oven until the cheese melts. Top with sour cream and serve.
my mom made this but added cooked ground beef to the casserole before putting in the oven.
Enjoy being lazy – just another word for recharging! I just tried a kit for making pad thai. All the components were in this package. You cook pre-marinated chicken for five minutes, then add vegetables for two, then add sauce and noodles and cook for another two minutes. It was pretty good, but needed some extra spice.
Mona is a cutie!
I watch America’s Test Kitchen on PBS a lot. They had a super simple recipe for tater tot hot dish. Found the video on YouTube. Making it on Sunday – I will be too busy watching football to make anything that takes a lot of brainpower.
Vegetarian, from what I remember. Although I am not a vegetarian I like that aspect.
Super simplified: groceries ordered on line and being delivered later.
The guy will do clean up. 😊
Ha! Just saw “Jess”post above. Tater tot weekend!
Fav lazy meal: Mac n cheese with tuna and peas. Just a kid at heart
my favourite lazy meal is grilled cheese and ham sandwiches with salad or crisps (chips to you Americans 😊)
Now, see, calling them crisps instead of chips I get. Chips are crispy, so crisps makes sense.
I don’t get how chips is your term for fries. Fries, I think, originated from the term fried potatoes and since we’re lazy and prefer using the fewest words possible, that got knocked down to fries. So can someone explain why it’s fish ‘n chips instead of fish ‘n fries? I mean, alliteration! Who doesn’t like a good alliterative dish?
It’s chipped potatoes 😀 . They’re not as evenly cut and stick-like as French fries, you just take a knife to the tuber and chip away at it, like hacking at wood lol. Thicker and wedgeyer, I guess.
I always wondered! Thanks
Ditto. I’ve always heard the term fish ‘n chips but I’ve never seen a picture and I’ve never been to England to see them in person.
Is the phrase used throughout Europe or is that mostly a British term?
British mostly. I mean, you’ll find “fish and chips” as pub food elsewhere, but then it is obviously based on the British dish. Every other country has one or more words for fries, but I think “chips” for the snack is pretty common elsewhere, “crisps” for the snack is afaik just what the Brits call it…
“Fish and chips” is also the iconic phrase used to illustrate the difference between Australian and NZ accents, probably because it’s a very standard takeaway (take-out) food in both countries. “Feesh and cheeps” = Aussie, “Fush and chups” = Kiwi.
Is this food combination a Commonwealth export, then? I always thought it was something everyone ate, although I suppose in pre-refrigerated-transport times fish might not have been as available in inland areas.
“Chips”, btw, covers more or less every possible cut-up-fried-potato product in NZ, barring wedges and hash browns. Menus usually list “fries”, but if you hand someone a bit of fried potato they will almost certainly call it a chip. Perhaps the original use of ‘chip’ rather than ‘fry’ avoided confusion with existing meat dishes such as lamb’s fry?
I’ve seen chipped potatoes in really thick rounds served with fried cod fish (fish ‘n chips). No malt vinegar for me. Just lemon for the fish and salt for the chips. Yum!
I’ll be lazy with you!
Maybe it is not laziness? Maybe you just need longer to recover the pep in your step? Y’all have been going thru a lot this year. Let yourself rest 😊 (My friends have said this to me, almost verbatim. Possibly multiple times lol)
Your family has had an intense 2 months ( just on the blog). I started to list out what I remember from posts and was too overwhelmed.
((((HUGS))))
When I am in zombie state, I force myself up and make the biggest pot of rice I can. Then, after I zone for a couple of hours, I stare at the pantry and see what I can open to pour over a bowl of rice. I then look in the frig for a sauce to pour over it. Done. Lasts for at least a day.
More (((HUGS)))
I always make huge batches of burritos and Chili when I make them, so that i can freeze them in individual serving sizes for later. Because when I’m lazy, anything more than the microwave is too much work.
My lazy meal is grilling whatever meat is in the fridge. It’s usually chicken. Microwaving a steamer bag of veggies in the microwave. When I’m lucky I planned a head for lazy days and have frozen soup in my freezer.
First really cool day in weeks. It has been 105-115 for several weeks now. To hot to cook.
Lazy day meals whenever it is too hot, really cold tuna salad sandwich, grilled ham and cheese, any frozen snacks in the air fryer (egg rolls, mozz sticks, taquitos
Also like to cook breakfast for dinner waffles and sausage, omelets
I want a little dog to cuddle however we have two boxers, a mini aussie and a GR Pyrnees make. They will all sit in your lap if you let them but they are too hot
If you’re not going to work, may I suggest WuKong the new game based on the epic Chinese story, A Journey to the West. The graphics is soooo pretty, and the game play is also on point.
I didn’t play, but just watching my husband play was awesome, so pretty.
All I want today is to be back in bed with my cats. I know that’s where THEY are right now. 😀 back to school for my daughter + sports routine and working has been off the charts busy.
Lazy meals have included popcorn, slices of cheese and rice bowls.
Go team entropy 🫥
Go you and your creative subconscious recharging!
Hmmmm, lazy meals to make:
(1) throw things to cook in the crock pot – olive oil, garlic cubes, paprika / cumin / turmeric / celery salt / cinnamon, and whatever is available for meat, tomato sauce, and veggies.
(2) Soup (tomato & red bell pepper is good) and grilled cheese (or open faced cheese on bread, broiled).
(3) Throw in non-stick pan and heat: water, frozen party meatballs, frozen broccoli, and frozen garlic noodles or some sort of frozen grain.
(4) Mac & cheese, with party meatballs, frozen peas / asparagus tips, and shaved Gruyere.
Stay in your jammies!
Mona is adorable.
My go to lazy meal is cornflake, weetabix or coco pops. Girl dinner!
Bake 2 boursin cheeses in the oven with some olive oil until melty & edges brown, add cooked pasta and 1/2 cup of the pasta water and stir into a cheesy delight. Can also stir in whatever protein or vegetables are handy. Last night we added elk burger & used the carmelized onion boursin and it was excellent. I use a casserole dish with a lid, so the leftovers just go straight in the fridge keeping a lazy level of dishes after too.
It’s really good also if you dump a container of grape tomatoes in with the Boursin while you’re roasting, then spinach at the end.
A toasted sandwich with Italian meats, provolone, olives, tomato, and banana peppers with raw baby carrots and cantaloupe on the side. That was lunch today.
Sliced Polish sausage grilled with bbq sauce over Pilaf rice.
Grilled cheese with light cream cheese spread with creamy tomato soup.
Breakfast sandwiches with cheese, eggs, sausage with a grape spread.
Rolled cheese tortillas heated on the stove.
Favorite lazy meal: baked lemon pepper chicken. Takes 5 minutes (except baking time). Tastes great! Shake Badilla lemon pepper seasoning on chicken pieces. Bake. Enjoy!
Squirrels!
I don’t have ducks. Or a row.
I have squirrels and they’re all at a rave.
Open faced toast on a baking sheet covered with American, cheddar or other cheese and a couple pieces of slightly undercooked bacon, prosciutto or other cooked protein. Pop under the broiler til the cheese melts.
My go to lazy meals are charcuterie, oatmeal with poppyseeds, brown sugar and nuts, or quesadillas and guac.
One of my fave lazy meals is sausage, potatoes and veggie sheet tray bake. Mix with a little oil and your favorite seasonings and just plop in the oven (add the veggies later if they are a fast cooking type).
My ENTIRE week has been this song 🤣 I’m right there with you. Lazy dinners, in our Indian household, is a pack of Maggi noodles 😁💃 Super unhealthy but oh so quick and satisfying…
Zhuzhed up ramen (Momofuku for choice) with scallions, a nut butter or nuts, egg/Just Egg, sesame oil, and/or whatever else floats your boat. Yum!
Roast chicken is my lazy dinner. Cover it with salt and spices, shove an onion in the cavity and put in a pyrex dish at 425. Check it every 30 min to baste it, or not. Of course one can also go to Costco and get their rotisserie chicken
from someone that rarely cooks:
CEREAL………
grill cheese made from bread that was toasted in toaster and cheese melted in microwave
a wrap with cheese melted in the microwave
and lastly, ICE Cream which is my favorite goto dinner
Spinach Lasagne
Box no cook lasagne noodles, 1# bag frozen chopped spinach, bag shredded mozzarella, pint ricotta, jar marinara, parmesan.
Coat bottom of 9*13 pan with sauce. cover with noodles. Smear with half of ricotta (lay down bloops and swipe). sprinkle with frozen spinach, then mozzarella then add more sauce. Repeat from noodles. Place 3rd layer of noodles, then sauce then sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. bake 45-50 minutes at 375 or according to directions on noodles. Serve/eat with bread and bag of salad.
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My lazy meal is spaghetti, made from sauce in a jar. Side salad and you are donel
Happy Friday!
Ultimate lazy meal: Order in
Lazy make-at-home 1: Grilled cheese sandwiches
Lazy make-at-home 2: Salad
Lazy make-at-home 3: Fish tacos
Fish taco cheat if you live in Texas: frozen cod filets, thawed. Bake cod according to directions (only a few minutes), serve on corn tortillas with cilantro lime chopped salad in a bag from HEB. I put the included dressing in one small bowl and mayo mixed with sriracha to your preferred heat level in another. Everyone seasons to their own taste. Very fast, healthy (ok, the dressing not so much), and perfect when it’s hot out. Cooked cold shrimp is even better than cod!
It’s Friday the 13th. Go rest.
Hawaiian pork (aka kalua pork), basic recipe:
1 pork butt, 3-5 pounds, 2 tablespoons kosher or rock salt, one tablespoon Liquid Smoke or equivalent. Rub salt on pork, place fat side up in slow cooker, pour the Liquid Smoke. Do *not* put in any liquid! Cook on low for 6-8 hours until it falls off the bone. Shred and serve with sauted cabbage and rice, or use for sandwiches. Enjoy!
Add-ons: you can add a sliced onion in the bottom of the slow cooker or shred cabbage and put around and on top of the pork. Feel free to spice it up to your taste.
This beats the original recipe, which requires digging a 2×3 foot hole in the ground, heating lava rocks, wrapping a whole pig in banana leaves or Hawaiian ti leaves, and cooking it underground for hours.
Thanks for sharing, I think my family would love this.
Easy dinner – fry bacon bits and mushrooms in a bit of butter, cook whatever pasta you want while you fry them. When the pasta is ready,drain and tip into the bacon pan,add a tub of creme fraiche, plenty of grated parmesan and mix well. Literally from zero to plate in 15 mind or less(depending on your pasta type)
Oops, sorry, Season to your taste😁
Dragon flight in Wow is a great release. I was surprised at how much I liked the latest release War Within, too. It’s lovely for the most part as long as you aren’t disturbed by arachnophobia! Play, k it and read and enjoy down time!
Green chile corn chowder: can of potato soup, can of creamed corn, a bit of milk, leftover carrots in small chunks if you have them, and green chile—preferably Hatch. ‘Tis the season. A bowl of soup and some crusty bread (or grilled cheese sandwich) is very comforting.
Of course, after a number of years in New Mexico, anything green chile is comfort food to me.
Favorite lazy mean is getting a pizza delivered 🙂
And some pizza places have some brownies that are pretty good, so you can even be lazy about dessert!
Favorite lazy/can’t think of what to make meal is something I grew up with that we just called macaroni: boil pasta, brown 1lb ground beef, throw it together with a 28 oz can of diced tomatoes, let it sit for 5 min, instant comfort food!
If we’re feeling adventurous, we brown the ground beef with soy sauce or onions.
I’ve seasoned this with plain old salt and pepper, every Mexican spice I can think of, Szechuan chili oil, etc, and it always tastes great. Simple meal dressed to your favorite flavor profile!
My grandmother said, “My get up and go got up and went.”
I say, “My bottomless bucket of willpower just ran dry.”
Lazy food:
Rice in ricemaker or pasta on stove. Toss chickpeas in olive oil salt and pepper and roast in oven for 15 minutes on sheet pan. Add chopped spinach (also lightly oiled) to sheet pan and roast another 15 minutes. Serve oven food over starch with dressing (garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, pepper). Top with feta or sliced red pepper or sunflower seeds or whatever.
doggy pictures are TOTALLY meaningful content!
love the song. there are definitely days where thats whats playing on repeat in my brain.
i strongly advise going to look for your motivation in your craft room, hehehe. i spent way too much time on pinterest and printed out three new patterns yesterday and went to the store and bought new yarn specifically for these patterns. because i’ve been really good and not bought any yarn so far this year! have i started any of the new projects yet? no! but i have pretty yarn to match pretty patterns and that alone makes my brain happy.
i got an air fryer and am learning all the nifty things you can cook in there besides just frozen foods. like hot dogs or brats. you put the hot dogs in there, and the last two minutes you take the hot dogs out, put them in the bun, and put the hot-dog-in-the-bun back in the air fryer. crispy hot dogs with toasted buns. not exactly healthy, but definitely quick and easy. taste like they were grilled without firing up the grill.
I make tomato soup using God quality canned San Marzano tomatos and canned chicken broth (I do can my own broth a few times a year and hope to do my own tomatos if I can grow a garden again with my POTS) and have grilled cheese sandwiches. I use tomato powder to thicken and tomato bullion for flavor. Tomato powder has become my favorite thing because I hate the metallic taste and waste using canned tomato paste.
I’m also playing Wow at the moment because I’m pretty much unable to do anything physically bc of a POTS flareups. I am loving the storyline in The War Within. This is the best expansion in a long time. Dragonflight was really good but I didn’t get into the story as much as TWW.
HEB has these frozen french baguettes that are handy for just about any kind of sandwich like hot ham and cheese(toasties)or meatball with mozzarella.
Summer is back in Texas
French onion soup! Chop some onions, a lovely bouillion, a swiff of your favorite vinaigre, spices. Whack some sourdough in the oven with delicious cheese for crouton and you have a lovely meal. In minutes.
Favorite lazy meal: 2 boneless skinless chicken greats in a 425 degree oven for about 15 minutes. Meanwhile nuke a package of frozen brown rice followed by a frozen package of some veggie. Total 25 minutes (allowing time for the oven to preheat). If you want to be really fancy, put some teriyaki sauce on the chicken.
Favorite lazy meal – it’s tomato and basil season, so you just buy fresh tomato, mozzarella, basil, and prosciutto and then whatever cracker/ bread you want to eat it on (if any). You can also do mint/ watermelon/ feta salad, just mixed in a bowl (for maximum lazy get the pre cut watermelon). Super refreshing, you don’t need to turn any devices on that make your kitchen hotter, and you can eat both right out of the bowl/ serving platter
That’s my kind of lazy summer to early fall meal!
On the weekend, I stock up on fresh tomatoes, watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumbers, green beans (steam a big batch and refrigerate or microwave frozen in the off-season), apples, zucchini from the farmers market (it’s zucchini overload season); chickpeas, white beans (canned, or if motivated I cook a big pot with garlic, onions, and herbs, and chill it); fresh mozzarella, feta, or goat cheese (the latter also from my farmers market, freezes beautifully); hummus, tzatziki, tabbouleh from my Lebanese market to dip cukes or sliced zucchini (swap for fresh salsa of choice in Texas?); rotisserie chicken or a big batch of chicken thighs, tossed with olive oil and spices and roasted on a sheet pan, then chill; herbs from my balcony. (Not all these every week, obviously!)
Mix & match some produce and protein, with savoury dips or salsa as desired, and/or herbs. Feeds me all week and no junk food!
(No diss to occasional junk food, but it bogs down my elderly metabolism. I prefer to treat my taste buds with savoury bites or a square of dark chocolate.)
Lazy dinner is Rosemary/Olive Oil crackers and a really good cheese. I prefer Gambozola right now.
I am lazy many nights 🤭
cereal and fruit or a banana burrito
Oooooh, what is a banana burrito?!
Anyone else’s mind go to a dirty place?
My first lazy food is a blend of cooked cereals (oat, wheat and corn dunno if you have it in the US it’s a mix that cooks in 6min that is filling, tasty and healthy) with carrots, bacon and broccoli. All in all it takes 30min to cooks last 2 meals for 3 and my kids and I love it.
Otherwise it’s a bowl of semolina with “viandox” it takes 3 min to cook/prepare/serve…
My favorite lazy meal is calling to your favorite restaurant and placing an order to go. Fifteen to twenty minutes later, the meal is ready.
Tamale pie! Ground beef/chicken/or turkey-taco seasoning.
1 can tomato soup and half of the can of water.
1 can corn drained
1 can ranch style beans or canneloni beans
Mix it together.
1 box jiffy corn bread made to specs or cornbread mix of choice
Put above mix in a casserole dish and cover it with corn bread.
Bake until corn bread is done.
Yummy!
Being lazy is necessary for recovery after so much busyness. Enjoy it. You deserve to relax and hang with cute puppies and crafts.
Favorite lazy meals, besides takeout obviously:
1) spaghetti with meat sauce – 1lb ground beef, 1lb Italian sausage (mild or spicy), brown the meat together then add 2 jars of your favorite sauce, simmer while pasta finishes cooking and yum
2) Doesn’t have a name, we call it “The Chicken Stuff” – preshredded rotisserie chicken, 2-4 cans cream of chicken soup (depending on how many your feeding), heat the soup, add some milk if you want, season to taste, throw in the chicken, we like less saucey so lots of chicken, serve over store bought mashed potatoes with canned or frozen peas (note: this is really good over noodles and I’ve heard people do it with noodles and mashed potatoes but thats more cooking so microwave mashed potatoes for the win)
Both super easy, fast and tasty, and a hit with my family everytime. Its actually annoying that they compliment these meals more than the super complicated, I used used every pan and spent 2 hours cooking meals, but whatever.
My favorite lazy meals are either my crockpot standbys or lately foil packet meals. I found a foil packet meal on Pintrest that is a take on the southern shrimp boil that I am planning on doing again this weekend. the beauty to the foil packet meals is the cleaning consists of throwing the aluminum foil used for the packets away and putting our plates in the dishwasher plus the meals you can make with this method are limited only by what imagination you have and when my imagination takes a serious nosedive (which happens more often than I like to admit)I head for pintrest and start looking!
My lazy meal.
Order something delivered and a beer or glass of wine.
Or ice cream. Lots of ice cream.
I can always find the energy to open the ice cream carton, no matter how tired or lazy feeling.
Not sure this will help you tonight, but I make monster batches of chili and portion it out for the freezer — then just grab one when I want a fast meal. Also, Butcher Box now has some premade stuff that just needs heating, their chicken nuggets are really good. I pop them in the air fryer for 11 minutes and they come out perfect.
Another moderately lazy go-to: take hot dogs out of the freezer and heat in a small fry pan over very low heat, so they heat through before they burn. Slather with BBQ sauce and you are good to go! If you let them cook briefly after adding the sauce it caramelizes, which is delicious IMO. Serve with whatever veggie is on hand and easy — I often do frozen broccoli.
My lazy meal is Door Dash! Relax, read and enjoy. You both deserve it.
Yes! Check the yarn stash!! Start a new project while you binge whatever you want!!
Cereal 😉
Some of my lazy meals:
Steak of some sort (ribeye or strip) cut into strips, add some provolone cheese on a toasted brioche sub roll with HP sauce (to me it tastes like what Lea and Perrin’s steak sauce use to be) and either chips, fries, or tater tots on the side.
Pasta with or without meat and jar sauce (Rao’s – yum).
Stovetop mac and cheese. No baking required. Just eat it after it’s made and mixed. You can make a cheeseburger one by just adding drained ground beef.
Pulled pork or bbq beef. The prep takes a little time, but the cooking is usually 3 hours at 325 degrees (F) in a Le Cruset 7 quart chef’s pot.
Chocolate pudding, ice cream, brownie, or whatever is on hand when I don’t want to even do the above.
I want to come to your house for a lazy meal.
If thats how you cook for a lazy meal , I wanna be at your house when it’s not a lazy meal!
That’s during the holidays when it gets a lot cooler than 80 degrees. 😁
I really like to cook. Always have. I do get take out when I go out to do errands. 🔪🍽
My favorite lazy meal is ordering in.
my favorite lazy meal is order in pizza or scrambled eggs…depending on budget.
I’m team “order pizza” all the way! Enjoy your lazy time, for however long you can make it last!
Frozen pizza but cauliflower crust so it seems healthier 🙂
My favorite lazy meal is delivered pizza.
That video is perfect!!Stay lazy!
Good on you for taking a breather.
Lazy meal- (for 2 in this instance)
1. take a couple of pre-cooked sausages – I love andouille or hot links for this
2. cut up veggies into bite sized portions- I use either asparagus or broccoli
3. dice a small onion
4. brown the onion in olive oil, then add all of the ingredients above with a spoonful of minced garlic (the jarred stuff is great)
5. pour in about 1-1.5 cups of white wine
6. add about a half cup of milk or cream
7. add shredded cheese- about a cup is great
8. add any additional spices or herbs that appeal.
9. Allow to simmer and when the veggies are cooked reduce the sauce.
10. prepare pasta and once done combine the sausage/veggie stuff with the pasta.
Serve. The veggies and sausage prep can be done in advance and used the next day.