10 Easy Recipes Every College Student Should Know How To Cook
College is an important time in a person’s life. It’s a time of transition, where a kid becomes a functioning adult. One of the steps in this process is cooking, an important skill everyone should know. Here are 10 easy recipes every college student should know how to cook.
1. SUGAR, SPICE, AND EVERYTHING…OATMEAL
This is good, basic recipe to learn so you can start your day off right. The great thing about oatmeal is that you can prepare it any number of ways, as well as spice or change any way you want to. All you need is some oats, a pan, some water, and a stove. Or a microwave. Mix them together, and five to six minutes later, boom! Oatmeal. Heck, there are some packages of oatmeal where the instructions are right there for you to see. This is one of the best easy recipes!
2. WINNER WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER
You’d be surprised what you could create out of some store bought chicken. Like burgers and hot dogs, once you’ve gotten chicken down, you can cook some decent, nutritional meals for yourself, and won’t have to worry about a bad diet. Stir-fry, pan-fry, grilled; this is a meal I highly recommend college students have at least once a week.
3. HOT DOGS
Another easy recipe every college student should know, all you need for a basic hot dog is the weiner, the buns, a pot, and boiling. Wait a couple minutes, and there you go! A lunch/dinner staple. The best part about a hot dog is that you can add a bunch of stuff to it, like mustard, ketchup, relish, even pickles. You can also toast the buns, a personal favorite.
4. NACHOS…A COUSIN TO TACOS
A good snack you can whip up whenever you have company over, nachos are a universally accepted food. Some of your favorite chips, some cheese, beef-bean mixture, maybe some sour cream and avocados, and you have yourself a delicious party favor. Just be sure to line your cooking tray with tin foil, so you can easily transport the nachos from tray to plate.
5. PASTA AND SPAGHETTI
The nicest looking dish on this list, this is a recipe college students should learn if they really want to impress their guests. Some spaghetti, butter, tomato sauce, meat and certain veggies, and you’ll be fine host.
6. GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICHES
Yet another basic recipe that every student should learn first thing when beginning to cook, all you need to whip this one up are two slices of bread, a little bit of butter, some cheese, and a hot stove. Do this, and you have something to get you through the late nights when working on papers and homework assignments.
7. BURGERS
Really, who doesn’t want to know how to cook burgers? Rare, well-done, cheesy, meat-lover, drowned in relish or ketchup; a burger is a cook’s opportunity to have a filling, American meal, and experiment at the same time. It should be a point for every college student to experiment to find the burger recipe that’s right for them. And it’s a good way to contribute to BBQ’s with friends and family. You can buy the meat and mold it yourself, or buy prepared patties. After that, prepare it however you want.
8. TACO TUESDAY
Flour or corn, crunchy and soft, chicken or beef; this is the one food a person can have for breakfast, lunch or dinner. A good way to widen your palate and get some diverse ingredients into your pantry. This is one of our favorite easy recipes.
9. EGGS IN ALL THEIR FORMS
One of the most versatile ingredients on this list, you could have the scrambled, sunny-side up, boiled, easy. You could have them for breakfast sandwiches and tacos, an item that, spoiler, will appear later on in this list. I highly recommend that you try to prepare eggs in as many different way as possible. The more way you know, the more you won’t feel as though you’re having a bland breakfast.
10. RAMEN…OBVIOUSLY
Yes, yes, yes, I know, every other list has ramen on it. But, really, it’s because this is on every list that I have to put it on here. It’s like a tenet for lists like this! Anyway, by far the cheapest, bulk item you can buy at stores, this is the number one item for college students on a tight budget. It’s not exactly five-star cuisine, but it’ll fill your belly well enough, and you can add spices to increase the flavor. With easy to prepare instructions, odds are, you’ll east this food at least once in college.
