Healthy, Tasty, Easy to Make?

[pchang]

Nah, I'll just continue to focus on the super simple.

Not sure about the reference to 14th Street. Are you referring to the pre-transformation 14th Street or post-transformation 14th Street?

Pre - I haven't been to DC in a while. I seem to remember women with low standards hanging around 14th and K.

[MRT144]

not all tomato sauces. Some still have the acidity. I will always counter that with a bit of brown sugar.

Make your own tomato sauce using crushed tomatoes.

[DanS]

Pre - I haven't been to DC in a while. I seem to remember women with low standards hanging around 14th and K.

That was 20+ years ago. The only late-night action around here nowadays is a strip of upscale clubs. 14th Street has been upgrading all the way to past Columbia Heights, even after the recent real estate bust.

So I guess I have fewer targets of opportunity.

[pchang]

Then, I give you this general advice:
Fresh herbs >> dried herbs (and make you appear very fancy indeed)
Taste as you go and adjust as needed

[Thoth]

I'm surprised there hasn't been a "Unhealthy, Nasty, Hard to Make?" copy-cat thread. Maybe with a reference to English cooking or something.

And by surprised, I mean relieved.

Idiot.

English cooking is easy:

Either

1) Boil it

2) Fry it

3) Roast it

or

4) Try some combination of 1,2 and 3.

It's very easy assuming you don't come from Philadelphia.

****.

[Dinner]

This looks tasty, easy, and fast. Peri-Peri chicken and a colorful mashed potato mix (sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, onions, herbs) with some other stuff to add flavor. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891...03122#45303122

[pchang]

And being in DC, Dan can easily pop by a Nandos and pick up a wide array of tasty pre-made Peri Peri sauces.

[MikeH]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15752918

Britain's 'cheapest' lunchtime meal was unveiled by scientists on Wednesday - the toast sandwich.

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is reviving the mid-Victorian dish, which, unsurprisingly, consists of two slices of bread around a slice of toast.

The society is so confident in the repast, it will offer £200 to anyone who can create a cheaper alternative.

The meal, costing 7.5 pence, was first promoted by Victorian food writer Mrs Beeton.

[Hauldren Collider]

That sounds like ****.

[MRT144]

That sounds like ****.

For the bread and toast lovers among us, it sound divine. I love toast.

[Hauldren Collider]

I love toast, too. I just don't think putting toast between bread is the right way to go about consuming it. If I had a toaster I might try it though. ****ing nazis don't let us have toasters in dorms, some **** about fire hazards or whatnot...

[Lorizael]

The rest of the article goes on to say that all you have to do to make it taste better is make an ordinary sandwich.

[loinburger]

[Elok]

When I read the thread title, I immediately thought of the old story about the "design triangle." You know, good, cheap, and fast. You can make a product any two of the three, but never all three--if you want it good and cheap, it'll take time. You can get it fast and cheap, but it won't be very good. Et cetera. I think there might be a similar rule at work here.

Be that as it may, I've turned my limited cooking skills to the probably-not-all-that-healthy fried pork sammitch. Melt butter in a saucepan, add brown sugar, mix them together. Toss in some apple slices (one apple per sandwich) and cook them a little while over low heat. Meanwhile, slice up a reasonably sized pork chop. When the apples are soft, remove them and fry the pork hunks in the brown sugar/apple crud. Once they're all cooked (and salted, of course), toss everything on a suitable roll. They have some nice sweet potato rolls down here.

It's a work in progress, I'm gonna see if I can improve it. Just thought I'd throw it out there, since I like it.

[rah]

I actually thought the same thing when I first saw it but then figured that the dynamics between those three aspects really isn't the same when you're talking food.