Lazy Sunday cooking

I'm just relaxing and letting some pinto beans cook away with some dried chipotle, onions, garlic and salt. About an hour before I think they are done I'm gonna throw in a bottle of pils and a whole bunch of tomato sauce. Will probably make some sort of quick veggie thing to go along with this. So what typical lazy sunday food gets prepared around other tt households?

I know frozen pizza will pop up at some point in time so if thats what you do just quote my post and type 'me too!'

I'm roasting a whole chicken right now for dinner this evening. It takes about 90 minutes. I'll cook up some veggies.

I've also got a vegetable stew/soup going. I browned up some goulash type meat with garlic, black pepper and onions in a dutch oven cooker (it's about 2 gal size stove top pot). After it's all browned, I added a large can of whole tomatoes with sauce. Chopped up the tomatoes with the spoon, add a little thyme, salt, basil, parsley flakes and bay leaves and a teaspoon of worcesteshire sauce and let it cook for a couple of hours. Make sure there is enough liquid (add water) in the dutch oven in order for the rest of the stuff to be under the level of it. Simmer covered.
Then I add chopped potatoes, celery and carrots, (Green beans and cabbage optional). I let it simmer for another hour or so or until the veggies are soft, then let it cool. I store in the fridge overnight and reheat for dinner tomorrow. I make corn bread or some dinner rolls with that meal.

I shall be making a steamed syrup pudding to go with whatever my wife is making for the main course...

Lamb Shanks in the oven.

If we hadn't gone to the local Italian with my brother's family I would be making figs filled with garlic-fried mushrooms and topped with freshly grated parmesan.
There is always tomorrow ...

Heinz Beanz on toast!

Lasagna, I started making the sauce about 11 am, put the layers in a slow oven about quarter after five and went for a little bike ride. We just finished dinner about 10 minutes ago and if someone doesn't come over and eat what's left I don't think I will be able to resist temptation and will eat the rest tonight.

Chili, made yesterday but, put maybe a tad too many chilis (Turkish ones) in and my taste organs had a desperate urge to leave my face !
Fine now, a bit of yoghurt works wonders in chili too!

I findd good way to cook in weekends for lazy people like us(me &husband)
I just fry any meat and onion and carrots until it's brown, then I add tomat sauce or tomat paste,salt &other spices, poor everithing in slowcooker, add cold water+ lentils, that's it! it takes about 4-5 hours,while we go to grocery and came back food is ready

Oh dear, you are going to be very unhappy when you try to go grocery shopping on Sunday in Stuttgart.

Made a tagine with chicken thighs and dried apricots at the weekend. Making slow things like all the chopping involved for chutney or mindlessly stirring a risotto with the radio on in the background. Lovely.

Being ill at home alone with an internet connection and a credit card wasn't good. I bought food porn. Dirty dirty filthy that book is.

A simple honey and mustard coated roast chicken - maybe with almonds, with home made sage and onion and speck stuffing, parsnips roast potatoes and yorkshire pudding. Easy to do and lovely to eat.

A lazy roast chicken - with minimum effort & washing up:

Put the chicken in a large oven tin dish covered generously in butter and some salt. Set the timer to cook for 90 mins or so at 180-200C which is about right for all but UK sourced monster battery hormone pumped mega chickens that you shouldn't eat anyway. If you want you can add an onion peeled and halved, and/or some garlic cloves whole in their shells but whacked once to crack them a bit, a lemon halved and squeezed out inside the chicken (stuff the lemon halves in the chicken too), or any number of herbs like thyme.

After 30 mins add potatoes, cleaned (when you start the chicken put the pots to soak in cold water if they're muddy) but not necessarily pealed cut into 1cm squares, in a neat pile to the same dish as the chicken. Spoon melted butter from the pan over them and season gently. If the chicken is browning too fast then cover the top of the breast only with tin foil or bacon.

After a further 15-30 mins add whatever veg you are doing to the same pan, again spoon over with melted butter, stir the potatoes. Veg that works well cooked this way includes leeks, parsnips, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, courgettes and sprouts. Leave veg like cauliflower in florets, leave leeks and courgettes in 5cm lengths, adjust cooking time according to the firmness of the veg and the size you cut it to. Don't cut the veg too small or it tends to dry out when roasted, you can always sprinkle a little water over it. Doing veg this way may take a little experience to get this right, but it does work. Save more time & energy by just scrubbing most veg, it usually doesn't need peeling.

When everything is cooked lift out the food and there may well be enough juice/fat for a bit of gravy, or just spoon the juice fat over the food as a sauce and open a bottle of white wine.

And that's it - roast chicken, roast pots & veg using only one pan and the oven. If you ignore all the variations I added then these instructions are very short & simple and can be completed tired, hungover, lazy, whatever.

I suspect she's going to the commissary which is open on Sunday.

Me, I normally have a roast, Last week was leg of lamb, this week will be prime rib roast, it's really not that much to do once you've done the prep, esp now I bought a toaster oven so I can cook my yorkshires..yum

Once a month on a sunday - I make homemade salsa, black beans, mexican rice, Chicken fajitas with fresh veggies and we have it for lunch and dinner. When we aren't eating on Mexican day... we are stretched out on the couch watching movies and drinking beer.

It's not really a lazy day for me, but my husband loves it.

crepes, cheese and wine

I thought this was about lazy meals? I tried a pizza kit for the first time this week. You get a roll of pizza dough, and maybe some tomato sauce too. Roll it out on a baking tray, smear sauce, chuck stuff on, top with mozzarella, bake, done.

Seriously lazy - about the hardest work is deciding what "stuff" is going to consist of.

Leky, you right thanks to god, we have komissary open on Sundays
I'd like to share my recipe of cabbage soup-or russian(ukrainian)" Borsh"
I cook in slowcooker.
first I fry chicken (chopped on pieces) with onion, carrots, bell pepper,add salt and spices, tomato paste or tomato sauce, then poor it into slowcooker,add cold water,put in chopped potatoes-2-3 big ones, and add very thin chopped 1 whole medium size white cabbage+ bay lieves+parsley

instead of chicken , you also can use meat of lamb or pork too

Fish
in German supermarkets I buy frozen portioned fish, the name on the box is "IGLO" it is very yammii ! fish takes about 35 minut to bake in oven, for side dish I also fry frozen mixed vegetable(corn, peas, carrot), I just add little bit of butter. and of course some salat

Bill Granger's chocolate self-saucing pudding is an absolute marvel, made this today for a recuperating friend as a test recipe which passed with flying colours. Am going to try his alternative versions too (there's a caramel bourbon one and also a lemon as well). Very simple, clean flavours, however makes huge portions.
The main course was an old faithful: Nigella's pasta with meatballs.
Glad I wasn't cleaning the kitchen, there was tomato splatter everywhere!

When you aren't going out to drink a few beers and order Sunday dinner, there are ony 3 things worth cooking.

1) Red Beans and rice, heavy on the sausage, peppers and hot sauce
2) Beef Stew, heavy on the red wine and shallots
3) Chili, heavy on the beans, hot peppers and then a few more hot peppers.

I had the stew tonight.

Ham and chese toasties.

Later avocado and shrimps in a garlic sauce and homemade brown bread.