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 Highly recommend "Better than Boullion" - if your recipe involves boiling
 water, unless it's tea there's a good chance that some broth-in-a-jar could
 make it taste better.
 
 Did you know you can boil oats like noodles? Yeah that's... that's basically
 how you make oatmeal. Use less water than with noodles, though.
 
 EDIT: Also, add some bits of nutrition like dried fruit, nuts that have been
 soaking in clean water overnight, nutritional yeast, dehydrated soup mix
 (delicious), or frozen vegetables.
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 don't know how to make decent rice and beans?
 
 get the heartiest vegetable soup you can find from the store and cook some
 jasmine rice and lentils in a pot. You should be able to do both in the same
 pot. cook them like noodles by boiling some water and adding the rice and
 beans. add some salt to the water. make it salty like the sea.
 
 then drain the rice and beans once you taste test them to be done. be patient.
 add the hearty, savory soup to the mix alongside a big hunk of butter.
 
 boom, protein, calories, nutrients. all in one meal. the more vegetables in
 the soup, the better, and if you're feeling fancy you can sautee some of your
 own instead of soup by dicing them into inch large chunks and throwing them in
 a pan on medium heat with some butter and whatever seasonings you want for a
 while, stirring only when they start to stick. Just enough to brown them, not
 burn them.
 
 butter and salt and garlic and boullion are your friends. don't do too much,
 if you notice them a lot then it's too much.
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 jasmine rice in a rice cooker                                                    │
 lentils mixed in                                                                 │
 a good heaping of butter,                                                        │
 and (trust me) a package of carnation instant breakfast, for vitamins and        │
 sweetness.                                                                       │
 swirl the rice cooker pan to mix all the ingredients                             │
 dice up some cheddar chunks,                                                     │
 but keep them aside for now.                                                     │
 and now the rice cooker turns on                                                 │
 when it's fully done cooking,                                                    │
 add cheese chunks.                                                               │
 add can of cream of mushroom soup, and spread on-top of the rice.                │
 add can of canned american chile, the kind with beans and paprika, not the       │
 chile-pepper type which is more like a sauce, but the kind with beans that is    │
 more like a meal and spread on-top of the can of cream of mushroom soup.         │
 then, close the lid and let the soups warm up in the rice cooker heat and the    │
 cheese melt a bit in the rice cooker heat                                        │
 when warmed, serve into a bowl-plate by imagining cake layers - use a large      │
 spoon with a long handle to scoop out a "slice" of cake - lasagna might be       │
 more accurate, but there's no noodles.                                           │
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 when you run out of an ingredient you use often (like butter, seasoning, or
 flour) put the container by your shoes.
 
 then, when you go to the store, look through all the empty containers and make
 a mental list.
 
 when you get home and are putting things away, if you forgot something just
 leave the old container by the door. everything else can be recycled / trashed.
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 does anyone know of a recipe that uses only flour, butter, yeast, eggs, and
 salt? It doesn't need to use every ingredient, but those are easy to acquire.
 
 ideally with the ability to include nuts or dried fruit or something else
 nutritious.
 
 the requirements include the ability to cook it using only a rice-cooker (or
 crock pot, or other kind of slow-cooking ceramic dish which heats from all
 directions at once)
 
 in addition, it must NOT need kneading. It must be able to be cooked passively
 without attention. The fewer steps, the better.
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 nachos
 
 cast-iron skillet (or other deep pan)
 
 throw in some butter or vegetable oil (not olive oil)
 
 heat it up a bit
 
 crack four eggs in there
 
 cut some slices off of a hunk of cheese
 
 add some chips on top of the eggs
 
 add the cheese on top of the eggs
 
 cover it and leave it on the like, 2 or 3 out of 10 heat setting
 
 come back whenever it's done
 
 transfer to plate
 
 add salsa
 
 boom nachos
 
 (optional but recommended: beans):
 
 for the beans, if you want, throw a can of refried beans on the stove and add
 a TINY can of tomato chunks and a big hunk of butter
 
 let it cook until it's smooth consistency, stirring and such. Add paprika,
 cumin, and a bit of oregano.
 
 then put the beans on before the salsa, and BOOM even BETTER nachos.
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 a box of tri-color rotini
 
 a good spoonfull of better than boullion italian
 
 a medium amount of large colby-jack cheese cubes (about one for every other
 bite)
 
 boil with just enough water for the noodles to start sticking to the pan once
 entirely cooked and add cheese, butter, and top with generous dashes of smoked
 paprika and lime juice.
 
 don't strain the noodles. have just enough water left to have a thin sauce.
 
 if vegetables are desired, firm carrots and peas (read: frozen or fresh, not
 canned) or diced/shredded onions.
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 @user-633 
 
 :O
 
 I'm vegetarian, but this reminded me that I could just put bouillon in boiling
 water and drink that xD
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 I love cooking. My favorite food is "melange" also called "gruel" by the less
 culinary people in my life. It consists primarily of a rice or noodle base,
 plus a bunch of other ingredients (usually sauteed) that are quite nutritious.
 Then, you season in a way such that it tastes delicious and savory and BOOM
 you have the perfect food.
 
 Well, not as good as steamed eggs, but still pretty good.
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 the broth they sell at the store is way too thin. boullion is much better
 because it's so concentrated. think of it as "essence of X" when you have
 "broth of vegetables" or "broth of carrots and onions" or whatever... can help
 make it easier to cook something decent by using general flavors
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 rice in the rice maker with butter, worcestersire sauce (not too much!) and
 salt
 
 when it's done, flake hard boiled eggs (2 eggs per cup of rice) on top and
 douse with a small-mediumish amount of soyaki
 
 could do well with either a packet of dehydrated vegetables or perhaps some
 diced carrots or green onions. Honestly carrots go well in most things.
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 stretch every day, exercise your arms, core, and legs on alternating days
 [first one, then the other, then the third, then either rest or restart
 depending on how you feel]
 
 flexibility is strength. strength gives you options. agility is speed,
 dexterity is precision, wisdom is accuracy.
 
 eat rice, beans, vegetables, and either oil or butter when you can. they work
 together to keep you healthy and nourished.
 
 be nice to creatures, whether they be animal or children or just sorta feral.
 
 spend time feeling adventurous. climb on things because you can. be sensible
 and courageous in all things. there's more to every moment than you remember,
 and there's more to every story than you hear.
 
 if you find something neat, share it with others. don't let it sit on a shelf.
 unless people come by to see it every so often.
 
 there are always people like you around. you are never alone when you are
 known.
my sword is vampiric. it chips away at the victim's karma and gives it to me. the wielder.  there is no evil way to wield this weapon. by chipping away as much as you please, even with fatal or spiritual blows. If you wield it to slay something good, then it chips away at the bad parts of their karma. In doing so, it harms you, as it delivers evil into your soul.;in doing so, it
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 did you know that you can steam eggs instead of hard boiling them? it's much
 easier, and the eggs are easier to peel as well.
 
 you need one of those strainers that fits inside a pot. or you could probably
 jury rig something with a plate and a cup, but make sure they're heat
 resistant.
 
 boil some water, put the eggs in the strainer for 11 minutes with a lid on,
 and then cover them in cold water for a bit. boom easy peasy.
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 @user-473 
 
 unsolicited family recipe:
 
 kambybalunga
 
 peanut butter, oats, something sweet (dried raisins, cherries preferred, but
 chocolate chips works in a pinch) and honey or (real) maple syrup. (No corn
 syrup allowed.)
 
 mix it up, put whatever else you want in it. Free healthy depression food from
 my dad.
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 @user-573 
 
 not sure how busy you are, but maybe you could hang around outside the food
 bank and offer to trade with other people who come out with 4 pounds of
 carrots and 6 whole pumpkins?
 
 when in doubt there's always rice and beans for the peppers. The melons
 probably just have to be eaten.
 
 If you don't get to all of them (because let's face it, who's gonna eat all
 that melon) then maybe you could feed it to rabbits or something.
 
 this situation is pretty common in rural areas where people have large
 harvests of single crops all at once, or in a very short timeframe. However in
 those places there's infrastructure in place to distribute your extra, so idk
 what you could do here now unless you have friends who are willing to trade.
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 carrots and sweet onions sauteeing on the stove
 
 rice in the rice-cooker seasoned with butter and boullion
 
 garnish with chopped green onions and a dash of garlic powder
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 Me: "yeah but how can you know that food is vegetarian? They could put
 anything they want on the box."
 
 them: "well yes but you see here are the regulations we have in place through
 the USDA and (department of agriculture) and these and these inspectors and
 this and that procedure and here read through this report with charts and
 graphs and diagrams and"
 
 me: "and they say the government is inefficient. Look at all this progress!
 Wow so productive. So healthy and raw. So prime and"
 
 they: [not listening]
 
 me: "nuts"
 
 [eats "beef" flavored ramen]
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 "better than boullion" is a great way to turn flavorless broth into something
 tasty.
 
 heck you could just use boullion, but "better than boullion" is better.
 
 Just don't use broth. Takes up too much space.
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 I love rice and beans because
 
 error: stack overflow
 
 huh, that's weird. Must have been too many reasons. Let's try again:
 
 I love rice and beans because
 
 error: user didn't change anything between runs of the program so clearly they
 don't understand how computer works
 
 ... well that's a different error so it's progress at least.
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 congratulations, you never need to adventure again. your necessities are taken
 care of.
 
 ah, but that'd make for a pretty boring life, wouldn't it? perhaps, depending
 on your personality type.
 
 but you're not one to stick around doing nothing but eating, drinking, and
 being merry.
 
 no, you're an adventurer, you crave excitement and glory. whatever that means
 to you...
 
 just make sure a goblin doesn't come across your corpse, they have a VERY
 short term memory and a propensity for collecting shiny things. That's just
 asking for dragon-bait, and we don't want that in our area, no thank you. This
 is a nice neighborhood you see, my neighbors three miles away all agree, so
 you can take your magic pocket and see all that you can see... way over
 yonder, if you please.
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 If you want to learn to cook, start with a sandwich. Then spaghetti sauce from
 a jar. Then sautee some vegetables and throw them on top of rice. Then go to
 the store, read the back of a tasty-looking package, and make the recipe it
 suggests.
 
 Then you know how to cook. Don't bother with online recipes.
 
 Also, more butter, more salt.
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