/r/slackerrecipes

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Everyone has a frugal, secret, family recipe that the world deserves to know. Your favorite dish may just be a hit!

We encourage submissions of original dishes, or your unique twist on a classic "dish" that gives it an exemplary quality worthy of mention. Everything from Mac-and-Cheese to Fillet Minot can be represented as well as you can creatively conceive it.

Please include a complete ingredient list (with portions!), as well as a description that adequately lists the temperatures and any other preparation instructions that will be necessary.

Remember, these are Slacker recipes. Microwaves, easily accessible seasonings (Garlic, pepper, salt, cinnamon, etc.) are crucial, as the average slacker will have access to these ingredients.

We encourage critique over criticism. Every chef should be as open to learning as they expect their apprentices to be.

Bon Appetit!

/r/slackerrecipes

19,411 Subscribers

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What to do with clems?

Received 3 doz mini clementines that I won’t eat. Looking for ideas to make something good from them but please make it easy :)

5 Comments
2023/01/13
19:04 UTC

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Cooking App for College Students Survey

My team and I are conducting a survey to help create a social media-infused cooking app! This app will help create recipes based on the food you have in your refrigerator/pantry. Users may also create their recipes or explore different creations from other chefs. As more users post their recipes through the app, the user will have a wider recommendation list and collection to choose from. In addition, users can follow other chefs and receive notifications for recipes that they have created! By liking, saving, and replying to each other's recipes, we want to create a fun environment for all chefs to share their creations! Our target population is college students but we would love to see others who are open to trying our app.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyWvFa0nIvKyUXde7n6iUMXjozFfKcFkk4EyCMsGk3ehlqjg/viewform

0 Comments
2021/05/05
22:03 UTC

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Different ways to eat strawberry yogurt without getting bored of it?

Hey y'all, I recently got a heck ton of strawberry yogurt cartons from dumpster diving.

Any suggestions on different ways to serve/eat it, for some variety?

For example, I just had it with mashed up blueberries, and then served in a dish with a slice of sponge cake. Maybe I could incorporate it into baking, or some sort of drink? I'm just interested in as many possible ways to serve or eat strawberry yogurt, or things that could go well with it.

10 Comments
2021/04/02
15:44 UTC

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Tortilla Pizza

Truly a slacker recipe, I used to make these in college and have only recently revisited this while COVID has been a thing.

1(or more) tortillas Olive oil Salt Pepper Mozzarella cheese Pizza sauce Toppings of choice

Set the oven to 400

Brush the tortilla with olive oil, sprinkle on salt and pepper. Poke the tortilla a bit to reduce bubbling. Bake for 3 or so minutes. Take out the tortilla and slather on the pizza sauce to your liking, along with the cheese and toppings. Bake for again for 5 minutes or until the cheese is melted.

I love a good thin crust pizza.

1 Comment
2020/11/18
05:04 UTC

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To keep this sub from turning into something it's not, can we refer to the rules for a second?

I know this sub has mostly maintained itself over the years, but more recently almost all of the posts are from one user who links to youtube videos, rather than a recipe. This subreddit is meant to be self-contained and not require going over to someone's YouTube channel or any other kind of promotion in order to get the content people are looking for.

To be clear, the posts I'm referring to have been reported by the users (and not just by them being noticed by the mods). We've had to remove previous posters in years past because they did exactly this: turned this into a way to promote their YouTube channel showing simple recipes.

Now, if you wanted to post something like, "Check out my channel, devoted to recipes for slackers!" then that's much more acceptable. It's one post that's on topic. However, posting multiple times with links outside of this subreddit (without any of the recipe's information) is a very clear violation of the rules. I even tried to keep them pretty open-ended (instead of Rule #1, Rule #2, etc.) and so far things have gone pretty well.

However, we can't have this whole subreddit flooded with one user's YouTube video posts. People come here to read an interesting recipe headline, see the recipe and guage whether or not they have the resources or cooking ability to pull it off. The hope is that they do.

I'm going to go post-by-post on the different submissions I've alluded to above. If there are numerous reports on the post (or flagging it as spam) then I will remove it in the interest of the community. Any other videos, I will leave up if that's what people want.

I know there's a flagged post from 3 years ago saying that the subreddit is straying... and I hope we can all keep that from happening, entirely.

Hope everyone is doing well... and has a fantastic Slacker Thanksgiving!

3 Comments
2020/11/17
22:20 UTC

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Super fast and easy French Dip

A French Dip is a very straightforward old school beef sandwich with pan dripping sauce (au jus). It's a staple of casual dining restaurants and I had never considered making it at home until this week. If you ask the chefs on YouTube, they'll show you how to roast a giant chunk of beef and bake your own rolls. I, and presumably you, am not interested in doing that. I can offer you a sandwich that's at least 90% as good as the all day effort version, takes just a few minutes, and only dirties one pan.

Ingredients

  • 1-2 pounds (most of a kg) of the best roast beef your local deli counter sells, sliced thin
  • 1 large onion chopped into small pieces with butter or oil to saute.
  • Sliced Provolone cheese
  • 4 large crusty rolls or 2 small loaves of bread halved
  • 1 tsp (5 mL) Better than Bouillon - Roasted beef flavor
  • 8 oz (250 mL) hot water
  • Salt/Pepper/dry herbs/creamy horseradish sauce/literally anything you can think of

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350F. That's like the "once upon a time" of recipes.
  2. At my grocery store, they sell loaves of bread that still need 10 minutes of baking to finish. If you can't find those, buy rolls or bread with a crusty outside. Put them in the oven for a few minutes until the middle is hot.
  3. Heat butter or oil in a large skillet or saute pan. Add onion and salt. Cook over medium heat to soften or higher heat to add some color.
  4. Add roast beef and provolone to pan.
  5. When cheese is melted and meat is warm, transfer to opened bread.
  6. Mixing the water and bouillon listed will give you about what a restaurant would serve 4 people. Adjust the volume and intensity as desired.
4 Comments
2020/06/27
03:17 UTC

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Simple, Roasted Onions From 1808

2 Comments
2020/02/25
04:20 UTC

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Rice cooker recipes?

Hey! I recent tried two rice cooker “hacks”. One was adding a tomato, some olive oil, salt and pepper. It was amazing. The second was adding a piece of fried chicken, some soy sauce, fish sauce, chives and pepper. Also very good! Now I’m addicted to cooking these simple recipes in my rice cooker. It leaves so little cleanup and so little prep. I just throw it in and turn it on.

Do you have any other rice cooker ideas?

3 Comments
2020/02/12
02:08 UTC

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this isn't even a recipe, is it...

right so...

-buy some plants. pointy/lengthy - small carrots, small maize, small asparagus - cucumber sliced lengthwise, peppers sliced, whatever!

-get some taco/salsa sauce (hot! - and not dip mix 'cause that requires preparation, and that's not how i roll), preferably in a wide glass.

-yeah so... dip the plants.

i don't know why i didn't think of this sooner. i like chili and i don't care much for vegetables... but with this "trick", i'm actually enjoying eating plants! so... that's pretty awesome. healthy and scorched \o/

1 Comment
2019/11/05
13:38 UTC

7

Cream cheese & Jelly Sandwich

0 Comments
2019/10/25
07:08 UTC

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My favorite slacker recipe: Ranch bean dip!

Add a can of refried beans to half a packet of dry ranch dressing mix, spread out in an 8x8 pan and top with your favorite cheese. Bake at 350 until melty, and eat with a spoon because you CAN.

You can also add more or less of the seasoning mix to taste.

1 Comment
2019/08/19
16:41 UTC

5

Recipes to spice up your Ramen Noodles

0 Comments
2019/08/19
05:04 UTC

8

25 Foods for the broke and college

0 Comments
2019/08/19
05:03 UTC

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I poached cheap steaks in Papa John's Special Garlic Sauce. AMA.

2 Comments
2019/02/22
20:48 UTC

0

I was your 20000th member

3 Comments
2019/07/01
19:51 UTC

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Easy breakfast tacos

0 Comments
2019/06/17
09:17 UTC

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Roast Chicken

Can we have a thread on easy roast chicken?

I'll start. This is my go to when I cannot be arsed to think of what to make, want to save some money and don't want to spend too much time in front of the stove - i.e. this is almost a fire and forget recipe.

I eat this almost weekly.

Roast Chicken with garlic and cumin:

  • take whole chicken

  • rub oil all over (the chicken).

  • dust all over with salt, pepper, garlic powder/ granules, and cumin seeds (cumin powder can be used, but cumin seeds work better for this recipe.

  • if you have onion powder, you can use it too.

  • if you have paprika / chilli powder, you can use it too.

  • Cook in oven at 190 celcius for 90 min

  • workout while chicken is cooking.

  • eat.

Let's have your recipes please.

Pic related: https://imgur.com/a/ygg3QxZ

6 Comments
2018/10/11
13:25 UTC

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What the heck happened to this sub?

It used to be actually decent recipes and now its just "street food of x country" and they arn't even a recipe you can follow, just shaky footage of someone cooking something. No ingredients or measurements listed. I'm out.

7 Comments
2018/10/04
12:10 UTC

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