One Pot Wonders...

[Chipchopper]

I think some of the best meals are the most simple ones that can be cooked in one pot, on the hob or in the oven.
An added advantage is less to go wrong and a lot less pots and pans to wash up!
One of my fav's is probably 'Shepherds Pie' including peas, sweet corn and carrots. Whats yours ?,

[Retrochic]

in that case chipchopper you should have said "I think some of the best meals are convenience ready meals ",which I would definitely disagree with.

[Retrochic]

Tilly - I do lots of one pot meals in the slow cooker with added potatoes or beans or lentils , they are balanced meals in one pot. You can also do pasta by making a traditional bolognese sauce in the slow cooker ( less thick than normal) then one hour before ready add the dry pasta into the sauce and leave until cooked.

[sandyRoe]

stew.

[Cloverjo]

I agree with retro, you can't go too wrong with a microwaveable meal if you want to eat rubbish. I recently bought a £1 corned beef hash, thinking how bad can it be, it's corned beef hash; I love corned beef hash. It was cack. Like pulverised cardboard.

[Cloverjo]

Stew is good. I'll be doing lots of those soon.

[ummmm]

Sandy...forgot about stew.

[Chipchopper]

Bearing in mind that there are people of all abilities and skills out there, ready meals can be a good, or perhaps an only option and I'm not too proud to admit that I use them often.

[woofgang]

faux paella, genuine one pot food.

[joggerjayne]

What about the good old "all week stews" that we used to have at Uni?

You make a big pot of stew on a Sunday night. Then, on Monday, you top it up with more potatoes, veg, beans, braising steak, or whatever.

Same again on Tuesday. Each of your flat mates throws in whatever they have to hand.

By Friday, you have a sort of chilli con chicken sausage carrot mince lamb beef three-bean lentil potato bolognese.

Yummers.

I wish I could remember the exact recipe. I could make it for my OH.

[sandyRoe]

Ummm, why? It's a nice meal particularly on a cold winter evening. I'll have to search the web to try and find low cal versions. That'll probably involve more veg and less spuds.

[Chipchopper]

I agree about the paella, one of my favorite simple meals too!

[woofgang]

The Stew in Three Men in a Boat
http://www.authorama.com/three-men-in-a-boat-14.html

[joggerjayne]

I love the idea of dropping a pork pie into the stew.

[sandyRoe]

I'll give that rat a miss however much a low-calorie addition in might have been. ☺

[joggerjayne]

Sandy has special dispensation to use emojis in his posts!

[joggerjayne]

As to whether buying something from a shop and heating it in the oven counts as "cooking" ...

I'd say that if something ends up hotter, or different, than when you started ... then you've cooked it.

A ready meal ... buy it, heat it in the oven, eat it.

A leg of lamb ... buy it, heat it in the oven, eat it.

There's no real difference.

If you were being really picky, you might argue that one doesn't cook a sandwich.

Although, if your criterion is the fact that a sandwich doesn't get hot, then you aren't cooking monkfish ceviché. But you are cooking a bacon sandwich.

[Mamyalynne]

Mamya wonders where a 'Pot Noodle' sits in this equation?

[joggerjayne]

Borderline

[trt]

## Wiki tells me...Stovies is a Scottish dish based on potatoes. Recipes and ingredients vary widely, but the dish always contains potatoes with, variously, onions, carrots, other vegetables, roast beef, corned beef, minced beef or other meat. ##

When I was a kid it was called resurrection, the roast dinner leftovers fried in a pan on Monday.

[Chipchopper]

trt, those Resurrection, Sunday roasts, sounds like bubble & squeak to me and well worthy of a 'one potter'

I;ve found an excellent frozen paella mix, that is always a good stand-by, but I usually add a few extra squid rings and prawns to it, as there never seems to be enough for my liking.