The Asbestos Chef

I'm moving in with Em and Simon in a couple of weeks. We have lovely ideas about shopping for fruit and vegies at the Queen Victoria Markets and cooking collectively.

Does anyone have any good recipes (preferably vegetarian, sans bread or pasta and cheap to prepare)?

I'll list my cooking repertoire, just so you don't post something that I already know how to make:

Accidental Dhal

Red lentils
Onions
Stock
Cumin

1. Intend to make lentil soup.
2. Put water and lentils in a pot and boil.
3. Realise you didn't put in enough water and the lentils are still solid.
4. Realise you forgot to add stock to the water or to include the onions.
4. Add a shitload of cumin.

Asian Vegetables

Vegetables
Steam
Hoisin sauce

1. At the back of the fridge, find some broccoli and carrots that you bought from the markets a couple of weeks ago.
2. Put in a colander; put colander on top of pot of boiling water.
3. Take the vegetables out of the colander whenever you feel like it. It really doesn't matter.
4. Add a shitload of hoisin sauce.

Salade aux Légumineuses

Tins of beans
Vinegar
Salt

1. With your lousy $2-store can-opener, open a tin of chickpeas that you bought from Aldi (too cheap for ring pulls).
2. Open a tin of lentils in the same fashion.
3. Combine.
4. Add a shitload of salt and vinegar.

(Estimated can-opening preparation time: 20 minutes)

Sushi

$1.40

1. Buy a california roll from that cheap place on Lonsdale Street.

(NB. DO NOT ADD A SHITLOAD OF WASABI)