I'm a very bad cook so I'm looking for a few really good recipes that I can make easily. Only a few ingredients and very hard to mess up.
For me, it's been the NY Times' tomato sauce. Some of the best tomato sauce I've tried and super simple to make. Also Kenji's smashburgers are super delicious, even though they always set off my smoke alarm 🙂
by DevinJE
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Homemade chicken stock with a pressure cooker (Instant Pot). Massive game changer for any recipe that uses stock or broth. Soups, pan sauces, braising liquids, etc. Tons more flavor, better body, far more control over salt, far far cheaper than store-bought, and made from scraps you might otherwise throw away. Pound for pound the easiest and biggest single improvement in my cooking.
[https://archive.is/HtifO](https://archive.is/HtifO) Tomato Sauce without pay wall.
Not that stuffed peppers is particularly hard, but Chef Johns casserole is just a toss everything in one pot and be done with it is pretty spot on. It feeds 8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgqOUwlesZI
For me it’s the falafel recipe. https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-vegan-experience-best-homemade-falafel-recipe I always used to fail and they’d fall apart but this is easy and delicious. And the food processor makes it mostly hands off (aside from rolling/frying). I just threw some chickpeas in water an hour ago and am definitely making this tomorrow! It’s the only non meat meal my hubs looks forward to.
Kenji’s [oven cooked pulled pork](https://www.seriouseats.com/easy-oven-pulled-pork-recipe) and the variations on what to do with the leftovers series he put up on [youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-07gtGrdeyE). The last time I made the pulled pork I used it for enchiladas, a ragu for papardelle, topping red beans and rice, and crisped up for sandwiches. Easy, affordable, and versatile, can’t be beat.