I really love cooking, especially baking! I don't make a lot of meals, but I have done some stuff.
So a super simple favorite of mine is garlic angel hair pasta.
Basically you just make the pasta, and mix in melted butter and garlic salt to taste. I've never actually really made it with anything else, as I usually eat it as a snack instead of ramen sometimes. But I'm sure it would be good with chicken or sauteed spinach and mushrooms. I made some for my friends once in a pinch and they really liked it.
Also a big fan of veggie stir fry. You can add whatever vegetables you want really, but if I can put in whatever I want, I go for: spinach, mushrooms, bell peppers, broccoli, cabbage, bean sprouts, and carrots. Sometimes you can find bags of "stir-fry vegetables" at the grocery store, and they're super convenient. As far as seasonings, I use: a ton of garlic salt, a little onion powder, pepper, soy sauce, and powdered ginger. I would add more stuff to it, but I live in a house of picky eaters, so this is all I can really do.
Essentially, you just oil the pan, set it to a medium-high heat, and cook all of the vegetables in the pan, seasoning you go, just to personal taste.
I like it best served over rice noodles, but rice, lo mein, etc. also work fine.
I also do a ton of baking, but I find most of my recipes online from other people. Yesterday, I made tie-dye cupcakes- vanilla with chocolate buttercream, and it was a lot of fun.
Tip from my friend who does even more baking than I do: add some coffee to chocolate-flavored desserts to make it even better. I used some instant coffee in my chocolate buttercream, and it was really good- it tasted like dark chocolate. I used it like a "coffee extract" type-thing. For one batch of buttercream (12 cupcakes-worth of icing), I took 1 tsp of instant coffee, mixed in just enough warm water to dissolve it, and then put that in the frosting.
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