6 Recipes to Trick People Into Thinking You’re Classy
Just because most of your time in the kitchen has been spent watching the timer on your microwave count down, doesn’t mean you can’t cook an impressive looking meal. Here are five super simple recipes recipes that will get your friends drooling. Fake it till you make it, right? That’s the Skillit way.
1. Healthy & Satisfying Salmon with Quinoa & Squash
With this dish, you don’t need to sacrifice any flavor to prepare a super healthy meal. Pan-fry some salmon and pair with quinoa and sautéed squash. Check out our recommended spice mixtures for this recipe that will take you around the world and back.
2. Deceptively Simple Pasta with Broccoli, Cauliflower & Ground Pork
Only thing better than how good this dish tastes is how easy it is to make. Get the pasta cooking, cook the pork, and saute the broccoli and cauliflower. Toss 'em altogether with whatever sauce you're feeling, and you're all set.
3. The Health Freak: Chicken, Quinoa & Cauliflower
Whether you're gearing up for a marathon or just trying to take a break from take-out, this healthy meal is for you. Check out our recommended spice mixes as this dish adapts well to many different flavors.
4. Everything But The Kitchen Sink Veggie Roast
Just when you thought this insanely tasty and healthy meal couldn't get any better, you realize there are no dishes to do! Chop the potatoes and veggies, roast them until golden-brown perfection, and you got dinner ready.
5. Buttery Whitefish with Mushrooms & Baked Potato
Cook any whitefish like cod or tilapia for a few minutes in a generous portion of butter and serve it up with some sauteed mushrooms and a baked tater for a recipe that will make you look at yourself and go "dang, when did I get so sophisticated?"
6. Asian-Style Sprouts & Pork with Quinoa
A little soy sauce and sesame oil can go a long way, like all the way to Asia. That's where you'll feel like you are chowing down on this dish.
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Shopping For One
Cooking for one can seem like a fool's errand - so much time and effort to feed just one person. The trick is to minimize your effort while maximizing your output, or in cooking terms, do as little prep work as possible to produce a lot of food (all while keeping costs down, of course). Here are some tips to make cooking for one easy and productive:
How To Navigate The Grocery Store
Most grocery stores have the same layout, with fresh foods (produce, meat, and dairy) on the perimeter of the store, and processed foods (with longer shelf lives) on the aisles in the middle of the store. Since we try to primarily eat whole, unprocessed foods, we tend to stick to the edges of the store as much as possible.
What To Look For In The Nutrition Label
When comparing our options in the grocery store, we look at the ingredient list and ask ourselves a few key questions. How many ingredients do this have? Do I know what these ingredients are? Is sugar one of the first few ingredients? There’s no hard and fast rule, but generally the fewer ingredients, the better. The more easily pronounced ingredients, the better. The farther down sugar occurs on the ingredient list, the better (if it appears at all).
