Chefs have shared their easy, fast, easy meals that they create when they are running low. The easy meals include penne cooked in well-salted water, butter, black pepper, and a drizzle of high-quality olive oil. Food Network star Jonathan Scinto's favorite no-recipe dish is penne, which he says makes it more effortful. Other chefs mentioned meatless carbonara and cacio e pepe, which are often recommended by chefs for the rushed, inexperienced and starving among us. Author Rael Bael and cookbook author Rachael Narins suggest that a can of beans is a solid foundation for a meal.