a lights are camera action
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balustrade has been saying so many silly
things that i've just started tuning
them out
hello brains sometimes i have a really
hard time feeding myself and i know that
a lot of people in this community do as
well and it occurred to me that a lot of
us have one or two or three or five
recipes that are kind of our go-to's
because they're easy enough to do even
on bad brain days even when we're really
busy so i put out a tweet asking the
community what your go-to recipes are on
bad brain days so i decided to take the
ones that i saw over and over again and
make a version of them
we were gonna shoot the whole thing in
my kitchen until we realized that me
trying to cook while looking at these
recipes while shooting was not executive
function friendly i'm gonna tell you
about how it went here and then we're
gonna show you some of the footage
so first i want to start with the things
that are go to's for me one of them is
toast with peanut butter and honey you
take a piece of toast out you stick it
in the toaster toasted you put peanut
butter and drizzle some honey on it none
of these things require that you've gone
grocery shopping in the last like three
weeks which is one of the things i love
insta breakfast
smoothies is another big one for me i
actually get protein powder on autoship
from my favorite smoothie place in la i
also will add juice and ice and frozen
raspberries and blend
there's a lot left you could probably
make popsicles i'm gonna look it up
when i'm having a good brain day i also
will do a salad that can last the entire
week i'm not joking i've done this but
it has parsley instead of lettuce so you
can actually dress the salad and stick
it in the fridge and it will last all
week olive oil salt pepper and some
lemon juice other than that you just
dump a bunch of ingredients in and mix
it up so the hardest thing about it is
chopping
i have never microwaved a potato but i
will only ever again microwave potatoes
potato
one
great there's a potato setting on the
microwave it's so fast you just take a
potato wash it stab it with a fork stick
it on a plate that's microwave safe and
it cooked one of the brains suggested
you take it out you cut it in half open
it up put butter and cheddar cheese if
you want stick it back in the microwave
for another minute and then that's it
you have a big potato in less than 10
minutes it's just as good
why would i wait an hour in the oven
oatmeal is a big one i cooked the
oatmeal in insta pot but you can
actually do this exact same thing on a
stovetop just follow the directions for
how it says on the package if you're
doing it on stovetop you can put this in
the insta pot if it's half
soy milk and half water if it's gonna be
all milk do not do that
with an instant pot it was one cup of
oatmeal one and a half cups of vanilla
soy milk one and a half cups of water a
bunch of cinnamon on the manual mode of
the pressure cooker for four minutes add
some raspberries if you have some
raspberries if not it's really good
without raspberries this one's good for
executive function because you can make
a bunch at once and have leftovers but
also because you do not have to watch it
you can just go away get distracted come
back and then there's oatmeal
one of the brands shared something that
you could make that was only two
ingredients chicken and salsa that's it
that's the entire recipe a lot of people
with adhd or on the spectrum don't like
touching raw meat and so
gloves helps with that you put salsa in
an instant pot and then layer chicken on
top and then just like walk away you
just cook it you come back and you shred
it with forks i was intimidated by
instapots but like
they're so easy and then you have salsa
chicken for i don't know you put it on
tortillas or in quesadillas or i don't
know eat out of the fridge easy pasta
was a great one having a jar of pesto in
the cupboard and then you just cook the
pasta add the pesto and you're done
if you have a little bit more executive
function that day and want to do two
pans while you're cooking the pasta you
can start a pan with some olive oil some
red chili flakes some garlic and heat
that up while the pasta's cooking you
can get garlic in a jar so you don't
even have to like chop and peel the
garlic you just open the jar and like
scoop it then when the pasta is done you
just drain the water dump the pasta into
the pan just stir it around a little bit
get it mixed together whatever super
easy stir-fry was another one that was
suggested i've never made stir-fry and
also i don't have a wok
all right well we're gonna make this
work then
and i bought chicken thighs stir fry
vegetables the vegetables were frozen
super adhd friendly just have some in
your freezer
if i didn't have chicken on hand i could
have also used rotisserie chicken or i
could have used frozen chicken tofu
shrimp literally any protein and that
would have been fine too
some of the tweets suggested casseroles
one of the easiest ones for me is a
macaroni corn casserole you just dump
uncooked pasta into a dish creamed corn
canned corn with the water you don't
even have to strain it why do you have
two
because i don't have a pan big enough oh
this is why i want to do a cooking show
though i want to do a cooking show for
like here's what you do if you don't
have the thing you're supposed to have
velveeta cheese salted butter you cover
it with tin foil you stick it in the
oven half an hour later you bring it out
take off the tin foil stick it back in
the oven really forgiving recipe by the
way because i didn't realize i
accidentally doubled the recipe it ended
up being very buttery and very cheesy
but i just like poured out some of the
extra halfway through and then finished
baking it and it was fine
no there was definitely way too much
cheese and butter but i think draining
it midway through the recipe was like
very adhd friendly because you have a
chance to course correct you like
uncover it go that doesn't look right
and
all right it's gonna be fine
oh my god
the macaroni and corn casserole is not
the healthiest thing in the world but it
is really delicious and one of the
reasons that uh it's worth working out
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excited to make ramen so excited
this is perfect though i'm tired i had a
long day at work and like cooking sounds
like a lot of work but this
is supposed to be adhd friendly so i'm
excited to try it
one thing that a lot of people
recommended was ramen making the three
minute packaged ramen but a little bit
fancier so i took an egg and i boiled
the egg and ramen and then it was just
adding whatever i had in the fridge so i
put green onion in and rotisserie
chicken there's rotisserie chicken from
the grocery store just pull it apart and
add that to the soup and then it was
done
this is good
yeah that's fantastic wow okay i had
never tried doing ramen that way before
and i will definitely do that again
super easy i get why so many of the
brains do this this is great the one
that blew my mind though more than any
of them was tortilla soup i love soup
but it seems like it's a lot of work to
make and so i often don't make it this
is soup you make just by heating up a
bunch of ingredients together i don't
know how much of it i'm just gonna put a
can of everything in and see what
happens it doesn't sound like the recipe
anymore
he didn't give me he didn't give me a
mouse so it was canned black beans
canned refried beans canned corn rotel
and chicken broth i added some
rotisserie chicken and when it seemed
like it looked like soup i just ladled
some out and put cheddar cheese on top
and crumpled tortilla chips and it was
really good i was shocked at how good
that was
the refried beans can was really sharp i
don't know if all refried beans cans are
that sharper if i just wasn't paying
attention but i did have an incident
where i
cut my finger in the middle of cooking
i'm getting loopy
are you okay oh god oh god oh god oh god
it did get dramatic i think by that time
in the evening i was so tired
of cooking
and how hard cooking was that i just had
a little bit of a meltdown this is the
last thing i should make that i don't
know how to make i think i don't think i
should make any more
out of me
i think these will be laughing or crying
this is hard you guys cooking is hard
normally i would not cook with two
band-aids on my hand but the rest of
what we made was so easy i was able to
keep cooking jess there's another can
for you oh god all right can safety
first
i think this might be the only one that
i didn't see one of the brains sharing a
version of was pita pockets my mom
taught me a recipe of pita pockets with
ground beef you cook the ground beef add
salt and pepper and when it's done you
just stir some stuff into it and stuff
it in the pita pockets you stir in some
sour cream some olives some cheddar
cheese it's super easy because you only
have to worry about one ingredient that
you're cooking and everything else you
just stir in
so what are you doing
can you figure out how to open a box of
crackers
charcuterie is one of my favorites it
looks so fancy and you don't have to
cook anything you just take everything
out and put it on a board one of the
things i really like about this is not
only is there no cooking involved but it
doesn't even matter what order you do
things in a lot of times while i'm
cooking a recipe i'm like you know i did
this and i did this and i did this and
like crap i was supposed to i was
supposed to do that before that or i
wasn't supposed to do that yet and it
kind of messes up the recipe you
literally cannot mess up the order of a
charcuterie board or as one of the
brains put it and adult lunchables in
terms of snacks there was veggies and
hummus that was really good also just
pretzel crackers and cheese or the plate
with all of the above and for this one
i'm just not gonna cook at all protein
bars because they're just there are days
that i'm going to open up the fridge and
be like there's nothing to eat
if you are going to try all of these
recipes in the same day like we did
don't plan anything for that night
because even executive function friendly
cooking still takes a lot of executive
function at least for me and so i was
out of it it's a lot easier for me and a
lot of people that you need to hyper
focus on cooking for like hours then to
stop what you're doing go cook clean up
having to shift focus away throughout
the week to go cook is actually really
hard for a lot of us being able to cook
all in one day and then have leftovers
and having the recipes be easy enough
that you can cook them all in one day i
think helped a lot too that's the whole
podcast
wow
we're fun
even on a bad brain day there were a lot
of recipes here where i'm just like yeah
you know what this actually would
legitimately be easier and faster than
ordering takeout
and that's an accomplishment i think the
best thing about cooking is if you make
the same recipe over and over again you
start to tie those memories to different
times in your life so when i'm eating
those pita pockets i'm not just eating
food i'm having lunch with my mom let us
know in the comments below if you've
tried these if you like these if you
have your own versions of them thank you
to my brain advocates and all my patreon
brains it is because of you that i can
do things like order groceries to make
all the things that people on twitter
said i should make i'm hungry
you hungry yeah let's go eat bye brains
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