Carbonara. Amazingly tasty, very quick and easy to make. 1. Render some bacon or other fatty, salty cut of meat 2. Fry onions and garlic in bacon fat, add plenty of freshly ground pepper 3. Cook spaghetti or linguine, reserve a little pasta water 4. As quickly as you can, toss the still steaming hot pasta in the bacon mixture (with all of the bacon fat), crack one egg per serving into the pasta, stir vigorously 5. Add grated parmesan and chopped parsley 6. If too thick add some pasta water, if not just salt to taste and serve Easily under 30 minutes to prepare. I also like to make chicken salad with leftover chicken. I toss the chicken in food processor with mayo, mustard, salt, pepper, garlic, onion, whatever herbs I have and some lemon juice. Then I add chopped apples and grapes along with some feta or blue cheese, maybe some crushed nuts if I have them. Probably a total of 10 minutes to prepare some tasty chicken salad sandwiches assuming the chicken is leftover from something else.