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.
Pasta with a good dollop of pesto stirred through it.
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.
