What can you cook right now if hungry unexpected company comes over?

Ha, we had chinese food last night! We aways order enough for leftovers so come on over.

Uhhhh….some DiJorno, a sandwich, oatmeal, and cereal? Lol….

instant noodles

Creamy shrimp alfredo or Shrimp scampi over capellini

A bit of broccoli, some leftover asparagus, some pork in a kind of balsamic sauce. Some papaya that has been cooked in raspberry vinegar and brown sugar for a sweet and sour effect. Rice and potatoes in the pantry. More meat in the freezer. There’s a lot of things I could do.

Also, tomato sauce in the freezer (made it fresh). CHicken stock (also home made). Corn I froze last summer, an acorn squash…. Frozen ravioli (fancy stuff).

We could eat for days, I think. We could make brownies, too. I don’t know what the egg situation is, but there’s several different cheeses. Ok. I don’t really want to go on about this too much longer. I’ll look totally obsessed, and that is not what my reputation needs at the moment!

@wundayatta oh yeah, that sounds resourceful on the real

Baked chicken, and it has just been cooked. Surprised @charliecompany34 ?
Brown rice, and salad. I actually cooked tonight.

uhh they’d get their choice of ramen noodles or mac and cheese

man, can i get some real fluther cooks who can throw down?

Grilled garlic chicken breasts with roasted zucchini and eggplant, spinach salad with balsamic dressing, drop biscuits.

Chicken nuggets and Honey Nut Cheerios. Cut me some slack, I do the grocery shopping on Friday afternoons. Come over tomorrow and I’ll be able to throw together a real meal!

@chyna oh yeah babe. i love that combo right there. and very impressed you cooked for me and you tonite.

@faye: leftover chinese food always gets low reviews on the next day. i mean, it could work, but it always starches up the next day and wont break down in the microwave.

I’m ready baby. I just went shopping.
I can make a nice pasta with white clam sauce. Perhaps some marinated skirt steak with a side of mashed. Maybe a chicken cordon bleu with some sharp provolone and prosciutto. A nice mixed salad with endive, radicchio and romaine, crunchy radishes, green olives, vine ripe tomatoes and virgin olive oil Italian dressing. What’s your fancy?
I kick it big time in the kitchen.

Pasta!!!!! I always have a ton of it hanging around just in case.. and I always have tomato sauce.. so I think I would be set :-)

@SeventhSense Wow, I’m impressed. Feel free to invite me to dinner.

Cook? I don’t cook. Hungry guests will be accompanying me to a restaurant.

Cereal :)

cereal???

Scrambled eggs, French toast, oatmeal, grilled cheese, tomato and basil on ww bread, cold cereal with skim milk and frozen blueberries, and my miracle cauliflower, cilantro and coconut milk soup.

A big box of Captain Crunch will get you off the hook.

@chyna
The 1200 miles or so would be an issue but I’ll Fedex some leftovers.

@SeventhSense It’ll be cold when it gets here… but okay.

@charliecompany34 Different strokes, I love next day takeout of all kinds!

Depends on how quickly they want to eat.

I could do a ham sandwich pronto.
Spaghetti & garlic bread in about 15–20 minutes
BBQ chicken, broccoli and rice in about 30–45

At any moment, regardless of not having much in the fridge, I can whip up Chinese Fried Rice.

@chyna
god you want everything…i’ll send you cookies

Eggs

@filmfann : how do you do that? my most favorite thing to cook when i was younger was fried rice. i am curious as to what you put in yours!

as for me, i have tons of pasta and beans (bean salad!). i could make a greek salad with black olives, tomatoes, mixed baby greens and a homemade red wine vinegar based dressing. or i could make some chicken sausage with rice, plus, i also have tons of frozen steaks, burgers, dogs, chicken, and twice baked potatoes in my freezer! you can also find delicious trader joe’s pizzas and dumplings in my freezer! i’m pretty stocked this week…. just missing some fresh veggies.

I would cook up a pan of onions, garlic, pulled pork, green beans and homemade barbecue sauce, to serve over plate of boiled parsley potatoes.

I always have a big Stouffer’s something or other, a lasagna maybe, just in case. Always have onions, garlic, cheese of some kind, pasta, olives, capers, chutney, and beans in cans (this is lazy, but they’re always perfect). Can figure something out.
If you tell me you’re coming, I’ll make something wonderful. If it’s summer I’ll take you out to dig clams and then we’ll steam em and if we’re ambitious we’ll make clam sauce spaghetti. And you can always get a salad with stuff in it, or rice with stuff in it, or noodles with garlic and cheese.
Or cereal.
Yeah, cereal for the uninvited…. I like that.

If I have a couple of hours notice to go to the supermarket and pick up something nice, I would cook. But if they turn up completely unannounced, we would have to get a take-away. Actually if they turn up completely un-announced they wouldn’t be welcome at all. I hate when people do that.

I have a ketchup bottle with barely anything left in it, three year old Kraft slices, someone’s hand and sandwich meat.

With that said, takeout.

@Symbeline You have a hand in your fridge?

Peanut butter spaghetti!
Hell yeah