AS I started to live on my own I went throught the same experience.
I know many dishes, but right now Im focusing on restoring my body from the punishment of when I started to ive alone eating nothing but take out.
A good balance meal, low fat, economic and easy is always a good pot roast. Just need very basic ingredients and cheap. The only thing is that it takes a litle while.
1. buy the bigest cut of beef you can, the cheaper the better. I think the one I get is like under 3 dollars a pound in walmart, But I forgot the name. season very heavely with your taste. I use complte seasoning, cuz is easy.
fry it a litle bit on all sides, make sure its just a bit, it will finish cooking later.
2. on the same pan, fry some carrots, celery and onions for a litle bit, just to get the vegys a little colous. Then add some grlic at the last minute. Garlic burns to easy so you want to cook the other vegys first for as long as you need then add the garlic for like one minute.
3. add some beff stock and water to the same pan and just bring to a boil. Not to much, just enoughf to cover the meat, will depend how big your cut is.
4. put the meat back in the liquid. Then set in the oven at 325 farenheit for 2 hours minumun. More time if you get a really big cut of meat. remember to cover it. If you dont have a oven safe pan, or a deep enoughf pan, after all is fryed you can just transfer to a bigger tray, like thouse cheap dispossible oven tray that only cost like a dollar. This is the bigest time block, the rest is done rather quick in less than 15 min. The rest is just waiting, watch tv, play games or do what ever.
It will not burn if you leave it for longer since there will still be water in the pan, it will not over cook, even left an hour more. We use cheap meat cus it will get very tender cooked in this manner. It taste very good and is easy to make. The slow cooking melts the fat awway, well most of it anyways. and its very easy and cheap. You an always make big batches and save them for later.
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