Cooking food for energy.

Hey lainons. Me and my gf have been kinda worn out lately, so I wanna try cooking something that will be a little adventure or just reinvigorate you after a day of work. I love cooking so if the recipe is hard it's ok, as long as I have access to ingredients and my kitchen has the nessesary appliances. If the cooking won't take more than 1.5h, it would be perfect since I like complicated but short recipes.

I don't know how to cook so I eat mainly whole foods so I'm sorry if this isn't the kind of information you're looking for but food for sustained energy should contain lots of fiber and healthy fats. fresh fruit and vegetables, maybe some grain, some fish or eggs, that kind of stuff. avoid using too much salt or loading up on carbs or eating stuff too high in sugar. this is the way I eat during ramadan and it makes the fast a lot easier.

>>35872 Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. I was looking more for an interesting recipe to cook and eat though I got something for today, but I feel like it needs to be more sustained

>>35871 Your low energy levels might not be due to less-than-stellar sleep. Often, feeling run down, sluggish and just plain slow overall is linked to your diet. When energy is depleted, you might be missing out on key nutrients that your body needs to keep you properly fueled, focused and, well, awake tips Eat regular meals and snacks. Include some protein in each meal. Avoid large meals. Stay well hydrated.

>>35961 Thanks Still waiting on those recipes

I like prairie oysters, that old supposed hangover cure, and they don't take long at all. Ingredients; Egg Yolk (Traditionally one, I use three. Very important to not break the yolk) Salt & Pepper (Preferably freshly ground pepper) Steak Sauce Hot Sauce (Traditionally Tabasco) Materials; 2 small bowls Spoon Cup The 2 small bowls are for sorting the yolk from the egg white. Easiest way I know is to scoop the yolk with a spoon, then wiggle it a little so the white falls off, maybe gently scrape it against the bowl. Take your time to respect tradition and not break the yolk because it also makes it stick in your gums and has weird mouth texture, also sticks inside the glass. Do this for as many yolks as you want. A small sprinkling of salt and pepper for every yolk, maybe 1/5th of a teaspoon. Lastly a dash of Tabasco and Steak Sauce per yolk. Normally these have hair of the dog, a shot of gin in my case, but they're good virgin. The yolk is a good bit of protein and helps everything stick together, salt for bolstering flavor, pepper and Tabasco for opening the sinuses, steak sauce to lessen the Tabasco's impact and savoriness. Sorry if the spacing's soykaf.

>>35963 I work as a line cook and can do pretty much anything in the kitchen but all I make for myself is Steel cut oats with trail mix, soy pickled eggs, Pb honey banana toast, dog food (1/2 ground beef 1/2 steel cut oats in a pot with onions carrots celery and red wine), bake sweet potatoes, any type of meat cooked on a stick, soba noodles, whey protein, multi vitamins (A1 greens and thorne) But that's only for energy if want some thing to enjoy cooking look at these two book, to be fair enjoy this French and Japanese cooking the most because i spent 6 years cooking Japanese and 4 years cooking French and i still am cooking French food for a living

>>36005 Thanks. I'll check the books out when I can. Can you briefly explain how you do the PB honey banana toast and the dog food? Sounds interesting what kind of food people who work with food would eat as a daily meal.

>>36013 >PB honey banana toast Whole wheat bread toasted always a little burnt with chucky peanut butter one top Slice up a banana and put it on the peanut butter Then drizzle honey on top Boom a super easy early morning or late night snack >Dog food (all my measurements are done by eye) In a pot with the small amount of olive oil sauté up the onions, celery and carrots Add the ground beef with some salt and pepper cook till the fat is pooling in the pot add between 1/2 cup to 1 cup of oats per lb of beef Add some some red wine a 1/2 cup if you dont have wine water works Cover and cook till the oats are done And you have dog food Dog food is a recipe I came up with from look at a thai pork and rice thing if you end up making it tell me about it I don't know about other people daily meals but a lot of chef eat like soykaf when your work 3pm till 1am and you have free access to sprite and french fries all day long The only reason it eat well is because i have been working since I was 16 so I fixed my bad habits early But what I do know is most cook have weird taste and eat two big meals one right before there shift and the other right after with a lot of water and snacks

>>36016 Here is my first attempt I used mixed pork/chicken ground meat instead of beef since I'm a cheapskate, but otherwise it should be following the recipe. Pretty tasty and quick, I'll definitely remember the recipe since I now have plenty of celery and cheap wine which I usually don't buy.

>>36018 Good for you Lain, hope you enjoy what you eat and if you have any culinary questions feel free to ask

not op but I also took a small cooking adventure I made korean dumplings - mandu 만두 was a really good time. filled them with chicken meat didn't have a steamer pot so I just put them inside a regular pot and boiled them I am surprised how easy it is to get into dough making. I thought it is this super complex thing that you need multiple ingredients for but for a simple dough you just need water, flour and some salt :) I made a big batch of 30 something mandu so I froze them and I eat them over the week. cooking for yourself can really raise your mood. It also feels good that I spent the entire weekend cooking instead of gaming / consooming. this is the recipe i followed: https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/dakgogi-mandu and this is the recipe for the mandu skins: https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/mandu-pi

>>36031 OP here again. Looks delicious. Unfortunately my partner doesn't really like dumplings so I'll have to cook them just for myself. So maybe some other time, I'll save the recipe. Thank you to everyone for the recipes and recommendations. I guess the best thing I can do to show gratitude is to share my own recipe I use often. This is pasta carbonara light version. You're Going to need: Spaghettini (thin spaghetti that get cooked in 3-4 minutes) the ammount depends on your preference, around 100g at least Pinch of salt for spaghettini Thinly sliced bacon, around 150g 1 egg About 20-30g of parmesan, shredded Black pepper 1Tsp, maybe more or less depending on how you like it Whisk an egg end mix it with the shredded parmesan Prepare a pot of boiling water with a pinch of salt Put bacon into a pan and Start heating it on medium until if gives plenty of fat Putt pepper on bacon and continue frying untill you get it a bit crispy Put spaghettini in boiling water for 3-4 minutes Turn off the heat on the pan but don't remove it from the heat source Put the cooked spaghetti together with some water, mix it a little Put the egg with parmesan in the pan and mix it again until the fat, water, parmesan and egg turn into the white viscous sause. Best eaten fresh. I'm a peasant so I eat with a mini baguette to soak up the sauce.

>>35871 My advice if you're not good at cooking is to get a pressure cooker... 99% of the long/slow cook times associated with the really rich stews/sauces or cheap ingredients i.e. dried legumes is going to be a fraction of the time and effort. It's a bit of an investment however the amount you save on energy/gas and time kinda makes it pay off really quickly...

>>36016 >Dog food Doesn't sound too bad. Maybe I'll try it. Do you drain any of the fat at all or just leave it in?

I like to make food in large quantities that I can then eat without trouble later thru the week. Sometimes when particularly lazy I'll have the same meal breakfast lunch dinner. Anyway here's one of my favorites, given to me by my mom: 'Quick' Chili You need: 2 diced onions, 4 minced garlic clove, 500g ground beef, 2 cans kidney beans, 3 cans tomato chunks. for seasoning use lots of cumin and chili. cook ur onions till theyre just about to become nice and soft, then add your garlic for like 30s and then beef. let beef brown and bash it a bit so it doesnt end up in chunks. season with salt pepper, cumin, chili oregano sometimes good too. then add kidney beans, then tomato chunks. give a good stir, season a bit with your chili and cumin again. let simmer for at least 20min, taste and season again, then done. serve with lots of cheese. very good the next day because the flavors get to sit with one another

>>36032 just made it - is Pretty good and quite easy, got anything else nice?

>>36055 Yeah, glad you liked it. Here's a light version of roast. You'll need a deep pan or a multicooker. Ingredients: A bit of cooking oil 5 medium sized potatoes, preferably good quality. Roast seasoning packet (you can make the seasoning yourself, the recipe came about because we just had lots of packets since they were on sale. Mine has salt so no additional salt needed) Bacon 150g, I use the same as for carbonara Black pepper if you want more spice and aroma 200ml of water 2 Tsp of tomato paste 2 Tsp of sour cream (you can add more if you want a milder taste Slise the peeled potatoes as thinly as possible, like you're trying to make homemade crisps (You can experiment with the shape of potato pieces, even add different types to the same dish, it just our favourite way) Mix the water with tomato paste Cut bacon (I forgot to mention that you cut the bacon for carbonara too, but I guess you can put it in whole too) into small pieces, put in a pan on medium and heat it until it gives fat. Add seasoning and pepper and stir a bit so it dissolves in fat (you can add a little BBQ and/or hot sauce if you want). Add water with tomato paste, sour cream and potatoes, mix it thoroughly and simmer for 45 minutes. You can serve it with bread for eating like peasant and add some chopped greens on top for freshness. Experiment with proportions and seasonings to suit your taste, you can make it mild, you can make it extra spicy, you can make it sweet (big potato chunks) and sour (tomato paste) or very savory (put thinly sliced pork with lots of fat and cook on butter instead of oil, less seasoning and medium potato chunks cooked longer so they are very soft, plus cut the acidity of tomato paste with a sprinkle of sugar).

>>36053 No I don't it get sucked up by the oats with the wine and water

There's some good recipes here: http://textfiles.com/food/

>>36016 well i tried dogfood - somehow burned the oats and carrots only. it smelled rank coming out of the pot but tasted quite good. 8/10 very filling will try again

>>36016 I made dogfood. I wasn't bad, but I feel like it could use more spices, or maybe a sauce or something. Maybe I'll try making it again and experiment with stuff. Anyways here's an easy chana masala recipe I've made a few times.

>>36250 OP here, thanks for reminding me I created this thread. I don't talk with my gf about imageboard stuff usually, but she did find the recipes interesting, though dog food didn't sit well with her stomach. >>36091 Very interesting cookbooks, I'll check some recipes out. There was something about unorthodox uses for the apricot. It's apricot season soon so I'll try that when I get to it >>36247 Also cool stuff, but I'll have to modify it since we don't have this level of variety of pre ready products in cans at convenient prices. Well, the upside is that most of what I cook is fresh since I actually chop and prepare ingredients myself