Chip or veggie dip
A can of black beans, rinsed
small can of green chilis
an appropriate amount of salt
some garlic, real or whatever you have got
optional some "mexi-cheese"

Use a food processor or stick blender to blend the beans, chilis, and garlic till fairly smooth.

pour into baking safe dish or ramekin.
Stir in cheese if you choose
Bake at 325-350 ( 162-176c ) for 30 minutes.

1 16-oz bottle of grape jelly.
1 16-oz bottle of cocktail sauce
2 pounds of Little Smokies

Throw it all in a Crockpot and heat it up. Haul it off to whatever event you like. I used to make this for office parties and plug in my Crockpot half an hour before the event. I never went home with leftovers.

I used to make Dump Cake for office parties, too. allrecipes.com/recipe/277008/c…

These are super simple yet tasty things that even an old bachelor like me can make without any trouble.

Easy Chicken Alfredo Florentine
Boil water and prepare a portion of spaghetti noodles

In a large covered microwavable bowl, combine and heat:
1 jar alfredo sauce
1 package of John Soules pre-cooked fajita chicken slices (or other pre-cooked chicken)
Handful of fresh or frozen chopped spinach to taste

Mix spaghetti in and serve.

Shrimp oregonata from YouTube. While you cook pasta
Cook some shrimp in olive oil then add 1 tbsp capers, chopped garlic and 4 tbsp butter coated in flour. Once the butter melts add a shot of wine or cider and a shot of lemon juice tbsp oregano and chopped parsley.
Add pasta to shrimp mix.

It's so yummy and you don't have to plan because shrimp thaws and Cooks quickly.

Simple and easy?
Dude, that’s like nearly everything I make.

One of my all-time favorite bumper stickers: If you are what you eat, then I'm cheap, fast, and easy.

😀

75% of my meals have to be simple and easy as my wife seems to always be on a short time cycle. (30 mins or less).

I'm afraid the tomato stuff mentioned would never work alone for us (and I'd have to remove the garlic). That's a marinade for something else, like chicken and rice.

Quick food for us is a boil a bag of Indian sauce veggies (trader joes does a bunch of these) over a bag of microwaves brown or multigrain rice (10-15 mins to make).

Or sandwiches. Or naan bread with butter melted on top. Or Mesa Sunrise Cereal with chopped in nuts (almonds, pecans, Cashews) and skim milk. Or a can of sardines with canned dolomas (stuffed vegetarian grape leaves). Or Mac & cheese with meatballs (from frozen) or hot dogs/chicken sausage. Or Baked Beans over toast. Or instant sugar free oatmeal with added nuts and a little butter, cinnamon and nutmeg.

I make up a slow cooker of soup every other week or so, takes a long time to prep and cook but that's good reheated for 3 or 4 meals for the two of us. Same with Italian Vegetables and pasta, making a batch takes time (cutting up the veggies etc.) but we can reheat and 4 meals in the week from it.

Big meals for us are usually designed with leftovers in mind that can be reheated in 3 minutes or so.

Better than Bouillon "seasoned vegetable" concentrate, mixed with whatever meat broth I have boiled down to stiff cubes, and some corn starch, makes an excellent quick gravy. Good gravy can be added to almost any dish to greatly improve it. Plus, an egg and some potatoes and gravy makes a decent breakfast.

In the amount I make, about a quart and a half, it takes twelve minutes at medium high to boil the water. Then I whisk in the meat extract, BTB, and thickener, and in another minute I have glistening, tasty gravy. If I have to add salt, probably I didn't add enough BTB so that's how I adjust the flavor usually.

And I don't have to worry about whether I have what it takes to make stock "according to the recipe". I generally have some frozen veggie bits anyway that I add to the pressure cooker when making meat extract. The BTB acts sort of like the bay leaf/onion/celery/carrot that you are supposed to used.

Today was a day of learning. Until I hit The Things Network's requirement for a credit card for the "Free" educational account. Oh well. Maybe someone from corporate will manage to cough up a CC number by the end of the week so I can continue learning the products I'm supposed to be doing custom implementations for.

In personal learning I'm trying to learn how to use Yocto to build a custom Linux environment for a non-Raspberry Pi single board computer featuring a funky SoC with 2 multiple core ARM CPUs and a GPU on the same die.

No successful builds yet. Whether it's insane memory requirements for build tools or missing repos I can't say that I recognize today's OSS spirit (thinking Gentoo, building kernels on Pentium 2 beige boxes, etc.)

I'm ADHD and cook accordingly, so everything is kind of teed up to be thrown together. With that said, my go-to is probably half a Costco pack of Del Real pulled pork (i.e. 1 lb) and a bottle of our local green grocer's raspberry chipotle sauce. Simmer til they get to know each other. I consider them adequately acquainted when the rice gets done. Serve over said rice (Success ftw) with a canned veg, typically french cut green beans, or okra if I'm feeling fancy.

Various alternative sauces have been tried with not-great results. The closest that might be widely available was Melinda's habanero berry or some such (preserves). Nice flavor but too hot for us. YMMV. It goes BOGO pretty regularly, so I was hoping it would work out, but alas. It didn't go through me, at least. We have some Melinda's pineapple jalapeno (should not be as hot) waiting to be tried at a later date.

Quick breakfast is 2 fried eggs over either polenta (with a fistful of Costco bacon bits thrown in, and some Italian cheese if I'm feeling fancy) or rice (Bibigo sticky for me, Minute jalapeno for Mr. Stranger). Rice option gets some kind of meat added, either craptabulous brown & serve sausage, or Costco bacon (detect a theme here?). It occurs to me that I should probably be putting sardines on Mr. Stranger's. He used to make fish and rice for himself in the mornings at our old house.

Speaking of bacon bits, I also throw them in with 2 bags of diced "breakfast" potatoes to make potato soup. Another regular BOGO. Celery and onion round it out. Use potato flakes for thickening if necessary (whyyyyyy did my mom use cornstarch? what a PITA). Serve with celery salt.

Not sure that this counts as actually cooking anything, but I also love Del Real's pupusas. They are currently out of stock, as is the mango salsa I like to serve with them.

Cat is going to be okay,

that's fr the best news I've heard all day

If you bake thick-cut bacon at 200 F for six hours, stretching it out over a cooling rack so it doesn't touch the cookie sheet the rack is sitting on, you get the most toothsome bacon, extremely suitable for making "bits" or just eating. Plus, the fat that renders out is so pure and glistening, that I pour it off into a ramekin or some other small dish and refrigerate it just to look at it, although I do sometimes fry a thing or two in it.

I generally do this about once every couple of years. My bacon consumption has been going way down.

Well, kswapd was locking up my laptop (which is lightyears away from the old P2 machine I used to compile all the Linuxy things when I was starting out as a young man) because several instances of git were using 1.6ish GB of memory.

First, isn't one of the points of a multitasking os not to allow resource starvation and hard lock? Second, really git? Gigabytes?

Get 64GB of RAM. Um, no. Modify the build process FFS

@sb No. I suspect whatever git repos were being cloned and processed were suffering from the "repacking" memory issue.

However, I'm not going to spend too much time confirming. I was hoping I could get the provided instructions here:

forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php…
wiki.odroid.com/common/board_s…

to build then modify the BB recipes to do what I want but the external dependencies are outdated, the odroid forums didn't approve my sign up to ask questions, so I guess I'm going to have to do the best I can.

Not the first brick wall learning curve I've beat my head through; doesn't stop me from complaining about it though. ;P

I avoid Git. It started out as a source code control system. But it quickly turned into many other things.

I still use Subversion for source code control. I want exactly one master repository. And things beyond basic tracking of code versions, forking, and version-related keyword expansion are things that I neither need nor want.

@Karl Auerbach I use git because it's there and it works for all my very small (fewer than 20 source files) software projects. Oh, and most of the free online repos are git. Before that I used subversion for the same reasons. (Alas, poor Sourceforge I knew thee well.)

My recent experience with git is contributing to my feeling that things have changed a lot in OSS while I've been busy being a parent, working whatever jobs I could get, being hungry and without home, etc. etc. Linux based OSes have always been squirrelly when it came to resource hogs. Whatever happened to "oh yea, that happens. Don't do that."