I enjoy a bowl of hot grits for breakfast, along with a pat of butter, salt and pepper. I also like grits over scrambled eggs, grits instead of gravy over biscuits, or grits over chicken fried steak.

For me last night it was just a piece of plain toast and a slice of cheese. Simply Delicious.

Last night was plain and simple for us too. We had toast with peanut butter and sliced bananas on top.

I'm with gardengal soup & bread anyday

The more than goes into a dish, the higher the calories. Simple is always better for me and I save the fancy for special occasions.

I am amazed when I look at the cooking forum. Those people eat elaborate meals every night!!!!!

We had soup, sandwiches from a Costco roast chicken, raspberries for dessert last night too. I'm planning to do better tonight - I'll put a pot roast on this afternoon that we'll have for dinner - then tomorrow night, hot beef and gravy over toast.

We did breakfast for dinner. French toast with thick smoked bacon.

Nothing beats simple food I think. A big bowl of homemade,buttery,salty mashed potatoes comes to mind. But maybe its because im low carbing. :(

Simple is best and about the only way I cook here.

I have always been a very simple eater. I prefer most foods without sauces, dips, spreads, toppings, etc. I love a good salad with some chicken in it. I have to make more than that for DH. I often prepare more hearty meals, but not every night since it is now just the two of us.

Variety is the spice of life! Sometimes it's fun to prepare and/or eat fancy dishes with complex flavors. But yes there are many simple foods, simple meals to balance that out.

A slice of a good bread is about the best "simple" food I can think of. Or a bowl of yogurt (I like full fat, plain, from grass-fed cows if possible -- lol how's that for simple?) with a spoon of apple butter mixed in. For cooked simple food, I love "eggy rice" -- take about half a cup of cooked rice, scramble it with an egg.

Lunch was Naan bread and garlic hummus.

I love simple and uncomplicated. Last night I sautéed strips of boneless skinless chicken breast with onion and bell pepper. Heated some refried black beans with green onions. Heated tortillas topped with the chicken and beans and some Grated cheese. Easy enough and good.

Lucille, your Dad and his tomato reminds me of my Dad. Much of my love for simple food comes from his example of sampling our garden bounty when it was fresh picked, wiped with his shirt, and cut with his pocket knife to share with me while still warm from the sun.

I'm still like that today with my own garden. Ooh, that first tomato of the season!

Rhizo, is that you above? Incognito.....;0)

I recently had this conversation with my husband who wants simple- meat and salad. easy but boring for me and some might argue not very good for us.

I like cream of wheat with just a little butter and milk. Don't eat it very often though. I have pinto beans with ham from Thanksgiving for my dinner tonight. I made a pot and froze most of it. I was going to make some cornbread but the mix is slightly sweet and the ham was honey glazed making my beans lightly sweet, so never made the cornbread.

A cup of soup and half a sandwich is one of my favorites this time of year. Last night, we had tacos; no sides, just tacos and neither of us felt like anything was missing. Tonight we are having another favorite meal. Shrimp cocktail, steamed artichokes and sour dough baguette.

In the summer, I could eat salad and a protein several nights a week and be perfectly happy.

“The more than goes into a dish, the higher the calories.”

Not necessarily, eld. A bowl full of mixed vegetables has no more calories than a bowl full of the same vegetable, for instance.

And we on the Cooking Forum don’t necessarily have elaborate meals every night (certainly I don’t), we just talk about the more interesting ones :-)

GG, yes....it's Rhizo. My Kindle Fire is in the hospital getting a new heart so I signed up on a temporary basis. I've been trying to remember to sign my usual username, but forget sometimes. How did you know?

Here it was butternut squash soup, with onion in it, and a small top of the round steak piece. YUMMY, with a slice of bread.

But then now, we are having herbal tea, with a piece of German Gingerbread... Yummy again.

Moni

Many times we just want something simple. In summer a tomato is often sufficient. Sometimes with a scoop of cottage cheese. While I appreciate a finely cooked meal, something simple can be just as satisfying, just as nutritious, and just as healthy as a complex meal. And the reverse is true.

For me it's a plain 2 egg omelet and buttered toast. Perfect when I am hungry and want something quick to fix.

For me simple and comforting is cream of wheat- I call it farina- or pastina, sometimes with an egg mixed in. Moni, I love gingerbread. Where do you get German gingerbread or did you bake it yourself?

Last night we wanted quick and easy, so we had sunnyside up eggs with toast.

For me it's meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Right now I'm roasting a turkey breast so DH can have a turkey sandwich for dinner tonight. We went to DD's for Thanksgiving so no left over turkey here.

Making a quick pasta dish such as Pasta Puttanesca is fast and easy. I like that on busy nights when we needed a fast meal.

Soup and a sandwich is good too but we didn't have that very often at all.

When I was a boy, sometimes in summer, part of our lunch was a tomato, freshly picked from our garden, with salt and black pepper. If the carrots were large enough, a few of those would be pulled, cleaned and eaten as is.

Another dish was potatoes fried in bacon grease. This can be prepared in about 30 minutes. My Mom, with a southern cooking background, peeled the potatoes. I don't. Its a simple dish: Clean the potatoes and slice, melt bacon grease in a skillet, preferable cast iron, toss in the potato slices, add salt to taste and cook until part of the mass turns golden brown. The potatoes need to be turned often during cooking. After frying, those are ready to eat. Suggested condiments to try are pepper, mustard, ketchup, horse radish sauce, or cottage cheese.

Unfortunately, this is an artery clogging dish so I make it only rarely. These days, my potato dishes are baked or mashed.