despite everything, it’s still you

• mozzerella cheese wrapped in pepperoni ("pizza tacos"!)
• hummus and pretzels or naan (putting the naan in the microwave for like 10 seconds...heavenly)
• canned chili (with shredded cheese and sour cream if you have it! boom done!)
• instant miso soup (warm and lovely!)
• cheese and cured meat, olives, canned fish, crackers, dried fruit, or whatever easy "charcuterie" type items you like
• alternate bites of apple and spoonfulls of peanut butter (mixing honey or chocolate chips to the peanut butter is my favorite)
• a "deconstructed sandwich": bites of lunch meat, pickles, cheese, cherry tomato, etc (I love roast beef and white cheddar for this)
• yogurt and granola or fruit
• put frozen potstickers + frozen edamame in the steamer/rice cooker, chill elsewhere with a timer set, then boom

• boiled eggs and fresh veggies (put a little salt on top of the eggs for pizzaz!)
• buttered noodles (take it up to level 10 and add roasted garlic; takes 30 mins in an oven, only one swoop of the knife required)
• baked potato with toppings (I like cheese, bacon, broccoli, green onion, and sour cream)
• quesadilla (add some canned beans, cilantro, or avocado!)
• pot roast (requires a lot of time but not a lot of actual work. I love it with peas!)
• cuban sandwich (bread, swiss, pickle, mustard, ham... my favorite thing to panini-ify by far)
• pan-fried tofu with scallion sauce (this sauce goes well with everything and tofu is no exception)
• pancakes or waffles! (I love mine with jam)
• ham, pickle, and cream cheese roll-ups
• fried eggs (with toast and lots of butter...so comforting)
• fruit smoothie (bananas, frozen strawberries, yogurt...or whatever!)
• I hate salad but could write essays on this copycat olive garden salad (throw it in a bowl! chopping required if you use onion)
• spaghetti (controversial maybe but angel hair > spaghetti noodles)
• pasta salad (olives broccoli fresh mozerella... those little mini pepperonis... yeah)

• stuffed shells with spinach
• chicken and roasted garlic (oh my god.....one of my all time favorites)
• beef tacos (I like mine with cilantro and onion, and when I'm feeling especially high energy I love a tomatillo salsa)
• chicken alfredo
• tom kha gai (a thai soup and my absolute favorite! you just need access to galangal)
• lasagna! (freezes well and then boom! low energy meal for later)
• pad thai! (not as hard as you'd think, as long as you have access to tamarind paste!)
• potstickers! (this is a lovely group activity if you want to cook with housemates!)
• rice and beans
• bang bang shrimp (ogughfhgfuh I love it. you can also do bang bang tofu!)
• minestrone soup (so many nice veggies!)
• fried rice (put whatever you have on hand in there! broccoli, peas, carrot, and beef is my favorite combo)
• broccoli cheddar soup
• spring rolls and peanut sauce
• skewers (such as beef, onion, zucchini, bell pepper... you don't need a grill, oven works!)
• roasted turkey with garlic parmesean asparagus
• pork chop with mashed potatoes

• whenever you think of a meal you'd like to make, take 3 seconds to google search it, take a screenshot of the image results, and put it in a "food ideas" folder. instant visual menu!
• if you're on instagram, there are a bajillion different recipe accounts that post videos! a few of my favorites: jipsoon_kitchen, eatwitzo, cordandthekitchen, chungeats, tiffy.cooks, two_plaid_aprons

Selkie Spring/Summer 2023