College Recipes

[Acquana]

During college my buddies and I would make food together, so each of us would only have to buy one ingrediant a piece. Microwave burritors where a fav. El Paso microwavable cheese rice, salsa, refried beans, and tortillas.

Boil-in-bag rice out of the hot pot was also well-loved. My best friend and I tried to see if we could make something not unlike cheese grits with it. Wellstar was horribly offended by this, but he's Asian, so that's understandable. ^_^;;

But the scary recipie I was gonna mention was the ramen Wellstar's roomie would make: Boil one bag of until it's squishy, then crush up Ritz crackers and mix in until it becomes a sort of ... porridge. It was scary. But he claimed it was the food of the gods.

 

[jaerdaph]

Mental Note to Self: Put a little extra cash in your son's account this week.

 

[ILikeWoodchucks]

Remember, it's the condiments which make the dish. So steal salt and pepper every time you go to the dining hall. And also, everything tastes better fried. So if your dorm/apartment has a range top you can fry everything. Right now I'm a senior with an apartment and ready access to a kitchen, but the best meal I had in my first three years which wasn't at a restaurant was probably rotini with cut-rate Kroger pasta sauce. The only thing that was special about it was that it'd been fried on my dorm's range top for a bit with lots of salt, pepper, and a roommate's paprika.

Oh, and Krieg, here are some more MRE recipes I've picked up:
Easy mac: cheese pack plus a freshly warmed butter noodles pack
cheeseburger: hamburger packet plus a saved cheese pack
And if you can wrap it in something porous, you can toss the coffee, creamer, and sugar into the wrap and chew it like dip.
(Thanks, btw - hand't heard of some of those.)

 

[jeff37923]

Wish Sandwich: A wish sanbdwich is the kind of a sandwich in which you have two slices of bread and wished you had some meat

Ricochet Biscuit: The kind of a biscuit that's supposed to bounce back off the wall into your mouth. If it don't bounce back... you go hungry!

Jake and Elwood are gonna get you for that.

 

[Stone Angel]

Used to make ramen pasta all the time. The seasoning works good over rice too. Microwaving potatoes works. Sometimes grilling bread or toasting it works to change up the consistency of a mustard sandwich.

In the winter we would turn off the fridge and use our balcony instead instant 10-15 bucks off the light bill, also showering at the co-rec most of the time helped too.



The Seraph of Earth and Stone

 

[Crothian]

Jake and Elwood are gonna get you for that.

They covered the song, they aren't the orginal singers for it.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

"STEW"

1 box of pasta + 1 canned minestroni soup + 1 can of peas + 1 can of corn.

Cook pasta in water as normal. Cook minestroni and peas and corn together.
Put cooked pasta in bowl, covered with soup/vegetable concotion. Not very
healthy, but MUCH better than many of the above reciepes.

Can serve 2-4 on average.

"Mac 'n' Dawgs"

Mac 'n' Cheese + milk + butter + 2-3 hot dogs.

Make mac 'n' cheese, but cook hot dogs w/ pasta. Make rest as normal. BAM!


Both can have Tabasco added to spice. Tabasco is god. Obey the Tabasco!

 

[Krieg]

Oh, and Krieg, here are some more MRE recipes I've picked up:
Easy mac: cheese pack plus a freshly warmed butter noodles pack
cheeseburger: hamburger packet plus a saved cheese pack

Butter noodles?! Hamburger?!

We didn't have any of those newfangled MRE's....we had chicken ala king and dehydrated pork patties...and liked it!

 

[Xath]

Mental Note to Self: Put a little extra cash in your son's account this week.

Hmm...maybe I should show this page to my parents...

 

[Doc_Klueless]

Butter noodles?! Hamburger?!

We didn't have any of those newfangled MRE's....we had chicken ala king and dehydrated pork patties...and liked it!

I understand that those new MREs come with, like, chemical food heaters in them. Seen 'em the last time I went to the field before I got out of the Army (11 years. Oi. I just couldn't take it anymore). It was the dead of winter at NTC. It was sooooooooo cold that we'd use the heaters inside our coats and eat the food cold.