Easy main course

[cesy]

Does anyone have a favourite easy main course, to cook when you're short of spoons for anything fancy? I'd like to learn more things that are nearly as easy as a ready meal, while not being a ready meal.

Comments

[cesy]

I'm assuming mac and cheese is as in McDonald's. Do you mean they sell packets of it in the supermarket near you? I don't think I've ever seen that.

[azurelunatic]

Macaroni noodles.

[gwen]

I'm so sorry, I didn't look to see where you were from before I started using American terms. My fault. I mean Kraft Macaroni and cheese. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3381/3346141914_e28a594a89_o.jpg

[cesy]

Ah, macaroni cheese makes more sense. I shall try that out sometime. Thank you.

[damned_colonial]

Late reply but I came back here and read through comments again...

I'm non-USian (though I live here currently) and, lacking packaged M&C mixes, I used to make it from scratch. Basically I'd make a roux with a knob of butter and a bit of flour, add milk slowly til I got a white sauce, then add grated cheese. This would take about as long as it took macaroni/elbow noodles to cook. Then I'd strain the noodles and mix them with the cheese. I don't know quite what your spoon limit is, but I offer it just as an option if you don't have the packaged kind.

Related: I like mixing cauliflower with cheese sauce, topping with breadcrumbs and cheese, and baking it in the oven. If I'm feeling lazy *and* healthy simultaneously, I skip the cheese sauce and just bake cauliflower with breadcrumbs and cheese. Or just cheese. It's especially good with parmesan, and honestly, I can make a meal of it. Takes 5 mins to set up, then ignore it in the oven for a 45 mins, then take it out and eat.