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I made a simple pasta dish in 29 minutes.

Ingredients:

Andouille sausage

Red bell pepper

Tomato

Rigatoni

Cilantro

Spinach

Mushroom

Onion

Boil water in a pot. When the water is boiling, put in the rigatoni with some salt. While the pasta is cooking, wash and cut up the onion, red bell pepper, sausage, cilantro, and tomato. There is no need to cut up the mushroom or spinach, since
they are pre-wash and pre-cut. Oh I forgot, you need to also finely chop one clove of garlic. Wash the cutting board, and your knife while the pasta is still cooking. When the pasta is done, you will still have 20 minutes left.

In a separate pan, pour in some olive oil and put in the garlic. Let the garlic infuse its flavor into the olive oil, and put in the onion, mushroom, and tomato. Put in some salt and pepper, and cook until the onions are nice and soft. Add in the sausage, red bell pepper, and tomato. Let this cook for a bit more, and add in some tomato pasta sauce and salsa. That is right, you want to add in some spicy salsa. After the sauce is bubbling, add in the rigatoni, and combine everything together. Try to make sure all of the rigatoni are coated with some of the pasta sauce. Now add in the cilantro, and some parmesan cheese. Wait until the cheese is melted.

It is now complete. Serve it up, and get ready to fill your stomach with some pasta. At least for me, I still had over 9 minutes left when it finished cooking. So you have 9 minutes to wash 1 pan, 1 pot, pasta drainer, and a couple of plates. Just soak the pan while you are eating, and you should have no problem cleaning that up in 9 minutes.

I need a camera so that I can put up some pictures, and you can decide whether it is any good.

I was planning to make a tomato sandwich for lunch tomorrow.

What I had in mind didn’t match the end result, and I burned myself .

Here is what I had thought:

Ingredient:

1 chicken breast – cut in half in horizontally. Make 2 thinner pieces

1 tomato – thinly sliced (I couldn’t do it properly and my tomato slices were very thick)

goat cheese.

Season the chicken with onion and garlic salt.
The idea was to cook each piece chicken breast in a stainless steel pan. Then after searing the chicken, you create a sandwich. Put the tomato slices, and goat cheese between the two pieces of chicken breast. Then just put the chicken breast back in the pan, and bake in the oven. It is very important to have a couple of sticks so that the chicken don’t fall apart (a big mistake on my part) because my chicken fell apart, and cheese oozed out onto the pan.

After the chicken finished baking, on a separate pan, add in some tomatoes cut into small cubes with a white wine. Then let that wine and tomato cook. Once the alcohol has burned off, you add in some spicy salsa. Serve the chicken on top of purple rice and pour the sauce over the chicken.

My chicken fell apart. It didn’t work.

I did it!!! I made it all including washing dishes and pans in under 30 minutes.

Pork tenderloin stuff with mushroom and spinach.

Ingredient -

Pork tenderloin – 8 ounches = more than 2 portions

Pre-sliced mushroom

Pre-washed spinach

Bell pepper – 1/2 small bell pepper
garlic – 1 clove
cilantro – depends on you

green onion – depends on you

Preheat oven at 375. Sprinkle salt (seasoning salt/garlic salt if you have any) and pepper on the pork tenderloin. Let it rest in the refrigerator. While the tenderloin is in the refrigerator, wash the bell pepper, green onion, and cilantro. Cut up the bell pepper, green onion, spinach, and cilantro. Then diced the garlic finely. All of this can be done in 6 minutes leaving you 24 minutes. Put the ingredients in a plate, and wash the cutting board. This shouldn’t take more than 4 minutes leaving you with 20 minutes.
Heat up a pan with olive oil. Then seared the pork tenderloin in the pan on all 4 sides. This shouldn’t take more than 4 minutes leaving you 16 minutes. Take the pork out and put it on the washed cutting board. Now stir fried the vegetables that you just cut up. Put in garlic first, follow by bell pepper, follow by mushroom, and then lastly spinach, cilantro, and green onions. This will take about 4 minutes to cook, and now you have a little more than 12 minutes left.

Cut the pork tenderloin in half, and put as much of the cooked veggies as you can in between. Tied up the pork tenderloin, and put it the pan. Cover with aluminum foil, and put into the oven. This step should not take more than 2 minutes, leaving with you 10 minutes.

While the pork is in the oven, wash your cutting board, plate, and knife, and you have a nice 8 minutes left. Now go rest, watch TV because you have earned it. In about 40 minutes, the pork tenderloin will be done. Take it out of the oven, and put the pan on a stove. Put the pork in the cutting board. Pour some wine, and tobasco sauce into the pan to create a gravey. While the pan with the wine is heating up, cut two pieces of tenderloin at about 1/4 of inch. Put it on a plate with your microwaved rice. The alcohol in the wine should’ve burned off by now. Pour the sauce over your sliced pork and rice. This can be done in about 3 minutes leaving you with 5 minutes left. Put the plan in the sink and fill it with water.

Now start eating your meal. Again you have earned the right to eat this. After eating, you can clean the pan, cutting board, and knife in 4 minutes. All the bits in the pans were de-glazed by the wine, and therefore, it should be very simple to wash.

Ahh you have 40 seconds left. Congratulations Allan, you did it. 29:20.

For the past couple of weeks, I have been talking about creating a set of recipes that can be cooked under 30 minutes. Unlike Rachel Ray’s 30 minute meal, my 30 minute include cleaning, and cooking. Basically you can have a full meal in just 30 minutes of doing stuff.

So I cooked lamb curry today.

Ingredients:

1 lamb shoulder chop – 0.75 lbs

1 tomato

1 potato

1/2 onion

one clove of garlic

1/2 red bell pepper

8 shrimps

some coconut milk

1 cup of beef broth

I know adding shrimps to lamb curry sounds kinda weird, but it is not bad. You have both the lamb and shrimp taste . Anyhow, it took me 8 minutes to cut up lamb, onions, red bell pepper, potato, and tomato into small pieces. Then I started cooking the lamb first, followed by shrimp using olive oil and the clove of garlic. Then I added a little bit of sherry cooking wine to get up all the lamb bits from the pan. After cooking for a bit more, the tomato, red bell pepper, and onion.
Finally, the potatoes are added with the beef broth and coconut milk. After the liquid came to a boil, turn it to medium heat and add the curry paste. Let everything stew until the potatoes are tender.

While the pot was on medium heat, I washed the cutting board, dishes, and wiped the counter. By the time, the curry was ready, I had a little over 6 minutes left. Using the 7 minutes, I cleaned the frying pan that I used to cook the curry, the bowl I used to serve the curry with the rice, and wiped the stove top with some 409.

I cheated a little because I had left over rice. But it is do-able. Wait again for some other new recipe.