Food which you enjoy making vs food you get the best feedback from

[ChihuahuaMummy1]

I love making homemade lasagne,doing the meat sauce and white sauce from scratch but my family say I do a good roast dinner which to me is a pita! What are yours? Curious and also want to pick up meal ideas

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I hate making lasagne!! And I don't much like the expectation that a roast dinner has about 12 constituent parts that all have to be ready/hot/rested at the same time. PITA.

I love making things that have to be assembled at the table and eaten with your fingers like fajitas or lamb flatbreads. Luckily my family likes these things too

I also hate making lasagna! Unfortunately I am Italian so get asked for it lots

I like baking though and happily make people whatever they fancy for their birthdays...my favourite creation was a saccer torte for my German friends 40th.

I like chilli and its easy to make but no one in the family likes it :(

I hate most kinds of cooking and do it as infrequently as possible.
This evening, I made my dds a bean chilli and piled it on nachos. Made a guacamole and added grated cheese and sour cream for extra dunking.
They loved it. It’s a good one for them, one of my dds don’t like meat so I freeze leftovers and she will have that the next time we all have something she doesn’t like.

My DH loves for me to make pancakes - I mean, his eyes light up when I mention them and they make his morning. But I can't eat them myself and they're kind of a pain to make because you have to stand there for so long flipping them. My favourite food to make is Buddha bowls which is tons of vegetables prepared in different ways with a grain, a sauce, and some kind of protein. I love these and they're fun to make but DH hates them as they're "far too healthy."

Mine are both bakes, I love making banana loaf but always get the best feedback from lotus biscoff rocky road.

I also love making cheesecake yum!

I bake what everyone else thinks is the most amazing toffee apple tart ever to grace the earth. But it’s one of the faffiest things to actually make (peeling and slicing a million apples and then frying them to just the right shade of golden; the inevitability of covering every surface and myself in hot caramel.)

I like making pavlova. But when I suggest that that’s what I’ll bring as dessert to e.g. a BBQ or buffet everyone says “oh, but why not your toffee apple tart?”

Recipes please everyone!!!

Especially in need of Lotus rocky road and toffee apple tart...

My roast dinners also get the most compliments. I think everyone enjoys a really good one that involves no cooking! I need to work on my gravy skills though. (Gravy is delicious but not much of it and I refuse to put more stock in and water it down just because people like to have their food swimming in it)

I suppose I most like baking simple cakes but somehow they lost their way and people never seem to appreciate the £10 of ingredients that go into it. I also think I've lost the knack

lotus biscoff rocky road.

What the hell @LivinLaVidaLoki? You can just drop that in without the recipe! Spill woman!

The best thing I make and get the best feed back from is my pierogi (polish dumplings). They are a labour of love though - takes the best part of 48 hours to make them properly, and depending on the filling, it’s lots of separate ingredients prep, as well as making and chilling and cutting and shaping the dough. They are divine little parcels of joy, but take aaaaaageees to make.

I love making a homemade curry. Easiest thing ever - literally just whack it all in the slow cooker, mix it up a bit and leave it. 8 hours later: tadaaaa!! Yummy dinner with minimal effort

I like making lasagne but I'm a baker at heart.

I love making bakewell tart but my plain old pancakes seem to be the think that everyone loves.

Ok, lotus biscoff rocky road:

400g white chocolate
200g biscoff spread
125g broken lotus biscoff biscuits
12g mini marshmallows

Melt the butter chocolate and spread together in bowl over boiling water, keep stirring til its completely smooth.
Take off the heat and leave to cool (not completely though) mix in the biscuits then gently fold in the marshmallows. Only do this very gently or they would melt.
Chuck a few biscuits on top and put in the fridge for 3-5 hours (though I usually overnight it)

Ta daaa

Sorry that's supposed to be 125g mini marshmallows. Bloody phone

That rocky road looks so good

@ComtesseDeSpair recipe for your Toffee Apple Tart please? It sounds fabulous.

I love eating kedgeree, but making it is a bit of a faff. Though my black forest gateau is a fairly easy bake but also gets a good reception.

OMG that Rocky Road looks like a gift directly from the gods

Oi, that’s totally out of order when some of us are low carbing 😤😂

Thing I love making: risotto

Thing that gets the best feedback: roast gammon, which is a total pain and takes an age.

My DS favourite food is my home made fish pie. I don’t eat fish and am not keen on cooking it or the smell it leaves hanging around but I still make once a week just for him
DD’s favourite is tofu stir fry that takes about 5 minutes

@LivinLaVidaLoki How many g of butter?

50g.
Sorry!

It's not specific dishes in my house. I love trying new food and new techniques, which my kids will invariably refuse to eat even when they like the exact same food in a slightly different configuration. Anything that's become routine and, honestly, quite boring for me to cook get eaten without complaint. It really gets to me, I've got a stash of recipes I want to try but I'm stuck making spaghetti and meatballs for the umpteenth bloody time