/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I want half a dozen super fucking simple recipes for throwing together when I have no time/energy at all and just want something I can make a decent bulk batch of and have for lunch/dinner, any suggestions?

The only PERFECT recipe I have in this vein is Cauliflower Mac'n'Cheese:
>large cauliflower (about 1-1.2kg), 400g macaroni, 0.75-1L milk, cheap cheddar cheese (about 300), 2/3 cup of flour and butter
>optionally: colemans mustard, white wine vinegar, breadcrumbs
>break cauliflower into florets of desired size, finely grate cheese, boil pasta
>while pasta boils start roux by melting butter in a saucepan then adding flour
>cook roux till it smells nice and nutty then gradually add milk (1/2 cup at a time till it's a liquid then 1 cup at a time)
>throw in 2 tsp colemans mustard and about 2 tbsp white wine vinegar (these improve the cheese sauce and make it "cheesier", salt to taste
>keep said sauce moving and ideally use a stoneware pot or something (RIP your pan and nose if this burns)
>drain pasta
>roughly layer pasta and cauliflower in a big (likely multiple) casserole/perspex dishes, adding a few ladles of cheese sauce after each layer
>once it's all in churn it all up a bit to distribute the sauce
>give it a good scatter with breadcrumbs
>40 minutes at 200C in the oven, optionally add some grated cheese before the final 10 minutes

Cheap, large amount of veggies, fair amount of protein, delicious. Florets are intentionally not pre-cooked so they stay crunchy instead of turning to mush, smaller florets will be softer, experiment to taste.

Basically just need a few more like this.

You stir the espresso or not is the question?