Got home late, so had beans on toast. Not had it in ages. Decent seeded granary bread, proper butter, Aldi baked beans. Didn't even bother with sauces or cheese on top, and it genuinely hit the spot.
Any quick and basic meals do it for you?
Not quick, but jacket potato cheese and beans for me please.
Jacket potato, 10 minutes in microwave, 10 minutes in hot oven. Quick enough! Sprinkle with hot sausage rolls (not home made), baked beans and cheese.
Sprinkle with hot sausage rolls
Sprinkle? I've never considered sausage rolls to be a condiment, but fair play - I could be convinced!
Fried eggs on thickly buttered toast.
Half a tin of corned beef mashed into a baked potato.
Scrambled eggs on buttered toast with the faintest smear of marmite.
Sprinkle with hot sausage rolls
Sprinkle?! SPRINKLE???! Well played though, I'm so trying that.
Are there any other combos that work well with 'sprinkling' things on top?
My contribution: chunky oven chips (Tesco's Finest are passable) topped with pepper sauce. Quick n dirty.
Black pudding can be "sprinkled". Especially into scrambled eggs.
Cheese on toast with fried bacon sliced up under the cheese
Beans on toast made from phat crusts. Plus Hendo’s.
Fish finger butty, with slice of cheese, lettuce and tartare sauce.
Egg noodles, soaked in boiling water for 5 mins, then fried with soy sauce and sweet chilli sauce, plus added chillies to taste.
Muesli, banana, yoghurt.
Gets me every morning with a big "Mmmm" on the last spoonful.
I recently discovered that a slice of Jarlsberg between the beans and the toast is sublimely good.
Jasons No 8 is also a really good beans on toast substrate
Are there any other combos that work well with 'sprinkling' things on top?
under, rather than on - a sprinkle of feta cheese in the pan under a fried egg is good
My contribution: chunky oven chips (Tesco's Finest are passable) topped with pepper sauce. Quick n dirty.
Theres a greek roast potato dish that involves roasting the potatoes in oregano and lemon juice. But for a nice quick treat you can do the same thing with oven chips - just toss them in the herbs and lemon juice before you put them in the oven
All I really want or need is hot carbohydrates. Be it spuds, pasta or whatever I'm usually pretty happy to see it.
I'm a bear of little brain.
Cheese and haggis toastie.
M&S chunky chicken on toast.
Wroght’s meat and potatoe pie and beans.
Leek & potato soup (tin) with tinned tuna stirred in and heated up, cracked black pepper, and either dunk your toast or crusty bread in. Poor man’s Cullen Skink - sounds like it shouldn’t work but tastes bloody delicious - trust me!
Scrambled eggs.
Fried egg sandwich, preferably on a soft mortons roll(a type of Glaswegian roll/bap that is sort of chewy, and doesn't fall apart when saturated in butter, grease or egg yolk..
Egg needs to yolk broken, and so overcooked that the edges go crispy. Mmmmm crispy ...
Sometimes Heinz tomato sauce, or HP brown, depending on mood.
2 of those. But same sauce on both, mix and match brown/tomato is just heathen
Steak and eggs
Crusty tiger loaf, lightly toasted, slices of extra mature cheddar cheese on top, with ground black pepper and chili flakes, toasted until bubbling, accompanied with a big mug of soup.
What I had earlier this evening. 🫶🏻👌🏻🫠
Scrambled egg or omelette cooked in microwave for 60-90secs, put between two slices of bread with sliced gherkins and BBQ sauce, maybe some cheeky cheese too.
Sweet potato zapped in microwave for ~5mins, while frying some mushrooms, beans, sweet pepper and yeast flakes. Bit of chilli spice.
Pretty much any pasta dish, a carbonara being a great example.
Talk to me more about sprinkled sausage rolls ..
Jacket potato for me as well.
Microwave for a few minutes then air fryer for the rest. Beans and cheese if it's just the basics but I like mine with some bacon or a sausage as well, either of which can be added to the air fryer in the last few minutes.
When I was house sitting at my sister's, I had scrambled egg on toast for lunch every day cos they have chickens so the eggs needed using!
Does a sandwich constitute a basic meal if it's substantial enough to fill you comparably as a basic meal?
If so ..
A staple of a quick and easy 'meal' would be a fish finger sandwich.
Very pleased to see fish finger sandwich on the list. Scrambled eggs or omelette are real winners as well
Sausage, chips and beans. 3 ingredients to juggle though 🤔
Corned beef, grated cheese and boiled baby potatoes (or chips) with lashings of mayonnaise
Potato bread (toasted), omelete (with spinach ideally) and baked beans (with chipotle paste added), yum.
Eggy bread (properly coated in egg, not just wafted in the general direction) as the base, to go with a sliced sausage or bacon or mushrooms.
My current go-to work lunch is Aldi baked beans with sausages on toast. It hits the spot every time. Weirdly Lidl baked beans with sausages don't do it for me. I would have thought they would be much of a muchness but there's quite a difference between them.
- Butter 2 sides of a slice of bread and place in Frying Pan (or griddle if you're fancy)
- Add layers of thinly sliced cheese to the bread (optionally add hot sauce)
- While cheese is melting, butter both sides of a 2nd slice of bread
- Lay sliced gherkins on the cheese and add the 2nd slice of bread on top
- Flip over to toast the other side and let the cheese melt into the gherkins.
- Microwave some beans while the other side is toasting.
- Dip toasted cheese and gherkin sandwich into beans while eating (sprinkle sausage rolls as needed)
- Smile contentedly
Fried egg sandwich, preferably on a soft mortons roll(a type of Glaswegian roll/bap that is sort of chewy, and doesn't fall apart when saturated in butter, grease
Curry powder on top of the egg for me please
All of the above!
Talking of egg & bacon sarnie, I always used to grill the bacon and fry the egg, thus overly complicating the simplicity of the dish.
Now I grill the bacon until its swimming in it's pool of artificially injected water*, tip that down the sink, then add the egg between the bacon and back under the grill for a few more minutes.
No sprinkling of sausage rolls for this one though 😀
*whatever it is.
Bacon and Brie fried in a pan with bread. Fried Bread Toastie 🙂
Cheese, Sage, Pepper, Potato thick cut and boshed in the air fryer. Dirty, cheesy chips.
Hungry now.
Toast under beans obvs.
Just toast, but you know, loads of it. Always a winner.
Anything involving bacon or sausages.
Fried egg sarnie with paprika.
Eggy bread covered in a cinnamon/sugar mix with maple syrup.
Formerly Kraft cheesy pasta between two slices of fried bread topped with a chilli flake/honey mix.
A big bowl of tuna mayo with red onion and chopped peppers.
Scrambled egg on nice brown toast, lashings of butter on the toast and lots of pepper in the egg. *Chef's kiss*
Marmite Spaghetti. I make it for my three year old with some veg on the side and it's probably her favourite meal. It's just one of those meals which hits all the sweet spots for carbs/salt/sugar/fat
- Cook spaghetti to preferred "doneness" (al dente, naturally). Salted water, I prefer to use as little as possible to leave really starchy water.
- Drain, but make sure the spaghetti is a bit wet (or keep some of the cooking water)
- Add half teaspoon of butter and half teaspoon of marmite. Stir like mad to emulsify the remaining water, butter and marmite.
- For adults, add parmesan, chopped parsley and chilli flakes.
- DEVOUR - preferably covering your chin in buttery, marmitey goodness. yum yum yum yum yum.
sprinkled with sausage rolls ..
This is wins forum comment of the month if not the year...
Basic and quick... (all mentioned above) Cheese on toast, beans on toast, fish finger sarnies, baked potatoes and cheese/beans
and Ramen with a Nadia Hussain recipe sauce, (it makes 2 jam jars, so lasts for ages). Throw an egg and some jerky in, along with some crap cheese ontop (along with chilli oil and chilli crunch if you have it)
Too much faff going on here. Simple has to be the key word. Crisp sandwich. Bread bun, crisps, that’s it.
Glad the marmite spaghetti isn’t just me! Boiling water in the “empty” marmite jar to use the very last of it. I use leftover olive oil from tins of anchovies instead of butter. Normally have some kicking around from pizza night. Chilli flakes, black pepper… winner.
Still doesn’t top beans on toast though (with or without extras)… nothing can.
Mince and tatties
Stovies
Too much faff going on here. Simple has to be the key word. Crisp sandwich. Bread bun, crisps, that’s it.
I chuck a couple of cheese singles in too
It’s poached eggs on toast for me at the moment. Or boiled eggs and soldiers.
I’ve been evangelical about egg steamers in the past, but they really are the best 20 quid you’ll ever spend. Perfect faff-free poached or boiled eggs every time
Poached eggs are crap. There has never been an egg poached that wouldn't have been better fried.
Anyway, in answer to the thread question - cheese salad sandwich. Or chip butty.
Some great suggestion on here, we all know the simple stuff is the best, Beans on Toast, leftovers pasta etc etc.
A potential new one for some of you - we've been doing this a lot recently:
It does perhaps look and sound a bit 'fancy' for this thread but you can use the Orzo as the 'base' for the kind of foods we've all mentioned above, a different twist on the simple carbs - its feels kind of halfway between Pasta and Rice. Start with that recipe but you can just throw anything in, Riccota, Cream Cheese, Chicken stock, ham, chicken, whatever you have lying around, its soooo good. Proper 'just got in from a long winter ride and need to warm up' food.
Slice and then grill halumi
Butter two slices of bread. Cover one slice in sliced jalapenos
When the halumi is cooked place on top of the jalapenos, and sprinkle with lemon juice.
Place the other slice on top to make a sandwich
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Fry spring onions, pepper, tomatoes, all chopped small in olive oil.
Add chilli flakes, paprika, turmeric, cumin and that pilau seasoning which Schwarz do.
Add a tin of butter beans, kidney beans, or other beans.
Put in a bowl and add a dash of lime juice.
Just going to make that one now. Takes about ten minutes.
@IHN Poached eggs are not crap! Probably my favourite - way better than fried or scrambled.
Anyway I've just made myself this for lunch.
Toasted soda bread well buttered, smashed avocado, poached egg, fried chorizo. Everything apart from the soda bread was from the official emporium of wonder aka Home Bargains.
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Too much faff going on here.
Ah if we're talking really basic then for me sour dough toast with almond butter 😋
Poached eggs are not crap!
Yes, they are.
way better than fried
No, they're not
Toasted soda bread well buttered, smashed avocado, poached egg, fried chorizo.
This would clearly be better with fried eggs.
The prosecution rests, your honour
Baked beans are brill. Add some tinned tomatoes and a good grind of black pepper too. On sourdough toast.
Last night was one for warming up leftovers.
Celeriac and potato mash turned into potato cakes, fried, with fried eggs and left over homemade okra curry. Yum.
Crisp sandwich
Toasted soda bread well buttered, smashed avocado, poached egg, fried chorizo
Good to see people from all class backgrounds here on STW 😋
Sausage, chips and beans. 3 ingredients to juggle though 🤔
Add a fried egg to take this to boss level
another vote for poached eggs here, waaay better than fried (my least favourite). difficulty is getting them perfect, runny yolk and no stringy sh1te but hey, thats another thread.
How do you sprinkle sausage rolls? (why hasn't this been explained yet?)
My standard lunch is 3 fried eggs in a wrap, with black pepper, hot sauce and sometimes a bit of nice mayo. Never get bored of it!
How do you sprinkle sausage rolls? (why hasn't this been explained yet?)
I don't know about you, but I'm imagining something along these lines...
Fried eggs are that nasty hill billy cousin of the poached eggs, but we struggle to make good ones... an EGG STEAMER????? Well Hello.
Was watching a Fallow vid and they said they steam their poached eggs (with a catering steamer), but I was wondering how you'd go about this easily at home
another vote for poached eggs here, waaay better than fried
The French have a word for this; bollocks.
Fried eggs are that nasty hill billy cousin of the poached eggs, but we struggle to make good ones
In your defence, everyone struggles to make good ones, cos they're all shit.
On my diet I pretty much eat the same things until mrs pizza gets home from work and cooks something good for tea, it's not specifically diet related, just both pack a punch in terms of nutrition/satiety and relatively low kcal and taste great, enough that I usually eat both breakfast then lunch everyday or alternate between the two if doing intermittent fasting that week
0% fat Greek yoghurt, frozen cherries, frozen blueberries, frozen raspberries, chia seeds, 12g of low sugar granola. Always my go to after intermittent fasting and I've been for a run that morning.
Wholewheat toast, tinned mackerel in tomato sauce mashed up with a splash of lea and perrins, sliced cherry tomatoes on the top, crack of salt and pepper, few pickled gherkins or onions on the side.
Both take a couple of minutes, both taste insanely good, both are great nutrition wise. High fibre, high protein, low GI carbs, Omega 3's
0% fat Greek yoghurt, frozen cherries, frozen blueberries, frozen raspberries, chia seeds, 12g of low sugar granola. Always my go to after intermittent fasting and I've been for a run that morning.
Wholewheat toast, tinned mackerel in tomato sauce mashed up with a splash of lea and perrins, sliced cherry tomatoes on the top, crack of salt and pepper, few pickled gherkins or onions on the side.
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Spaghetti Hoops and mini pork sasauges on toast
Nuked in the micro with a splash of worcester sauce
Square of cheese on each slice of toast . Hot , hearty and healthy ( ish ) in 2 minutes .
Or the ultimate toasty.
Bacon , EGG , Cheese , Tomatoes . Lush.
Staying on trend
Deconstructed sausage rolls laced with stilton and nuked for 20 seconds . OMG .
See also Mince Pies , cut off top , insert blue cheese of choice. nuke for 20 seconds. Remove skin from roof of mouth as learning and patience is for looooserrrrrrrrrrrrrssssssssss.
Just steamed potatoes and salt. Maybe a little butter, maybe a little cheese, maybe even a little garlic if I'm feeling fancy. But I'll happily just make a big bowl of salty steamed baby potatoes and munch through it as a whole meal like samwise gamgee, lovely.
Cheese toasty, but done in one of those bag things that go in the toaster.
I toast the bread a bit first, then spread BOTH sides of the bread with mayonnaise (yes, you read right, mayo'), cheese of choice, Toasty bag and away to go...
Very quick and easy, not much clean up after.
But I wholeheartedly agree with the masses, Beans on toast, very hard to beat.
Beans on toast is SO good, especially when you are gluten intolerant and need low fodmap foods so beans make it feel like there's a nuclear war going on internally.
I can dream of such fine dining, but consuming such a thing will make me wish for a rapid end! You rapscallions!
Ooh, just combining a couple of recent posts. Lunch today was simple beans on toast, but with a little blue cheese (the not especially fancy Saint Agur stuff). Very acceptable.
the official emporium of wonder aka Home Bargains.
@el_balfadour - having just moved house to somewhere where the nearest shop is Home Bargains, I am rapidly coming round to your way of thinking. Last night they had some very nice beers at significantly less than Tesco or Aldi, and the bread, milk, a few veggies we picked up were cheaper than Tesco with staff discount....and yet they have EVERYTHING you did not need and more.
Marmite Spaghetti. I make it for my three year old with some veg on the side and it's probably her favourite meal. It's just one of those meals which hits all the sweet spots for carbs/salt/sugar/fat
That needs sweetcorn.