I like to cook... or I guess I should say I liked to cook. I have to be not depressed... but also it takes money to buy proper ingredients to cook, as opposed to just make processed things warm to eat. When I used to be able to cook, I liked to make things like:
1. Fry fresh chicken breasts with various seasonings (lemon pepper or just salt/pepper and soy sauce + some butter and olive oil) and add whatever veggies I have like onions, peppers, squash, carrots, brocolli, etc... Typically I would like to serve this over rice.
2. Ground chicken or ground beef burgers... cooked appropriately either in a pan with light olive oil or on one of those Foreman grills... I would toast the buns and butter the top and bottom, then lay out the bottoms and cover with shredded mozzarella cheese before dropping the hot burger onto that to melt the cheese while I topped with lettuce, tomato, pickles and usually I like mustard, mayonnaise, and ketchup unless chicken and then A1 steak sauce instead of ketchup. Sometimes I would fry up potatoes with onions/peppers seasoned as a side.
3. Fry a pain of diced potatoes and onions and peppers, season with salt, pepper, oregano, and crack a few eggs over the potatoes when they are properly fried. Put the whole pan into the oven to bake the eggs and you can top with some shredded cheese if you like.
4. Fry up fresh chicken breasts and chop them into bite-size pieces, season with salt, pepper, oregano, soy sauce and add into a crockpot filled with a couple of jars of chunky salsa and a couple of cans of pineapple in natural juices. Add cooked peppers and onions and water chestnuts if you wish, and simmer that for a while. Serve over rice or pasta, I usually do rice because rice is way easier for me than pasta.
5. Overnight soak and cook a crockpot of pinto beans, then the next day add to them a couple of cans of chili starter + a couple of packets of chili seasoning + grilled up ground beef or ground chicken (also seasoned while grilled) and grilled onions, peppers, and a couple of cans of tomatoes. Diced fried potatoes are a nice addition too... let everything simmer for a while and have chili for days.
6. Buy some nice tasty red and green apples. Core and slice them into good bite-size bits and fry in a pan with olive oil, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Cook as much as you like. You can eat this by itself or put it on waffles or pancakes. Whatever liquid mixture you have leftover will be syrupy and can also be used for waffles or pancakes too.
7. I have a family no-bake fruitcake recipe that is a pain in the ass to mix together, but you only have to heat butter and marshmallow and then chop everything and mix with graham crackers and chill for a while. Best fruitcake you'll ever have and you'll have it for a couple of weeks if you make a large batch.
I could go on... but lately I don't really cook much that requires fancy/expensive meats or ingredients because I don't have that kind of money anymore... and honestly, I've always wanted to cook in a kitchen with a girlfriend or a wife and share the experience and enjoy the meal together... but I've never been able to have that in my life, and so the fun of cooking for myself has kind of worn off and was just depressing the last time I did it.