Sauteed onions with garlic.

A quick Egg fried rice

Toss in broccoli and peppers, throw the whole thing over pasta.

If you have cherry tomatoes, you can make an unbelievably simple pasta sauce by just chucking the tomatoes in, cooking until they go jammy, and perhaps with whatever herbs you like. Once the tomatoes go in, put some pasta on, and in 10ish mins it'll be ready.

Another simple sauce for pork is if you finely chop some apples, cook it all down until soft, and then throw some cider in, reduce, add stock, and finish with a bit of dijon mustard. Takes very little time, and is greater than the sum of its parts.

Not sure if it counts as "making" something, but sauteed onions and garlic with a splash of red wine and a few herbs and spices is my go-to for improving jarred pasta sauce

Some pretty good sloppy joes.

So much!

A real neat trick to this is so long as you add something substantive (peas, carrots, potatoes, chicken breast, rice and beans, mushrooms, whatever) and something acidic (tomatoes, vinegar, wine, lime juice at the end) you'll end up with something palatable.

Garlic and onions are the basis for a LOT of classic recipes. So many of them are literally just roasting a protein with garlic and onions.

It's that simple. Brown the onions, cook the garlic until it releases a nice smell (30 seconds ish), add what you want to eat and continue cooking until it's not raw, throw in a splash of acid for good measure (I really like lime or lemon juice for this).m

Chicken stock, shredded rotisserie chicken, chopped celery and carrots, poultry seasoning, salt and pepper to taste. Cook for a bit to let the flavors meld, throw in some egg noodles to cook during the back half. The only other prep outside of the onion and garlic, is shredding the chicken and chopping the carrots and celery. The chicken could be bought preshredded too to save time.

More time consuming but still pretty simple, if you wanted to make it better, you could make stock from the chicken carcass to use in the soup, make your own egg noodles, and up the spice game for more flavors.

Not much beats a good hearty chicken noodle soup.

Top perogies with it. Bonus points if you cook some bacon or kielbasa too. Top with Hungarian paprika. If you're doing storebought, Mrs T's pierogi's are the way to go. Probably not healthy but delicious.

This could also be a good start for hashbrowns I think

• add water -> soup

• add rice -> fried rice

• add noodle -> fried noodle

• add eggs -> omelette

• add all of them -> ramen (rice is optional I guess)

Chocolate brownie.