Banana + Ice Cream

Go to your nearest Jolly Jeep or vendor and buy a Bananaque (A whole plantain coated in sugar and deep-fried).

Over the Bananaque, put a scoop of your favorite ice cream or a vanilla sundae.

PBT Sandwich

This is best with a baguette or ciabatta. So first dice or slice the tomatoes. You want to put all the ingredients on the open-faced sandwich while it's still hot. Tear the basil into small pieces. (Cutting it with a knife won't bring out all the flavor).

Toast the baguette and spread the paté. Then top with the tomatoes and basil. Season with salt and pepper.

Not only is this really easy to make, it's also really filling.

Pepperoni Wasabi Sandwich

I love sandwiches. It's so easy to prepare and the best thing is, you don't really have to wash that many items after.

So prepare the dressing first. Just buy a bottle of Japanese mayo in your local supermarket and a tube of wasabi paste. Mix it together in a bowl.

Toast your bread. You can use any kind of bread for this but white bread tastes the best.

Spread the wasabi dressing and lay out your pepperoni. You can use pastrami, salami, ham, any kind of meat.

Season with pepper. An instant meal you can eat with one hand.

Crabstick Bagel Sandwich

You can do this with other kinds of bread, but bagels taste the best.

Toast a bagel. Microwave the frozen crabsticks for about 10 seconds.

Spread cream cheese on the bagel. Then put the crabsticks. Add some cucumbers or lettuce if you like.

Season with a bit of salt and lots of pepper.

Gourmet Food for the Lazy

Good things can come to fruition even if you are lazy. Like preparing gourmet dishes with minimal effort. These recipes are my own, some original, some tweaked from something I ate in a restaurant, some are easy counterparts to things learned in the Food Network. But more importantly, the most work you'll have to do for any of these recipes is chopping and sauteing. That's about it.

This project started out as a topic for my Pecha Kucha talk - where speakers get 20 slides and only 20 seconds per slide. And I figured if you can explain a recipe in 20 seconds, with the help of drawings, then it can't be that hard to do. And this makes it perfect for people like me. Just because you're lazy, doesn't mean you don't want to eat good food.