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Cheap, fast, simple, and sometimes even delicious.

I really have no idea what I am doing, so adapt the timings and amount of ingredients based on your feelings. I cook by heart, not by measurements.

OPT = Optional, if you have it

ALT = Alternatively, often used as experiment :)

All dishes are 2 servings.

General Advice

• Get a rice cooker. Perfectly cooked rice, bulgur, noodles, … every single day without wasting brain power? Hell yeah!
• If you live alone, cook two portions and eat the leftovers the next day
• Don’t be afraid to buy cheap random produce in the super market, then mix it into recipes over the next days
• If you encounter a new vegetable, look up how the pros prepare (cut) it. This will save a lot of time
  • Definitely do this for the vegetables you use the most often; onions, bell peppers, courgette
• Courgette fits into any food :)
• The five basic tastes are: sweet, sour, bitter, salty and Umami. Ideally your food contains all of them
• Buy the canned Italian ones that are whole but without skin. Best flavor, least work, also 50ct for 400g
  • Mix with the small ones (Datterino, cherry). Half them where they connected to the strubbery, that is the easiest point to cut

Noudle Soup

What to bring

- Cooking oil
- Garlic, Ginger, OPT Fennel seeds
- Some paste; Thai-Curry, Sambal Olek, Harissa, Soy sauce...
- Vegetables: carrots, celery, spring onions, spinach leaves, small tomatoes, bok choy, mushrooms, bell pepper, sprouts, cabbage, canned corn...
  - I recommend spring onion, carrots, celery, spinach leaves, and some small tomatoes and canned corn
- Water
- Vegetable broth powder
- Thick noodles (Hokkien, Udon, Ramen)

How to make

1. In a pot heat cooking oil and OPT fennel seeds and chilies
2. Add some garlic and ginger for 2 min, until fragrant.
3. Add Thai-Curry paste and Sambal Olek, some soy sauce (ALT you can also Harissa and Tahini or whatever. Stir and cook until more fragrant)
4. Add vegetables, stir-fry them for 1 min.
5. OPT: Add a fried egg (apparently Chinese style)
6. Add water, mix in vegetable soup powder, boil.
7. Serve with noodles. ALT The noodles usually cook in 3 min, so I just add a chunk of them into my bowl, wait for them to get ready, then ravish them :)

Tip: Slice some small red chilies, watch them float menacingly in the oily soup!

True Italian Pasta

What to bring

- Canned pelled Italian tomates (+ small tomatoes)
- Onion
- Salt, Pepper
- OPT: Basil
- OPT: butter
- Pasta noodles

How to make

1. Add tomatoes and onion (OPT: quartered) into pot, boil everything with open lid (!) for 30-60 min
2. Season with salt, pepper to taste, (OPT) add fresh basil and butter
3. Cook pasta until almost al-dente, mix them into the pasta sauce, serve, garnish with more basil :)

All credits go to Marcella Hazan; I recommend to go ahead and get a copy of The Classic Italian Cook Book: The Art of Italian Cooking and the Italian Art of Eating (1973).

Jonas’ Supreme Müsli Mix

What to bring

- 2x 500g Oatmeal
- 200g Walnuts, nuts
- 100g seeds ('bird feed')
- 100g dark chocoloate chips (preferably 70%+)
- Whatever you like

How to make

1. Crush the walnuts
2. Layer everything in a big container (oat, walnuts, seeds, chocolate, oat, …)
3. Shake and mix the container

How to eat :)

1. Put Müsli into bowl
2. OPT: top with Chia/seeds
3. OPT: top Skyr/Joghurt
4. OPT: top with fresh fruit, dried fruits, frozen berries
5. Add milk
6. Enjoy

Indian Curry

What to bring

- cooking oil
- assortment of Indian seeds (cumin, kardamon, star anise, cloves, …)
- choped red onions, garlic, OPT ginger
- Indian spices (chili, cumin, koriander, kurkuma, 'curry powder')
- 2 cans canned tomatoes, some cherry tomatoes
- vegetables, meat

How to make

1. Heat oil, add cumin seeds, kardamon, star anise, cloves, chili flakes, … until they ‘pop’ and you can smell their amazing smell
2. Add chopped red onions, garlic, OPT ginger, brown them until it smells

• OPT add some water, so it doesn’t burn

3. Add spices (cumin, chili, koriander, kurkuma, ‘curry mix’, salt)
4. Add tomatoes, cover with lid, heat for 10 min until oily
5. You can now add your other vegetables, meat, tofu, …
6. Cook, season
7. Serve with rice or bulgur

Based on this video.