Last week I found out that my former husband has been living on takeout and frozen dinners for the past 13 years. (and lots of vitamins) He says he did once boil an egg. He's afraid of instant rice so he never tried it.
HOW IS THIS MAN NOT DEAD!? Seriously!?
The advice of a 33 year old bachelor. How to cook anything you want to eat:
0. Get a Dutch oven. Get something that gets pretty hot to put it in (regular household oven will do).
1. Get food that goes together.
2. Cut food into smaller pieces to preference.
3. Put small pieces in Dutch Oven. Dump a dallop of olive oil or something on it.
4. Put it in a hot place (say 475 F) for half an hour or so, give or take.
5. Tah dah, food!
No measuring. No weird ingredients or elaborate combinations of things.
Do you want to eat it? Does it go with everything else in the pot? Put it in. That's all you need to know.
Trial and error will teach you everything you need to know.
Works at least okay for nearly everything and the things it doesn't work okay for it works for with a little tweak. I can even bake bread this way!
Extra bonus, eat it straight out of the pot, you won't even have dirty dishes.