There's a regular repetition of posts with the theme of "I'm broke, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing in the kitchen, I need simple recipes and help!" I'm here to help. Following is some simple shit you can whip up in 10 minutes or so. It's rather cheap and requires few ingredients and tools.
You will need the following stuff.
Some manner of pan, preferably a skillet looking pan.
vegetable oil
a potato
some variety of meat (just about anything will do)
grated cheese
Optional stuff
mushrooms
onions
garlic
garlic powder
onion powder
paprika
cayenne pepper
etc.
This is a potato.
This is a microwave.
Wash the potato to remove any thick layer of mud and grit, then insert the aformentioned potato in the microwave.
If you have a snazzy button marked "potato" on your microwave, now would be the time to push it. If not, zap it on high for about 3 minutes.
After you have nuked your potato, it will be hot. This is a consequence of cooking things. To avoid ouchy burns, don't use your bare fingers to move the potato from the microwave to the cutting board.
Cut the potato in half lenghwise. Now, lay the potato halves cut side down on your cutting board and cut the halves in half lenghwise again. Slice the potato in about 1/2" thickness perpendicular to the long axis of the potato. You will end up with something that looks like this.
Set your pan on the stove over a medium-low burner. Add two teaspoons of vegetable oil to the pan, then add the potato hunks.
Add about 1/4 teaspoon of each of the spices (onion powder, garlic powder, cayenne pepper for this photo) and stir until the potato hunks are evenly coated with spices. If you are adding mushrooms, diced onions, crushed garlic, or whatever, this is the time to add them.
Cooking will take 5-10 minutes. This will seem to be a looonnngggg time as you periodically flip your potato hunks (use a spatula, not your fingers). DO NOT TURN UP THE HEAT IN YOUR PAN unless you want to burn the spices on the potatoes as well as turn the potato pieces into charcoal in when you least suspect it. When there is a nice mottling of crispy brown splotches on your potato hunks, they are done.
Dump the cooked potato bits on a plate.
Add any sort of meat you've got on hand. Here, we're adding some taco meat, but you can add shredded lunch meat, chicken, steak, whatever you like. You can also omit the meat if you see fit.
Add some shredded cheese to the top of the whole pile. The heat of the potatoes will melt the cheese, or you can microwave the plate to melt the cheese if you can't wait.
Eat.
You can toss some diced onions/scallions/tomato/etc. on top if you want.
Cheap, easy, and rather quick.
You will need the following stuff.
Some manner of pan, preferably a skillet looking pan.
vegetable oil
a potato
some variety of meat (just about anything will do)
grated cheese
Optional stuff
mushrooms
onions
garlic
garlic powder
onion powder
paprika
cayenne pepper
etc.
This is a potato.
This is a microwave.
Wash the potato to remove any thick layer of mud and grit, then insert the aformentioned potato in the microwave.
If you have a snazzy button marked "potato" on your microwave, now would be the time to push it. If not, zap it on high for about 3 minutes.
After you have nuked your potato, it will be hot. This is a consequence of cooking things. To avoid ouchy burns, don't use your bare fingers to move the potato from the microwave to the cutting board.
Cut the potato in half lenghwise. Now, lay the potato halves cut side down on your cutting board and cut the halves in half lenghwise again. Slice the potato in about 1/2" thickness perpendicular to the long axis of the potato. You will end up with something that looks like this.
Set your pan on the stove over a medium-low burner. Add two teaspoons of vegetable oil to the pan, then add the potato hunks.
Add about 1/4 teaspoon of each of the spices (onion powder, garlic powder, cayenne pepper for this photo) and stir until the potato hunks are evenly coated with spices. If you are adding mushrooms, diced onions, crushed garlic, or whatever, this is the time to add them.
Cooking will take 5-10 minutes. This will seem to be a looonnngggg time as you periodically flip your potato hunks (use a spatula, not your fingers). DO NOT TURN UP THE HEAT IN YOUR PAN unless you want to burn the spices on the potatoes as well as turn the potato pieces into charcoal in when you least suspect it. When there is a nice mottling of crispy brown splotches on your potato hunks, they are done.
Dump the cooked potato bits on a plate.
Add any sort of meat you've got on hand. Here, we're adding some taco meat, but you can add shredded lunch meat, chicken, steak, whatever you like. You can also omit the meat if you see fit.
Add some shredded cheese to the top of the whole pile. The heat of the potatoes will melt the cheese, or you can microwave the plate to melt the cheese if you can't wait.
Eat.
You can toss some diced onions/scallions/tomato/etc. on top if you want.
Cheap, easy, and rather quick.