Minimal Effort Required Recipes
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All my recipes are minimal effort (and require even less skill), but I think these 2 are the simplest of all.
Garlic Fish Pasta
The recipe is for Garlic Salmon Linguine, but I often use canned Mackerel, ordinary cheapo spaghetti and dried parsely as it's what I most often have on hand. You could probably substitute any fish, meat or veggies in it, and most types of pasta. Use whatever you have. It's stupidly easy to make, fast and tasty. Good olive oil makes a difference. Aussie EVOO for the win! ๐
2 Ingredient Homemade Ice Cream
This ice cream recipe astonished me that it came out as good as it was with virtually no effort. I expected yuck, but got yum. Add whatever you want to make it whatever flavour you want.
It's all about that air with the ice cream, sounds delicious and you can add basically anything into it
Review:
I made this recipe on the weekend and it worked very well! The resulting icecream is super creamy and very rich. It could probably do with a bit less sugar, I wonder how it would work with unsweetened condensed milk?
The downside to this recipe is the cost: 600ml of whipping cream, 400g Condensed milk and a packet of Gluten Free Choc biscuits to make GF Cookies and Cream icecream came out to over $10. It's loads cheaper to just buy ice cream. If however, you are looking for a school holiday/weekend activity to do with the kids, or making an ice cream flavour that otherwise doesn't exist (or in my case, both), this is a wonderful recipe. It is very easy to make if you have electric beaters.
Agree about the price. Just the cream and condensed milk will cost over $6 and really only makes 1l of ice cream (though it's aired up volume wise a bit). You can get Peters 2l for $5.50.
It's definitely more of a novelty/specialty thing to do.
If you want another fun dessert, that's not quite so minimal effort as the ice cream, have a look around for Chocolate Eclair cake recipes. It's fun, and no cooking required. It's basically, biscuits, whipped pudding/cream, and some choccy icing. Again will probably cost $10 all up, but it's pretty damn good for low effort - and not even turning on an oven! The hardest part is the waiting .... ๐
The family will often over-cater on the cream front at Christmas. I can see this being a great use of a spare cream carton. Plus again, holidays activities with the kids. ๐