also in case anyone wants it, here is the recipe for the best lazy-cooking recipe I’ve ever come up with:

Using a rice cooker or a pot + back burner of yr stove, pour in a bit of oil and heat to medium-ish. Then add some cumin seeds — about 1 1/2 tsp per cup uncooked rice, I think — and let those sizzle for about ten seconds, then add rice + water + salt and cook as normal.

For this next bit, you need actual ingredients, but they’re the kind you can keep in your house for, like, months. Chop half a big onion, and if you’ve got some fresh ginger cut off a one-inch piece and chop that up too. Take a medium-sized frying pan & some oil, and cook the onion for like a minute and then add the ginger if you have any. Then add cumin seeds, ground coriander seeds, brown mustard seeds, whatever form of hot pepper you have, and some tumeric b/c it’s pretty. Idk about measurements, because the #1 thing I am learning in college is how to pour sth in your hand and know if that’s enough, but you should probably stick with 1/2 tsp mustard seeds, about the same for tumeric, and like 3/4 tsp for the rest. Whatever looks right. Anyway, cook that until you get frustrated by how slow the onions are cooking, then add a can of drained chickpeas and a bunch of water. Cook until that’s boiled off, then add a can of tomatoes and some more water. Once most of the liquid is gone, your rice cooker will probably have dinged, and you’re ready to eat! Dish out some rice, put some chickpea-tomato-whatever on top, mix a bit, eat.

This is a great dish bc 1) you don’t have to go outside for fresh veggies 2) it requires no specialized equipment 3) it has protein and carbs and oil, stuff you die without, and 4) it tastes good. Oh, and also bc you can make a giant pot of rice and make the whole thing last for like four meals. More if you’re not a giant like me.