Welcome to Easy Eats
Welcome to EasyEats.org. Here I hope to share my passion for eating and making simple, great tasting food. You don’t need to go to culinary school, spend tons of time, or tons of money to make good food. I am a former working stiff who is going back to school and also going back to living the simple student life. That means less money, roommates, and less time to cook. All the recipes are made in the apartment of a mid-20s guy living with roommates in Portland, Oregon. I am a starving grad student, not a professional chef!
Blogs seem to be all the rage now, and I think a big part of it is that you can publish content without slaving through html every day. So I’ll start out in this format and see where it goes. This blog used to be called RealSimpleRecipes, but I got tired of typing that. 
August 26th, 2005 at 6:23 pm
EasyEats sounds great.
Hope you don’t tire of blogging. Love the photos. 
August 15th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
I was looking for the rustic peach pie recipe - made with a roll-out pie crust, peaches, etc.
August 31st, 2006 at 4:00 pm
I kind of thought this was going to be a real site, but I guess not. Since you are a student, and I’m a Registered Dietitian, have you tried making grilled cheese sandwiches with an iron. Works well and tasts great. Butter both sides of your bread, put your cheese between the slices of bread (not sure of your level of cooking knowlege, so I’ll be specific) wrap the bread in the non-stick reynolds wap (for the extra penny’s it’s worth it) set your iron to the highest temperature. (Make sure the steam is off) and then put your iron on both sides of the sandwich for a few minutes. Smelling the cheese tells you it’s done.
I have a number of student items that are cheap and are quick and easy to make. Like, Scoop chips for dip. Take one paper plate and one sheet of wax paper. Fill the plate with chips, then cover all the chips with store brand three three cheese taco mix. Also open a little bag of taco seasoning from McCormick or whom ever is the cheapest. Sprinkle a little taco seasoning on top. Put more chips, then cheese and a litle more seasoning. Cover with whatever you use to cover your food in a microwave, or don’t cover it at all. Hit 1.5 minutes, and zap you’ve got dinner. Nice large glass of ice tea made with crystal light from the little box that you can make one glass at a time.
Anything instant is perfect. Like oatmeal that comes in all flavors. Remember you can get you third gaget a microwave for $99 at Brandsmart. Soup in a cup, cereal with evaporated milk, (don’t forget to add a banana as you may need the potassium), you can get the already made tortillas that do not need to be refrigerated, but stay longer if they are, and you can roll them up with almost anything, and then use your trusty non-stick reynolds wrap and roll it around your wrap, get out your iron, make sure it isn’t on steam, and iron away. If you put anything in it that melts, like american cheese left over from your cheese sandwich, this makes a great tuna wrap. Dole makes these Parfaits that don’t need refrigeration. They count for your fruit group. With a hot plate and your one pot, a microwave, can opener, and iron, I could put you together a cycle menu for a week that would perhaps fit your budget, meet your nutritional needs (take a vitamin pill just in case) and satisfy your appetite. If food doesn’t satisfy your taste appeal, your sight appeal, your taste appeal, than you’ll you be scrounding around all night looking for food. You can’t study, if you are hungry. You can even make choc. chip cookies with an iron, there are pizza’s for microwaves, etx. Let me know if you’d like to see my menu I come up with for you. But give me a budget. You should see my hurricane menu. I cooked for 5 weeks on a gas grill.
Good Luck Sondra
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August 31st, 2006 at 4:07 pm
I should have re-read what I wrote, so many typo’s. Between the dog wanting dinner and the phone ringing, I made a lot of errors, sorry.
tastes, knowledge,wrap, second taste appeal should be hunger
August 31st, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Bobby,
You can make a great Peach Pie recipe from purchasing King Arthur Flour
pie crust mix. I purchase the pie crust mix, the popovers, the chalah and every bread you can think of from a mix that requires water, eggs, butter, and that’s about it. Go on line to www.bakerscatalogue.com or can call them at 1-800-827-6836 and you can get the already make in bags that make life very easy. Now for your rustic peach pie…I’d take about 4 cups of either fresh peaches sliced or canned peaches used for pies, I’d add about 1 Tbsp. of lemon juice, 1/4 cup of packed light brown sugar, 3 Tbsp. of cornstarch, or you can purchase the fruit pie thickener from the catalogue, I’d probably add a smidge or as my grandmother would say,
a “bissle” of nutmeg. Some people might like cinnamon and sugar, but I’m more a nutmeg and peach person. Bake pie at 400 degrees for 30 minutes.
To make it rustic, instead of a top crust I’d mix in a food process, 1 cup of flour, 1/2 cup of rolled oats, 2/3 cup firmly packed light brown sugar, 1/2 tsp of ground cinamon, 1/4 tsp of salt, and 1 stick of unsalted cold butter, cut up into 1/4 inch pieces. Pulse it several times in the food processor to makes sure it resembles fine crumbs. Refrigerate until ready for use.
After 30 minutes, take pie out, and turn oven down to 375 degrees, dump your crumb mixture in the center and spread around. If you think the juice might make a mess, put aluminum foil under the pie. Bake for another 35 minutes. If the topping starts to get too dark, it is done. Some say tent the pie if it gets too dark, I say ….all done!